These Cinematic 3D Documentary Videos Are Getting Millions of Views on YouTube

And most people think you need years of animation experience to create them. But here's the thing. You can now create professionallooking 3D documentary scenes in just minutes using AI, even if you've never touched animation software before.

I've been testing this process for weeks, and I'm about to show you exactly how to create documentary style videos that look like they took months to produce, but actually take less than an hour. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the complete process of creating 3D documentary animations using Open Art and Chat GPT. You'll learn how to generate the scenes, animate them, and put together a full documentary sequence that rivals what you see from the biggest channels.

By the way, if you want to follow along, use the link for Open Art https://openart.ai/home. Let me show you exactly how this works. We're going to create a documentary about a detective investigating a cold case, something that would normally require expensive 3D software and months of work.

Generate Your Story Prompts

First, we need to generate our story prompts with Chad GPT. But we're going to do this in a smart way that gives us exactly what we need for 3D rendering. Open Chad GPT and type this prompt:

Create five detailed 3D render prompts for a detective cold case documentary. Each prompt should follow this format. Highly stylized 3D render of a featureless human figure with no facial features. Fully smooth in reflective material in a scene description with specific props and environment. The figure is positioned specific pose action wearing clothing details. The scene is lit with lighting description, casting shadow details, and the background is background description. The figure's surface is perfectly seamless and ultra polished. No lines, no seams, no joints, no cracks, no artifacts. Cinematic angle, camera angle, ultra realistic 3D rendering. Make each scene relate to detective work and investigation.

I'll leave the prompt in the description below so you can use it yourself. Hit enter and ChatGpt will generate detailed prompts that are already optimized for this specific 3D style.

Look at what we get. Instead of basic scene descriptions, we have complete prompts like:

A highly stylized 3D render of a featureless human figure with no facial features, fully smooth and reflective material in a dimly lit evidence room filled with old case files, stacked boxes, and a corkboard covered in pinned photographs and red string. The figure is positioned leaning forward over the desk, hands pressed flat against scattered folders and magnifying glass, wearing a sleek untextured trench coat. The scene is lit with a single overhead fluorescent light casting sharp elongated shadows across the walls. And the background is a blurred expanse of dusty shelves fading into darkness. The figure's surface is perfectly seamless and ultra polished. No lines, no seams, no joints, no cracks, no artifacts. Cinematic angle low and slightly tilted upward, emphasizing tension. Ultra realistic 3D rendering.

You can see how this is already formatted perfectly for AI generation with that distinctive featureless figure style. This saves us from having to enhance every single prompt manually and ensures we get that professional documentary look.

Turn Prompts into 3D Images

Now, we're going to turn these ready-made prompts into actual 3D images. Head over to Open Art and click on create image in the top menu. Here's where most people go wrong. They use the default model. Instead, we want to switch to Imagine 3 by Google because it's specifically designed for highquality 3D renders. Click on the model dropown and select Imagine 3. The model shines when it comes to creating authentic 3D imagery with depth and light accuracy.

Next, set your aspect ratio to 16x9 since we're making YouTube content. You'll find this in the settings panel on the left side. Now, let's take our first Chad GPT generated prompt and paste it directly into Open Art. Since we already optimized it for this specific 3D rendering style, we can use it exactly as ChatGpt created it. Set the number of images to four so we get multiple options. Then click generate.

Look at these results. This is exactly what we want. The featureless figure creates that distinctive documentary style. The lighting is perfect and the 3D depth looks professional. You can see how the reflective surface of the figure catches the light beautifully, creating that cinematic quality. This would have taken hours to set up in traditional 3D software, but we just created it in under 2 minutes using our pre-optimized prompt.

Generate Multiple Camera Angles

Now, here's the key to making your documentary feel professional. You need multiple camera angles of the same scene. Most people create just one image and wonder why their video feels flat. Let's go back to chat GPT and ask for variations of our first scene. Type:

Create three different camera angle variations of the detective investigation room scene using the same featureless figure format. Extreme close-up of hands examining files, wide angle showing full investigation room and over-the-shoulder shot. Keep the same reflective figure specifications and lighting style.

Chad GPT gives us three perfectly formatted prompts. Now we need to generate each one in open art. You can do this by selecting the flux context max model. Set your original image as the reference and paste the three prompts one by one. We now have three different angles of the same scene, wide, medium, and close-up. All featuring that distinctive featureless figure style. This is exactly how professional documentaries are shot.

Create Additional Scenes

Time to try another one of our chat GPT prompts:

A highly stylized 3D render of a featureless human figure with no facial features, fully smooth and reflective material in a police interrogation room with a single steel table, two metal chairs, and a flickering ceiling light. The figure is seated with arms crossed, leaning back with a cold, calculating posture, wearing a smooth, featureless suit and tie. The scene is lit by the swinging lamp overhead, casting hard shadows across the table and walls. And the background is an empty, muted concrete wall with faint stains. The figure's surface is perfectly seamless and ultra polished. No lines, no seams, no joints, no cracks, no artifacts. Cinematic angle close-up side profile with deep shadows obscuring half the body. Ultra realistic 3D rendering.

Turn Static Images Into Video

Now, let's turn these static images into moving footage. We're going to use Open Arts video generation feature. Click on image to video in the main menu and upload your first detective office image. I'll select cling 2.1 for this, but you can choose any of these models you want. For the motion prompt, we want subtle professional camera movement that works well with the reflective figure. Type:

Slow push in camera movement. Subtle maintain quality and lighting atmosphere.

Leave the duration to 5 seconds. This gives us enough footage to work with while keeping the motion smooth. Click generate and watch this. The camera slowly pushes in while maintaining that 3D depth and the figure's reflective surface catches the light beautifully as the angle changes. This looks like it was shot with an actual camera in a real office.

Let me animate the close-up shot, too. For this one, I'll use slight camera drift to the right. Maintain focus on reflective hands and documents. And for the wide shot, static camera slowly pushing in, focusing on the investigator's desk with case files in the foreground.

Create a Crime Scene Investigation

Now, let me show you by using another chat GPT prompt for our crime scene investigation:

A highly stylized 3D render of a featureless human figure with no facial features, fully smooth and reflective material in a rainy alleyway crime scene with scattered evidence markers, a bloodstained outline on the pavement, and yellow police tape fluttering in the wind. The figure is crouched low, reaching out toward a revolver lying on the ground, wearing a long smooth detective overcoat, and fedora with no texture. The scene is lit with a harsh spotlight from a police cruiser casting fractured shadows onto wet pavement. And the background is a blurred wall of dark brick buildings disappearing into mist. The figure surface is perfectly seamless and ultra polished. No lines, no seams, no joints, no cracks, no artifacts. Cinematic angle, close-up over-the-shoulder shot emphasizing the gun. Ultra realistic 3D rendering.

You can see how this maintains the same visual quality and distinctive figure style as our other scenes. That's the consistency we get when Chad GBPT creates all our prompts with the same technical specifications.

Final Thoughts

Look at what we've created in just minutes. We have top tier 3D scenes with the distinctive featureless figure look normally achievable only through costly tools and long practice. The reflective surfaces are cinematic. The 3D depth is convincing and when animated, these look like they were shot with real cameras. The best part is that each scene took less than 2 minutes to generate and the quality is consistent across everything because we started with properly formatted prompts.

This is way faster than traditional 3D animation and honestly the results are just as good. So now you know how to create a professional 3D documentary videos with AI using this distinctive featureless figure style. And with Open Art, you can generate cinematic scenes in minutes instead of months. If you want to start creating your own documentary animations, click the link in the description to try Open Art.