AI faceless video generator

Let the story take the screen.

Shotmatic turns an idea or a script into a narrated short with AI visuals and captions, ready for you to download and post.

Make a faceless video Run it from the API

A faceless video carries its story without anyone on camera. A narrator reads the script, the pictures follow what is being said, and captions repeat the words for people watching with the sound off. That is the Faceless Short format in Shotmatic: you bring an idea or a finished script, and one render produces the narration, the scenes and the captions.

It fits the videos faceless channels are built on: history and science explainers, short stories, list videos, tips and lessons. You choose the voice, the visual style, the caption style and the length before anything is generated, and the creator shows the credit cost before you approve.

Examples made in Shotmatic

Real outputs from Shotmatic's own account, with the settings behind each one and the credits it was charged.

How the Romans built their roads

A 30-second vertical history short: Ultra-quality cinematic scenes of a surveyor with a groma, a layered road bed and a cambered paved road, narrated by Russell with Viral captions.

Format: Faceless Short
Visual style: Cinematic
Image quality: Ultra
Voice: Russell
Captions: Viral
Length: 30 seconds
Aspect ratio: 9:16
Music: On
Credits quoted: 137

Script

How did Rome build roads that outlasted its empire? First, surveyors used a groma to plot a straight line. Workers dug down to firm ground, then laid the road in layers: big stones, then rubble and gravel bound with lime, then tightly fitted paving stones. The surface rose in the middle, so rain ran off into ditches on both sides. Milestones counted the distance in Roman miles, a thousand paces each. Many of those routes are still roads today.

Made by Shotmatic on its internal QA account from a script Shotmatic wrote; the images and narration were generated in the render. Russell is one of the creator's catalog voices and the music is the built-in track "dont stop me abstract future bass".

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Why the sky is blue

A 33-second vertical explainer in the Hand-painted Anime style: sunlight, scattering molecules and a red sunset, narrated by Bella with Story captions. One of three shorts from the same batch.

Format: Faceless Short
Visual style: Hand-painted Anime
Image quality: Standard
Voice: Bella
Captions: Story
Length: 33 seconds
Aspect ratio: 9:16
Music: On
Credits quoted: 100

Script

Why is the sky blue? Sunlight looks white, but it contains every color of the rainbow. As it passes through the air, it bumps into tiny gas molecules, mostly nitrogen and oxygen. These molecules scatter short wavelengths, like blue, much more than long ones, like red. So blue light gets bounced all over the sky and reaches your eyes from every direction. At sunset, light travels through much more air, most of the blue is scattered away, and the reds and oranges remain.

Made by Shotmatic on its internal QA account from a script Shotmatic wrote; the images and narration were generated in the render. Bella is one of the creator's catalog voices and the music is the built-in track "constellations".

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From an idea or from your own script

Start with a topic and Shotmatic drafts a script with a hook, a middle and an ending, built on the creator's story structures. Each draft costs 20 credits, and you can edit any line before you go on. If you already have a script, paste it instead and it is narrated exactly as written.

Each scene gets a generated image, or AI video motion if you choose one of the motion options, matched to that part of the script. The narration uses one of 12 voices, and the captions are timed to each spoken word.

Running a faceless channel

Most faceless channels post on a schedule. A sequence keeps the same voice, style and length and creates the next video on the rhythm you set, from once a week to twice daily. Each new video lands in your library for you to review. Shotmatic does not upload it to YouTube, TikTok or Instagram for you.

Keep each video to one idea, put the hook in the first sentence, and reuse a visual style so the channel looks consistent from one upload to the next.

How it works

01
Idea or script
A topic for Shotmatic to script, or a finished script you want narrated as written.
02
Script and settings
Edit the script, then pick the voice, visual style, caption style and length.
03
Credit quote
The creator shows the price before you approve; nothing is generated until you do.
04
Narrated short
Shotmatic generates the scenes and narration and adds captions. Download the MP4 and post it on your channels yourself.

What you control

Aspect ratio4 options: Vertical 9:16 · Social portrait 4:5 · Square 1:1 · Horizontal 16:9
Length: 15 to 180 seconds on a paid planUp to 30 seconds without one.
Visual style6 options: Cinematic
Animated
Sketch Black&White
Classic Animation
Hand-painted Anime
Anime
Images or motion5 options: AI images in every scene · AI video for the first scene, then images · AI video for the opening scenes, then images · AI video and images in alternating scenes · AI video in every sceneAI video motion costs more credits than images.
Caption style4 options: Viral · Bold · Minimal · Story
Narrator voice12 options: Adam - Deep & Firm · Russell - British Narrator · Sawyer - Movie Trailer Voice · Kael - Energetic Presenter · Tyler - Young & Upbeat · Kira - Bright & Friendly · Elise - Soft & Gentle · Sloane - Polished Professional · Bella - Warm Storyteller · Darian - Grounded Narrator · Adam - Dark & Brooding · Nora - Warm & ClearPlay a sample of each in the creator.
Script language8 options: English · Spanish · French · German · Italian · Dutch · Portuguese · Portuguese (Brazil)
Music: 18 built-in tracks, or no music

Limits and availability

Shotmatic doesn't post anything for you. Download the finished MP4 and upload it to your channel or ad account yourself.
Drafting a script costs 20 credits. The video's price appears before you approve it, and no scenes, narration or captions are made until you do.
Without a paid plan, videos are capped at 30 seconds. Paid plans can target 15 to 180 seconds.
Generated images can get real people, places and events wrong. Check each scene against the script before you publish anything factual.

What it costs

The two examples above were quoted at 100 and 137 credits before they rendered. That quote is what the render charges; Shotmatic's own account is not billed.

With AI images, a video costs 100 credits at about 30 seconds (four scenes), 140 at 45 seconds and 180 for anything longer. Ultra images and AI video motion cost more, and each script draft costs 20 credits.

See plan prices and monthly credits

Questions

Do I have to appear on camera or record my voice?

No. The narration comes from one of 12 AI voices and the visuals are generated, so nothing is filmed or recorded.

Will Shotmatic post the videos to my channel?

No. You download each video and post it yourself. A sequence can create new videos on a schedule, but it saves them to your library rather than uploading them.

Can I use a script I already wrote?

Yes. Paste it into the creator and it is narrated as written. Shotmatic can also draft one from your idea, which costs 20 credits per draft.

How long can a faceless video be?

You set a target from 15 to 180 seconds on a paid plan. Without a plan the limit is 30 seconds.

Which languages can the narration use?

Scripts can be written and narrated in 8 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Portuguese (Brazil).

Run it from code or an agent

The hosted MCP server and the REST API run the same creation steps. This is the plan_video call for this format; angle brackets mark your own values.

{
  "tool": "plan_video",
  "arguments": {
    "goal": "A 30-second faceless short about how Roman roads were built, for YouTube Shorts",
    "platform": "youtube_shorts",
    "duration_seconds": 30,
    "voice_id": "<voice id from shotmatic://voices>"
  }
}

Recommends a Faceless Short with the brief_video archetype and returns a create_session payload. approve_and_render then renders the reviewed session.

Read the API and MCP guide