Faceless videos have gained popularity as a viable path to time/money freedom, especially in niches like motivation, finance, and productivity. The idea is to create engaging content without showing your face, which opens up creative possibilities.

In this tutorial, I'll show you step-by-step how to create faceless story videos, using AI for ideation, script writing, image generation, video generation, and publishing.

Caveat:

In my opinion, faceless is just as hard as building a personal brand.

The pros/cons are different. The challenges are different. But I don't like gurus pitching faceless as a get rich quick scheme. It takes work and time, like anything else.

However, I’m bullish on faceless videos because I feel I can be more creative in the storyline, visuals, and formats. It’s another way to express my ideas and creativity, without being confined to my personal brand (AI education).

Here’s the Youtube version of this post:

Table of Contents

• Niche and Tools

• Generate Video Script

• Generate Video Shots

• Schedule and Publish to Social Platforms

• Closing Thoughts

• Win 1:1 60-Minute Work Session! 👋 

Niche and Tools

Let’s make a faceless video showcasing a Stoic philosophy motivational quote!

Even though it’s a competitive niche, I love philosophy and motivation quotes. I have an iPhone widget with a daily quote, I have a small physical desk calendar with a daily quote, and a few birthdays ago, my husband bought me a separate quote display with a few quotes rotating each day.

To research ideas, write scripts, and generate high-quality faceless videos, I’m going to use my app, Blotato.com.

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But there are other options:

Autoshorts.ai is great if you want 100% automated story videos. You plug in your prompt for a series and it automatically posts a video every day.

Vsub.io and Crayo.ai are great for reddit stories, fake text messages, minecraft videos, and other viral formats.

Generate Video Script

After logging into Blotato, click “Add Source” and select Perplexity.

We’re going to use Perplexity to research attention-grabbing Stoic philosophy quotes.

For example: “research the top 10 most famous controversial stoic philosophy quotes.”

After adding this as a source, we want to generate a few draft scripts for our video.

On the right side of Blotato, I click “Load Prompts from Library” and select my faceless motivation prompt. This prompt selects a quote, then expands upon its theme into a short motivational script suitable for faceless TikTok and Reels.

Here’s my prompt:

Complete the following tasks.

1. Choose the most scroll-stopping controversial quote from this list. Output only the quote, with no extra formatting, no quotes, no asterisks, no author.

2. Write a 3-sentence motivational video script, expanding on the quote's main theme. Your writing style is spartan, intellectual, and 5th grade reading level. NEVER use adjectives or adverbs.

# INPUT
Use the following information sources:
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Click “Generate”.

Blotato takes the research from Perplexity, runs it through my “faceless motivation” AI writing prompt, and generates a draft video script.

You can easily increase the length/duration of the script by editing the prompt where it says “Write a 3-sentence motivational video script…”

Hit “Generate” a few more times to get variations.

Then, select the best 👍️ 

Generate Video Shots

Now, it's time to bring it to life with visuals!

Click “+ Image or Video” and select “Generate AI Video”.

Each sentence in our script will correspond to a 5-second video clip. Pick a theme like grunge or cyberpunk to set the video's tone, and select a voice option for the narration. Blotato integrates with Elevenlabs and OpenAI (cheaper) for voice generation.

Click “Generate Draft Video” to enter the editor.

You’ll see the list of shots on the left side.

Each shot corresponds to a sentence from our script.

for each shot, choose the type of content and AI prompts to be used.

Whether using animated images, AI-generated videos, or static images with transitions, your goal is to maintain viewer interest.

Animated images, although more expensive, result in high-quality dynamic clips.

So, I like to use animated images for the 5-10 seconds of the video. To save cost, I recommend using “Image with Zoom” for the remainder of your video.

You can customize both the text-to-image prompts as well as the image-to-video prompts, controlling exactly what visual is shown and how it’s animated.

When you’re ready, click “Generate” to make all the shots.

If you don’t like a particular shot, you can generate a new draft and re-generate it.

This iterative process ensures everything, from visuals to voiceover, aligns with your vision and brand.

Schedule and Publish to Social Platforms

After perfecting your video, the final step is to publish it to social platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, Twitter, etc.

I also do all this within Blotato, however, there are many tools that also handle social media scheduling, such as Buffer and Later.

Within Blotato:

• click “Create a new social media post”

• you’ll see a draft Tiktok post

• click “Publish”

• you can publish it now, publish at a specific time, or publish in your next available time slot for that platform

Blotato has a full calendar solution, so you can specify days and times you want to post on Tiktok or Reels, then schedule your faceless videos to go out then.

You can also publish to other platforms like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest, and coming soon — Threads and Bluesky!

Optionally, you can publish to a Zapier or Make.com automation via webhook.

Closing Thoughts

Creating faceless videos is pretty fun! I’m excited to experiment with them more.

I also want to integrate more faceless options, e.g. AI avatars and photo slideshows.

If you’re just starting out, I recommend experimenting with the steps I’ve outlined, iterate on your AI image and video prompts, and consistently publish 3 videos a day, doubling down on what works.

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