Concepts
The mental models behind Ordinary Animator -- understand these and everything else makes sense.
These pages explain how Ordinary Animator works at a model level -- not step-by-step instructions, but the underlying ideas that make the features coherent.
| Concept | What it explains |
|---|---|
| The Production Pipeline | The nine phases from world-building to release, and how the app maps to them |
| From Storyboard to Video | How a shot becomes a clip -- storyboards, media tagged by purpose, recipes, and scene-level review |
| Entities & the Data Model | The project -> episode -> scene -> shot hierarchy, asset entities, and planning entities |
| The Media Gallery | The pin-board for images, video, and audio -- shared across characters, locations, props, and shots |
| Recipes & the Cookbook | How recipes chain ComfyUI steps together, how inputs link between steps, and what the Cookbook is |
| Audio & Voice Pipeline | How dialog lines become audio: TTS engines, voice changer, recording, and merged tracks |
| Building Dialogue from Operations | The operations behind dialogue audio -- line-to-audio, record, voice changer, assemble, trim -- and the recipes built from them |
| ComfyUI Integration | What ComfyUI is, local vs Comfy Cloud, the queue model, and how workflows connect to recipes |
| The AI Assistant | What the Assistant can do, voice vs text, and the agents that power it |
| Glossary | Our terminology -- our word for each thing, and the industry term it maps to |