AI 2D Animation Generator

Quick answer: SceneMixer makes 2D animation from a story: choose one of eleven 2D looks in Step 1, paste or write the script, and it draws every character, place and prop once in that look, then animates each shot with the dialogue, ambience and music generated together. It is for making new 2D scenes from text; it does not animate a drawing you already have. Video is 10 credits a second on the default tier and the first 15 setup images on an account are free.

Still from “Rust City Knockout”, an AI short drama generated end-to-end by SceneMixer (6 characters, 1 episode) — Sample: “Rust City Knockout” — Painterly Anime, 1 episode, produced end-to-end by SceneMixer from the script · watch the episodes

Brief for AI Create: A 2D animated short: a girl who runs the last analogue cinema in a city of screens gets one night to show a film nobody remembers; one street, one projector room, no villain.

SceneMixer at a glance	What you get
Video price	From $0.06 a second (10 credits) on the default tier, up to $0.47 a second on the top tier; every price is shown before you press the button
Clip length	Up to 30 seconds per generated segment; an episode is composited from its segments at 1 credit a second
One episode, worked out	A 60-second episode on the default tier is about 660 credits (video plus compositing), about $4.11 at the lowest credit price; a 10-episode series of 90-second episodes from a 30,000-character novel is about 10,026 credits, about $62
Dialogue	Spoken in the video itself, one voice per character, in any of 15 languages
Formats	9:16 vertical or 16:9 landscape; 480P to 1080P, plus a 2K tier
Free to start	50 credits on signup, 15 free setup images, a free storyboard for the first episode and a free 5-second video preview
Who uses it	2,900+ creators have generated with SceneMixer (accounts with at least one generation, counted November 2026)
Input	A script, a novel or a one-line idea; .txt, .docx and .md uploads

The eleven 2D looks

Look	What it looks like	Suits
Anime	Clean lines and flat colours, like TV anime	Series, romance, action
Painterly Anime	Lavish, saturated scenery; simple-lined characters	Films, emotional stories
Watercolor Anime	Watercolour on paper, fine lines, natural colours	Gentle fantasy, slice of life
Korean Webcomic	Slender, polished characters, soft airbrushed shading	Webtoon romance and revenge
Painted Manhua	No line art, painted volume, rich contrast	Cultivation, action
American Comic	Bold ink lines and heavy black shadows	Superheroes, noir
Watercolor Storybook	Transparent watercolour and pencil, like a children's book	Bedtime stories, fables
Chinese Painted Style	Fine brush lines, muted ink tones, silk texture	Folk tales, palaces
Ink Wash Animation	Shapes painted in ink washes on rice paper	Poetry, wuxia
Classical Oil Painting	Visible brushwork over warm brown	Myths, period stories
Claymation	Hand-pressed clay figures and miniature sets	Small worlds, gentle comedy

The Anime card under Visual Style in SceneMixer's project setup — The cards as they appear in step 1, *Set Up Your Project*. Pick one in each row before the script is read; the visual style is fixed once you continue.

The Painterly Anime card under Visual Style in SceneMixer's project setup — The cards as they appear in step 1, *Set Up Your Project*. Pick one in each row before the script is read; the visual style is fixed once you continue.

The look is chosen once and fixed when you continue past Step 1; the location and costume pictures switch to drawn versions to match. Every visual style, one by one.

Who this is for

If you are…	What you make here	Start with
Making an anime or webtoon series	Episodes in Anime or Korean Webcomic with the same drawn cast	Anime video generator
Making a children's channel	Watercolor Storybook or Family 3D stories with a recurring guide	Kids' story videos
Adapting a comic	Panels that become moving shots with spoken lines	Comic to video
Making a short film	A drawn short with a score and no dialogue, or with it	Animated short film

How 2D animation is made here

Step 1: the 2D look, the type (Short Drama, TV Series or Film), 9:16 or 16:9, region and dialogue language. Then the script is read.
Step 2: every character, location and prop is drawn once in the look. These sheets are what every shot copies.
Storyboard: each episode as numbered shots with seconds, framing, lines and sound; edit any of it as text.
Animation: each segment is rendered with the voices and sound in the same pass, then joined with a score.

The whole workflow · Drawn looks on each tier.

