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🚨 The problem with AI video today:

• ❌ Manual, fragmented workflow — Separate tools needed for scripting, image gen, and video gen
• ❌ No narrative structure — Raw T2V models don't understand story arcs or scene continuity
• ❌ Character inconsistency — Characters look different in every shot
• ❌ Visual-only — Missing scripts, narrative depth, and cinematic storytelling

💡 MicroDrama AI Solution:

🎬 Screenwriter, Storyboard Artist, Frame Generator, and Video Producer — all in one automated pipeline.

Type an idea. MicroDrama AI autonomously handles everything: story development, character design, shot-by-shot storyboarding, frame generation, and video clip production — then stitches it all into a complete cinematic micro-drama. Powered entirely by a single MuAPI key.

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🎥 Demo Video

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f8b5d09c-8c58-40c1-b171-e3f42b0d71a8

Watch MicroDrama AI transform ideas into fully cinematic micro-drama videos using autonomous AI agents, character-consistent image generation, storyboarding, and MuAPI-powered video creation.

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📑 Table of Contents

• 💡 Key Features
• 🏗️ Architecture
• 🔄 Pipeline Stages
• 🚀 Quick Start
• 🛠️ Project Structure
• 🌐 API Reference
• ⚙️ Configuration
• 🖥️ UI Overview

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💡 Key Features

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🏗️ Architecture

                   ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                   │                MicroDrama AI Server                      │
  Idea / Script ─► │                                                          │
                   │  ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
                   │  │              Screenwriter Agent                     │  │
                   │  │  develop_story()  → write_script_based_on_story()  │  │
                   │  └──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┘  │
                   │                             │ story + scene scripts       │
                   │  ┌──────────────────────────▼─────────────────────────┐  │
                   │  │           Character Extractor Agent                 │  │
                   │  │      extract_characters(script) → List[char]       │  │
                   │  └──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┘  │
                   │                             │ characters[]               │
                   │  ┌──────────────────────────▼─────────────────────────┐  │
                   │  │           Storyboard Artist Agent                   │  │
                   │  │  design_storyboard() → List[ShotBriefDescription]  │  │
                   │  └──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┘  │
                   │                             │ shots[]                    │
                   │  ┌──────────────────────────▼─────────────────────────┐  │
                   │  │                  MuAPI Tools                        │  │
                   │  │  ① Portrait Gen  →  flux-dev-image  (T2I)          │  │
                   │  │  ② Frame Gen     →  flux-kontext-dev-i2i  (I2I)    │  │
                   │  │  ③ Video Gen     →  kling-v2.1-standard-i2v  (I2V) │  │
                   │  └──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┘  │
                   │                             │ video clips                │
                   │  ┌──────────────────────────▼─────────────────────────┐  │
                   │  │                moviepy Concat                       │  │
                   │  └──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┘  │
                   └────────────────────────────-┼──────────────────────────--┘
                                                 │
                                        final_video.mp4

All LLM calls (story, characters, storyboard) go through MuAPI's /claude-sonnet-4-6 endpoint. Only one API key is required for the entire pipeline.

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🔄 Pipeline Stages

Idea to Video — Full Pipeline

Script to Video — Short Pipeline

Skips stages 1–3. Starts directly from your provided script.

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🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+
• Node.js 18+
• A MuAPI API key

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Anil-matcha/Open-AI-Micro-Drama-Generator.git
cd Open-AI-Micro-Drama-Generator

2. Set up the server

cd server
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate      # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

cp .env.example .env
# Open .env and set MUAPI_KEY=your_key_here

3. Start the server

uvicorn api:app --reload --port 8000

API available at http://localhost:8000. Health check: GET /api/health.

