Skills Book trailer

Picture book trailers, made from your own pages.

Add up to 12 pages of your picture book as pictures or a PDF, or describe the book and have pages drawn in a picture-book style, and Chasca makes a 30 or 60 second vertical trailer: the pages that tease the story best, a hushed narration that never gives the ending away, and an end card with your title, your name and “Coming soon” or “Out now”. It is made for picture book authors, illustrators and small publishers.

Make a book trailer Watch the full video

9:16, vertical
30 seconds to 1 minute
Picture book authors, illustrators and publishers

Made from this prompt: “A picture book about a shy whale who learns to sing, out this spring”

At a glance

What you get.

Format: 9:16, vertical
Length: 30 seconds to 1 minute
Starts from: Your book’s title, author and story, with up to 12 of its pages as pictures or a PDF, or none
Languages: All 79 languages
Look: Your pages, or new picture-book pages, on paper with gentle moves, a sentence under each and an end card with your title
Narration: Any of the 30 narrators or your own voice, in a hushed storyteller’s tone
Price: Uses your plan’s minutes like any video, from $9.99 a month for 30 minutes. Your first 2 videos are free, up to a minute each.

Who it’s for

Made for people who make picture books.

Self-published authors

Announce the book before launch day with a trailer made from its own pages, ready for Reels, TikTok and your store page.

Illustrators

Turn the finished spreads into a trailer that shows your art as you made it, never redrawn, for your portfolio or the book’s launch.

Small publishers

Make a trailer for every title on the spring list, each from its own art, without commissioning an animator for each one.

Why a skill

A general video maker doesn’t know how to tease a book.

Ask a general AI video tool for a book trailer and you get stock footage, or new pictures that look nothing like your book, and a script that tells the whole story. A picture book trailer shows the book’s own pages, builds curiosity and stops before the ending. That is the only thing this skill makes.

Your own pages are the pictures, up to 12 of them, shown as you made them and never redrawn.
Every page is looked at, and the ones that tease the story best are chosen, in the order that builds.
The script follows a trailer’s shape: the world, the hero, the trouble, the stakes, the choice, then a tease that stops before the ending.
It is read slowly, in a hushed storyteller’s voice, with each sentence shown under its page.
Each page sits on a paper backdrop matched to your pages, with a slow, gentle move.
It ends on your title card with “Coming soon” or “Out now”, and your name only if you give it: an author is never made up.
No pages yet? Describe the book and pages are drawn in a picture-book style, with your hero the same on every one.

How it works

From your book to a trailer.

1
Add your pages, or describe the book

Up to 12 pages as pictures or a PDF. No pages yet? Describe the book and pages are drawn in a picture-book style.
2
The best pages are picked

Every page is looked at, and the moments that tease the story best are chosen, in the order that builds.
3
A teaser, never the ending

A short script that builds curiosity and never gives the ending away, read at a relaxed pace.
4
Your title card

A 30 or 60 second vertical trailer that ends on your book with “Coming soon” or “Out now”.

Examples

Videos made with this skill.

The Quiet Whale, a picture book trailer
A one-minute trailer drawn in a picture book’s own style, every page with its sentence, ending on the release card.
PromptA picture book about a shy whale who learns to sing, out this spring
Made from a promptBook trailerEnglish
Un caracol que quiere ver el mar
A Spanish trailer for a picture book about a small snail and a long journey.
PromptUn libro ilustrado sobre un caracol que quiere ver el mar
Made from a promptBook trailerSpanish
The Lantern Fox, a picture book trailer
A one-minute trailer painted in one picture book style: a fox who lights every lantern in Hollow Wood, the night they won’t light, and the title card.
PromptThe Lantern Fox by Juniper Vale: a small fox who lights every lantern in Hollow Wood, until the night they won’t light
Made from a promptBook trailerEnglish
The Moon Who Forgot to Shine, a bedtime book trailer
A gentle trailer for ages 3 to 6: a little moon who can’t remember how to glow, every page painted in the book’s own style.
PromptA bedtime story about a moon that forgot how to shine, for ages 3 to 6
Made from a promptBook trailerEnglish
The Map in the Piano, a middle-grade mystery trailer
Twins find a map inside their grandmother’s piano: a one-minute trailer that builds the mystery page by page and ends on the title card.
PromptMy middle-grade mystery: twins find a map inside their grandmother’s piano
Made from a promptBook trailerEnglish
A Garden Above the City, a picture book trailer
Mira plants seeds on her city rooftop: wind, dry soil and one stubborn shoot, painted page by page and ending on “out now”.
PromptA picture book about a girl who plants a garden on her city rooftop, out now
Made from a promptBook trailerEnglish

What it won’t do

Use characters or books that aren’t yours.
Reveal the ending.
Redraw or retouch your pages: they are shown as you made them.
Run past a minute: a trailer is 30 or 60 seconds.

Why we built it

Picture book authors are told they need a trailer, and one made to order costs hundreds of dollars. Most of them already have the best material a trailer could use: the pages themselves. We built the book trailer so an author can turn those pages into a teaser in minutes, and keep the ending for the reader.

Read why we built it

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Something else? The main FAQ covers voices, languages and the API.

Yes. Chasca’s Book trailer skill makes a 30 or 60 second vertical trailer from your own pages, or from pages drawn in a picture-book style if you don’t have them yet: the pages that tease the story best, a hushed narration that never gives the ending away, and an end card with your title, your name and “Coming soon” or “Out now”.

Yes. Add up to 12 pages as pictures or one PDF. They are shown as you made them, never redrawn, and the trailer picks the pages and the order that tease the story best.

Describe the book, its hero and what happens, and pages are drawn for it in a gentle picture-book style, with the hero the same on every page. Name a style in your description if you want a different one.

No. The script builds through the world, the hero, the trouble and the stakes, then stops on a tease. The ending is kept for the reader.

30 or 60 seconds, vertical, for Reels, TikTok, Shorts and store pages. The free videos are up to a minute, so a free video can be a whole trailer.

Your book’s title, “A picture book by” and your name, and “Coming soon”, “Out now” or a date if you give one. If you don’t give an author’s name, none is made up.

Your first 2 videos are free, up to 1 minute each, watermarked. No card required. A skill works on the free videos too, up to a minute. After that, plans start at $9.99 a month for 30 minutes. See pricing.

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Picture book trailers, made from your own pages.

What you get.