What 2D does well, and what to write for it

Drawn characters hold their faces better than live-action ones, and drawn faces are rarely refused by the real-person check, so 2D is the easiest place to keep a cast consistent across twenty episodes. Write fights as one move per shot, give each shot one light source, and let the scenery carry the mood: a Painterly Anime sky can do what a page of description cannot. Anime fight scenes · Same face in every shot.

What it is not

It does not animate a picture you upload, frame by frame; it draws new scenes from a script. It does not imitate a named studio or a named show: the looks are generic styles, and famous characters are refused. Members can upload a reference photo for a character, which is redrawn in the look rather than traced. Use your own photo · The IP check.

Other animation pages: 3D animation · Stop motion and claymation · Chinese animation · All 17 animated looks.

Languages

Native dialogue in 15 languages

Every series below was produced by the same pipeline with the cast speaking that language natively: the interface, the working documents and the spoken lines are all in one language, and nothing is dubbed. Open one to hear it.

See all 15 languages

In SceneMixer vs. stitching tools together

Most AI drama workflows are five or six tools in a row. This is where each step happens here, and what it replaces.

Step	In SceneMixer	Doing it by hand with separate tools
Script and episode plan	Paste a script or a novel, or type one line: it is read into a cast, locations, props and an episode outline you can edit	A chat model writes the script; you split it into episodes and carry the text from tool to tool
Character faces and places	Every character, location and prop is drawn once as a reference sheet and attached to every shot it appears in	An image model, one sheet at a time; you upload the right reference to every clip yourself
Shots	A storyboard per episode with numbered shots and seconds; video is generated segment by segment in 9:16 or 16:9 against the same sheets	A video model, one clip per prompt, describing the same people again each time
Voices and dialogue	Lines are performed in the video itself, one voice per character, in any of 15 languages	A text-to-speech tool for each line, then a lip-sync pass on every clip
Fixing one shot	Edit that shot's text and regenerate the segment alone; the rest of the episode is untouched	Regenerate the clip, then re-cut the timeline
Finishing	Segments are composited into one episode file with its score; members download without the AI badge	A video editor to join the clips, add music and captions, then export
Publishing	You upload the finished episode to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or anywhere else; nothing is posted for you	Upload by hand, the same as here

Can you make money with AI dramas on TikTok and YouTube?

Yes, within each platform's rules, and the rules are about the account and the video, not about how the video was made. TikTok's Creator Rewards Program (checked November 2, 2026) is open to personal accounts aged 18+ in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Mexico and Brazil with at least 10,000 followers and 100,000 video views in the last 30 days; a rewarded video must be original, longer than one minute and reach 1,000 views on the For You feed. YouTube's Partner Program needs 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Both platforms require realistic AI-generated content to be labelled, and YouTube states that disclosing AI use alone does not limit a video's audience or its eligibility to earn. SceneMixer episodes are longer than a minute by design, carry an AI badge by default (members can switch it off and add the platform's own label instead), and are yours to publish. The full answer, with sources.

FAQ

What is an AI 2D animation generator?

A tool that turns a script into 2D animated video: here, eleven drawn looks, a cast drawn once, and every shot animated with dialogue and sound.

Can I animate my own drawing?

No. It draws new scenes from a script. Members can upload a photo as a reference for a character, which is redrawn in the look.

Which 2D style is best for anime?

Anime for a TV look, Painterly Anime for films, Watercolor Anime for gentle stories, Korean Webcomic for webtoon romance.

Do the characters stay the same?

Yes. Each character has one sheet in the chosen look and every shot that features them is generated from it.

Is it free?

New accounts get 50 credits, 15 free setup images, a free first-episode storyboard and a short preview. Video is paid by the second.

Can the characters talk?

Yes. Lines are performed in the generation, in any of 15 languages, with a voice per character.

Can I mix 2D and live action?

Not in one project; the look is fixed for the whole series. Start a second project for a different look.

Which tier for 2D?

Drawn looks render well on the default tier; raise the shots you keep to 1080P or 2K afterwards.

Is SceneMixer like ReelShort or DramaBox?

No. ReelShort and DramaBox are apps for watching short dramas. SceneMixer is for making them: it turns your script or novel into episodes with a consistent cast and spoken dialogue, and you publish the episodes wherever you like, including those platforms' creator programmes where they exist.

Pick a drawn look. Write the story.

Eleven 2D looks, one cast, every episode.

Start a 2D animation

Updated November 2, 2026