Turn a Novel into Character-Consistent AI Drama Episodes — workflow skill for stories & short dramas

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ArcReel: novels or screenplays become character, scene and prop assets, storyboards, video shots and finished episodes; agent skill plus remote MCP.

What it does

ArcReel (AGPL-3.0) is a self-hosted AI video workbench for AI animated comics, novel adaptations, narrated shorts and product ads. It turns a novel, finished screenplay or product assets into characters, scenes, props, episodes, structured scripts, storyboard grids, video clips and narration, then renders the final video or exports a Jianying draft. Every stage can be run by its agent or reviewed and regenerated by hand. External agents connect through its remote MCP with the setup-arcreel-skills and video-workflow skills, and text, image, video and TTS providers are configured in one place with cost tracking.

Use when

Install

Example output

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fcc4ceb2-64dd-44a0-a32c-e0c00b2f9796 — example (credit: ArcReel)

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