September 12 Update — Expanded Model Lineup, 10 New Styles, Advanced Assets & Toonkit Guide
A major expansion of today's best image and video models, 10 new ToonXL styles, upgraded asset management, and a Toonkit Guide for first-time users. This update raises both your range of choice and the polish of your work.
Why does the same umbrella look different every time? Before vs. after specifying prop references
How big is the difference between describing a prop in a prompt versus referencing an actual prop image? Here is a direct comparison featuring the same umbrella across two different scenes.
Prompt Tips for Tooners #3 - 10 Camera Shots and Angles
The same scene can look completely different depending on camera composition. From Extreme Wide Shot to POV Shot, this post introduces 10 camera shots and angles you can use directly in AI image and video prompts.
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- SEP 04Product· Release Notes· new
September 4 Update — Dummy, Canvas Collaboration, Reference to Video & MiniMax H3
This update adds real-time canvas collaboration, the 3D reference-based Dummy feature, storyboard Reference to Video, and the new MiniMax H3 video generation model.
- AUG 21Development· UI/UX· Usability
Toonkit BTS ep.2: Sample Assets
Behind Toonkit ep.2 introduces Sample Assets: hundreds of free character and background presets that teach users what a good reference image looks like and let them build characters without spending credits.
- AUG 21Product· Release Notes· new
August 21 Update — Prop assets, Frame Extraction & Lounge Upload
Hello, dear ToonKit family! 💖 Storyboard prop assets, video frame extraction, and a smoother Toonkit Lounge upload. This update is all about consistency and connection.
- AUG 14Animation· Prompt· AI Animation
Prompt Tips for Tooners #2 - Combat Scene
A guide to writing combat-scene prompts for AI-generated animation, covering attack, dodge, counter, and camera direction through three example prompts, plus tips for using the free Magic Wand feature.
- AUG 14Development· AI animation studio· AI animation
Your Own AI Animation Studio, Reimagined
A New Toonkit Experience for Easier and More Convenient Animation Creation
- AUG 14Product· Release Notes· new
August 7 Update - Seedance 2.5, the hottest model right now — first on Toonkit ⚡
Hello, dear ToonKit family! 💖 Meet Seedance 2.5, the model everyone's talking about — now on Toonkit, faster and more affordable than anywhere else.
- AUG 12Product· Release Notes· new
August 12 Update - 3 New ToonXL Styles & Prop Assets
Hello, dear ToonKit family! 💖 Three new ToonXL LoRA styles and canvas node assets are here.
- AUG 07Development· CDN· Debugging
Images that wouldn't load in some regions
Users in some regions couldn't see any of the work they had created. It never reproduced in our own environment, so we recreated the conditions of those regions to find the cause.
- AUG 07Development· Style LoRA· Civitai
Finding Your Style with ComfyUI, Then Locking It In with Toonkit
A guide to finding an art style in ComfyUI and locking it in with Toonkit's My Style LoRA training—covering CivitAI basics, reading workflows, stacking LoRAs, and upscaling to build a consistent 20-image style set.
- AUG 07Product· Release Notes· new
[August 07 Update] - Train your style for free, share your canvas, and edit smarter ✨
Hello to our beloved ToonKit family! 💖 Free My Style training, canvas sharing, and smarter scenario editing — all in this update.
- JUL 31Development· design· AI animation
Keeping Dozens of Nodes and Connections Organized
Behind the design of Toonkit's new Node Canvas: how we structured cards into header, content, and toolbar sections, color-coded connections by data type, and hid controls until needed to keep dozens of nodes easy to scan.
- JUL 31Animation· Style LoRA· Style LoRA Dataset Guide
Create Your Own Style LoRA with ToonKit
Guidelines for Dataset Composition and Parameter Configuration for Training a High-Quality Style LoRA with 20 Images
- JUL 24Animation· Seedance2.0· AI Animation
Seedance 2.0 Mini vs Fast vs Standard: What's the Difference? We Compared Them With the Exact Same Prompt
A New York chase scene and a monster showdown at the Arc de Triomphe — we ran two identical prompts through all three models to compare their action staging side by side, plus the prompt formula that gets the most out of Seedance 2.0.
- JUL 24Animation· AI Industry· Animation AI
ToonKit's Product Philosophy (2): Empowering Creators to Reach Their Full Potential
Scoping The Future of the Anime Production, For Creators, By Creators, With Creators
- JUL 20Animation· AI animation· Prompt Engineering
Prompt Failure Case Collection #1
Five real prompt failures from AI video production—keeping characters still, isolating camera movement, holding an animation style, prompt length, and why negative instructions often fail—and what worked instead.
