AI Comic to Video

Quick answer: SceneMixer turns a comic story into video: paste the script or the panel-by-panel text of your comic, choose a comic look (American Comic, Korean Webcomic, Painted Manhua or Anime), and it draws your cast once in that look, writes each panel as a shot with seconds and spoken lines, and generates the episode with voices and music. It works from your words, not from scanned pages: the panels are redrawn as new shots, so the result moves like animation rather than a page turning.

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: From my webtoon, chapter 1: a delivery courier in a flooded megacity finds a sealed letter addressed to herself, dated ten years from now; six panels become one 60-second episode, Korean Webcomic look.

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	The script or panel-by-panel text of your comic; panels are redrawn as new shots, scanned pages are not used

Two ways in

You have	What to paste	What happens
A script or a chapter outline	The text, with character names and lines	Read into episodes, cast, locations and a storyboard
Finished panels with dialogue	The panel text in order: who is in it, what happens, what is said	Each panel becomes a shot; the lines are spoken by the right character
Only an idea	One sentence in AI Create	A script is written, then the same pipeline runs

Scanned pages are not read. Members can upload a reference image for a character so the drawn sheet follows your design; it is redrawn in the look, not traced. Use your own reference image · Turn a manga or webtoon into an anime series.

Who this is for

If you are…	What you make here	Start with
A webtoon or comic author	An animated episode per chapter, in a look close to your pages, to post beside them	Anime series for YouTube
A writer without an artist	Your comic script as a finished animated short	Anime video generator
A publisher or studio	A trailer or a pilot episode of a comic property to test it	AI trailer generator
A teacher or librarian	A comic strip with a lesson, animated with voices	Educational cartoon

The comic looks

Look	What it looks like	Closest to
American Comic	Bold ink lines and heavy black shadows	Superhero and noir comics
Korean Webcomic	Slender, polished characters, soft airbrushed shading	Webtoons
Painted Manhua	No line art, painted volume, rich contrast	Chinese manhua
Anime	Clean lines and flat colours	Manga adapted for TV
Cel-shaded 3D	Anime characters built in 3D	Game-style manga

The American Comic 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 Korean Webcomic 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.

From panel to shot

A panel is a frozen moment; a shot is a few seconds of movement with sound. The read turns each panel into a shot with a duration, a framing, who is in frame and the line that is spoken, and adds the connective tissue a page leaves out: the walk between two panels, the reaction after a line. Speech bubbles become spoken dialogue with a voice per character; sound effects written in the panel (CRASH) become ambience. Text on screen is not drawn into the picture; captions are added after export. Dialogue in the storyboard · Text on screen.

What it is not

It does not animate your existing artwork or scan your pages. It does not reproduce published characters: famous manga and comic characters are refused by the IP check, so this is for your own stories. The IP check.

Other animation pages: 2D animation · Anime video · 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

Can AI turn a comic into a video?

SceneMixer turns a comic's script or panel text into animated video: each panel becomes a shot with movement and spoken lines, in a comic look.

Do I upload my pages?

No. Paste the text of the panels or the script. Members can upload a character reference so the drawn cast follows your design.

Can I adapt a published manga?

No. Published characters are refused by the IP check; use your own story and characters.

Which look is closest to a webtoon?

Korean Webcomic. American Comic for ink and shadow, Painted Manhua for Chinese manhua, Anime for a TV adaptation feel.

Are the speech bubbles spoken?

Yes. Each line is performed by its character's voice in the language you set; captions can be added after export.

How long is one chapter as video?

It depends on the panels: a six-panel chapter is usually a 30- to 60-second episode; a long chapter can run to several minutes.

Does it keep my character designs?

Members can upload a reference per character; it is redrawn in the look and then used for every shot.

What does it cost?

Reading the text is 4 credits per 1,000 characters; video is 10 credits a second on the default tier; the first 15 setup images are free.

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.

From panel to moving shot

Paste the chapter. Pick a comic look.

Start a comic adaptation

Updated November 2, 2026