01 / THE SCRIPT
Bring the story in as a director's script
A plain text file, one short line per element: frame, background, characters, camera, action, emotion, continuity, notes and dialogue. Paste it in and the book comes apart by itself into episodes, scenes and panels — including all six kinds of text: speech, thought, narration, whisper, shout and sound effect.
No script? An assistant is included that turns a whole book — from a hundred pages to over a thousand — into the script the application needs, cut into as many episodes as you ask for.
02 / CHARACTERS
Five pictures that agree with one another
A character who looks different in every panel ruins the whole book, so each person gets a reference sheet of five linked images: face looking into the camera as the anchor, bust at three quarters, full body front, profile, and full body from behind last, because it needs all the others as a guide.
Each image is drawn from the one before it, not from scratch — the bust is made with the face in hand, the profile with the face and the bust. That is what stops you ending up with five different people. Ask for one, two, three, four or six variants, compare them side by side on one screen, and only the one you pick goes forward. Already have photographs? Upload them, from a file or a link, and use them as they are.
03 / PLACES
The same railway carriage, forty times
Locations work the same way. Each place gets its sheet: the establishing wide shot as the anchor, then close, reverse angle, detail, and the same room in different light.
You choose how hard the model is pushed — Simple, Normal, Strong or Maximum. The steps change the light, the atmosphere and the finish; the place itself stays the same, because otherwise they would ruin the one thing the sheet exists for. Have a picture already and only want other angles of it? Your photograph becomes the anchor and the remaining four are built out of it, so you pay for four images instead of five and the result looks like the picture you chose.
04 / PROMPTS
Written for you, and readable before it leaves
The application reads each panel and writes the image prompt itself, in four intensities from clean to cinematic. All four come back from a single call, so four cost about what one does, and you pick which column you generate from.
Writing panel 47 it knows what is in the panel, panels 44, 45 and 46 — what was happening, what state the people were in, what the light was doing — where the panel sits in the story (panel 47 of 275, scene 6 of 14), and what you wrote in Notes and Continuity, which is the only door through which what you read in the book reaches the drawing.
05 / THE CHECK
Everything wrong, gathered on the button that costs money
Tick the panels you want — one, a range, or the whole episode — and press once. Before anything is spent, a check screen puts every problem in one place with the number of panels each one hits: two characters with no reference sheet, in twelve panels, who will come out with invented faces; four panels with no background, where the model makes up a different room each time.
The application knew all of this beforehand, but it used to tell you in different places at different moments. Here it is said exactly where you are about to pay.
06 / CHOOSE AND CORRECT
Several attempts, and the rejected ones stay
Every panel can hold more than one try. See them all, large, across the whole screen, with arrows that run through the entire episode, and keep the one that works — the rest stay saved and you can go back to them whenever you like.
On each column, within reach: the background, with arrows that swing the same place to another angle in one press; the frame shape, seven of them from panoramic to inset; the characters in the panel, marked if any of them still has no pictures; the prompt at four levels; the lines, with a warning when a piece of text will not fit inside a bubble; and the meaning of the scene as you wrote it out of the book.
07 / EXPORT
A clean folder for every episode
The export writes to disk the images you chose, named properly, in the order of the story, together with one file holding all the lines — ready to carry into a lettering application.
