New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes
Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes
44 by fengjiaopeng | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Just go to the link and click on "Start Creating". No signing in required. I built shortbread to help anyone to create comics / manga series. The onboarding process helps you kick start a page from 60%, then you can use your creativity to bring it to 1000% in a fully-controllable editor. Tech stack: GPT 3.5 Turbo - the comic script generation. It handled everything from layout, character, scene, SD prompts, to dialogue. SD 1.5 - We put up SD servers on GCP. For every comic we generate one large image and crop it into panels. Per the experiments of u/Deathmarkedadc on Reddit, this massively helps with consistency. The models are trained on anime scenes tho, and might not be so great with animals. Frontend: Next.js 13 on Vercel, React + Typescript. We built the entire editor from scratch to compose the comic (images, panels, speech bubbles, text) like a webpage. This allows you to edit and republish your comics like a website. You can dynamically generate panels as well. Try resizing a panel into a long narrow box and generate. Backend: Firebase. Sample comics: a japanese couple sits at dinner table. The husband told the wife a secret (link https://ift.tt/GaXoEuI... ) An army of male soldiers fighting against an army of female soldiers in ancient china ( https://ift.tt/NwvXCR6... ) a team of girls play volleyball against a team of boys ( https://ift.tt/cUJvpV8... ) Next steps: - More pages - Fine panel-level control. Poses, control net, etc. - Multi-character. - Different styles. - Allows you to control character design. I’m Fengjiao Peng, founder and chief engineer at Shortbread. I was previously a webtoon artist. We want to build this into something you can create entire comics series / manga / webtoons with. Criticism and suggestions welcome!
44 by fengjiaopeng | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Just go to the link and click on "Start Creating". No signing in required. I built shortbread to help anyone to create comics / manga series. The onboarding process helps you kick start a page from 60%, then you can use your creativity to bring it to 1000% in a fully-controllable editor. Tech stack: GPT 3.5 Turbo - the comic script generation. It handled everything from layout, character, scene, SD prompts, to dialogue. SD 1.5 - We put up SD servers on GCP. For every comic we generate one large image and crop it into panels. Per the experiments of u/Deathmarkedadc on Reddit, this massively helps with consistency. The models are trained on anime scenes tho, and might not be so great with animals. Frontend: Next.js 13 on Vercel, React + Typescript. We built the entire editor from scratch to compose the comic (images, panels, speech bubbles, text) like a webpage. This allows you to edit and republish your comics like a website. You can dynamically generate panels as well. Try resizing a panel into a long narrow box and generate. Backend: Firebase. Sample comics: a japanese couple sits at dinner table. The husband told the wife a secret (link https://ift.tt/GaXoEuI... ) An army of male soldiers fighting against an army of female soldiers in ancient china ( https://ift.tt/NwvXCR6... ) a team of girls play volleyball against a team of boys ( https://ift.tt/cUJvpV8... ) Next steps: - More pages - Fine panel-level control. Poses, control net, etc. - Multi-character. - Different styles. - Allows you to control character design. I’m Fengjiao Peng, founder and chief engineer at Shortbread. I was previously a webtoon artist. We want to build this into something you can create entire comics series / manga / webtoons with. Criticism and suggestions welcome!
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