AI Storyboard Generator
The AI Storyboard Generator with Sora 2 Pro Storyboard Built In
Native Sora 2 Pro Storyboard mode: 10 scenes, 25 seconds, on a canvas that boards AND produces.
Astorie is an AI storyboard generator with Sora 2 Pro Storyboardbuilt in as a first-class feature — up to 10 scenes per storyboard, total durations of 10s, 15s, or 25s, with a native scene timeline you click to select and hover to add. Then it doesn't stop at the board: every storyboard cell lives on the same canvas as your final-resolution shots, characters, and edits. One project, board to delivery.
By Noa Bennett, Storyboard Editor··
200+ AI films produced on Astorie·Used by filmmakers, ad agencies, indie studios, and creator teams
The shipped feature: Sora 2 Pro Storyboard mode
Open a video node, pick Sora 2 Pro Storyboard, and you get a real storyboard editor — not a hack, not a “prompt longer.” The model itself is built around scenes:
- •Up to 10 scenes per storyboard
- •Total duration: 10s, 15s, or 25s (you pick the budget)
- •Per-scene controls: prompt + duration, edited live in a timeline strip
- •Scene timeline UI: click a scene block to select, hover the gap to reveal a “+” button, click to insert a new scene after the current one
- •Smart duration math: every scene shows the remaining duration you can spend, so you never overrun your budget
- •Realtime async generation: kick off the job, close the tab, come back — Astorie reconnects to the running job and updates the node when frames land
That's a real, named feature inside Astorietoday. It's the only canvas storyboarding tool that ships an actual storyboard model, not a “use multiple prompts in a row” workaround.
The 2-tool storyboard problem (and why a canvas solves it)
Every filmmaker knows this dance. You board in Boords, Storyboard That, FrameForge, or Plot — clean static frames the client can sign off on. Approval comes in. Then you pivot to a totally different tool — Runway, Pika, Higgsfield, Krea, Flora — and start from scratch, recreating every framing, character, lens, and lighting cue you already locked.
That's the trap of separating boarding from production: every storyboard decision gets decided again in the generator. Every revision means doing it twice.
Two industry buckets, both half a solution:
- •Bucket A — traditional storyboard tools (Boords, Storyboard That, FrameForge, Plot, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro): great for static boards, no production path. You re-create everything in a video tool.
- •Bucket B — AI video tools(Runway, Pika, Higgsfield, Krea, Flora): great single shots, no boarding structure. You “storyboard in your head” and pray the result holds together across cuts.
Astoriecollapses both into one canvas. The node holding your Sora 2 Pro Storyboard scene IS the same canvas where your Veo 3.1 hero shot, your Kling 3.0 product reveal, and your Suno V5 scratch score live. Boards and shots aren't different files — they're different nodes on the same surface.
What Astorie does differently
1. Sora 2 Pro Storyboard as a native node
Drop a video node, pick Sora 2 Pro Storyboard, and you get the scene timeline above the prompt box. Build your sequence — establishing, action, reaction, button — scene by scene, prompt by prompt, with per-scene duration controls. Pick your total budget (10s, 15s, or 25s). Generate. The model returns a stitched, multi-scene video that respects your beat structure.
Compared to “prompt one long shot and hope the model cuts where you want it,” storyboard mode is what AI video has been missing: you decide the cuts, the model produces the scenes.
2. The same canvas hosts the rest of the production
Sora 2 Pro Storyboard is the centerpiece, but the canvas is still everything else. On the same project file:
- •Generate keyframes in FLUX.2, Midjourney v7, Imagen 4, Nano Banana, GPT Image, or Seedream 4
- •Extend a single keyframe into a video shot with Sora 2, Kling 3.0 native 4K, Kling O3, Seedance 2.0 Pro, HappyHorse 1.0, Runway Gen4, Google Veo 3.1, Hailuo 2, Luma Ray 2, or Wan
- •Wire Suno V5 scratch score and ElevenLabs v3 dialog underneath the cut
- •Trim, crop, mask, lipsync, upscale, and frame-extract natively — no exporting to a side tool
A storyboard cell is a node. A final shot is a node. A music bed is a node. They all share connections, references, and the same project history.
3. Multi-shot character consistency through node connections
Single-shot AI tools fall apart the moment you need three shots of the same character. Astoriewas built for sequences. Generate your hero in a FLUX.2 or Nano Banana reference, then connect that node into every downstream board cell — the canvas's node graph passes the upstream image into reference-supporting models like Vidu, Kling, Runway Gen4, and the Sora 2 family.
