Story / storyboard -> animated video, film, anime

Tools that take a story, a script or a storyboard and return an animated video or film. This page lists this group. The same entries are also on the AI video tools page.

Catalog last reviewed 2026-10-19.

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This group lists 3 tools. Vivijure and AI Comic Builder state that the software is free and that you pay your own costs. MkAnime does not state a free tier. Vivijure and AI Comic Builder are described as open source. Vivijure states cloud processing. Vivijure states on-device processing. Vivijure and AI Comic Builder are described as self-hosted. MkAnime states browser processing. AI Comic Builder does not state a processing location.

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Name	Input	Output	Platform	Free tier	Price note	Processing
Vivijure	storyboard + character portraits	finished film MP4	Self-hosted, Open source	Stated	Free tier: the software is free. You pay your own GPU, API and cloud costs.	Cloud, Local
AI Comic Builder	script	animated video with subtitles (via your own model API keys)	Self-hosted, Open source	Stated	Free tier: free open source. You pay your own model API costs.	Not stated
MkAnime	story premise or shot prompt	anime shorts / episode assets with dubbing	Web	Not stated	Not stated	Browser

Vivijure

Self-hosted
Open source
Free & open source

Open-source (AGPL-3.0) self-hosted studio that takes a storyboard of scenes, shot descriptions and character portraits and renders it into a finished film MP4 using keyframes plus image-to-video on your own GPU, RunPod or cloud motion APIs, with optional lip-sync, upscaling, music, TTS narration, titles and subtitles, for people who want to make their own AI films.

Input -> output: storyboard + character portraits -> finished film MP4

Free tier: the software is free. You pay your own GPU, API and cloud costs.

AI Comic Builder

Self-hosted
Open source
Free & open source

Self-hostable open-source (Apache-2.0) app that takes a script (TXT, DOCX or PDF upload, or written in-app) and outputs an animated video by extracting characters, generating character reference sheets, splitting the script into shots, generating first/last frames and clips with the AI providers you configure, and stitching them with burned-in subtitles, for producing "comic drama" (manga-style animated) videos.

Input -> output: script -> animated video with subtitles (via your own model API keys)

Free tier: free open source. You pay your own model API costs.

MkAnime

Browser tool that takes a story premise (or a single shot prompt) and produces an anime outline, script, character sheets, storyboard shots and short anime videos with AI dubbing and lip sync in Chinese, English, Japanese or Korean, using Seedance and Kling for the video step, for creators making anime shorts and series.

Input -> output: story premise or shot prompt -> anime shorts / episode assets with dubbing