Separating panels into their component pieces to be used for animation can be a time consuming process. But good asset generation allows for much more freedom in the animation process. Luckily, we have built our tool Unagi, designed just for this.

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What is Unagi?

Unagi is our full-fledged tool for doing asset generation for your manga/comics. Some of the key features are:

• Real time adjustable mask generation
• Mask to bezier pen path conversion
• Generative manga in painting / redrawing
• Generative expansion
• Automated Panel Separation
• Layer Management & Control

[ Mask Generation ]

Hover-Click

Hover-Click is enabled by default. It allows you to, in real-time, view and make mask selections.

• Positive points suggest the model to add masked region
• Negative points suggest the model to remove masked region.

Multiple points, both positive and negative, can be added to refine the mask selection

Often times after cropping, infilling, or changing your image, you will have to re-run the image embedding to use the hover-click on the new image

Pen Tool

The pen tool acts in many ways similar to the pen tool in other photo-editing software in that it can be used to create selections. However, within Unagi, you have the option to also convert selected mask regions into a pen path so that they can be edited much more easily.

[Converting Mask to Path]

1. Make your selection using hover-click or the paint brush

2. Click the Pen tool icon

This will have generated a path that approximated the given mask and can now be edited. The UP and DOWN arrows on the tool bar allow you to have some rough control over how many points in the path are used to approximated the mask

Paint Brush

The Paint Brush can be used to manually draw masked region to your image.

Erase

The Erase tool can be used to manually remove masked region from your image.