Update the character node once, every downstream shot regenerates with the new look. Costume change, lighting tweak, lens swap — propagates through the graph instead of getting redone shot by shot.
4. Iteration speed: change the board, the production updates
Change the framing on Scene 4 of your Sora 2 Pro Storyboard — re-run the node. Swap the keyframe model from FLUX.2 to Imagen 4 — every downstream shot picks up the new still. Update the character reference upstream — every connected shot regenerates.
For ad agencies running approval cycles, this is the difference between two days of revision and twenty minutes of node-edit-and-rerun.
5. Export flexibility for every audience
Different stakeholders, different formats — same canvas:
- •MP4 final delivery — Sora 2 Pro Storyboard, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Hailuo 2, Luma Ray 2, Runway Gen4 outputs ready for editorial
- •DaVinci Resolve / Premiere Pro export — for serious post-production
- •Animatic with audio — board cells timed, ElevenLabs v3 voiceover, Suno V5 scratch score, all exported as MP4
- •Per-cell stills — FLUX.2, Midjourney v7, or Imagen 4 keyframes for thumbnails, posters, social
- •Shareable project view — invite the director or client into the live canvas for review
How Astorie compares
| Boords / Storyboard That / FrameForge / Plot | Runway / Pika / Higgsfield / Krea / Flora | Astorie | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storyboard structure | Yes — but static, manual frames | No — single-shot focus | Yes — Sora 2 Pro Storyboard with 10-scene timeline |
| Native multi-scene model | None | None | Sora 2 Pro Storyboard (10 scenes / 25s) |
| AI shot generation | None | Yes — one shot at a time | Yes — across the full board |
| Same canvas for board + production | No (two tools) | No (no boarding) | Yes |
| Character consistency across shots | Manual redrawing | Weak — prompt engineering | Node references flow into reference-supporting models |
| Iteration: change board → update production | Manual | Re-prompt every shot | Re-run downstream nodes |
| Models available | None (drawing only) | 1 in-house model | Sora 2, Sora 2 Pro Storyboard, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 Pro, HappyHorse 1.0, Runway Gen4, Hailuo 2, Luma Ray 2, FLUX.2, Midjourney v7, Imagen 4 |
| Animatic with timing + audio | Limited | None | Native — voiceover (ElevenLabs v3), music (Suno V5), SFX |
| Saved workflow reuse across projects | No | No | Save as Template (we brand them as Recipes) |
Workflows creators actually run on Astorie
“30-second commercial pre-vis in an afternoon”
Drop the script in a text node. GPT-4.1 breaks it into a 6-shot list. Open a Sora 2 Pro Storyboard node, paste the shots into the scene timeline, set total duration to 25s, hit Generate. While that's running, generate keyframes for the hero shots in FLUX.2, then extend the standout frames in Veo 3.1 or Kling 3.0 native 4K for delivery. By 5pm the agency has a live animatic AND production-grade alts of the hero shots.
“Music video pre-vis with character consistency”
Artist photo plus a 3-minute track. Generate a stylized reference with FLUX.2 or Nano Banana. Wire it into a Sora 2 Pro Storyboard node configured to 25s total — that's your chorus pre-vis. Wire the same character reference into Kling 3.0 and Runway Gen4 nodes for the verse shots. Drop a Suno V5 scratch score. Export the animatic. By the time you're shot-listing live-action plates, the AI shots are already cut in.
“Indie short film: script to board to animatic in one weekend”
Friday: 8-page script in. Claude 3.7 Sonnet generates a shot list, FLUX.2 produces keyframes per shot. Saturday: build the act-one beats inside a Sora 2 Pro Storyboard scene timeline, swap to Imagen 4 for night exteriors. Sunday: extend the hero shots — Veo 3.1 for dialog coverage, Kling O3 for action, Hailuo 2 for the dream sequence. Drop ElevenLabs v3 voiceover. Monday morning: send the animatic to your DP. Without Astorie, six-week pre-pro. On the canvas, a weekend.
“Pitch deck animatic for a client meeting tomorrow”
Brief lands at 4pm — pitch is 10am. Open a saved workflow (we call them Recipes — internally they're Templates) with your camera language and color palette pre-loaded. Drop the brief in. Generate 8 keyframes in FLUX.2. Build a 25s Sora 2 Pro Storyboard for the hero sequence; extend the two money shots in Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 native 4K. Drop a temp ElevenLabs v3 VO. Export MP4. The pitch you'd normally fake with stock plates is a real, motion-tested animatic — in three hours.
