Task notes: building a production from separate tools

The notes cover choosing tools by task, where the gaps usually are and how to read a maker's task pages. As of 2026-09-25.

Fig. 1 Every page in the drawer links back here.

Every note takes its examples from the directory, and each example links to the maker's page.

Nothing in the notes comes from running the tools.

1In this drawer

Anime, cartoons and comics — Drawn styles are among the most crowded corners of the directory: fourteen makers keep an anime page and fourteen a cartoon page.
Choosing AI video tools by task — Start from the job, not the brand. A production needs a script, a board, footage, voices and a cut, and no maker on the directory keeps a page for every one of the 37 tasks.
Finishing before delivery — Between a generated cut and a delivered episode sit editing, upscaling, resizing, clean-up and captions.
From idea to episode — The directory's first group runs from a story idea to a script to an episode. Three makers keep pages for all three writing tasks.
Image tools and video tools under one name — Several tasks share a name between pictures and video: upscaling, background removal, face swap, style transfer, extending.
Localising a series — Taking a series into another language needs translation, a dub or captions, and often lip sync for close faces.
One suite or several tools — Seven makers keep at least one page in every group, from writing to promotion. Using one of them keeps a project's files, characters and voices in one account.
Promotion after the cut — A finished episode still needs a trailer, clips, a thumbnail and a poster before an audience finds it.
Reading a task page — A task page is a landing page for one job. Its heading says what the maker wants to be found for; its body usually adds a demo, steps and a sign-up button.
The planning gap — Generation tasks have pages at most makers; planning tasks at far fewer. Six makers keep a consistent-character page, five a camera page and four a reference-to-video page.
The voice chain, from clone to dub — A speaking character passes through up to four tasks: a voice, sometimes cloned; a read script; lip sync; and, for other markets, a dub.

2The other drawers

3One maker's page for the task

One maker that keeps a page for work like “Task notes” is SceneMixer; here are its words, quoted as published:

The cast is generated once, at the start, as full-body reference sheets. Every segment that features a character is generated against that character's sheet, with face and body crops attached as references — so the face in episode 1 is the face in episode 40.
SceneMixer, AI Short Drama Generator — “How does it keep the same actor across episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)

Doubao Seed 2.1 Turbo is the tier every account uses for text work until you change it: it reads the script, writes with AI when you ask, and generates each episode’s storyboard, at 50% of the base text rate.
SceneMixer, Doubao Seed 2.1 Turbo: the default text tier (read 2026-10-13)