How to Turn Your Own Manga or Webtoon into an AI Anime Series

Quick answer: SceneMixer does not animate comic pages directly; it makes a series from a written script. That turns out to be the better route for a comic you own: you write each chapter as scenes with the dialogue from your speech bubbles, upload your own character designs as the reference sheets, and pick a visual style that matches the comic — Korean Webcomic, Anime, Painted Manhua or American Comic. Every episode is then storyboarded, rendered shot by shot against your designs, and joined into one video with the characters speaking their lines. Only adapt comics you have the rights to: characters from known series are refused.

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, if you start from an idea instead of pages: A webtoon-style action romance: a delivery rider in a neon city discovers she can see 10 seconds into the future; 8 episodes, Korean Webcomic look, each episode ends on a vision.

What goes in, what comes out

From your comic	Goes into SceneMixer as
A chapter	An episode of the script
Panels	Scene descriptions: where, who, what happens
Speech bubbles	Dialogue lines with the speaker’s name
Narration boxes	Voice-over lines from an off-screen narrator
Character designs	Uploaded as each character’s reference image
The art style	The visual style chosen in step 1

Comic pages themselves are not an input: paste the text or upload .txt, .docx or .md. What you can feed in · Which script files work.

Write the chapter as a script

Go panel by panel and write what the reader sees and hears. One page of a webtoon is usually two to four shots. Keep the dialogue exactly as in the bubbles; turn sound effects into the ambient line. Screenplay format is read well, but plain prose works too. Screenplay headings and cues · Write dialogue so it is picked up.

Panel	As a script line
Wide panel of a rainy rooftop, the hero alone	Night. A rooftop in the rain. MIRA stands alone at the edge, her delivery jacket soaked.
Close-up, speech bubble	MIRA: Ten seconds. That’s all I ever get.
Sound effect “KRAK”, door bursting open	The rooftop door bursts open behind her.
Narration box	NARRATOR (V.O.): She had already seen this part.

A storyboard segment: location, time and weather fields, then numbered shots with durations, asset chips and spoken lines — A storyboard segment: the header fields, then numbered shots with their seconds, @ chips for who is in frame, the lines and the sound.

Keep your character designs

After the script is read, open each character in step 2 and press Upload & Replace. Choose Optimize into a reference sheet to have your design redrawn as a clean full-length sheet in the project’s style, or Use this image as is if you drew a proper character sheet already. From then on every shot of that character looks at your design. Uploading is a membership feature on the current plan settings. Use your own image · What changes when you upload.

Keep the card’s written description in line with your design — it still steers how every shot is written. Costume changes from later arcs are states of the same character.

Character sheet from Rust City Knockout, an AI short drama made with SceneMixer — Character sheets from the sample Rust City Knockout: one reference image per character, used in every shot they appear in. A design you upload takes the same place as one of these generated sheets.

The episode asset library showing generated character sheets, location images and prop images — The episode’s asset library: each character, location and prop with its own reference image.

Match the comic’s look

Your comic looks like	Visual Style
A full-colour vertical webtoon	Korean Webcomic
Japanese manga, anime adaptation look	Anime, Painterly Anime, Watercolor Anime
Chinese manhua, painted	Painted Manhua, Chinese Painted Style
Western comic book	American Comic
3D-style manhua	Cel-shaded 3D

For a vertical webtoon, also choose 9:16 Portrait in step 1: the comic’s reading direction becomes the phone screen. A consistent anime look · Stylised looks across tiers.

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.

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.

Rights and the IP check

Adapt only work you created or have the rights to adapt. An IP check refuses characters, names and iconic outfits from known films, games and comics, in the script and in uploaded images; a refused attempt is refunded. Fan versions of famous series will not get through. IP check: celebrities, brands, franchises.

Make it in SceneMixer, start to finish

Script: write chapter 1 (and as many as you like) as scenes and dialogue; paste it on Upload Script.
Step 1: Type TV Series for a long-running comic or Short Drama for a short arc; the visual style that matches the comic; 9:16 Portrait for a webtoon; the dialogue language. Read the script.
Step 2: upload your character designs with Upload & Replace, or generate sheets (the first 15 on an account are free).
Storyboard: episode 1 first (free on your first project); check every shot names who is in frame.
Video: generate on the default tier at 10 credits a second; composite; post the episode with your chapter.

For a painterly anime sample, watch Rust City Knockout. From a web novel · Making a multi-episode series.

FAQ

Can AI convert my manga into anime?

In SceneMixer, yes, from the story rather than the pages: write each chapter as a script with the bubbles' dialogue, upload your character designs, pick an anime style, and each chapter becomes an animated episode.

Can I upload my comic pages?

No. Drama projects take a written script. Your character designs can be uploaded as reference images in step 2.

Will my characters look like my designs?

Uploaded designs become each character's reference, and every shot is matched to it. Optimize redraws the design as a clean sheet in the project's style; Use as is keeps it untouched.

Which style for a webtoon?

Korean Webcomic, with 9:16 Portrait for phone viewing.

Can the characters speak?

Yes. Dialogue lines are performed on screen in the language you pick in step 1, one of 15; narration boxes become voice-over.

Can I adapt a famous manga as a fan project?

No. Characters from known series are refused by the IP check. Adapt your own work or work you have the rights to.

How much of a chapter fits in one episode?

Roughly one webtoon chapter per one-to-three-minute episode; long chapters can be split across two.

Do I need to know how to animate?

No. You write the scenes and the dialogue; the storyboard and the video are generated, and you can edit any shot's text and regenerate it.

Your panels, moving.

Start with chapter one.

Adapt your comic

Updated October 20, 2026