A Practical AI Story-to-Video Pipeline

Building an AI pipeline that turns a story (novel chapter, fanfic, script) into a short drama video is harder than it looks. Five hard problems:

1. Character consistency across scenes
2. Scene segmentation from prose
3. Multi-voice narration
4. Style choice (realistic / anime / Ghibli / cinematic)
5. Stitching everything into a final timeline

A pipeline that works for me:

Story text
  → LLM pass 1: characters + visual identities (JSON)
  → LLM pass 2: scene breakdown (storyboard JSON)
  → Image gen per scene (reference-locked)
  → TTS per character (multi-voice)
  → Render: subtitles + transitions + BGM

If you don't want to build this end-to-end, StoryIntoVideo is a pre-built version of the same idea — paste story → pick style → get short drama. The character consistency is the unlock; once you nail that, multi-voice narration is mostly a TTS-routing problem.

Worth playing with if you're prototyping in this space.