Episode Storyboard Generator: Plan and Render a Full Episode

An episode storyboard generator with a render button

Give it a synopsis and a runtime and it boards the episode: a row of cards with framing, timing and dialogue. Then the cards become takes, and the takes become the episode. The series keeps the cast consistent from one episode to the next.

Opens the storyboard with this scene, runtime and framing already filled in.

Boarding a whole episode

An episode on this site is a document before it is a video: a number, a title, a synopsis, a cliffhanger and a timeline of up to twelve shot cards. The draft tool reads the series premise, the cast, the episodes that came before and the synopsis you wrote for this one, and returns the cards. A sixty-second episode comes back as around eight cards; a two-minute one as the full twelve.

The cards are placed on the timeline with the series set as their default location and the cast slots filled by name. If the series has no cast yet, the draft describes people in the line and leaves the slots empty for you to fill from the library.

Keeping a cast consistent

Consistency across episodes is the hard part of serialised video, and it is why the library exists. Characters are portraits generated once and reused as reference images on every take. Outfits, sets and props work the same way. When the draft puts Imara in shot two of episode four, the render uses the same Imara portrait it used in episode one.

The library ships with a preset ensemble of sixteen characters, twelve outfits, twelve sets and twelve props so a new account can board something immediately. Your own additions sit alongside them.

Rendering and joining

Each card renders as a separate take. The price depends on the quality tier, the resolution and the seconds, and it is printed on the card before you confirm. Render all pending cards and the queue works through them; the timeline shows each card flip from pending to playing as takes complete.

With every card finished, join the episode. The takes are conformed and concatenated in timeline order into one vertical MP4 that appears in your library, on the showcase if you publish it, and on the public page of the series if the series is public.

Episodes in a series

Episodes are numbered and can be reordered. Each one records a cliffhanger, which the draft for the next episode reads so it picks up where the last one left off. The public series page lists episodes in order with the joined video for each one that has it, which is how an audience follows a show made here.

If a joined episode is not right, change the cards and join again. The previous cut is replaced; the takes are untouched.

Questions

How much of the episode does the generator write?+

The shot cards: framing, timing, cast and the line for each shot. You write the synopsis and the cliffhanger, and you can rewrite any card.

Will the characters look the same in every episode?+

That is what the library is for. Each character is one generated portrait reused as a reference on every take; the render follows a reference closely, though it is a take rather than an exact reproduction.

Can I re-join an episode after changing the cards?+

Yes. Joining again replaces the previous cut. Takes that were not changed are reused without re-rendering.

Who owns the episodes I make?+

They are yours. See our terms of service for the licence we keep in order to host and operate the service. Copyright is governed by the law where you are, so a lawyer is the right person to ask about a specific use. Read the terms.