Storyboard Planner (pre-production storyboard plugin)

What it is

Storyboard Planner is a pre-production tool, not just an AI image generator. The difference: every frame it generates is something you can actually pull off with the crew, cameras, lights, and locations you have. Shots that would require equipment you do not own are flagged with an achievable alternative before any image is generated.

You paste a script, declare your real production setup (or load a previously saved one), and the tool breaks the script into shots, cross-references each shot against your constraints, estimates the generation cost, and then generates one frame at a time for your review. You approve, iterate ("fix the hand," "brighter kitchen"), or reject each frame individually. When all frames are approved, the storyboard publishes as a shareable link.

Where to find it

The switch is Settings > Plugins — find Storyboard Planner (clapperboard icon) and turn it on. Once it is on, a Storyboard Planner row appears in the sidebar, and the tool has a panel behind that row. There is no separate app to launch: the primary interface is a conversational skill you invoke in any chat session.

Turning it on

Storyboard Planner ships switched off. Open Settings > Plugins, find Storyboard Planner (clapperboard icon), and switch it on. A Storyboard Planner row appears in the sidebar.

How it behaves

You paste a script, declare your real production setup, and it breaks the script into shots, cross-references each one against your constraints, estimates the generation cost, and then generates one frame at a time for your review — approve, refine or reject each frame on its own. When every frame is approved the storyboard publishes as a shareable link. The sections below walk through that: how to drive it, what a production profile is, and what the sidebar panel and its settings offer.

How to use it

The primary interface is a conversational skill. In any chat session, invoke the storyboard-planner skill (or just say "I want to create a storyboard"). The skill walks you through:

1. Paste your script or scene descriptions.
2. Production setup: the skill asks about your crew size, cameras, lenses, rigs, lighting, audio, locations, and talent. Or it loads a previously saved Vault production profile.
3. Script analysis: the tool breaks the script into individual shots with camera direction, lighting, elements, mood, characters, and location. Any shot that exceeds your stated rig is flagged with the mismatch and an achievable alternative.
4. Cast registration: register each on-camera person with reference photos (headshots, wardrobe). These references are included in every generation call where that character appears, keeping faces and wardrobe consistent across the whole storyboard.
5. Cost estimate: before generating anything, the tool estimates the total cost and waits for your approval.
6. Per-frame generation: one shot at a time, you review each frame, approve it, or ask for changes. The tool tracks a running cost total as you iterate.
7. Publish: approved frames are compiled into a storyboard document and published as a shareable link via Omniscio Shares.

Production profiles

Your production constraints are saved as Vault notes with structured YAML frontmatter. You can reuse a profile across multiple projects without re-entering the same crew/gear/location information. Profiles are human-editable in the Vault editor and agent-readable via MCP tools.

The sidebar panel

The plugin panel shows a list of your storyboard projects. Click a project to see all its frames: each frame shows the generated image, the script line that generated it, and expandable camera notes (angle, movement, framing, lighting, mood, location, characters). Constraint flags are shown on frames that had mismatches.

The panel is a visual overview; the conversational skill is the primary way to create and iterate.

Settings

One setting on the plugin page:

• Default aspect ratio: the aspect ratio for generated frames (default 16:9; options include 9:16, 4:3, 1:1, 2.35:1).

Related

Generating the images a storyboard is built from is covered by Image Studio, and the plugin this ships as — how plugins are installed and switched on at all — is on Plugin marketplace. A saved production profile is a vault note, described on KMS vault overview, and invoking a skill like this one in a chat session is on Use skills.