Since Feb 2024
Previs and storyboards
Boards become first frames; a gray-box scene becomes the camera.
Previs used to be a department. In AI filmmaking it is the first draft of the film itself: storyboard frames turn into the first and last frames of each shot, Sora's storyboard laid a film out as cards on a timeline, and since 2025 a gray-box scene in Blender or a 3D director app gives the video model the blocking and the camera. World models now let you walk the set before you shoot it.
Tutorials5
Sora has a secret super power: the storyboard
Theoretically Media · YouTube · Dec 2024
How it works
- Board it in an image model. Nano Banana Pro can generate many angles of a scene from a few references; keep the frames you would actually cut to.
- Make the boards the first frames. Chain the last frame of one shot into the first of the next so the sequence holds together.
- Block it in 3D when the camera matters. Gray-box the scene in Blender, move the camera and rough stand-ins, and give the playblast to the video model as the motion reference; Pippit 3D Director Studio and Autodesk Flow Studio do the staging inside the AI tool.
- Let an agent build the previs. Claude can build a pose and depth previs or a whole blockout over Blender MCP; Shotblock is a previs tool built from one prompt.
- Scout a world before you shoot it. Build the location in Marble, walk it, and export stills or a camera-path render as plates.
Example Films1
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How films were actually made, from the people who made them.