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You make a cat-and-mouse comedy short by ideating the gag as stills, storyboarding the chase with a fast image model, locking both characters as consistent references, animating each beat, and frame-chaining the clips into one continuous film. A whole 7-shot chase can come together in a single session.
Copy any recipe, or run it free in the studio — the prompt prefills and the model is preselected for you.
Lay out the gag as a shot list.
Storyboard frame, cinematic cartoon-real style. A frantic grey house cat skids around a kitchen corner chasing a smug little brown mouse who is sliding under the fridge, pots clattering, motion lines of chaos. Low wide comedic angle. Keep both characters’ designs consistent across frames.
Bring one chase shot to life.
Cinematic comedic action. The grey cat launches across the kitchen counter, sending a stack of plates wobbling, as the brown mouse dives into a coffee mug. Fast whip-pan following the cat, exaggerated timing, bright warm kitchen light.
Sound: A comedic orchestral sting, clattering plates, a tiny triumphant squeak on the mouse’s escape.
Stitch the beats into one continuous chase.
Seamless transition from the attached first frame: the camera whips from the kitchen through the doorway into the living room as the chase continues, the cat sliding across a rug and the mouse vanishing behind the couch. Unbroken comedic momentum, no cut.
Sound: The sting carries through the whip, resolving into a new room’s ambience as the chase lands.
The real leverage is in the pipeline between generations — keeping one character across every shot, and frame-chaining each clip’s last frame into the next so a storyboard becomes one continuous move. That is a built-in FXI Studio capability.
Ideate the gag as stills, storyboard the chase with a fast image model, lock both characters as consistent references, animate each beat with exaggerated comic timing, then frame-chain the clips into one continuous film. A full 7-shot chase can come together in a single session.
Design each character once as a reference sheet and reuse that reference on every storyboard frame and animation, describing them with identical words. In FXI Studio you can tag them as reusable characters so the studio carries their designs across the whole short.
With a fast pipeline — draft stills, consistent characters, animate, chain — a short chase can go from idea to finished sequence in a single session. Power users have built a 7-shot cat-and-mouse storyboard in under a minute before animating it.
Comedy lives in the framing and timing. Use low, wide comedic angles, prompt exaggerated timing, put one clear action beat per clip, and score each beat with a musical sting so the gags land.
Storyboard on a fast image model, lock your characters, animate the beats, and chain them — or use Director Mode to do the chaining in one click. New accounts start with 65 free credits.
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