Plan, then make
Every stage starts with a cheap plan step. Read its notes, fix what is wrong, then run the steps that make pictures and video.
One line, left to right. Start anywhere on it.
Bring the pages in, make the art, write the words, make the shots, add the sound, take the film. Each stage uses what the last one made, and takes files you bring yourself.
Source
Pages in, panels out, bubbles gone.
3 stepsArt
Repair, repaint, fit the frame.
4 stepsStory
Read the story, write the script.
2 stepsVideo
Plan the shots, make the clips.
2 stepsSound
Voices, effects, clean mix.
4 stepsDeliver
Cut, mix, render, download.
3 stepsStory comes before Video
The script sets the shots, their length, and who speaks. It is the cheapest place to change your mind.
Nothing is final
The cut, mix and render are made new each time. Change one shot and the next film has it.
What passes between stages
What each stage needs, and what it gives.
This is the whole deal between stages. If you can bring the input yourself, you can start there.
| Stage | It needs | You get | Then |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | Comic or manga pages, as pictures or a zip. | Panels in reading order, with the speech bubbles taken out, and notes on every page.Understand Pages · Split into Panels · Find Speech Bubbles | Art |
| Art | Panels with empty bubbles, or any panels you have. | Finished pictures: repaired, in one style, at video size.Plan Art · Clean Up Panels · Apply Anime Style · Fit to Frame | Story, or Video |
| Story | Your imported pages, or just a prompt. | One script with times on every line, as narration or dialogue, marked as your film's script.Plan Story · Write Script | Video |
| Video | Pictures in reading order, and the script if you wrote one. | A storyboard you can change, then one clip for each shot, refined with more movement.Plan Video · Generate Video · Improve Video | Sound, or Deliver for a silent film |
| Sound | The clips and the script. | A voice for each character, one sound file per line, effects under each clip, all cleaned up.Plan Sound · Voice-over · SFX · Clean Sound | Deliver |
| Deliver | Clips, your sound if you made it, the script for subtitles. | The finished film, bigger and sharper if you want, or the whole project as a zip.Cut · Mix · Render & Export | Share it |
Six ways in
Start with what you have.
The full line is for a comic you want made into a film. But every stage takes what you bring, so you can begin in the middle and still get to the end.
From a comic
The whole line
Import a chapter and work left to right. Page notes feed the art and story, the script sets shot length, and the clips set the voice speed.
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From your own artwork
Skip Source
Already have panels or concept art? Import them and skip the cutting steps. Write the script from a prompt instead of pages.
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From a script
Words first
Write Script works from a prompt, or gives you a timed script to write over. Add pictures and Plan Video cuts the shots to your lines.
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From a prompt
Just make one clip
Generate Video works from one panel, a prompt, or both. Good for one shot or a quick style test.
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From your own clips
A silent film, with voices
Have video already? Import the clips and a script, or write one here. Sound casts the voices and adds background sound. Deliver mixes and renders.
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Art to video, no words
Skip Story
Go straight from pictures to shots. Plan Video works from the art alone. Add a script later, or leave it silent and add sound.
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Inside a stage
Plan, run, look, fix, run again.
It is the same four moves in every stage. That is why you can learn the whole studio in an afternoon.
Plan
Run the stage's plan step. It writes notes: what each panel is, what happens, which shots to make, who speaks.
Run
Pick a step and run it on a folder, or on three files first.
Look
Every step puts its files in the stage. Open any file for its notes, history and tools.
Fix and run again
Erase, crop, copy, say it again, shoot it again. The new version takes the old one's place. You can always go back.
Or let the director do it
Point the director at one stage and it picks the next step, runs it, checks it, and carries on until the stage is ready. It runs a few files first if you ask. Stop or pause it whenever you like.
Where the money goes
Plan steps cost a few credits each. The steps that make pictures, video and sound are paid by the minute. Everything expensive comes after something cheap you can check first. Pricing →
Bring a chapter. Or a script. Or one panel.
However you start, the line ends with a finished film.