---
title: "AI Comic Builder Turns Any Script Into an Animated Short With 1.8k Stars"
subtitle: "An open-source Next.js pipeline that turns raw scripts into full animated videos through character extraction, storyboarding, keyframe generation, and multi-model video synthesis."
url: "https://alphasignal.ai/news/ai-comic-builder-turns-any-script-into-an-animated-short-with-1-8k-stars"
author: "AlphaSignal Newsroom"
author_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/editorial-team"
company: "AlphaSignal"
company_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/company/alphasignal"
published: "2026-04-27T01:33:05.000Z"
updated: "2026-08-22T04:14:00.286Z"
type: "Repo"
topics:
  - "Vibe Coding"
  - "Video"
subtopics:
  - "App Builders"
  - "Ui Generation"
  - "Video Generation"
upvotes: 33
source_url: "https://github.com/twwch/AIComicBuilder"
comments: 0
truncated: true
---

# AI Comic Builder Turns Any Script Into an Animated Short With 1.8k Stars

> An open-source Next.js pipeline that turns raw scripts into full animated videos through character extraction, storyboarding, keyframe generation, and multi-model video synthesis.

Turning a written script into an animated short usually means juggling half a dozen tools: an LLM for character design, an image model for reference sheets, another model for keyframes, a video model for motion, and FFmpeg to stitch everything together. [AI Comic Builder](https://github.com/LingyiChen-AI/AIComicBuilder) collapses that chain into one self-hostable web app, and it has quietly picked up around 1.8k GitHub stars while doing it.

Feed the project a TXT, DOCX, or PDF, and it walks the story through parsing, character extraction, episode splitting, storyboarding, keyframe generation, video synthesis, and final assembly with burned-in subtitles.

## The pipeline, stage by stage

The core loop is a directed graph of generation steps, each of which can be triggered independently or in batch. That granularity matters, because video generation is expensive and you rarely want to regenerate the whole thing when only one shot is off.

1. Script parsing from uploaded files, with automatic style detection (anime, photorealistic, and so on)
2. Character extraction with detailed visual descriptions
3. Four-view character reference sheets (front, three-quarter, side, back) to lock in visual consistency
4. Storyboard decomposition into a professional shot list with composition, lighting, and camera direction

_Preview only. Full text requires an AlphaSignal Pro account._

## Sources

- [LingyiChen-AI/AIComicBuilder](https://github.com/LingyiChen-AI/AIComicBuilder)
- [AI Comic Builder hosted demo](https://comic.cturing.cn/en)
- [twwch/AIComicBuilder mirror](https://github.com/twwch/AIComicBuilder)