Many people want to make comic dramas or animated short dramas to build an account and gain traffic, but as soon as they see the spiderweb-like hand-crafted nodes the pros use when creating, they are immediately discouraged.
Using conventional AI video tools is like opening a blind box; a character turns their head and their appearance completely changes. To string together a few coherent shots, you have to repeatedly pull the gacha, and the more you do it, the more exhausted you feel.
Let me show you a video. This is an AI comic drama I generated in half an hour. I only entered one sentence, and throughout the entire process I did not need to design characters, draw storyboards, or edit by myself, and I directly got a complete 5-minute episode. This should be the ideal state for most zero-basics ordinary people making comic dramas.
This is the world's first animation creation Agent tool officially launched today—— OiiOii，integrated with the full-power version of Seedance 2.0, and it has a complete set of professional creative agents built in, including an art director, screenwriter, character designer, scene designer, storyboard artist, and sound director.
We only need to give one instruction, and this AI video creation team can automatically complete all the work, including script generation, character design, scene design, storyboard production, sound effect generation, editing and compositing, and so on.
01. Zero-Basics Comic Drama Production
Let's go straight to hands-on practice and try using OiiOii to make a"Dream of the Red Chamber"scene of Bao and Dai's first meeting.
Open the OiiOii official website.
Official website:https://www.oiioii.ai
Select Seedance 2.0 Story Animation below the input box, and enter the creation requirement:
Please create a classical Chinese-style narrative illustration video, with the theme of Bao and Dai's first meeting in "Dream of the Red Chamber". The overall style should reference Zhang Yimou-style Eastern aesthetic expression.
During the entire production process, we hardly need to do anything by hand. OiiOii will automatically arrange suitable agents to take over the corresponding processes:
The art director will proactively turn the instruction into a specific plan, and further confirm with us information such as film length, aspect ratio, and dialogue language.
After we confirm the production plan, the AI screenwriter seamlessly takes over. Under the same Prompt, the script and storyboard results produced by the OiiOii Agent are far ahead, instantly generating a script with a strong sense of fate and an understanding of camera language.
After the script is confirmed, the screenwriter will automatically invite the character designer to continue working. According to the content requirements, the character designer will provide several relatively fitting visual styles for us to choose from, and we only need to click manually.
If none of the provided options are quite suitable, you can also filter directly from the OiiOii style library. The OiiOii style library provides 149 different art styles!
According to the script settings, the character designer accurately designed the appearances of 3 characters, all quite fitting the original text settings.
Even more impressive is that OiiOii has added a scene designer, which automatically builds scene images from multiple angles. The scene images from different angles are consistent, and close-up shots are also added, enriching the visual details and making camera transitions feel more continuous.
This completely solves the most headache-inducing problems of traditional AI video: character consistency and scene consistency.
Characters and scenes can both be added to the asset library with one click, and can be reused at any time, making it very convenient to produce continuous episodes.
OiiOii will provide 2 storyboard options:
It is strongly recommended to choose multi-panel image storyboard generation. It not only perfectly solves the gacha pain point, but is also more controllable and more professional.
We chose to use Seedance 2.0 to generate storyboards from grid images. Each storyboard video only takes about 1-2 minutes to generate, with no queueing, and it's very fast.
During this process, we can preview each storyboard in real time. If we're not satisfied with one, there's no need to redo everything—just click regenerate or edit to independently edit a single storyboard frame.
After adjusting to a version you're satisfied with, click to preview the final video. OiiOii will also call on a sound director to automatically score the entire short film, precisely conveying the storyline and emotional ups and downs.
Let's take a look at the final film together:
The screenwriter directly used famous lines from Dream of the Red Chamber, and the visual fidelity is very high.
Normally when we use Seedance 2.0, the highest quality we can get is only 720p, but in OiiOii,members are directly supported with 1080p HD lossless export, the image quality is even better, and the exported videos are more than good enough for publishing on social media.
02. Free Canvas
Fully automatic generation is great, but if you're like me and have your own directorial ideas, and enjoy ultimate control over the visuals, we can also choose the Free Canvas mode.
For example, let's make a clip of Baoyu and Daiyu reading together fromRomance of the Western Chamber.
We can first have the AI generate multi-angle scene views and detailed character storyboards on the canvas, laying out all the visual materials for comparison.
After confirming the characters and scenes you're satisfied with, there's no need for complicated connections at all,you just need to manually select the materials you need with a box selection, and you can directly use Seedance 2.0 to generate videos。
The generated video clips can be composited and support export at 1080p.
Let's take a look at the final film together:
The camera movement is still silky smooth, and the details of the two characters' interaction are very coherent and natural. However, the subtitles generated by Seedance 2.0 are not very accurate. I recommend removing the subtitles during generation and adding them in post-production, which will be more accurate.
03. Generating Complex Long-Take Comic Dramas
If you feel the above operations aren't thrilling enough, then take a look at OiiOii's true limits.
If you already have an original script, you can directly upload it and have OiiOii generate the animation; if not, just enter a one-sentence idea:
Generate a 5-minutexianxia comic drama, where a young girl accidentally enters a forbidden area and awakens an ancient sword spirit. Her originally ordinary life collapses from then on, and both the immortal and demon paths set their sights on her at the same time. A tribulation concerning fate and all living beings quietly begins.
With just this one sentence, the 7 professional agents built into OiiOii began working seamlessly in coordination, directly planning and generating a script and 22 storyboards for me.
It directly generated the 5-minute comic drama from the beginning in one go, with almost no manual adjustment needed.
OiiOii designed a large number of moving shots with long shots pushing into close shots and characters turning around. The consistency of the visuals and characters is terrifyingly stable, and the moving shots have almost no blind spots. This creative efficiency is far ahead of any other comic drama generation tool I've used.
04. Some Sharing
In the past, when making AI videos, we would always frantically roll for a good shot, and to control the visuals we had to learn extremely complex node connections. Even with the help of AI tools, a single episode would take several days.
A creator's most precious energy should be spent on telling the story, but instead it all gets consumed on fighting against the instability of AI.
OiiOii focuses on All in Oii, so we no longer have to run around opening memberships for different effects. All the mainstream image and video models across the web can be called from one place in OiiOii.
Even better is OiiOii's lazy canvas. It offers the same powerful wireless canvas control, yet we do not need to manually connect nodes at all. With a simple natural language description, AI can automatically build a dedicated creative workflow.
Give the tedious technical work back to the tools, and give pure creativity back to the creators. Now, one person is a fully equipped animation studio.
Original link:Finish a comic drama in 30 minutes! Revealing the fully automatic animation team used by short drama pros