Choosing Your Style Settings

Quick answer: SceneMixer asks for four settings before it reads your script, and they are deliberately kept apart because they control different layers. Picture style is the medium — how the image is rendered. Art direction is the set — what the space is built from. Wardrobe is what people wear. Content type is structural — it sets episode length and pacing. Mixing them into one “style” box is what makes AI video look generic; keeping them separate is what lets a wuxia courtyard and a neon-lit office share the same camera language.

Still from “The Last Envelope”, an AI short drama generated end-to-end by SceneMixer (6 characters, 1 episode) — Sample: “The Last Envelope” — Realistic HD, 1 episode, produced end-to-end by SceneMixer from the script · watch the episodes

Every sample on the site carries its own four settings. Open a finished project and you can see the choices playing out across the character sheets, the location plates and the shots.

Picture style — how it is rendered

This is the medium and the surface: photographic, painterly, cel-shaded, 3D. It reaches everything — character sheets, location plates, item shots and the video prompt itself — because it is the one layer that has to stay identical in every frame of every episode.

It does not give framing or composition instructions. Telling the system how to paint is fine; telling it where to put the subject is the storyboard's job, and the two fight if both try.

Art direction — what the set is made of

Space, materials, colour discipline, how densely the set is dressed. This one is injected in exactly one place: the script read. The model digests it once, then writes it into every location description and every shot, so the courtyard and the corridor come from the same design language rather than being re-styled independently.

It is deliberately kept out of the location images and the video prompt. Pasting it in a second time is how you get red lacquer columns growing in an abandoned courtyard — the description already said what the space is; repeating the label overrides it.

Because it lives at the read, changing it later means re-reading the script.

Wardrobe — what people wear

Garment construction: silhouette, cut, fabric, craft. Like art direction, it is injected only at the read, and for a second reason: clothing is already described per character. Adding a project-wide wardrobe paragraph on top flattens the class gradient the read worked out — the servant and the magistrate end up dressed with equal expense.

It also protects a fix we made earlier: if wardrobe is pushed into the character sheet at full strength, a long coat eats seventy percent of a vertical frame and the face shrinks to nothing.

Content type — the structural switch

Short drama, long-form or film. It is not a look at all: it sets the per-episode duration ceiling, the performance grammar and the dialogue rhythm. A short drama needs a hook at the end of every episode; a film does not, and the read and the storyboard both branch on this.

You do not have to decide alone

Paste the script and the settings are pre-filled for you — a small, free pass over your text picks the three visual axes and says why. It only fills in axes you have not touched yourself, and you can override any of them before the read starts.

All three visual axes have to be set before the read can begin. That is on purpose: they are consumed at the read, so a blank one is a decision made by default rather than by you.

Setting	Controls	Changeable later?
Picture style	Rendering medium and surface	Yes — regenerate images
Art direction	What the set is built from	Needs a re-read
Wardrobe	Garment construction	Needs a re-read
Content type	Duration cap and pacing	Needs a re-read

FAQ

Why can I not change art direction without re-reading the script?

Because it is consumed once, at the read, and written into every location description from there. Changing the label afterwards would leave the descriptions saying something else.

Can I write my own style instead of picking a preset?

Members can. Presets cover the common ground; a custom line is useful when you have a specific reference in mind.

Will changing picture style later break consistency?

Regenerated images will use the new style, and ones you already generated will not. Location plates exist so that the look holds across episodes, so switching mid-project means regenerating the sheets you want to keep aligned.

Is there a lighting or mood setting?

No, and that is deliberate. Light position, atmosphere and grading are already decided per shot by the storyboard. A project-wide mood setting would fight every shot that asks for something specific.

What if I do not know what any of these mean?

Paste your script and take the pre-filled suggestion. It reads your text and explains each pick in one line.

See the settings in action

Open a finished sample and look at how one set of choices carries across a whole episode.

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Updated September 21, 2026