Storyboards is a Sorceress tool for planning visual sequences as timed storyboard frames. You can describe a concept, let the Storyboard Agent create a shot-by-shot plan, generate frame images, add narration and production notes, export storyboard sheets, and create storyboard-based video clips from your frames.
Storyboards are saved to your account and appear in a gallery. Signed-out visitors can preview a read-only demo gallery, but creating, editing, generating, saving, deleting, and rendering your own storyboards requires signing in.
What it does
Storyboards helps you turn an idea into a production-ready visual sequence:
- Create a storyboard from a prompt using the Storyboard Agent.
- Generate individual storyboard frame images.
- Edit each frame’s image prompt, camera, action, duration, sound, transition, narration text, and frame references.
- Upload your own finished frame images.
- Upload project reference images and attach them to specific frames.
- Build a recurring cast with generated or uploaded character references.
- Add project-level scene guidance, director notes, and production summaries.
- Export storyboard sheets as PNG files.
- Create storyboard-based videos from generated or uploaded frames.
- Review completed, rendering, and failed storyboard videos in the Videos gallery.
- Organize saved storyboards into collections.
The tool is designed around standalone frames. Frame generation is instructed to create one image per frame, not a collage, comic page, contact sheet, grid, captioned layout, or annotated storyboard sheet.
Getting started
- Open Storyboards.
- Sign in to create and edit your own projects.
- Click New Storyboard.
- Optional: open Image Model in the left panel to choose the image model, aspect ratio, and model-specific parameters.
- Enter your concept in the Storyboard Agent prompt box.
- Choose the number of Scenes and total Length.
- Optional: enable Narration in the left panel.
- Optional: enable Consistent Characters in the Storyboard Agent area and choose generated or uploaded cast references.
- Click Generate.
The agent plans the sequence, fills creative direction fields, creates frame details, and generates images for frames that have prompts. You can leave and return while generation is underway; reopening the page attempts to reconnect to unfinished frame and video work while the page is active.
You can also build manually: create a storyboard, edit frames yourself, then generate or upload frame images one at a time.
Gallery
The main gallery has two tabs: Storyboards and Videos.
Storyboards tab
The Storyboards tab shows your saved storyboard projects. A storyboard card can show:
- Project title.
- Preview frame or placeholder.
- Grid size.
- Duration.
- Selected image model.
- Genre text when available.
- Last updated time.
- A Processing badge when storyboard or frame work is still active.
From a storyboard card you can:
- Open it in the editor.
- Download storyboard PNG exports.
- Delete it after confirming.
- Drag it into a storyboard collection.
Storyboards that are still processing cannot be deleted until processing finishes. Signed-out users see demo storyboards only.
Videos tab
The Videos tab shows storyboard video renders. Video cards can show:
- Storyboard title and part number.
- Current state: generating, completed, or failed.
- Output aspect ratio.
- A playable preview when completed.
- Prompt preview.
- Download control for completed videos.
- Delete or remove controls when available.
- Retry controls for failed jobs.
Generating video jobs cannot be removed until they finish or fail. Failed jobs can be retried from the Videos tab, and the retry button switches to the alternate available rendering route for that job.
Use View Prompt to inspect the prompt sent for a video render. The prompt modal includes a Copy Prompt button.
Storyboard Agent
The Storyboard Agent creates a complete shot plan from your prompt. It can infer genre, visual style, duration, and production notes when those fields are blank.
Good prompts include the intended format, subject, audience, style, and pacing, for example:
- “Make a 15 second cinematic trailer for a cozy fantasy game about a mouse wizard.”
- “Create a 30 second product ad from this concept…”
- “Study this website and make a short promotional storyboard…”
If your prompt includes up to two public webpage URLs, the agent attempts to read page text and adapt the product, story, offer, audience, or visual world into the storyboard. If a page cannot be read, the agent continues from your written prompt.
Agent controls
- Prompt box: Describe the story, trailer, ad, product, scene, or concept. The prompt box expands as you type.
- Reload prompt: Reuse a recent agent prompt saved with the project.
- Scenes: Choose how many storyboard frames to plan. The slider supports quick selection up to 30 scenes; the number field supports up to 120 scenes.
