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How to generate AI storyboards from a script

Generic image generators give you stunning one-offs and amnesia about your hero between frames. Project-aware AI gives you 200 frames that read as one film. The trick is the context the AI is given: who the characters are, what the location looks like, what the artist's style is — and the QA loop that catches drift.

1

Run the screenplay through /breakdown

Tag every character, every prop, every location. /cast pre-populates from the cast tags; /locations pre-populates from the headings; /characters lets you upload reference photos for every named character.

2

Upload character reference photos

For every primary character, upload 2-4 reference photos in /characters. Stills from cast tape, sketched concept art, photo references — whatever you have. The Vision pass extracts visual descriptors that ride into every AI generation for that character.

3

Style-lock an AI artist

Pick Mitchell or a custom artist in /ai-artist and run Style Sync against your reference bible. Lock it to the project. See the dedicated 'style-lock-an-ai-artist' how-to for the detailed walkthrough.

4

Parse the screenplay into a shotlist

/shotlist's Bulk AI parse reads the screenplay scene-by-scene and emits one row per shot. Stable scene-IDs anchor each shot to its source line. Add cinematography fields (lens, framing, movement) per row.

5

Generate the storyboard from /editor

/editor turns shotlist rows into frames with metadata pre-loaded. Click any blank frame and pick 'Generate with AI Artist'. The Live Context panel auto-resolves the characters in scene, the location, the props, the costumes, and any approved storyboard frames already drawn — no copy-pasting reference URLs.

6

Let Vision-QA score every frame

Each generated frame is independently scored by a second Vision-QA pass against the artist's bible. Anything below 82/100 fidelity auto-retries with a corrective prompt. The score appears on every frame; hover for the per-dimension breakdown.

7

Refine the hero frames in Draw

The 90% you get from AI is the connective tissue. The 10% that has to feel exact — the title card, the climax, the close-up — refine in /draw with hand-drawn touch-ups. The same project file, no re-export.

An afternoon's work where a week of artist contract used to live. Coverage frames are AI-generated; hero frames are hand-touched. The whole deck reads as one film because every frame went through the same project-aware context and the same Vision-QA loop.

Try it

Open /ai-artist and follow the steps

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