Comic, manga, album · to animation

Your comic already has the shots.Now make them move.

Import your pages. ScreenWeaver finds the panels, your assistant turns them into shots with your characters on model, and you generate the frames and the video in the app. With Claude, ChatGPT or the assistant built into ScreenWeaver.

Import my first pages See a page cut into shots

Panels found automatically
Comics, albums, manga, graphic novels
Your own art as the reference

A six-panel comic page: a lighthouse in a storm, a girl in a yellow raincoat with binoculars, a whale lit by the beam, with the six panels found by ScreenWeaver outlined and numbered — One page · six panels · six shots

The same comic page with its six panels outlined and numbered from 1 to 6, in reading order

One page, six shots

ScreenWeaver found every panel on this page.

Each panel was cut out as its own image, labelled with its page and its number, then turned into a shot of the storyboard. Here is what the six panels show.

01Wide: the lighthouse on its rock in the storm, with the caption setting the place and the year.
02Medium: the girl in the yellow raincoat watches the sea through binoculars, next to the lamp.
03Extreme close-up: her eyes behind the lenses, a whale reflected in them.
04Insert: her hand pulls a brass lever, with a KLANG drawn across the panel.
05Wide: the beam sweeps the sea and lights the whale as it surfaces.
06Medium: she leans on the rail and smiles, with a speech bubble.

A comic page from the ScreenWeaver demo project, lettered in French. When the shots are redrawn, the bubbles, captions and lettering are left out of the frames by default.

Every format

A comic book, an album or a manga: the same pipeline.

Pages go in as a PDF or as images, whatever the format. What changes is how much story a page holds and the order it is read in.

Comic books
A monthly issue is a natural short episode. Splash pages and double spreads usually need more than one shot.
Albums and BD
A Franco-Belgian album packs dense pages, often eight to twelve panels each. Expect a feature or a few episodes per book.
Manga
Pages read right to left. Tell the assistant, and the shot list follows that order. Black and white pages work as references.
Graphic novels
Long books with a single arc. Import them in parts: up to 50 pages per call, the next pages in the following call.

Before you start, size the book: pages, panels, episodes and running time. Comic to animation calculator

How it works

From your pages to animated shots, in six steps.

This is the process as it runs today, with the names of the tools your assistant calls. You approve the characters, and you start every generation yourself.

01
Create the project
Ask for a film or a series. The assistant creates it and sets the frame: 16:9 for a series, or 9:16 for the phone.
No credits
Tools called
- create_project
- set_project_aspect_ratio
Set up the MCP
02
Import the pages
Send a PDF or images. With panel detection on, every page is cut into its panels, each labelled page and panel with a one-line caption. A page it cannot read is cut by hand from what the assistant sees.
About 1 credit a page
Tools called
- import_media
03
Name the cast and the places
The assistant lists who and where comes back from panel to panel and asks you once which to create. Their reference sheets are drawn from your own panels.
No credits
Tools called
- list_entities
- create_entities
- add_reference_images
04
Panels become shots
One shot per panel, or several for an action panel or a splash page. Each shot gets an action, a framing, a camera movement and a duration, and cites the characters and the place.
No credits
Tools called
- create_shots
- update_shot
05
Redraw or keep your art
Each panel is attached to its shot. The frame is redrawn in the project's format, keeping the composition, or your own drawing is used as the frame as it is.
No credits
Tools called
- set_prompt
- set_shot_panel
06
Generate in the app
You generate the frames in Storyboard and the video in Production. Generation never starts from the MCP: you decide what to spend.
Credits per frame and clip

Panel detection costs about one credit a page, and the assistant asks you before going over 20 pages. A page already searched costs nothing the second time.

Page to screen

A comic page is a storyboard with the time left out.

Panels have no duration, gutters have no cut, and the lettering is drawn into the art. Adapting a comic means putting the time back, one decision at a time.

Your comic has	Animation needs	In ScreenWeaver
Panels in a grid, in reading order	Shots, in cut order	Panels cut automatically, then a shot list you can reorder, split or merge
Gutters between panels	A duration for every shot	Duration set per shot, in seconds
Speech bubbles and captions	Lines with a speaker, and voice over	Frames redrawn without the lettering, lines written into the script
Sound effects drawn as letters	Sound, and sometimes a cut	The effect leaves the frame, the action stays in the shot
A splash page or a double spread	A wide shot, a camera move or several shots	Several shots from one panel, or a continuation that holds the framing
Characters drawn hundreds of times	Characters kept on model from shot to shot	Story elements cited in every shot, their sheets drawn from your panels

The right column is what ScreenWeaver does today. The full method, from sizing the book to the cut, is here: How to turn a comic into an animated series

Before you import

Animate the comics you have the right to animate.

An adaptation starts with the right to adapt. A comic has an author, often an artist, sometimes a colourist and a publisher: check who holds the rights before you bring their pages into a project.

Your own comic is the simplest case. You hold the rights, and the project stays private.
Someone else's comic needs the written agreement of its authors or its publisher, even for a fan project shared online.
The public domain depends on the country. In the European Union, a work becomes free 70 years after the death of its last author.
Characters can outlive the pages. An old issue may be free while a character's name or look is still a protected brand.

Go further

Guides for adapting a comic

FAQ

Comic to animation questions

Can ScreenWeaver turn a comic into an animation?

Yes. Import the pages as a PDF or as images. ScreenWeaver finds the panels, the assistant turns them into a storyboard of shots with your characters as story elements, and you generate the frames and the video in the app.

Does it work with manga?

Yes. Manga pages go in like any comic page. Tell the assistant the book reads right to left and the shots follow that order. Black and white pages work as references, and the look of the animation comes from the project.

How many pages can I import?

Up to 50 pages per import, and as many imports as the book needs. Finding the panels costs about one credit a page, and the assistant asks before going over 20 pages.

Will my characters stay on model?

Each recurring character becomes a story element, its reference sheet drawn from your own panels, and every shot that shows it cites it. That is what keeps a face and a costume the same from shot to shot.

Can I keep my own drawings as the frames?

Yes. Each panel can be used as the frame of its shot as it is, or redrawn in the project's format. You choose when the assistant asks.

How much does it cost?

Writing is free on the Screenwriter plan, which never expires. Finding panels costs about one credit a page, and frames and video are paid in credits when you generate them. The storyboard, the video and the MCP come with the Auteur plan at $39.99 a month, with 6,000 credits a month.

Are my pages used to train AI models?

No. Neither ScreenWeaver nor the AI models it runs train on your content. An assistant you connect through the MCP follows its own data settings, which you manage in your Claude or ChatGPT account.