DESIGN
The storyboard is where your expertise takes over. AI drafts a complete, scene-by-scene plan — then you direct it: rewrite a line, swap a visual, reorder a chapter, or ask the AI to redo a single scene. When a lecture needs a different kind of beat, drop in any of the thirteen scene types right where it belongs.
The workflow
The AI does the drafting; you do the directing. Here's the path a course takes through the storyboard — the loop where instructor judgment turns an AI draft into something worth watching.
From your source, a complete scene-by-scene plan appears in seconds — phases, scenes, and narration.
The whole course becomes a visual flow of chapters and beats you can see end to end.
Set the component, background, animation, visual and voice — narration and visuals stay in sync.
Add, cut, reorder, or ask the AI to redo any single scene until it teaches the way you would.
Send it to the video editor for music, webcam, overlays and transcript-level audio edits.
Render a polished, accurate MP4 — yours, not generic AI slop.
Add a scene
A lecture is never stuck with one kind of beat. Between any two scenes, drop in a plain component, an image scene, a self-drawing Chalkboard Sketch, a hand-cut Paper Cutout collage, a stickman panel, an X-Ray or PictureMotion scene, a Cinematic clip, an animated-math MathMotion explainer, bespoke MotionCraft motion graphics, a Cutaway screen capture, or a scene reused from another lesson — and AI writes each one to fit the lecture around it.
A standard component scene — add it blank, or describe it and let AI write the narration and pick the template: an animated map for places, a timeline for dates, a document zoom for a quoted source, a chat thread for a conversation, a headline montage, a news desk, a research trail, an annotated photo or a knowledge check.
Already have the material? Paste your text and drop in your screenshots — AI keeps your wording, shows your images, and can split a long paste into several scenes.
Built around a picture — upload your own or describe one for AI to generate; AI writes the scene around it.
A hand-drawn board that draws itself, stroke by stroke, while the narrator speaks — whiteboard, chalkboard, blueprint and more.
A Vox-style paper collage — hand-cut cardboard with torn edges, tape and a bold cut-out headline, slapped down while the narrator speaks.
A full comic panel with your saved stick-figure cast acting the idea out — a moving image, or animated on Pro.
The X-Ray Reels method on one scene: the real thing drawn from reference photos on a cinematic plate — cut open, labelled, changing on its words — every render reviewed.
A realistic picture of the real thing, its later states edits of the same picture, with the explanation animated on it — parts lit and labelled on their words.
Real-world footage with a mood you pick — AI video or stock film resolved automatically. Best for stories, history and business.
A hand-animated math / diagram explainer (MathMotion). Describe what it should teach; the AI director choreographs and renders it — optionally over real footage of the subject.
Bespoke motion graphics authored by AI — describe the animation, or attach an image and AI builds the scene around it. Optionally over real footage of the subject.
Drop in one of your Cutaway screen recordings, or an element-aware guide whose steps are stitched in as narrated scenes.
Pull a finished scene from any other lesson — the rendered animation and imagery come with it, so nothing is generated again.
What it does
Start from a complete AI-arranged storyboard, then change exactly what you want — nothing is locked, nothing is generic.
Every beat has a component, background, animation, visual, and narration — all editable side by side, WYSIWYG.
Between any two beats, drop in an image scene, a hand-drawn Chalkboard Sketch, a Paper Cutout, an X-Ray or PictureMotion scene, a Cinematic video, a MathMotion animation or bespoke MotionCraft motion graphics — AI writes each to fit the surrounding lecture.
Reorder chapters, rewrite narration, or regenerate one scene until it teaches the way you would.
When you add or replace a scene, pick one style for it from its real pictures — a Chain Reveal or Isometric cutaway for an animation, a drawing style for a sketch, a map or a document zoom for a regular scene. The price is the scene type’s own.
Send the finished storyboard to the editor for music, webcam, and overlays before the final render.
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