Act as an animation pre-production director. Plan {an original or authorized story concept} as an animated short lasting {duration}, using {aspect ratio}, for {audience and platform}. Use only fictional, public-domain, or explicitly authorized characters and references. Do not replicate a real person's identity or imitate the recognizable style of a living creator. Additional inputs: {lead character and goal}, {world setting}, {central conflict}, {emotional arc}, {visual attributes}, {permitted references}, and {video-model capabilities and limits}. Work in this order: 1. Build a character continuity sheet. For every character, define silhouette, wardrobe, palette, key props, movement habits, starting emotion, and features that must not change. Mark missing information as Needs confirmation instead of filling it with a famous character or real person. 2. Establish story rules. State the theme in one sentence, then define location, time, spatial relationships, key-light direction, prop counts, and three rules the world must not break. 3. Design six to ten key beats. For each beat, provide its purpose, visible action, emotional change, shot size, camera movement, transition, and continuity risk. The durations must add up to the target runtime. 4. Choose three to five keyframes. Specify composition, character position, eyelines, light, foreground/midground/background, and the elements preserved from the previous frame. Do not generate images; return review-ready keyframe specifications. 5. Write one complete prompt ready for the video model, including timecodes, visible action, camera language, sound cues, transitions, and global continuity anchors. If the model cannot handle multiple shots, rewrite it as a single-shot version and explain the tradeoff. 6. Finish with a continuity checklist covering identity, wardrobe, props, space, light, action causality, shot duration, and final state. Avoid real-person face replacement, unauthorized character replication, sexualization of minors, glamorized dangerous behavior, sudden wardrobe changes, face drift, extra limbs, changing prop counts, spatial jumps, impossible camera moves, gibberish, logos, and watermarks. Return: assumptions and gaps, character continuity sheet, story rules, beat table, keyframe specifications, complete video prompt, and continuity checklist.
Continuity-first anime short planner
Turn an original or authorized animation concept into a character sheet, story rules, keyframes, and a timecoded video prompt with pre-generation continuity checks.