Save your storyboard workflow once, reuse it forever
Once your boarding setup works — your camera language, your character node, your Sora 2 Pro Storyboard scene-block defaults, your downstream extension models — save it. Astorie calls these saved workflows Templates; we brand them as Recipes because they read like one. Save once: every new project starts pre-loaded with your visual signature. Templates can stay private to your account, or get published so the rest of your team — or the community — can pull them into their own canvas.
A director's signature survives across projects instead of being re-explained to every new collaborator.
Every model behind your boards on one canvas
Sora 2 Pro Storyboard is the centerpiece. Around it sits the rest of the lineup — production video models for hero shots, and stills models for the boards themselves.
Production video models
Stills models for the boards themselves
Frequently asked questions
What is the Sora 2 Pro Storyboard mode and what are the actual limits?
Sora 2 Pro Storyboard is a native model on Astorie. You get up to 10 scenes per generation, with three total-duration tiers — 10 seconds, 15 seconds, or 25 seconds. Each scene has its own prompt and its own duration; the editor lives in the video node and shows the timeline at the top, with click-to-select scene blocks and hover-to-add insertion. You can edit, reorder via the timeline UI, and re-run as many times as you need.
How is Astorie different from Boords, Storyboard That, FrameForge, or Plot?
Those are non-AI tools — you draw or photo-board manually, and boards stay static. Astorie's storyboard cells are live nodes that either generate as a multi-scene Sora 2 Pro Storyboard video, or extend into Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling 3.0 native 4K, or Runway Gen4 at production resolution. Traditional tools end where production starts; Astorie's boards ARE the production.
What about Toon Boom Storyboard Pro for full animation pipelines?
Toon Boom is its own beast — built for traditional and 2D animation pipelines with frame-level drawing tools, layers, and panel-by-panel craft. Astorie doesn't replace that for animators committed to a hand-drawn or rigged 2D workflow. But for AI-driven storyboarding and production — script to boarded scenes to final-resolution shots, all on one canvas — Astorie is the only tool that boards and produces in one place.
How do I keep characters consistent across frames?
Generate the character once with FLUX.2, FLUX Kontext, Nano Banana, or Imagen 4. Wire the reference into every downstream node — most major image-to-video models on Astorie support reference inputs (Sora 2 family, Kling, Vidu, Runway Gen4). Update the character node once, every connected shot regenerates with the new look.
Can I export my storyboard for client review?
Yes. Export the animatic as MP4 with timing and ElevenLabs v3 voiceover for stakeholders who would rather watch than read. Share the canvas project link for live review with your director, DP, or client. Final-cut PDF storyboard export is on the roadmap; for review today, MP4 animatic and the shareable canvas view are the supported formats.
Does each storyboard frame become a real shot?
Two answers, both yes. (1) A Sora 2 Pro Storyboard node generates all 10 scenes as one stitched, production-resolution video — that IS the shot. (2) Any keyframe node (FLUX.2, Imagen 4, Nano Banana) can be wired into a video model node — Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Runway Gen4, Hailuo 2, Luma Ray 2 — and that frame becomes the input for a final-resolution shot.
Can I share boards with my director, DP, or client?
Yes. Share project links for live review. Export MP4 animatic for screenings. Saved workflows (Templates, branded as Recipes) can be shared inside your team so a director's signature carries across every project on the canvas.
Is this for filmmakers or social creators?
Both. Narrative content of any length — commercials, TikToks, music videos, shorts, episodic series. For social-specific workflows, see /ai-video-generator-for-social-media.
Can I make a Pixar-style animated short or a live-action commercial?
Both, on the same canvas. For stylized animation, lean on Hailuo 2, Kling 3.0, or Sora 2 with style refs. For live-action realism, use Veo 3.1, Luma Ray 2, or Runway Gen4. Mix styles inside one project — pick the model per shot, not per project.
Can I import a script and auto-generate a storyboard?
Yes. Drop the script in a text node, use GPT-4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, or Gemini 2.5 Flash to break it into a shot list, then either feed those shots into a Sora 2 Pro Storyboard scene timeline or generate per-shot keyframes with FLUX.2 or Imagen 4. Script-to-board in minutes, board-to-animatic in an afternoon.
Storyboard and produce on the same canvas.
Sora 2 Pro Storyboard is one node away. Free to start, no GPU required.