- JUL 20Development· UI/UX· Usability
Toonkit BTS ep.1: Start templates
Behind Toonkit ep.1 covers the Start Template screen shown when creating a new animation, and how splitting it for Story vs. Stylization users cut support tickets over 50% and dropped bounce rate below 20%.
- JUL 20Product· Release Notes· new
[July 17 Update] - Node canvas, 6 new LoRAs, one-click workflows — biggest update yet ✨
Hello to our beloved ToonKit family! 💖 This update reaches across everything — the styles you create with, the workspace you create in, and the workflows that get you there. All of it is built to make your process more free, more professional, and more intuitive. Here's what's new.
- JUL 10Animation· AI animation· Animation workflow
5 Practical Ways to Use Toonkit for AI Animation Production
Five practical ways creators, studios, educators, and marketers are already using Toonkit—from cutting pre-production costs and entering the animation market to telling original stories and running ad A/B tests.
- JUL 10Animation· Prompt· AI Animation
Prompt Tips for Tooners #1 - Running Scene
The same scene can produce dramatically different results depending on how you write your prompt. Learn practical prompt tips you can use in Toonkit.
- JUL 10Product· Release Notes· new
[July 9 Update] - Video from your references — plus more Seedance models to choose from ✨
Hello, to our creator — beloved Toonkit family! 💖 This update is all about video. We've made it possible to create videos that hold onto the identity of the props you care about, and to pick from a wider range of models to match your work's mood and your budget. Here's what's new.
- JUL 03Animation· Redesign· AI animation
Why We Chose Dark Mode and Green
Making generated content the center of attention through a new visual identity.
- JUL 03Development· AI animation· AI generate image
What If You Could Create AI Animations in Your Own Style?
How Toonkit moved beyond ToonXL's preset styles to let users train their own LoRA on 20+ reference images, and how that training pipeline runs on AWS Batch—plus current limitations and what's next.
- JUN 24Animation· AI Industry· Animation AI
Toonkit's Product Philosophy: Why Are We Building an AI-Powered Animation Production Tool?
Scoping The Future of the Anime Production, For Creators, By Creators, With Creators
- JUN 24Animation· AI animation· AI generation image
Can ToonXL Solve the Style Inconsistency Problem in AI Image Generation?
A simple look at why AI-generated styles can shift between cuts, and how ToonXL helps keep them consistent.
- JUN 18Product· Release Notes· new
June 18 Update — Your style, your edits, your way: this update changes how you create ✨
Hello, to our creator — beloved Toonkit family! 💖 We've been listening closely to your voices, and on Thursday, June 18 we're rolling out an update that touches everything from style expression to cut editing to the overall experience — all to make your creative process more free and intuitive. Here's what's new.
- JUN 12Animation· UI/UX· Usability
Toonkit BTS ep.0: The start of retrospectives
The opening episode of Toonkit's behind-the-scenes retrospective series, launched six months after release, using the blog feature as an example of why and how each update came to be.
- JUN 12Animation· AI Industry· Animation AI
The Problem Toonkit Is Solving: An Era Where Anyone Can Become an Animation Creator
A New Animation Creation Ecosystem Where Ideas Become Works, and Works Become IP
- JUN 04Animation· production· creation
Why We Should Pay Attention to AI Animation Creation Tools Now
The rise of AI video models is lowering the barrier to animation production. Toonkit connects ideas, characters, storyboards, and video generation into one creative workflow.
- JUN 04Animation· AI Video· Industry
Models are becoming a commodity, workflows aren't
New AI video models ship almost every week. Here's how the center of gravity in this market is shifting — seen from the side that builds the tools on top of them.
- MAY 29Product· Release Notes· improvement
May 29 Update — We've got something to say — and we finally built the place to say it ✨
Hello, to our creator, beloved ToonKit family! 💖 We've been working hard behind the scenes — and this week, we're rolling out an update that brings us closer to you: more transparency, more ways for your voice to reach us, and a meaningful leap forward in image quality. Here's what's new.
- MAY 19Product· Release Notes· improvement
May 19 Update — New ToonXL Styles, Redesigned UX/UI is coming!
We've been working hard behind the scenes — and this week, we're rolling out an update that makes ToonKit cleaner to navigate, more intuitive to use, and packed with new ways to create. Here's what's new.
- MAY 08Development· Postmortem· Backup
Looking back on the April 19 data incident
On the evening of April 19, Toonkit had a data incident. Backups were being created automatically, but the structure meant they couldn't be restored independently when it mattered most. Here's what happened that day and what we changed in our backup and operational procedures afterward.