How an AI Anime Is Created

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Aventos explains their workflow for creating AI-generated anime, balancing human creativity in writing, directing, and post-production with AI for animation and effects.

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# Our Process — Aventos Source: [https://www.aventos.dev/our-process?view=blog](https://www.aventos.dev/our-process?view=blog) ProcessStart to finish ## How an AI Anime is Created ![Beat sheet document for an adapted episode](https://www.aventos.dev/public/OurProcess/beatSheet1.png) 01 / 04 AdaptationHuman ### Story Writing & Adaptation Adaption work is hard but worth it We find the one thing that made readers keep scrolling, then build a tight 20 minute episode around it\. Everything else gets cut\. We don't use LLMs for any of the writing\. It's bad writing every time we've tried\. Primary toolsWriters' room, no AI Built forGen Z · Gen Alpha audiences ![Video editor timeline for the first rough draft of an episode](https://www.aventos.dev/public/OurProcess/firstDraft1.png) 02 / 04 DirectingHuman ### Directing Every shot a painting A beat sheet locks the action, the shot angle, and the pacing for every scene\. Then we use a cheap model to generate fast, rough draft clips just to see if the pacing and emotion land before committing to anything\. Primary toolsBeat sheet · cheap draft generation Decided by handCharacter look · shot pacing ![Video editor timeline with regenerated shots for an episode](https://www.aventos.dev/public/frames/wa_044.jpg) 03 / 04 Animation & FXAI ### Animation & FX This is where the anime actually gets shot\. Every shot gets regenerated in high quality, using character and environment references to hold consistency\. The hard part already happened in directing, so an agent reruns the earlier prompts for us, and we only step in to redo a shot that missed the draft\. Primary toolsCharacter refs · environment refs Stage typeAI generated ![Video editor timeline for the finished, mixed episode](https://www.aventos.dev/public/OurProcess/finalDraft1.png) 04 / 04 Post ProductionHuman ### Post Production Where generated stops looking generated\. Footage gets upscaled and cleaned up frame by frame, fixing whatever AI still gets wrong\. Then dialogue, music, and sound effects come together into a final mix, subtitled and checked before it ships\. Primary toolsTopaz · DaVinci · Reaper Human passCurate · composite · grade · mix CommissionCustom work ## Want to make your own custom anime? [Learn more](https://www.aventos.dev/custom-anime.html)

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