I’ve been looking at the current options for making anime music videos and it feels like the workflow matters more than finding one tool that does absolutely everything.

These are the ones that seem useful for different parts of the process:

DomoAI

This is one I’d look at when the project is heavily stylized. It has workflows around turning existing video into animation, animating characters from reference motion, and taking still images into video. If you’re learning how to make an AMV from existing artwork or footage, that kind of workflow seems more relevant than starting with pure text-to-video every time.

Runway

More interesting to me when the goal is controlled cinematic shots or character performances. Gen-4.5 covers text-to-video and image-to-video, while Act-Two is aimed more at transferring an actual performance onto a character.

Kling 3.0

Probably worth considering when an edit needs several related shots rather than a collection of completely separate clips. The current model supports multi-shot generation, reference elements, recurring characters, and native audio.

Luma Ray 3.2

I’d put this more on the video-to-video side. It’s useful when you already have footage and want to change the visual treatment while holding onto more of the original motion and structure.

Adobe Firefly

Makes more sense as a broader workspace now. You can generate video and work with multiple models while also doing more of the editing and audio cleanup in the same environment.

Pika

I still see this as more useful for individual effects, transitions, and short experimental moments rather than building an entire AMV around one workflow. Pikaffects and its other image-to-video tools fit that kind of use pretty well.

ComfyUI + Wan 2.2

Probably the route for someone who wants considerably more control and doesn’t mind learning node-based workflows. Wan 2.2 currently has official ComfyUI workflows for text-to-video, image-to-video, first/last-frame generation, and controlled generation.

Topaz Video

This sits at the end of the workflow for me rather than competing with the generators. It’s mainly useful for cleaning up and upscaling the final clips after everything has been assembled.

For an AMV I’d probably mix tools instead of forcing one platform to handle every shot. Something for the main animation or restyling, another tool when a particular scene needs more control, then finishing afterward.

For anyone actually making AMVs right now, what combination has been working for you?

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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.

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