Launching today
CraftStory
Photorealistic human video, powered by compact AI
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Photorealistic human video, powered by compact AI
97 followers
🎁 Product Hunt exclusive: 50% off Producer for your first month → https://app.craftstory.com/?promo=producthunt CraftStory generates hyper-realistic, human-centric videos for L&D, podcasts, and UGC. Create videos from a single image or train a custom avatar from just a 15-second video. Powered by a proprietary model trained on professional actor footage licensed through revenue-sharing agreements, CraftStory delivers realistic, expressive videos at just 4.5 cents per second.
CraftStory
Hey Product Hunt 👋
We're the team behind OpenCV (the open-source computer-vision library). For the past two years, we’ve watched AI video get sharper but stay short — Seedance 2.0 tops out around 15s, most models do <10s, and the moment a clip runs long the face drifts and the illusion breaks. That's useless if you actually want to say something — a product walkthrough, a training module, a spokesperson.
So we built CraftStory to solve length and identity together. Give it one photo and a script (or your own audio), and it generates coherent, minutes-long talking videos — same face frame-to-frame, accurate lip-sync, natural gestures, in 30+ languages. You can also:
build a custom avatar of yourself from a ~15s video,
pick from 100+ ready-made AI actors,
or hand the whole thing to a Video Agent that writes the script, adds b-roll/subtitles, and casts an avatar — all edited by chat.
There's a free plan (no card) so you can try it on your own photo right now: https://craftstory.com/
We'd genuinely love your feedback — especially: if you could generate a minutes-long video with consistent characters, what would you do? And where does it still fall short? We're in the comments all day.🙏
Multi-minute consistency without face drift is the holy grail for video AI right now good to seee huge launch congrats to @alexander_shishkov1 and the team...🙌
CraftStory
@priya_kushwaha1 Thank you — and yes, that's exactly the wall we spent two years on. Getting a face to stay the same person past the first minute is a completely different problem from making a 20-second clip.
1) What is the difference between Model 2.0 and AI Actors? Am I correct in understanding that Model 2.0 is used to generate any type of video scene? Could you explain in more detail what AI Actors can do and when they should be used instead of Model 2.0?
2) Is it possible to purchase additional Model 2.0 credits if I need to generate more videos than my monthly credit allowance?
CraftStory
@iso1600 Both good questions.
1) They're two different engines, and I'll admit the naming doesn't make
that obvious.
AI Actors is the fast lane. Pick from 100+ ready-made actors and 100+
scenes, paste a script, get a video. Unlimited on paid plans, up to
1080p, up to 30 minutes. It's built for volume: explainers, training
clips, twenty versions of the same script.
Model 2.0 is the photorealistic one, and it's about a specific person,
usually you. Two ways in: a photo plus a script, or a video you record
yourself, where your own gestures and delivery carry over onto the
avatar. That's the part people mean when they say it doesn't read as
AI. It runs on credits because it's genuinely expensive to generate.
One thing worth saying plainly: Model 2.0 is not a general scene
generator. No "give me a drone shot over a city." Both products are
people talking on camera. If you need product b-roll, we're the wrong
tool.
2) Yes. Credit packs are one-off top-ups you can buy inside the app on
top of your plan.
@alexander_shishkov1 Regarding my second question, thanks for the clarification. I couldn’t find this information on the pricing page. As a potential customer, I think this could be a bit discouraging, because it looks like the highest plan is limited to 800 seconds of video per month, which may not be enough for professional use.
CraftStory
@iso1600 You're right, and that's on us. The pricing page says nothing about credit packs, so 800 seconds reads as a hard ceiling when it isn't. Fixing that page is on the list for this week.
For the record: packs are $5 for 150 credits, $25 for 1000, $50 for 3000, buy as many as you need.
Thanks for catching it. Nobody internally noticed because we all already knew the answer.
Alconost Localization Lab
Looks good, and the opportunity to test it for free is nice! Not exactly what I was looking for (not UGC- or avatar-type, but more creative videos for promoting products/services), but should be a good product for its purposes.
CraftStory
@margarita_s88 Fair, and thanks for saying it straight. We do people on camera, not product/scene video — so for what you described we're not the fit directly, but it can be a part of it.
Though if a video with a person in it ever needs 30 language versions in that person's own voice, that's the corner we're good at. Given Alconost, thought it worth a mention.
LiveDemo
Congrats on the launch!
AI avatar videos are getting genuine traffic, my parents told me last week about videos they watched and they didn't realize they were AI made.
I guess good content is good content no matter how you package it!
P.S:
I have made a livedemo for your website
https://app.livedemo.ai/livedemos/6a6afb2ecc86a442a8fd9d56
CraftStory
@gapostolov Your parents just ran the only test that matters. Not "wow, impressive AI", just not noticing. Thanks for making the demo, wasn't expecting that. Will take a look.
Awesome to see this launch happening and coming from the team with some of the OGs of the computer vision industry makes it even more exciting.
Good luck guys, love the product and the tech behind it, exciting to see where you take this forward! Kudos to Victor and Alex!
CraftStory
@vibor_cipan Thanks, that means a lot. Twenty years of computer vision and we're still surprised when a face comes out looking alive. Appreciate the kind words.