Storyboard

How the Storyboard works#

1. Left — the project menu. Storyboard sits in the “Production” group, next to Canvas and Animatics.
2. Top — format and episode. The “16:9” frame format, Timeline help, the episode picker “S1E1 — Rakhmanin’s First Steps” and Add scene.
3. Center — scenes and shots. Each scene is a row of cards, each card is a shot.
4. Right — the agent. By default it is the Project assistant; when a shot is selected, the Shot assistant.

01Scenes#

Above a scene’s shots is its header: number and title, two counters and the cast.

• Counters — how many of the scene’s shots already have a frame and how many have video: “11/13” and “13/13”.
• Avatars — all characters and locations from the scene’s shots.
• Create shot on the right — a new shot at the end of the scene.

Click the header to open the scene card: description, characters, locations, number of shots and duration. Click the title to rename it; change the description with “Edit description”.

02Shots on cards#

Each card is one shot. It shows the shot’s state without opening it.

• Top — the shot number “scene.shot”, the frame’s characters and location. Click them to set up the shot’s characters or location.
• Bottom of the image — version counters: frames, shooting board, video. A film strip means the shot is linked to an animatic segment.
• Below the image — description, camera movement and duration, the Edit shot pencil and the status.

Click the status “In review”, “Approved” or “Needs changes” to change it; “Needs changes” can carry a comment. An approved shot is highlighted in green.

Transition shot#

A card with a dashed border and an orange icon is a transition shot: its preview is a collage of frames from the neighboring shots whose action it connects.

Insert a shot between others#

Hover over a card and a “+” appears on its sides: “Insert shot after” (and “Insert shot before” on the scene’s first shot). The new shot window opens with description, duration, characters and location.

03Talk to the shot agent right from the Storyboard#

A card has two zones:

• top — the image — opens the whole shot;
• bottom — the caption — only selects the shot. The shot does not open, but the agent on the right switches to that shot’s Shot assistant.

This way you can walk through the episode’s shots and talk to each one without losing sight of the whole scene. The shot assistant has its own chat history, the shot’s references above the chat and the Frame, Video and duration buttons for a quick run.

To get back to the general agent, click the cross on the “Shot 1.6” badge or click the selected shot’s caption again.

04Project assistant#

When no shot is selected, the Project assistant is on the right. It sees the whole episode and the script: creates the next shots and whole scenes from the text, moves a shot to another scene, edits prompts and duration. Work on characters, locations and props it hands to those sections’ assistants.

The agent regenerates frames and video only after you confirm.

05Run several shots at once#

Select a shot by its caption, then Shift-click more. Above the chat, Create frames (2) and Create video (2) appear — they run generation for all selected shots.

Shift-click a caption again to remove the shot from the selection; Esc clears the whole selection.

What’s next#

Open a shot by its image to work with its frames, video and versions — see the “Shots” guide.