Skills History story series

History told as a painted series, with a recurring cast.

Name an event, a person’s story or a period, or paste your own script, and Chasca makes a widescreen history episode: a painted picture for every beat with a slow camera move, dates and places shown as tags, a chapter card, and a closing line on what the next chapter covers. The same people look the same in every picture, and the next chapter keeps the cast and the look of the last, for history teachers, course creators and channels telling a story in parts.

Make a history episode Watch the full video

16:9, widescreen
1 minute to 20 minutes
History teachers, course creators and channels

Made from this prompt: “The Great Fire of London: the first night, told through the people who saw it”

At a glance

What you get.

Format: 16:9, widescreen
Length: 1 minute to 20 minutes
Starts from: A moment, a person or a period in history, or your own script
Languages: All 79 languages
Look: Painted widescreen pictures with slow camera moves, a chapter card, place and date tags and a “Next” tag at the end
Narration: Any of the 30 narrators or your own voice, at a measured documentary pace, with captions
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 tell history.

History teachers

Open each lesson of a unit with the next chapter of the same story, so the class meets the same people again on Thursday.

History channels

Publish a series in episodes, each with the same cast and painted look, so viewers come back for the next chapter.

Course creators and authors

Turn the script of a module or a chapter of your book into narrated paintings, every word read exactly as you wrote it.

Why a skill

A general video maker can’t keep a story straight across episodes.

Ask a general AI video tool for a history video and you get stock footage, or pictures in which the same person has a new face every time. A history series needs its people to look the same from scene to scene and chapter to chapter, its dates and places on screen, and each episode to lead into the next. That is what this skill makes.

The people of the story are designed together once, and the same faces come back in every picture and every chapter.
“Next chapter of my last series” keeps the cast and the painting style of your last episode, and the new episode is numbered as the next chapter.
Places, dates and people appear as tags on the word that names them, such as “Pudding Lane, London. 2 September 1666”.
Each beat gets its own painting with the clothes, buildings and tools of its time, and a picture with stray lettering or a fault is painted again.
Each picture holds for eight to ten seconds with a slow camera move, sometimes cutting to a close detail, and pictures crossfade like a documentary.
Quotes are never invented: sources are paraphrased, and what nobody knows is said plainly.
Each episode opens on a concrete moment and ends on a question that leads into the next chapter.

How it works

From a moment in history to an episode.

1
Name a moment in history

An event, a person’s story or a whole period, or paste your own script. Start a new series, or the next chapter of your last one.
2
Your cast is drawn once

The people of the story are designed together, so the same faces come back in every scene and every chapter.
3
Every scene is painted

Each beat gets its own painting, checked for faults, with dates and places shown as tags.
4
An episode with chapters

Narrated in your language, with a chapter card, and a “Next” tag at the end naming the chapter to come.

Examples

Videos made with this skill.

The Great Fire of London, chapter one
A painted history episode: the baker of Pudding Lane, Samuel Pepys and the first night, with place and date tags.
PromptThe Great Fire of London: the first night, told through the people who saw it
Made from a promptHistory story seriesEnglish
La primera vuelta al mundo
Magellan and Elcano’s voyage told in Spanish as a painted episode with recurring characters.
PromptEl viaje de Magallanes y Elcano: la primera vuelta al mundo
Made from a promptHistory story seriesSpanish
How the printing press changed Europe, chapter one
A painted episode set in Mainz in 1455: scribes copying by hand, Gutenberg’s metal letters and press, and the loans from Johann Fust that paid for them.
PromptHow the printing press changed Europe, chapter one
Made from a promptHistory story seriesEnglish
The pyramids at Giza, from the workers’ side
Giza around 2560 BCE, from a worker’s side: organised crews rather than slaves, the bakers and quarries behind them, and blocks hauled on sledges over wet sand.
PromptThe building of the pyramids at Giza, from the workers’ side
Made from a promptHistory story seriesEnglish
One caravan on the Silk Road, from Chang’an
An imagined caravan leaves Chang’an in 730 for the west: Dunhuang, the oases of Turfan, Kucha and Kashgar, then the Tian Shan, with place and date tags.
PromptThe Silk Road: one caravan’s journey from Chang’an to Samarkand
Made from a promptHistory story seriesEnglish
कलिंग युद्ध के बाद अशोक
A painted history episode in Hindi: the Kalinga war in 261 BCE, Ashoka’s own inscription about its cost, and what we can’t know.
Promptकलिंग युद्ध के बाद अशोक: वह युद्ध जिसने एक सम्राट को बदल दिया
Made from a promptHistory story seriesHindi

What it won’t do

Draw living people or sacred figures: a sacred figure’s part is told through places, objects and light.
Show violence or injuries graphically: they are told, not shown.
Invent quotes: sources are paraphrased.

Why we built it

History is easiest to follow as a story, told in chapters, with people you come to know. Telling it in pictures means those people must look the same in every scene and every episode, which is slow and costly to do by hand. We built the history series so a teacher or a channel can tell a story chapter by chapter, with the cast and the look carried from one episode to the next.

Read why we built it

FAQ

Questions, answered.

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

Yes. Chasca’s History story series skill makes a narrated widescreen episode from a moment, a person or a period: a painted picture for every beat with a slow camera move, dates and places as tags, a chapter card, and the same people looking the same throughout. Type the topic or paste your own script.

Yes. Pick “Next chapter of my last series” and the new episode keeps the cast, their faces and the painting style of your last history episode, and is numbered as the next chapter. Each episode ends on what the next one covers.

Yes. Pick “My words, word for word” and paste the script: every word is read exactly as you wrote it, and the pictures, tags and moves are made to fit. If it runs longer than your plan allows, you are told before anything is made.

Real people are named with their role, dates are said in full, sources are paraphrased rather than quoted, and what is not known is said plainly. As with any history you teach from, check an episode against your own sources before you share it.

No. Living people and sacred figures of any faith are never drawn; a sacred figure’s part is told through places, objects and light. Violence and death are told, never shown graphically.

From one minute to 20 minutes on a paid plan; the free videos are up to a minute. A longer story can run over several chapters, each its own video.

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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History told as a painted series, with a recurring cast.

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