Write your story in a few lines, say the look (black-and-white ink, screentone, deep blue nights) and ClipNova turns it into a narrated manga-style video: illustrated scenes that move, a voice, captions and music, from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. The video here was made that way, in one pass.
Here is one story followed from the idea to the finished video: Hana, an original heroine, finds her grandmother's paper umbrella and walks the year 1965 with her.
Open AI Storytelling and describe the story in a sentence or as numbered beats, then say how it should look: "black-and-white manga, bold ink lines, screentone, deep blue night tones". The look comes from your words, so the more precisely you describe it, the more manga it gets.
With AI Video, add a saved character in the Characters card and she keeps the same face, hair and scarf from scene to scene. With Moving AI Images, describe her the same way every time. For a manga series, Series keeps the whole cast across episodes. Skip this and ClipNova draws the people from your story.
Moving AI Images is the default: each scene is an illustrated panel with slow camera motion, the motion-manga look, at about a third of the price. Switch to AI Video when a fight or a chase needs full motion. Base, Pro and Ultra set the quality.
ClipNova writes the narration from your story and reads it in the voice you pick, in 18 languages, or you upload your own recording. Captions are burned in word by word in the style you choose, and your own track plays under the voice.
Pick Auto, or set the length yourself from a 30-second Short to a 5-minute chapter. ClipNova plans the scenes from your beats in order, so the attic, the umbrella, the street and the goodbye arrive where you wrote them.
If one panel is off, regenerate just that scene in Studio or restyle the captions. Choose 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, 16:9 for YouTube or 1:1 for the feed before you generate: each format is its own video.
What creators make most with a manga look:
It turns a story idea into a video drawn in a manga style: illustrated scenes, a narrator, captions and music. In ClipNova you write the story and the look in AI Storytelling, and it comes back as a finished video from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
Write it into your idea: for example "black-and-white manga, bold ink lines, screentone shading, deep blue night tones". AI Storytelling has no fixed manga preset, so your words set the style, and naming one accent color (like a red scarf) helps it stand out.
Yes. With AI Video, add a saved character in the Characters card. With Moving AI Images, describe the character the same way every time. For episodes, Series keeps the same cast and remembers the last five episodes.
Only if you have the rights. Use your own story and original characters, or your own drawn pages through Frames to Video. Reposting someone else's manga can get a video removed or a channel demonetized.
From 5 seconds to 5 minutes per video. Shorts usually run 30 to 60 seconds; a longer chapter or a story time video can go up to 5 minutes, and a series can continue it episode by episode.
Moving AI Images looks like animated manga panels and costs about a third of AI Video, so it suits most stories. Choose AI Video when scenes need real motion, like fights, running or dancing.
The narrator speaks 18 languages, or you can upload your own recording. Videos come out in 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1, chosen before you generate.
Plans start at $19/mo. A 60-second Moving AI Images story uses a few hundred credits at most, and the exact price shows before you generate. Every plan includes commercial rights.
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