# Baidu Wenku AI Picture Book — workflow skill for stories & short dramas

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Turns a story text into a static or animated picture-book video through Baidu Wenku

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Stories & short dramas](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/story.md)
- **Slug:** `ai-picture-book`
- **Status:** beta
- **Publisher:** ide-rea (community)
- **License:** unknown
- **Source:** https://clawhub.ai/ide-rea/skills/ai-picture-book
- **Works in:** OpenClaw
- **Requires:** Baidu API key (BAIDU_API_KEY), Python 3
- **Cost:** Billed by Baidu (your own API key)
- **Adoption:** 333 installs, 11 ClawHub stars (ClawHub, 2026-10-27)

## What it does

Sends a story or description to Baidu Wenku's AI picture book service and returns a video URL. You pick static (type 9) or animated (type 10); the skill asks if you do not say. Python scripts create the task, then poll every 5–10 s until it finishes (about 2–3 minutes). There is no control over style, characters or length beyond the text you send.

## Use when

- You want a picture-book video from a story without drawing
- You need a quick illustrated video for kids' education or a brand story
- You want to visualise history, science or folklore as a picture book

## Install

- OpenClaw: `npx clawhub@latest install ai-picture-book`

## More stories & short dramas skills

- [fal Storytelling](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-storytelling.md): Plan multi-shot stories: storyboards, shot lists, first-to-last-frame chains and continuity across scenes.
- [Shuohao Short-Drama Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/shuohao-short-drama.md): Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard.
- [Drama Skills (ZenStory)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/zenstory-drama-skills.md): Short-drama skills that beat a no-skill control in blind tests: script, assets, storyboard, keyframe and video prompts.
- [Screenwriting Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/screenwriting-skills.md): 26 screenwriting and dramaturgy skills, from story structure to writing in the style of Ozu, Chekhov or Succession.
- [Emma Short-Drama Writing Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/emma-screenwriting.md): Short-drama writing kit (hooks, outlines, dialogue, trims, US localization) that beat a no-skill control in blind tests.
- [AI Short Drama Studio](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-short-drama-studio.md): Greenlight score, series bible, episode compiler and production pack for serialized AI short dramas and manju.

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