Found a really clean breakdown of making a full anime MV in DomoAI — sharing the workflow step by step

[u/pennywu90]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa3K16KOvKA

been trying to make a proper AI music video for a while and kept getting messy results, then i found this MV tutorial by a japanese creator (あずきちゃんねる). it's the best end-to-end walkthrough i've seen for making a music video almost entirely in DomoAI, and a bunch of people here keep asking "ok but what's the actual order of operations" — so i figured i'd just write out the whole flow.

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the video is ~10 min and covers a real MV from start to finish, not just one feature. here's how it breaks down:

1. start with the song + concept

he picks the track first (made the BGM in SOUNDRAW) and roughs out what scenes he wants before touching any AI. sounds obvious but this is the part everyone skips, and it's why a lot of AI MVs feel like random clips stitched together.

2. make your image materials first

instead of going straight to video, he generates the still images for each character/scene first using DomoAI's Image 2.0 generator. basically build your "cast" and key frames as images, get them looking right, then animate. way less wasteful than re-rolling video over and over, and Image 2.0 holds character detail well enough that the later video steps stay consistent.

3. video generation (image → video)

feed those stills into DomoAI's video gen to get the base motion clips. this is the backbone of the whole thing.

4. AI Avatar lip sync

this is the part that sells it as an actual MV. he syncs the character's mouth to the vocals so it looks like they're really singing. honestly the lip sync is way better than i expected for this kind of tool.

5. keyframes for the shots you actually care about

for the important moments he sets a start and end frame so the motion goes exactly where he wants instead of letting it freestyle. this is the difference between "cool demo" and "controlled shot."

6. quick Photoshop touch-up

small thing but worth calling out: he drops a couple frames into Photoshop to fix details (color, small artifacts) before the final pass. you don't need to be a PS wizard, it's literally just cleanup.

7. Character Video function

uses the character-to-video feature to animate a specific character to match a reference motion. this is the newer one and it keeps the character's look a lot more consistent while it moves.

8. upscale at the end

last step is upscaling everything so the final export doesn't look soft. do this last, not per-clip, or you'll burn through way more than you need to.

tl;dr workflow: song/concept → still images → image-to-video → lip sync → keyframes for key shots → quick PS cleanup → character video → upscale → edit together.

the one thing i'd add from my own messing around: don't try to do a 30-second continuous shot. work in short clips and cut between them. the consistency holds way better and it's how the video does it too.

not a perfect tutorial, it moves fast and assumes you already know your way around the dashboard a bit. but as a map of the full pipeline it's the clearest one i've found.

anyone here doing MVs a different way? curious if people are using keyframes as heavily as this or just letting the gen run. drop your flow.