Anime Versus VideoGenerator

Table of Contents

• About the Project
  • Context
  • Made with
  • Features
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Files required
• Usage
  • Commands
  • Scripts Writing
    • First Edit Style
    • Second Edit Style
• Examples
• License
• Author

About the project

Context

I was looking for a way to automate the creation of "shorts" type content that can be found on Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok. I discovered the format of "versus", the videos all had slightly different shapes and some looked so basic that a computer could have made them. I found the concept very simple to automate and mass produce so I made this program.

Made with

The project has been made 100% in python.

Features

This program is a command line tool to generate videos of anime characters comparisons in the same style as : this video or the style of this video

Examples

More videos can be found on this channel : https://www.tiktok.com/@animeversus2022

Getting Started

Prerequisites

In order to use the program you will need to have a python 3.X interpretor installed. The required libraries are listed in the requirements.txt file.

Installation

1. Clone the project and unzip it.
2. Install the librairies listed in requirements.txt

Files required

Here is the way I used to organize my database of characters/songs/backgrounds/scripts (not mandatory) :

📁 Res

------->:file_folder: Backgrounds

---------------->:camera:backgrounds_pic.jpg

------->:file_folder: Musique

---------------->:file_folder: Song1

------------------------>:cd: soundtrack.wav

------------------------>:page_with_curl: timestamps.txt

------->:file_folder: Persos

--------------->:file_folder: Character1

------------------------>:camera: body.png

------------------------>:video_camera: vid1.mp4

------------------------>:video_camera: vid2.mp4

------->:file_folder: Scripts

-------------->:page_with_curl: script.txt

Usage

Commands

To use this program you can use a command like this :

python main.py --scriptPath pathToYourTxtFile --resFolder PathToResFolder

The available arguments are:

• --fps : The fps of video
• --supptemp : Contains the decision to delete/backup the temporary files used for the video (by default True)
• --tempFolder : Path to the folder used to store temporary files
• --resFolder : Path to the folder with the video and images resources
• --scriptPath : Path to the script to read

Scripts Writing

To use this program you will have to use a .txt file containing the script of the video. To write comments in the script start the line you want to comment with //.

For the moment, this program supports 2 types of edits.

First Edit Style

This is an example script .txt file using Sanji and Luffy (from wano arc) to show how to write a script in the first edit style

//DO NOT REMOVE ----- characters
//Comments are written using "//" 
//Configuration Line
edit_type=1,fps=30
------------------------------------------
//Perso Line
//PathOfPerso bodyImgPath ShowVidPath WinnerVidPath (in ResFolder)
Persos/One_piece/Sanji body.png vid1.mp4 vid2.mp4
Persos/One_Piece/Luffy_Wano body.png vid1.mp4 vid2.mp4
------------------------------------------
//backgroundPath in res folder
Backgrounds/back3.jpg
------------------------------------------
//song path in res folder
Musique/Song1
------------------------------------------
//Title 
Naruto_(sage_mode) VS Luffy
------------------------------------------
//Comparisons
//if edit 1 : SKILL winner
//if edit 2 : perso1 perso2 winner
BATTLE_IQ 0
SPEED 0
STRENGTH 1
DURABILTY 0
SKILLS/ABILITIES 0
TALK_NO_JUTSU 0
OVERALL 0 
------------------------------------------

Second Edit Style

This is an example script .txt file using Zoro and multiple characters from Demon Slayer to show how to write a script for in the second edit style

//DO NOT REMOVE ----- characters
//Comments are written using "//" 
//Configuration Line
edit_type=2,fps=30
------------------------------------------
//Perso Line
//PathOfPerso bodyImgPath ShowVidPath WinnerVidPath (in ResFolder)
Persos/One_Piece/Zoro body.png vid1.mp4 vid2.mp4
Persos/Demon_Slayer/Shinobu body.png vid1.mp4 vid2.mp4
Persos/Demon_Slayer/Mitsuri body.png
Persos/Demon_Slayer/Obanai body.png
Persos/Demon_Slayer/Sanemi body.png
Persos/Demon_Slayer/Giyu body.png vid1.mp4 vid2.mp4
Persos/Demon_Slayer/Gyomei body.png
------------------------------------------
//backgroundPath in res folder
Backgrounds/back8.jpg
------------------------------------------
//song path in res folder
Musique/Song3
------------------------------------------
//Title 
Zoro VS Demon Slayer Verse
------------------------------------------
//Comparisons
//if edit 1 : SKILL winner
//if edit 2 : perso1 perso2 winner
0 1 0
0 2 0
0 3 0
0 4 0
0 5 0 
0 6 0
0 7 0
------------------------------------------

License

Distributed under the MIT License.

Author

• @HugoM25