4. Set up and start the client

cd client
npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

5. Generate your first micro-drama

1. Enter an idea — e.g. "A detective chases a shadow through a neon-lit cyberpunk city"
2. Optionally add requirements — e.g. "Keep it under 3 scenes, suitable for all ages"
3. Pick a visual style: Cinematic, Realistic, Anime, Fantasy, or Documentary
4. Click Generate Video and watch the pipeline run in real time
5. Download your finished micro-drama when it completes

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🛠️ Project Structure

Open-AI-Micro-Drama-Generator/
│
├── server/                           # FastAPI backend
│   ├── api.py                        # App entry point, endpoints, SSE job runner
│   ├── requirements.txt
│   ├── .env.example
│   │
│   ├── agents/                       # LLM-powered AI agents (all via MuAPI)
│   │   ├── screenwriter.py           # develop_story() + write_script_based_on_story()
│   │   ├── character_extractor.py    # extract_characters() → List[CharacterInScene]
│   │   └── storyboard_artist.py      # design_storyboard() → List[ShotBriefDescription]
│   │
│   ├── interfaces/                   # Pydantic data models
│   │   ├── character.py              # CharacterInScene (idx, name, static/dynamic features)
│   │   └── shot.py                   # ShotBriefDescription, ShotDescription
│   │
│   ├── tools/                        # MuAPI integration layer
│   │   ├── muapi_llm.py              # MuAPILLM — submit + poll LLM completions
│   │   ├── muapi_image_generator.py  # T2I (flux-dev) + I2I (flux-kontext) image gen
│   │   ├── muapi_video_generator.py  # I2V (kling-v2.1) video gen with polling
│   │   └── muapi_uploader.py         # Upload local images to MuAPI for URL references
│   │
│   ├── pipelines/                    # Orchestration logic
│   │   ├── idea2video.py             # Full end-to-end pipeline
│   │   └── script2video.py           # Scene-level pipeline (portraits → storyboard → video)
│   │
│   └── utils/
│       └── video.py                  # moviepy concatenation helper
│
└── client/                           # Next.js 14 frontend
    ├── next.config.js                # Rewrites /api/* and /outputs/* → FastAPI server
    ├── package.json
    ├── tailwind.config.js
    │
    ├── app/
    │   ├── layout.js                 # Root layout + metadata
    │   ├── globals.css               # Global styles + gradient utilities
    │   ├── page.js                   # Landing page: hero + generation form
    │   └── generate/[jobId]/
    │       └── page.js               # SSE consumer: pipeline progress + result viewer
    │
    └── components/
        ├── IdeaForm.js               # Idea/script input, style picker, mode toggle
        ├── PipelineProgress.js       # Animated 7-stage timeline + live scrolling log
        └── VideoResult.js            # Video player with download + open controls

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🌐 API Reference

POST /api/generate — Start a generation job

Request body:

{
  "idea": "A lone astronaut discovers alien ruins on Europa",
  "user_requirement": "Keep it under 3 scenes, suitable for all ages",
  "style": "Cinematic",
  "mode": "idea2video"
}

Response:

{ "job_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000" }

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GET /api/status/{job_id} — Stream progress (SSE)

GET /api/status/550e8400-...
Accept: text/event-stream

SSE event stream. Reconnect-safe — replays all past events on reconnect.

Progress event:

{"type": "progress", "stage": "screenwriter", "message": "Developing story...", "progress": 10}

Completion event:

{"type": "complete", "video_url": "/outputs/job_id/final_video.mp4", "progress": 100}

Error event:

{"type": "error", "message": "MuAPI image job failed: quota exceeded", "progress": -1}

Pipeline stages in order: screenwriter → characters → storyboard → portraits → frames → video → concat

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GET /api/result/{job_id} — Get job result

{
  "job_id": "550e8400-...",
  "status": "completed",
  "video_url": "/outputs/550e8400-.../final_video.mp4",
  "error": null
}

Status values: running | completed | failed

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GET /api/health — Health check

{ "status": "ok", "service": "microdrama-api" }

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⚙️ Configuration

Environment variables

One key. That's it.

MuAPI endpoints used internally

All jobs follow the same async pattern: submit → get request_id → poll every 3 s → return on "completed".

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🖥️ UI Overview

Landing page (/)

• Dark cinematic design with animated radial glow background
• Feature pills: Screenwriter Agent · Storyboard Artist · Frame Generator · Video Generator
• Idea textarea, optional requirements field
• Style picker: Cinematic · Realistic · Anime · Fantasy · Documentary
• Mode toggle: Idea to Video / Script to Video

Generation page (/generate/[jobId])

• 7-stage animated pipeline timeline with live status indicators
• Progress bar with percentage
• Scrolling live log showing every message emitted by the pipeline
• Video player with autoplay once complete event is received
• Download button saves microdrama-{jobId}.mp4
• SSE auto-reconnects if the connection drops mid-generation

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📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE for details.