Understanding Projects, Characters, Accounts, and Scenes

Understanding Projects, Characters, Accounts, and Scenes

A story in AU Studio is built from four connected parts: Projects, Characters, Social Accounts, and Scenes.

Understanding their roles will make it easier to organize your story and reuse the same characters across different digital moments.

Project: Your Story’s Workspace

A project holds the characters, accounts, and scenes that belong to a story.

For example, you might create a project called After Class for a story about two classmates preparing for a school event.

Keep scenes from the same story together so you can find and manage them in one workspace.

Character: A Person in Your Story

A character represents a fictional person.

In After Class, your characters might be:

• Maya: an organized student coordinating the event.
• Leo: her classmate, who has forgotten an important deadline.

Create each character once within the project, then reuse them in different scenes.

A character’s identity is separate from any particular platform. Maya remains the same person whether she appears in a conversation, an Instagram post, or another scene.

Social Account: A Character’s Platform Identity

A social account represents how a character appears on a particular platform.

For example:

Character	Platform	Fictional account
Maya	Instagram	@maya.afterclass
Maya	X	@mayasnotes
Leo	Instagram	@leo.lately

These accounts belong to the characters in your project. They are not connected to real profiles.

Platform-specific scenes use matching character accounts. Maya’s Instagram account is used for an Instagram scene; her X account is used for an X scene.

If a required account is missing, create the matching account before continuing with that scene.

Scene: One Digital Moment

A scene is an individual piece of your story.

For After Class, you could create:

1. An Instagram DM conversation where Maya reminds Leo about the deadline.
2. An Instagram post where Leo shares the finished event poster.
3. A lock screen scene showing a later notification.

Each scene has its own content and presentation settings. Together, the scenes tell a larger story.

How They Connect

Think of the structure like this:

Project → Characters → Social Accounts

The project also contains Scenes, which use the relevant characters and accounts.

In our example:

• After Class is the project.
• Maya and Leo are the characters.
• @maya.afterclass and @leo.lately are their fictional Instagram accounts.
• Their DM conversation is a scene.

You do not need to create a new Maya every time she appears. Reuse her character and the appropriate account in the next scene.

Character Details and Scene Details

Use character and account settings for identity information that should remain consistent across your story.

Use scene settings for details specific to a particular moment, such as its content and presentation.

For example:

• Maya’s fictional Instagram username belongs to her account.
• The message Maya sends about the deadline belongs to the conversation scene.

Before changing a character or account, remember that it may also be used elsewhere in the project. Review the affected scenes afterward.

A Simple Starting Order

For your first story:

1. Create a project.
2. Add your characters.
3. Add the social accounts needed for your chosen platform.
4. Create a scene.
5. Add its content.
6. Review the preview and export the result.

Starting with one scene makes it easier to learn the workflow before building a longer story.