- Length: Set the target storyboard duration in seconds. The slider is optimized up to 60 seconds; the number field supports longer storyboards up to 600 seconds.
- Estimated: Shows an estimate based on the number of planned frames and any AI cast references still needed.
- Generate: Starts the storyboard plan and frame generation.
Long storyboards are split into video parts automatically. Each part is built from consecutive frames whose durations fit within a 15-second video part limit.
Agent lock
After an agent storyboard has completed, or after frames have been generated, the Storyboard Agent area becomes locked for that project. You can still edit frames manually, regenerate frames, upload images, export, and create video. To run the agent fresh, create a new storyboard.
When locked, the panel shows the original agent prompt with Copy Prompt so you can reuse it in another project.
Consistent Characters
The Consistent Characters panel helps preserve recurring cast members across scenes.
When enabled, you can choose how many cast members to use, up to 8. Cast members can be:
- AI generated: The agent designs character reference prompts and generates reference images.
- Uploaded: You provide character reference images yourself.
AI-generated cast workflow
- Enable Consistent Characters.
- Choose AI generated.
- Set how many characters you need.
- Run the Storyboard Agent.
The agent creates recurring character descriptions and full-body reference images on simple backgrounds. These become character references for the project and can be assigned to frames.
Uploaded cast workflow
- Enable Consistent Characters.
- Choose Upload.
- Set the number of character slots.
- Click a slot or Upload to add an image.
- Optional: open a slot to edit the character name and notes.
Uploaded cast images appear as character references and can be reused by frames. The panel shows how many uploaded cast slots are ready.
Editing cast slots
Each cast slot can be expanded to edit:
- Character name.
- Character description or notes.
- Generated or uploaded image.
You can generate or regenerate a character image, upload a replacement, or remove the slot. If a cast member fails during an agent run, the storyboard may pause on the cast step. Edit, retry, upload, or delete the affected cast member, then click Continue to proceed with the storyboard plan.
Voice narration
Enable Narration in the left panel to have the agent write timed spoken lines for each frame. Narration text is stored on each frame and combined into the storyboard’s narration script for video creation.
Controls include:
- Narration toggle: Turns per-frame narration planning on or off.
- Fill Missing: Writes narration only for frames that are missing narration and already have storyboard content.
Narration is intended as voice text, not captions. Keep it concise enough for the frame duration. Very short frames should use only a few words.
When video Audio is enabled, narration text is included in the video’s audio direction.
Editing frames
The editor displays frames in storyboard parts. Each part has a timing bar showing how much of the 15-second video budget is used.
Each frame card contains an image area and editable shot details:
- Frame Prompt: The image-generation prompt for that frame.
- Camera: Shot size, angle, movement, or framing direction.
- Duration: How long the frame should hold, such as
1s,1.5s, or2s. - Action: The visible story beat or animation action.
- Sound: Sound effect or ambience note.
- Transition: Cut, reveal, dissolve, or other transition guidance.
- Narration Text: Optional voiceover line for the frame.
- Frame References: Reference images attached specifically to this frame.
Frame cards show the frame number and a Hold duration badge over the image.
Generate or regenerate a frame
- Enter or edit the Frame Prompt.
- Optional: attach project references to the frame.
- Click Generate Frame.
- Wait for the image to complete.
If the frame already has an image, clicking Regenerate opens a prompt editor. Edit the prompt, then confirm regeneration.
Upload a frame image
Use Upload Image on a frame card to replace the generated image with your own image. Uploaded frame images can be used in exports and video creation.
You can drag image files onto a frame. Dropping files in the reference area attaches them as frame references; using Upload Image replaces the frame image itself.
Download an individual frame
When a frame has an image, hover the frame and click Download to save that image.
Delete a frame
Click Delete Frame on a frame card. A storyboard must keep at least one frame, so the delete control is disabled when only one frame remains.
Shuffle frames
Click Shuffle Frames to enter reorder mode.
In reorder mode:
- Drag a frame card.
- Drop it onto another frame, or into a storyboard part.
- Frame order and frame numbers update automatically.
- Click Shuffle Frames again to return to normal editing.
Reordering can change video part boundaries because parts are based on the cumulative duration of consecutive frames.
Reference images
The References panel lets you upload project-level reference images. You can:
- Upload multiple image files.
