I Copied a 3-Week-Old Faceless Channel Making $10K/Month (Full Course)

This faceless channel is only three weeks old. It has 22 videos, it’s estimated at more than $10,000 a month, and every video is the same simple idea: a 3D look inside a machine. What’s inside a computer chip. How old machines kept running. What engineers found when they took a car apart.

I studied more than 20 brand-new faceless channels, and this format kept showing up:

• True North Invents started the same week and makes about $10,800 a month.
• Silicon Up Close has only 7 videos, and one got 900K+ views in two weeks.
• Tradeoff Layer has a video past 1.2 million views.

Four brand-new channels, about $33,000 a month between them. It works because we use phones, cars and planes every day and almost nobody knows what’s inside them, and advertisers pay more on tech videos. I’d never made a 3D animation in my life, so I gave myself one hour and two AI tools: Claude as the brain and Higgsfield (50% off) as the hands.

Step 1: Give Claude hands (2-minute setup)

Claude can plan and write almost anything, but it can’t make a single picture on its own. On Higgsfield, open the MCP page and copy the connector link. In Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it Higgsfield, paste the link and add it. Now Claude can make pictures, videos and voices without leaving the chat.

Step 2: Find a topic (don’t guess)

Open two or three channels from the niche, copy the titles of their biggest videos, and paste them into Claude with the topic prompt. Claude finds the patterns first. In this niche there are three:

1. What happens inside something
2. What happened to something
3. The showdown, like why nobody can copy one company

Then it gives you 10 new ideas on those patterns. I picked what happens inside a jet engine in one second: people are curious about it, and it looks amazing in 3D.

Step 3: Write the script

Tell Claude the length. I made 2 minutes for the demo, but real videos should be 10–15 minutes. Claude opens with a surprising fact, follows the air through the engine part by part, and starts every part with a question. That’s what keeps people watching.

Step 4: Fact-check it (the step most AI channels skip)

Ask Claude to check its own script. It searched the web, made a table of every claim, and found three mistakes: the exhaust speed was too low, the turbine temperature was too hot, and a Formula One comparison was only true for one Rolls-Royce engine. In an engineering niche, people will check you. Get one number wrong and the comments will let you know.

Step 5: The voice

ElevenLabs is built into Higgsfield, so you don’t leave the chat. I asked for a calm, confident documentary voice; Claude picked one called Harrison and read the whole script in one take. Listen once, and if a number sounds wrong, ask Claude to redo that part. (You can also use ElevenLabs directly.)

Step 6: The trick that makes AI look expensive

Before you make a single picture, ask Claude for one style key: a recipe for how every picture should look. Mine: a clean 3D cutaway, soft studio light, a dark background and shiny metal. Then make one master picture with GPT Image 2.5. Every other picture uses it as its guide.

Step 7: Make every shot

Claude turns the script into a shot list, about one picture every 5 seconds (23 shots for 2 minutes), and makes them through Higgsfield in batches of five, all from the master picture. Your only job is to check each batch. Claude flagged one shot on its own and I had it redo just that one. All the pictures cost about 70 credits.

Step 8: Animate only what matters

Don’t animate everything. I animated four shots (the engine opening, the fan spinning, the flame, the turbine) with Seedance 2.5, 5 seconds each. The other 19 stay still with a slow zoom. Animation is where most credits go.

Step 9: Edit in CapCut

Open CapCut (free), import the pictures and voice, put the voice on the timeline first, then drop each picture under its line. Label the parts on screen (fan, compressor, combustion chamber, turbine): every channel in this niche does it, and it’s what makes it feel like a documentary. Export at 1080p.

Step 10: The upload pack

Ask Claude for three titles on the same patterns, a description with chapters, and 15 tags. Thumbnails in this niche use one big cutaway and two or three words, like inside one chip. Claude writes the thumbnail prompt and Higgsfield makes it.

What it cost

Pictures ~70 credits, four animations ~320, voice ~8: about 400 credits and one hour, mostly waiting for renders. A full 12-minute video needs more shots, roughly 1,100 credits by my math, with exactly the same steps.

Comment ENGINE under the video and I’ll send you every prompt, or grab them free in my community (link above).

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