AI Chinese Animation Generator

Quick answer: SceneMixer has four looks built for Chinese animation: Chinese 3D Animation (detailed characters, flowing hair, glossy jade and metal), Painted Manhua (no line art, painted volume), Chinese Painted Style (fine brush lines, muted ink tones, silk texture) and Ink Wash Animation (ink on rice paper). Pair one with scene and costume presets such as Ink Jianghu, Immortal Sect Robes or Tang Opulence, write the story, and the cast is drawn once in that look and kept through every episode, speaking Chinese or any of the other 14 languages.

Still from “浪人の誓い”, an AI short drama generated end-to-end by SceneMixer (7 characters, 1 episode) — Sample: “浪人の誓い” — Shot on Film, 1 episode, produced end-to-end by SceneMixer from the script · watch the episodes

Brief for AI Create: A xianxia donghua: an outer-sect disciple who cannot cultivate discovers her broken sword remembers every duel it ever lost; one mountain sect, one sword, ten episodes with a cliffhanger each.

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 four looks

Look	What it looks like	Suits
Chinese 3D Animation	Detailed 3D characters, flowing hair and robes, glossy jade and metal	Xianxia, legends, epics
Painted Manhua	No line art, painted volume, rich contrast	Cultivation, action, revenge
Chinese Painted Style	Fine brush lines, muted ink tones, silk texture	Folk tales, palace stories
Ink Wash Animation	Shapes painted in ink washes on rice paper	Poetry, wuxia, fables

The Chinese 3D Animation 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 Painted Manhua 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.

Scene and costume presets set the world: Ink Jianghu and Silk Road City for places, Immortal Sect Robes, Jianghu Travelwear, Tang Opulence and Qing Palace Robes for dress. Every scene and costume preset.

Who this is for

If you are…	What you make here	Start with
Adapting a cultivation web novel	A donghua series, one episode per arc, the same disciples throughout	Web novel to drama series
Making a wuxia short	Duels written one move per shot, in Ink Wash or Painted Manhua	Xianxia or wuxia drama
Telling a palace or folk story	Chinese Painted Style with Tang or Qing dress	History drama
Reaching viewers abroad	The same donghua with dialogue in English, Indonesian or Spanish	A second-language version

Cultivation, sects and powers on screen

Donghua lives on things no camera can film: qi as light, a sword that flies, a realm breakthrough. Write them as visible causes: golden light gathers in her palm, the blade lifts and hangs point-down, the air cracks and the ground frosts. Give each power a colour and keep it; give each sect a dress and a mark on the sheet. Ranks and realms are written into the character sheet so they do not drift. Describe the cause, not the result · Costume changes and states.

Dialogue in Chinese, or not

Set the dialogue language in Step 1: Chinese, or any of the other 14 languages. The lines are performed in the generation itself, so a donghua for an Indonesian or Spanish audience is the same project with a different setting, not a dubbing job. Names stay as written in the script. Choose the dialogue language · Fifteen languages, three layers.

What it is not

It does not reproduce a named studio's style or a named series' characters; the looks are generic, and published characters are refused. It does not animate artwork you upload, frame by frame. Fights follow the one-move-per-shot rule, and injuries are shown before and after, not as wounds. Content rules.

Other animation pages: 2D animation · 3D animation · Anime video · 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

Can AI make donghua?

SceneMixer makes Chinese-style animation from a script in four looks built for it, with a cast drawn once and kept through every episode.

Which look is closest to 3D donghua?

Chinese 3D Animation: detailed characters, flowing hair, glossy jade and metal.

Can the characters speak Chinese?

Yes. Mandarin Chinese, set in Step 1, performed in the generation. Fourteen other languages are available for the same project.

Can I adapt a published web novel?

Only one you own or have the rights to. Published characters are refused by the IP check.

How do I show cultivation powers?

Write them as visible causes with a fixed colour per power; they render as light, motion and weather.

Do the robes and sect marks stay the same?

Yes. They are on the character sheet and inherited by every shot; a change of robes becomes a state.

Is it free to try?

New accounts get 50 credits, 15 free setup images, a free first-episode storyboard and a short preview.

Can I make wuxia in ink wash?

Yes. Ink Wash Animation with Ink Jianghu scenes and Jianghu Travelwear is built for it.

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.

One sect. One sword. Ten episodes.

Four Chinese looks, dialogue in Mandarin or 14 other languages.

Start a donghua

Updated November 2, 2026