- Drag image files into the references drop area.
- Drag existing storyboard frame images into the references panel.
- Remove uploaded references.
- Drag references onto individual frame cards.
A frame can have its own attached references. These are used when regenerating that frame, subject to the selected image model’s reference-image support.
Reference labels are visible to the Storyboard Agent. When the agent plans frames, it can choose which labeled references should guide each frame. Character references are managed through the cast panel and are not shown in the normal uploaded-reference grid.
Batch reference uploads accept image files. A batch processes up to 8 image files at a time, and the project keeps up to 24 uploaded references.
Image model settings
Open Image Model from the left panel to choose the image model, aspect ratio, and available model-specific parameters.
The modal shows:
Changing image model settings saves the preference to your profile and becomes the default for new storyboard frames until you change it again.
Aspect ratio availability depends on the selected image model. If you choose a model that does not support the current aspect ratio, Storyboards switches to a supported ratio for that model.
Scene guidance and director notes
The right inspector contains project-level creative direction fields used by the agent, video creation, and export context.
Scene Guidance
- Genre & Tone: Overall genre, tone, audience, or mood direction.
- Style: Visual style, medium, rendering style, or art direction.
Director Notes
- Director’s Note: General creative direction.
- Visual Mood: Lighting, color, atmosphere, and emotional texture.
- Camera Movement: Camera behavior and shot language.
Production Summary
- Sound Design Summary: Overall audio bed, ambience, music direction, and sound palette.
- Technical Notes: Rendering or production constraints.
- Shot Emotional Arc: How the sequence should feel from beginning to end.
The Storyboard Agent can fill these fields during planning, and you can edit them afterward.
Timing and video parts
Each frame has a duration. Storyboards groups consecutive frames into video parts with a 15-second limit per part.
Each part has a timing bar:
- Purple means the part is under the 15-second budget.
- Green means it closely fills the 15-second budget.
- Amber means it is over budget and may be clipped when rendered.
If the storyboard’s frame durations do not match the target length, click Fit Target to rebalance all frame durations proportionally. Durations are rounded to clean half-second increments. The practical minimum is 0.5 seconds per frame.
For best video results, keep each part at or under 15 seconds and place major story transitions near part boundaries.
Creating storyboard video
After at least one frame has an image, video creation becomes available in the inspector footer.
- Generate or upload the storyboard frames you want to animate.
- Review frame order, timing, narration, and director notes.
- Choose video Resolution: 480p, 720p, or 1080p.
- Choose video Aspect Ratio, or leave it on Auto.
- Toggle Audio on or off.
- Click Create Video.
If the storyboard has multiple parts, the button queues ready parts in parallel. Parts already rendering are skipped. Completed parts are not permanently locked; clicking Create Video again can create a fresh take for parts that are not currently in flight.
Video jobs appear in the Videos gallery tab. Completed jobs can be played and downloaded. Failed jobs can be retried from the Videos tab.
Video aspect ratio
Supported video aspect ratios are:
- Auto
- 16:9
- 9:16
- 1:1
- 4:3
- 3:4
- 21:9
When set to Auto, Storyboards detects the storyboard frame ratio and requests a supported video shape. If the exact frame ratio is not supported for video, Storyboards snaps it to the nearest supported format: portrait to 9:16, square to 1:1, landscape to 16:9, and ultra-wide to 21:9.
You can override Auto by clicking any fixed aspect ratio. When Auto resolves to a fixed ratio, the matching aspect button is highlighted with an auto indicator.
Audio
When Audio is enabled, video prompting includes guidance for one continuous ambience or music bed across the clip, with brief panel-specific sound accents. If narration is enabled and narration text exists, the video prompt includes narration guidance so the spoken script is mixed over the same continuous background audio.
When Audio is disabled, video creation omits audio generation guidance.
Exporting storyboard PNGs
Click Download Storyboard in the editor, or Download on a storyboard card in the gallery.
Exports include:
- Frame images or placeholders.
- Frame numbers.
- Hold duration labels.
- Camera, action, sound, narration, and transition details.
If the storyboard has multiple video parts, Storyboards exports one PNG per part.
