Just go to the link and click on "Start Creating". No signing in required.

I built shortbread to help anyone to create comics / manga series. The onboarding process helps you kick start a page from 60%, then you can use your creativity to bring it to 1000% in a fully-controllable editor.

Tech stack:

GPT 3.5 Turbo - the comic script generation. It handled everything from layout, character, scene, SD prompts, to dialogue.

SD 1.5 - We put up SD servers on GCP. For every comic we generate one large image and crop it into panels. Per the experiments of u/Deathmarkedadc on Reddit, this massively helps with consistency. The models are trained on anime scenes tho, and might not be so great with animals.

Frontend: Next.js 13 on Vercel, React + Typescript. We built the entire editor from scratch to compose the comic (images, panels, speech bubbles, text) like a webpage. This allows you to edit and republish your comics like a website. You can dynamically generate panels as well. Try resizing a panel into a long narrow box and generate.

Backend: Firebase.

Sample comics:

a japanese couple sits at dinner table. The husband told the wife a secret (link https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/debdf25c-3f95-492a-952a-...)

An army of male soldiers fighting against an army of female soldiers in ancient china (https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/4566613c-7146-4ed7-9b8d-...)

a team of girls play volleyball against a team of boys (https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/aafc2f61-d008-4f3f-aa8f-... )

Next steps:

- More pages

- Fine panel-level control. Poses, control net, etc.

- Multi-character.

- Different styles.

- Allows you to control character design.

I’m Fengjiao Peng, founder and chief engineer at Shortbread. I was previously a webtoon artist. We want to build this into something you can create entire comics series / manga / webtoons with. Criticism and suggestions welcome!

user:	ioshaan
created:	December 5, 2021
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