How a manga chapter becomes an anime video

A chapter does not become a film in one jump. animaay reads the pages, splits them into panels, draws an anime frame for each panel you keep, and then animates those frames into clips. You see the price before any of that drawing starts.

Drop the pages

The upload can be a PDF, a CBZ, a ZIP of images, or the images themselves. Color pages and black-and-white pages both work. Drop up to 5 images at once, and a PDF is capped at 5 pages, so a longer chapter is split into parts. Each page is drawn and animated before the next, and they are saved as one chapter.

The first pass is free. It finds the panels and their reading order. Covers, credits and ads can be left out. You confirm which pages belong in the video before a frame is drawn.

One frame, then a clip

Each panel you include becomes one anime frame, redrawn in color. Consecutive frames are grouped into short clips. A clip carries the voices, the music and the sound effects together with the picture, rather than a soundtrack laid on afterwards.

You can fix a spoken line, redraw a frame, or make a clip again. An unlocked chapter includes 5 redos. Joining the clips into one MP4 is free, and the subtitles come with the download.

Pay for the film, not the scan

The panel split is the moment you see what the chapter will cost. Unlock that chapter once, or subscribe: 10 panels a week for $15.99 ($1.60 a panel), or 30 a month for $39.99 ($1.33 a panel). If a frame or a clip cannot be made, you are not charged for that piece.

When you want a video from characters you already have, instead of from pages, start from your characters.