I built "Storybook Magic — Your Child's Personalized Adventure" using ElevenLabs Flows for the Contra x ElevenLabs challenge.

WHAT IT DOES: Enter a child's name, story theme, and character description — the template generates a complete 6-page personalized animated storybook with illustrations, narration, music, and sound effects. Every child gets a unique story featuring them as the hero.

HOW IT WORKS: The pipeline chains multiple AI models across 40+ nodes:

Gemini LLM generates a full 6-page personalized story with scene-by-scene illustration directions, narration, camera motion, and sound design

Flux 1 Kontext Pro generates a character reference image first — ensuring the child's character looks consistent across all 6 pages

6 parallel illustration nodes generate watercolor-style page illustrations using the character reference

Different video models are used purposefully — each chosen for that specific moment in the story to maximize visual quality and motion

Maria Moody (Children's Story Narrator voice) narrates each page via ElevenLabs TTS v3

Custom SFX generated per page — matched to exact scene atmosphere

Music node generates a unique background score based on the story theme — not a fixed track

Final Composition assembles all 6 pages with music into one complete video

REAL WORLD VALUE: Custom animated storybooks take weeks to produce and require coordinating illustrators, animators, and voice artists. Most parents who want one never get it made — the process is too complex and too slow. This template eliminates all of that. Any parent, educator, or children's content creator can produce a complete personalized storybook in minutes — for any child, any character, any theme.

Flow link: https://elevenlabs.io/app/flows/o4a1fk5vwOJ7ixgsRqOT

IMPORTANT NOTE — PLATFORM BUG: ElevenLabs Flows is currently in Alpha. The Flow works perfectly end-to-end and produces a complete storybook video. However, the Composition node has a known bug in template execution — when running as a Template, it throws "Referenced generation failed" error repeatedly. I lost significant credits on multiple failed attempts. I reported this in #elevenhacks-support on Discord. Due to this platform limitation, I am submitting the public Flow link instead of a Template link. The complete working output video is attached as demo.

Nice work 🔥. i love it , i noticed you made a mistake by submit your flow instead of your template . but it should be possible to correct that before the deadline 💪🏼