Turn a Chapter into a Storyboard

TL;DR. Run panel breakdown on the chapter. Optionally run storyboard QA, or skip it. Then generate image prompts. The board is editable before you draw. You can also add panels by hand if you do not want a full breakdown.

Start from a chapter and a castBreakdown reads the chapter body. Characters should already be on the cast if you want the board to name them cleanly. Style should already be chosen, because layout and tone leak into the panels.

Run the breakdownPanel breakdown splits the prose into panels: scene, on-screen characters, description, dialogue, narration, and sound effects. When it finishes you can open the board, continue to QA, or skip QA and go to prompts.

Run QA or skip itStoryboard QA checks continuity, pacing, and composition, and can rewrite panels that fail. The style screen has a switch to skip QA so breakdown leads straight to prompts. You can still rerun QA later.

Generate image promptsPrompt generation writes the drawing prompt, and a negative prompt, for each panel. Those prompts are what batch image generation consumes. A panel with a description but no prompt can still grow a prompt later, one panel at a time.

Read the board before you spend imagesOpen a panel and fix the scene, the speakers, or the line. Copy the board as Markdown if you want the script outside the studio. Drawing is the next guide, not an automatic requirement of this one.

What lands on each panel

A panel is a record: scene type, characters, picture description, dialogue lines, narration, sound effects, notes, and later an image prompt. Breakdown fills that record from the chapter. It does not have to be the last word.

The AI storyboard feature is the product argument. This page is the order of buttons inside Make Studio.

Breakdown, QA, prompts

Stage	You get	Skip it when
Breakdown	A panel list with scene and dialogue	You would rather place every panel by hand
QA	A pass on continuity, rhythm, and framing	The style switch is set to skip, or you trust the first board
Prompts	A drawing prompt per panel	You only wanted the script and will write prompts yourself

Rerunning the pipeline

Rerun asks you to confirm, because a second pass replaces the current panels, QA, prompts, and images. Use it when the chapter text changed enough that patching one panel would be slower.

A single bad panel does not need that. Edit it, or insert a new one, and leave the rest of the board alone.

If auto-generate images is on, finishing prompts can queue drawings immediately. Turn that off on the style screen when you want to read the board first.