here is the complete workflow, including the master prompt used to generate the characters, story scenes, image prompts, and animation prompts.
You only need:
✅ ChatGPT
✅ Adobe Firefly Boards
✅ Your preferred video editor
Step 1: Generate Your Story and Prompts With ChatGPT
Open ChatGPT and paste the master prompt below. Replace [ENTER YOUR STORY IDEA] with your own concept—or leave it blank and ask ChatGPT to create one.
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📋 Master Animation Prompt
Create a deeply emotional 12-scene story for a cinematic stylized 3D animated short film based on: [ENTER YOUR STORY IDEA].
The story must include exactly three main characters:
1. One human character
2. One animal character
3. One additional animal or bird
Do not include aliens, monsters, mythical creatures, copyrighted characters, real brands, or existing movie characters.
The non-human characters should use colorful combinations such as blue, green, orange, teal, or yellow. The story should include emotion, friendship, challenges, hope, light humour, and a satisfying resolution.
First, provide:
1. A title and short story summary.
2. A detailed character description for each character.
3. A 12-scene storyline.
4. One detailed image-generation prompt for every scene.
5. One image-to-video animation prompt for every scene.
CHARACTER CONSISTENCY RULES:
All characters must appear as consistent stylized 3D animated characters in every image and video scene.
Their facial features, skin tone, hairstyle, clothing, accessories, body proportions, colors, and overall animation style must remain unchanged throughout the entire story.
Repeat the important visual details of every visible character inside each image prompt. Do not write phrases such as “same character” or “same clothes.”
IMAGE PROMPT RULES:
Each image prompt must clearly describe:
- The characters visible in the scene
- Their exact appearance and clothing
- Their facial expressions and emotions
- Their body positions and actions
- The environment and background
- The lighting and atmosphere
- The camera angle and framing
- Cinematic stylized 3D animation
- No extra characters
- No text, logos, watermarks, or copyrighted elements
Use cinematic medium shots, close-ups, and wide shots where appropriate.
VIDEO PROMPT RULES:
Each image-to-video prompt must only describe natural movement and camera motion.
Include:
- Character movements
- Facial expressions
- Clothing, hair, fur, or feather movement
- Environmental movement
- Smooth cinematic camera movement
Do not include dialogue, narration, text, scene changes, new objects, new characters, violence, or major transformations.
Keep every video prompt simple, clear, and suitable for animating a still image.ChatGPT will now create your characters, complete storyline, scene images, and image-to-video prompts.
Step 2: Create Your Characters in Adobe Firefly Boards
Go to:
Open Firefly Boards, select Create Image, choose your preferred AI model, paste the first character prompt, and click Generate.
Repeat the process for your second and third characters.
These character images will become your visual references throughout the story.
Step 3: Generate Consistent Story Scenes
Paste your first scene image prompt into Firefly and generate the image.
For the next scene, add the relevant character image as a reference image before generating. This helps Firefly maintain the character’s face, hairstyle, clothing, colors, and overall appearance.
Repeat this process until all 12 scene images are complete.
💡 Always check character consistency before moving to the next step.
Step 4: Animate Every Scene
Select your first scene and click Generate Video.
Paste the matching image-to-video prompt generated by ChatGPT, then click Generate.
Preview the result and repeat the process for every remaining scene.
Once all your clips are ready, download them and combine them using Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Express, CapCut, or another editing tool.
Add narration, sound effects, captions, and background music during editing.
Step 5: Publish and Monetize Your Content
You can turn this workflow into:
🎥 YouTube animated shorts
📱 Instagram Reels
🔥 TikTok videos
📺 Longer cartoon episodes
💼 Animated content for clients
Channels may earn through platform monetization, sponsorships, services, digital products, and affiliate marketing once they meet the relevant platform requirements.
Adobe is also preparing a new affiliate program where creators can earn by sharing the Adobe tools they already enjoy using.
Join the waitlist here:
Now choose a simple story idea, paste the master prompt into ChatGPT, and create your first animated cartoon with Adobe Firefly. 🚀
