ByteDance's Dreamina builds a studio for AI short dramas

ByteDance opened a short-drama studio inside its Jimeng app on October 26, 2026, putting scriptwriting, storyboarding and video generation in one place for the vertical, serialized format the company has built around.

The studio, sold as Dreamina outside China, is built on three house models, according to a launch summary carried by TokenPost and ababnews. DreamScript handles the writing. The company says it can read a novel of up to 100,000 Chinese characters and draft as many as 100 episodes in sequence, checking for plot conflicts and reviewing how characters are set up as it goes. DreamShot is a 3D planning space where a director arranges camera positions and movement and previews shots. Anycook covers image generation for character designs and scene styles.

The part that stands out for anyone exporting content is the remake and redraw tool. A user uploads a finished short drama, and the system maps its characters, settings, props and shot structure, then regenerates the visuals for a chosen region, style and aspect ratio. ByteDance says the process aims to keep the original's pacing and shot language. Characters, clothing and locations are stored in a reusable library, and an unsatisfying shot can be redrawn on its own rather than reshooting the episode.

Short dramas are the format ByteDance keeps investing in. It folded Xiaoyunque, its standalone AI short-drama platform, into Jimeng in October 2026 while keeping Xiaoyunque's own entry point, and it runs PineDrama overseas, where one producer told Jiemian News that roughly 70% to 80% of the IP in the AI-generated animated dramas their team makes comes from ByteDance's Tomato Novel library.

The studio is live in Jimeng for Chinese users, with no announced date for the overseas Dreamina rollout and no published price for the studio itself.