One-time purchase · No subscription · No image credits

Turn a novel chapter into a shot-ready storyboard

Paste your source text. Get back a series plan, character sheets with reusable appearance strings, and a shot-by-shot list where every shot carries a copyable English image prompt — the part most people spend a whole evening writing by hand.

Runs in the browser. Nothing to install. Works with whatever image or video model you already pay for.

What it is not

It is not another image generator. You already have one — and a second one means a second subscription, a second set of credits, and a second style you have to re-learn.

Most tools in this space

Sell you credits, generate the frames inside their own model, and charge monthly for the privilege. Your output lives in their account and leaves with their billing cycle.

Storyboard Studio

Produces the part that is actually hard: the breakdown, the character continuity, and the prompt text. You keep using the generator you already trust. Pay once, unlock the whole tool, keep the sheets.

Three passes over one chapter

The tool runs three staged calls rather than one long prompt, because a single prompt quietly drops the second half of a long chapter.

1

Series plan

Episode count with the arithmetic behind it, plus a table of core conflict, the three-second opening hook, and the cliffhanger each episode ends on.

2

Character sheets

For every named character: a 30-word appearance string written to be pasted into an image prompt, plus costume and signature expression. This string is what keeps a face consistent across forty frames.

3

Shot list

Per episode: shot number, framing, duration, visual, camera move, dialogue, SFX. Framing and camera vocabulary are closed lists, so the output stays usable instead of drifting into prose.

What one shot looks like

Every row of the shot list renders as a card. The visual column is written as an English image prompt with a copy button, because that is the line you actually paste into your generator.

Shot 04  medium close · 4s
Her hand stops mid-air, a teacup slipping from her fingers,
grey morning light through a rain-streaked window, shallow depth of field
Camera slow push in    SFX ceramic crack, rain on glass

Two rules the model is held to, because they are the two that break a production: the visual column may contain no inner thoughts or abstractions, and each character's appearance string is embedded verbatim into every shot they appear in — never paraphrased, never shortened.

Who this is for

Vertical short drama

60–120 second episodes, one to three per sitting. The pacing rules are built in: hook in three seconds, cut every episode mid-action, dialogue under fifteen words.

Novel → webtoon or manga

Adapting prose into panels is mostly a blocking problem. The shot list gives you a defensible cut before you commit to drawing or generating anything.

Solo animators

You already know how to prompt. What costs you the evening is deciding what the shots are, in what order, at what duration. That is the part this replaces.

Pricing

One payment, unlimited episodes. No tier ladder, no per-seat maths, no renewal to remember.

$9.99one-time unlock · unlimited episodes
  • Unlimited episodes and unlimited runs on your own source text
  • Series plan, character sheets and shot list in one pass
  • Copy each shot's image prompt, or export the whole script as Markdown
  • No subscription and no image credits — you bring your own generator
Unlock the full tool — $9.99

Compare: storyboard tools in this category typically run $9 to $79 per month on a subscription. Here $9.99 is a one-off unlock — no recurring charge, no credit meter — because there is no per-image cost on our side: the images are generated by whichever model you already use.

Questions

Do I need an image generator too?

Yes. Storyboard Studio produces the plan and the prompt text; it does not generate images or video. That is deliberate — it means no credits to buy through us, and your output stays in the tool you already know.

What languages does it handle?

The interface is English and the image prompts are always written in English, since image and video models perform best that way. Your source text can be in any language, and dialogue is kept in the source language.

How long should my source text be?

Around 3,000 characters or 500 words per run is the sweet spot. Shorter and it cannot fill an episode; longer and details get dropped. For a full novel, run it chapter by chapter.

Will the characters look the same across shots?

That is what the appearance strings are for. Each character gets one exact 30-word description, and the tool is instructed to embed it verbatim into every shot that character appears in. Whether the frames stay consistent then depends on your generator honouring the prompt — reference-image and character-lock features help.

Is this a subscription?

No. It is a single one-off payment that unlocks the full tool — unlimited episodes, unlimited runs. There is no renewal and no cancellation to remember.

Who processes the payment?

Waffo acts as merchant of record: it is the legal seller, handles tax, invoices and refunds, and settles the net amount to us. You pay Waffo, not a personal account.

Can I use the output commercially?

You own what you produce from your own source text, and you may use it commercially. You must hold the rights to the source text you paste in. Prohibited content categories are listed in the terms.