Elser AI

Elser AI

Create full anime shorts with just a prompt in minutes

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Elser AI helps creators turn ideas into full anime story videos. Just enter an idea, Elser AI could create long-form videos with consistent characters, clear story flow, and cinematic styles, all from a single prompt. In long-form benchmarks, Elser achieves 30%+ higher character consistency than other AI video tools across 180+ scenes. Built for storytellers, animators, and creators who want more than short clips.
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Phil Liu

Hey Product Hunt! 👋

I'm Phil Liu, CEO & Founder of Elser AI. We built an AI video platform for creating full anime story videos, not short clips or one-off demos.

I previously led content strategy at ByteDance, working with thousands of creators. Their challenge was always the same: great stories, but animation production was too expensive, too slow, and too complex.


🎬 What is Elser AI?

Elser turns any prompt into a complete anime story video with consistent characters from start to finish. Script → storyboard → final video, all in one workflow.


🚀 Why this matters

Most AI video tools excel at short clips and visual experiments. But long-form anime storytelling breaks easily, characters drift, faces change, styles collapse across scenes. We optimized for solving that first.


🔍 Real creator proof

  • Stable character identity across 180+ scenes

  • One continuous 30-minute anime video without visual drift

  • One creator already generated $300K+ revenue from an Elser-made series

  • Working with streaming platforms on original series production


🧠 What's inside

✨ Character consistency across every scene and episode

📜 Story-to-screen pipeline—script, storyboard, video in one place

⚙️ Built for long-form, not one-off experiments

🎨 20+ animation styles (anime, comics, pixel, manhwa, realistic, more)

🤖 10+ AI models automatically selected per scene

🧩 Specialized agents maintaining continuity and stability


🎁 Product Hunt launch bonus

Create your first full anime video for free. Experience what long-form AI storytelling actually feels like.

We're not replacing professional studios, we're making anime series creation accessible to solo creators and small teams priced out before.

If Runway and Pika are for clips, Elser is for stories.

Join our Discord community to connect with other creators, share your stories, and get real-time support: https://discord.gg/8kDaaDQrPM

Ushno
@elser_ai Great work. Best wishes for you.
Phil Liu

@ushnos Thanks friend!

Malek Moumtaz

@elser_ai Congrats! Amazing idea. Long-form consistency is the hard problem you’re clearly tackling. When creators push beyond a first episode into a series, what’s been the hardest thing to keep stable so far character personality, visual style, pacing, or story coherence across episodes?

Chris Messina

Man, to be an animation student in college now... on the one hand I might feel like my craft is in jeopardy; on the other, I'd be able to craft stories quickly and thoroughly with these new tools. Incredible!

Mark long

@chrismessina Totally get that feeling.
The craft isn’t disappearing — it’s shifting.
Fundamentals like storytelling, taste, and direction still matter, but now iteration and scope are radically expanded.
It’s a scary and exciting time to be learning animation.

Phil Liu

@chrismessina Totally get that tension. Actually, tools like this shift the bottleneck from technical execution to creative vision.

Like, an animation student today still needs to understand composition, pacing, character arcs, emotional beats. AI just speeds up the "drawing 10,000 frames" part.

The students who combine strong storytelling instincts with these tools are going to be unstoppable. It's less about "AI vs animators" and more about "animators with AI vs animators without."

Can't wait to see what this generation of students creates with these tools!

Olivia Wilson

@chrismessina Yeah, that mix of excitement and anxiety makes a lot of sense.

What we find interesting is that these tools let students move from idea to something real much earlier. You don’t have to wait years before your stories start taking shape.

It opens up space to explore, make mistakes, and figure out what kind of storyteller you actually want to be.

Really excited to see what this generation builds when the gap between imagination and output gets smaller.

Sandy Liu

Congratulations on the launch!
This looks like something you could actually publish. Does it support longer timelines without breaking?

Mark long

@sandy_liusy It can support more than 30mins without breaking

Phil Liu

@sandy_liusy Thanks Sandy! Yes, we've tested it on 30-minute videos with 180+ scenes and it stays stable. Built specifically for multi-episode series where consistency matters.

Olivia Wilson

@sandy_liusy Thanks, appreciate it.

Yes, longer timelines are a core focus for us. We start with a script and storyboard, then build the video scene by scene, which helps keep characters and story flow consistent.

That structure is what lets longer projects hold together instead of breaking apart.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMerè (Eithiriel)

Cute and fun.

Phil Liu

@nikkielizdemere Thanks Nichole! 😊

Stellayu

@nikkielizdemere 

I like it ! It can be used as avatar on social media. And a good idea strikes me that you can turn the image to a GIF. That must be very interesting.

Tristan Ruan

This looks really impressive — especially the long-form animation and video generation.

Curious who you’re mainly building this for right now, and how you see it evolving.
Are you focusing more on pro / B2B users who want powerful timeline control,
or on creators and consumers who care more about speed, simplicity, and easy long-form output?

Phil Liu

@tristan_ruan Great question! We're primarily focused on creators and small teams right now, people who have stories to tell but were priced out of traditional animation production. The goal is to balance simplicity with enough control for serious work. Think: easy enough for a solo YouTuber, powerful enough for a small studio prototyping pilots.

Olivia Wilson

@tristan_ruan Thanks for your question!

Right now we’re mostly building for creators and storytellers who want to finish long-form videos quickly without needing a big team or complicated tools.

As the product evolves, we’re gradually adding more advanced timeline and workflow controls for pro and B2B users, especially for larger and more complex projects.

Saul Fleischman

I think you'd enjoy a lot more viral growth from those that would shar their first creation - if you allowed us to use voiceline ((even with the basic Lip Sync mode), since it is quite the challenge to tell a story without words at all.

And then, when 3/6 of my videos have completed, the other 3 stuck at 95% for 20 minutes, and no way to save progress (!!!), may I assume that Elser shit the bed?

Phil Liu

@osakasaul Saul, sorry about the stuck videos. If they're at 95%, try refreshing the page and that should resolve it. Your progress is saved, so you won't lose your work.

Quick clarification: we actually do support voicelines with lip sync! We have both basic lip sync and advanced multi-character dialogue. Might be worth exploring if you haven't tried it yet.

If you run into other issues, join our Discord — our team is there and can help troubleshoot quickly: https://discord.gg/8kDaaDQrPM

Lowes

Nice to see audio not treated as an add-on!

Phil Liu

@lowesyang Thanks Lowes! Yeah, audio is essential for storytelling, we built voicelines and lip sync as core features from day one.

Olivia Wilson

@lowesyang Audio is a big part of storytelling for us, so we treat it as part of the core workflow rather than an afterthought!

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