Zaoju
Zao Ju is an all-in-one platform for AI short drama and manhua drama creation. Officially, it covers AI script creation, character and scene generation, intelligent storyboarding, and editing to complete the production. It also provides a director's station for multi-camera scheduling and is delivered as a Windows desktop client.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Zaoju?
Zaoju is an all-in-one creation platform for AI short drama and AI comic drama creators. Its official website describes it as a complete workflow that "ranges from creativity, AI scripts, character scenes, intelligent storyboards to AI video production and final edited clips". Unlike video models that only perform single-point generation, Zaoju integrates scripts, assets, storyboards, director's stations and editing into a single production line, and its main delivery form is a Windows desktop client.
Who is it for?
- Individual creators who make AI short dramas or AI anime dramas independently: They can go from script writing to finished production all by themselves, without having to move content back and forth between multiple tools.
- Screenwriting and directing teams in short drama and anime drama studios: Use a unified asset library to reduce image drift across episodes.
- Content teams that produce content by episodes: They can view the number of episodes and estimated costs during the initialization phase, making it convenient to calculate costs.
- Operators and directors who want to create derivative works: Use video analysis to break down camera movement, subtitles and picture descriptions, and reverse-engineer reusable methods.
Key features
6AI Scriptwriting
You can directly input a script on the homepage. It also offers a "Novel to Script" feature to adapt short or full-length novels into a well-structured script, or a "Generate Script" function to create a complete draft from a single idea. You can set the target number of episodes, duration per episode, and adaptation requirements.
Project Initialization
When creating a new project, first determine the work type, aspect ratio, visual style, and text model. The official will first provide the number of episodes and estimated costs, and initialization will only proceed after confirmation to minimize backtracking.
Asset Management
Officially described as "unified maintenance of character, scene, and prop assets". Automatically extracted characters, scenes, and props can be used to create unified, reusable visual assets across episodes, with subsequent shots directly referencing the same materials.
Smart Storyboarding
Generate storyboards based on the script, with the ability to adjust shot descriptions, shot types, and compositions at the shot level; the official also lists multiple video generation paths such as storyboards, clip content, storyboard scripts, first frames, first and last frames, grid layouts, and continuation of the previous segment, and video replacement can be performed for generated storyboards.
Director's Station
For complex scenes, first set up the scene, direct character movements, control multiple cameras and preview composition; switch between the director's perspective and camera perspectives to finalize the final shot composition.
Clipping and Video Analysis
Complete basic clipping, screen preview, transition connection, and audio & music configuration on the timeline; you can also paste video direct links or webpage addresses of Xiaohongshu and Douyin, and refer to the goals of complete decomposition, character analysis, script analysis, subtitle extraction, screen description, camera movement analysis, etc., to decompose and reference videos.
How to use Zaoju
- Finalize the script first before initializing the project.
- Initialization locks the work type, aspect ratio and visual style, and the cost of changes at this stage is the lowest.
- Be sure to check each automatically extracted character, scene, and prop one by one before adding them to the storyboard.
- Once assets are referenced by subsequent shots, major mid-stream modifications will affect the already generated content.
- For complex scenes, use the Director’s Station.
- for regular dialogue scenes, you can directly work on the storyboards.
- The official also marks the Director’s Station as "on demand", so there is no need to use it for every shot.
- Video generation, image generation, music, and text models are billed separately.
- The official states that billing is based on actual usage, and the model prices can be checked before recharging.
- It is recommended to first conduct a small-scale trial to verify the style before scaling up.
- The official website currently provides Windows client downloads and indicates support for Windows 10 and Windows 11.
- Please confirm first for other systems.
- the scope of material copyright and commercial authorization shall be subject to the official user agreement.
- The official website rules and prices may be adjusted, so please verify again before official commercial use.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Zaoju receives about 10.5K visits per month.
Monthly visits
5 monthsEstimated from third-party traffic data.
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