Manga2Animate plans scripts and storyboards before animating manga
Original title: Manga2Animate: An Agentic Framework for Faithful Manga Animation with Script and Storyboard Planning
Paired creator and reviewer agents refine a script and storyboard against source panels before final synthesis.
Manga2Animate is a multi-agent framework for turning existing manga into animation that stays closer to the source. It builds an animation script and a visual storyboard, each made by a creator agent and checked against source panels by a reviewer. Authors say experiments and a user study show better source faithfulness and shot consistency than prior methods.
Unconfirmed: Faithfulness claims rest on the authors' experiments and user study.
- Text-only adaptation is said to lose characters and art style.
- Direct page-to-video input can misread structure and storyline.
- Selection and dual-level feedback refine both intermediate representations.
- A user study compares faithfulness and cross-shot consistency.
From the original article
1 min read at huggingface.co
Adapting existing manga into coherent animation that stays faithful to the source is a valuable yet challenging task. Existing methods either access the manga mainly through text, losing its characters and art style, or feed manga pages directly into video generation models, which misinterpret the manga's structure and produce incorrect storylines.
By Sheng-Wei Zhang, Hsi-An Chen, Yan-Ting Liou · huggingface.co
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