Autosave and persistence
Storyboards autosaves signed-in users’ edits shortly after changes. Saved data includes title, settings, frames, notes, references, narration, cast settings, and generation progress.
Some actions save immediately, including frame generation state, uploaded images, video renders, and agent progress. If you refresh during generation, reopen the storyboard and leave the page open so Storyboards can continue checking unfinished work.
Limits and requirements
- You must be signed in to create, edit, generate, save, or delete your own storyboards.
- Signed-out users can view demo storyboards only.
- Storyboard titles are limited to 160 characters.
- The editor uses 3 columns for storyboard grids.
- Storyboard Agent scene count supports up to 120 scenes in the editor UI.
- Storyboard total length supports 4 to 600 seconds.
- Video parts are grouped around a 15-second limit.
- Frame durations have a practical minimum of 0.5 seconds when rebalanced.
- Consistent Characters supports up to 8 cast slots.
- AI character planning during an agent run plans up to 6 new character prompts at a time.
- Uploaded reference files must be images.
- Batch reference uploads process up to 8 image files at a time.
- Project-level uploaded references are stored up to 24 references.
- Storyboard video output resolutions are 480p, 720p, and 1080p.
- Video creation requires at least one generated or uploaded frame image.
- Per-frame video reference rendering is limited internally by the video engine; standard Create Video uses the default storyboard workflow.
Tips and troubleshooting
“Generate” is disabled or asks me to sign in
You are likely viewing the read-only demo. Sign in to create and generate your own storyboards.
The Storyboard Agent is locked
The agent locks after a storyboard has completed or frames have been generated. Continue editing frames manually, or click New Storyboard to start a fresh agent run. You can copy the original prompt from the locked agent panel.
A frame says generation failed
Open the frame’s error message. Revise the prompt and try Generate Frame again. If the message says the source image is gone or expired, regenerate that frame so it can be preserved and used for video.
Video creation is disabled
Generate or upload at least one frame image first. Storyboards cannot create a video from empty placeholders.
A video part says it will clip
The part’s total frame duration exceeds 15 seconds. Shorten one or more frame durations, reorder frames so the split happens differently, or use Fit Target if the whole storyboard timing needs to be rebalanced.
My video aspect ratio is not the exact same as my image ratio
The video renderer supports a fixed set of aspect ratios. Auto mode snaps unsupported image ratios to the closest supported video format. Choose a fixed aspect ratio manually if you want a specific output.
A cast member failed
Edit the character description, retry generation, upload your own character image, or delete the cast slot. If the storyboard paused, click Continue after the cast is ready.
My storyboard is still processing after a refresh
Open the storyboard and leave the page open. Storyboards attempts to resume checking unfinished frame and video work while the page is active. If work eventually fails, retry the affected frame or video job.
A video job failed
Open the Videos tab. Failed jobs show an error and a retry button. Retry the failed part from the video card instead of recreating the whole storyboard video when possible.
I want a cleaner video result
Before creating video, make sure every frame has:
- A clear generated or uploaded image.
- A concise action description.
- A sensible duration.
- Strong camera and transition notes.
- Consistent aspect ratio choices.
- Narration text only where you actually want speech.
- Part durations at or under 15 seconds.
FAQ
Can I manually build a storyboard without the agent?
Yes. Create a storyboard, edit frame prompts and details yourself, then generate or upload frame images.
Can I use my own images?
Yes. You can upload project references, attach references to frames, upload character references, and upload finished frame images directly onto frame cards.
Can I regenerate only one frame?
Yes. Click Regenerate on a frame that already has an image. You can edit the prompt before confirming.
Can I make long videos?
You can plan storyboards up to 600 seconds. Storyboards splits the sequence into multiple rendered video parts based on frame durations. Each part is rendered as its own clip.
Can I download individual frames?
Yes. Hover a generated frame and click Download.
Can I download the whole storyboard?
Yes. Use Download Storyboard in the editor or Download from the gallery card. Multi-part storyboards export one PNG per part.
Can I organize storyboards into collections?
Yes. Signed-in users can use the collections sidebar and drag storyboard cards into collections from the gallery.
What happens if I click Create Video again?
Storyboards skips parts that are already rendering. Parts that are not currently in flight can be rendered again as a fresh take, including parts that already completed earlier.