Storyboard
Turn the shots you planned in Scene Designer into actual pictures, in the order they play.
A scene you have designed already reads like a strip of film. The storyboard draws it: one panel per shot, in the order the strip sets, using your own shot descriptions as the brief. It is a planning aid rather than a finished artwork — a way to see whether a sequence actually stages, and where a beat is still missing its picture.
Storyboard — a scene rendered panel by panel
✦Quick start
- 1Design a scene in Scene Designer, so its shots sit in the order you want.
- 2Open the scene’s storyboard and choose Render storyboard.
- 3Pick a quality — Rough, Standard, or Fine — and a visual style.
- 4Check which reference images each panel will use, and See exact prompt if you want to know precisely what is being asked for.
- 5Confirm the cost and render; panels fill in as they finish.
What Drives Each Panel
- Your card text is the brief — the shot description you wrote, and nothing else; no character bios or location write-ups are folded in behind your back
- Your entities contribute their picture rather than their prose: a character’s portrait keeps them recognisably themselves from panel to panel, while a location reference is treated as a starting point to extrapolate from
- Mute a reference on any panel when you do not want it steering that shot
- See exact prompt shows the assembled prompt for a panel before anything is rendered
Rendering, Cost & Fallbacks
- Three qualities — Rough for blocking a sequence out, Standard, and Fine for a panel you want to keep
- A pre-check shows the whole plan and its price before you commit; closing it costs nothing
- Rendering uses AI Tokens, since it generates images
- Panels you have not rendered still show as designed plates matched to your book’s genre, so an unfinished board still reads as a board
- Export the finished board from Export then Storyboard, as Word or PDF in manuscript order, with captions and any loose craft cards
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Render at Rough first. The point of a storyboard at this stage is the staging — whether the shots follow one another — and a rough pass answers that for a fraction of the cost.