toona
AI toolbox for anime and manga creators: image-to-video, colourising, upscaling, frame interpolation and motion effects.
toona is an online set of AI tools for making animated manga, motion comics and anime-style videos. toona turns a single image into a video, colourises manga pages, upscales images and videos to 4K, raises frame rates and generates in-between frames. The site describes itself as a beta and reports more than 50,000 creators.
Best for Manga and anime creators who want to animate, colour or upscale existing artwork without a full animation pipeline.
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What is toona?
toona is a web service that groups several AI tools aimed at anime and manga. Its central promise is that users can build short stories around characters and receive a video in about five minutes. The toolbox contains an image-to-video generator that animates one still picture, a colouriser for black-and-white manga, and upscalers that bring images or video to 4K. An interpolation tool increases the frame rate of anime clips to 60, 120 or 240 frames per second, which suits slow-motion edits. Another generates the frames between a chosen start and end drawing. Cut and Fill removes or swaps backgrounds, and Motion Painter adds slight movement to areas the user brushes over, such as hair or scenery. The project is presented as a beta, with a Discord server, an email contact and guides.
Key Features
Image to Video
Generates an animated clip from one still image.
Manga Colorizer
Adds colour to black-and-white manga pages automatically.
4K Upscaling
Enlarges anime or manga images and videos to 4K resolution.
Frame Interpolation
Raises anime footage to 60, 120 or 240 frames per second for smoother motion and slow-motion edits.
Inbetween Generator
Creates the intermediate frames of an animation from a start frame and an end frame.
Cut & Fill and Motion Painter
Replaces backgrounds and lets you paint subtle movement onto parts of a picture such as hair or scenery.
Use Cases
- Turning Manga Panels into Motion Comics
- Animate still pages so they can be shared as video.
- Colouring a Black-and-White Chapter
- Produce a colour version of line art without painting each page.
- Slow-Motion Anime Edits
- Interpolate a clip to a high frame rate before slowing it down.
- Speeding Up Hand-Drawn Animation
- Draw the key poses and let the tool fill in the frames between them.
- Short Character Stories for Social Media
- Generate a brief video built around a character and a scenario.
Things to know
- Beta status
- The site refers to the product as the toona beta.
- Generation time
- The home page says a video is ready in about five minutes.
- Support channels
- Help is offered through a Discord community, an email contact and a guides section.
FAQs
What is toona?
toona is an AI toolbox for creating and sharing animated manga, motion comics and anime-style video.
What is toona used for?
toona is used to animate still images, colourise manga, upscale artwork and video, interpolate frames and add motion to drawings.
Is toona free?
toona's home page invites visitors to try its tools for free. It gives no plan details, so check the site for current terms.
What resolution does toona output?
toona's upscaling tools are described as bringing anime and manga images and videos up to 4K.
What frame rates does toona support?
toona's interpolation tool can take anime footage to 60, 120 or 240 frames per second.
Is toona a finished product?
toona is presented as a beta, and the site invites users to join it and to use its Discord server and guides.
Who it's for
- Manga artists
- Anime editors
- Fan creators
- Animators
- Social media creators
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