storyboard-previsualization

storyboard-previsualization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (5,190 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for turning a script or video brief into a shot-by-shot plan before production or AI generation begins. It can cover framing, camera movement, action, timing, sound, and continuity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning storyboards, animatics, visual previews, camera directions, reference packs, and prompts for films, ads, social videos, animations, and generated-media sequences.
Why use it?
It helps reveal whether a sequence works before time and money are spent making polished footage or images. It also keeps story, camera position, movement, and edits consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Planning storyboards, animatics, visual previews, camera directions, reference packs, and prompts for films, ads, social videos, animations, and generated-media sequences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/storyboard-previsualization
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill storyboard-previsualization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,190 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00074 $0.05190
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02595
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00519

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9625d8f7e77e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

storyboard-previsualization scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/production/creative-direction/storyboard-previsualization/SKILL.md · 316 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Storyboard and previsualization direction

Use this skill when a user needs to plan what a video, film, ad, animation, social cut, product piece, or generated-media sequence should look like before expensive production or generation begins. The deliverable may be text-only shot boards, illustrated boards, an animatic, 3D previs, techvis, or a generation-ready prompt plan.

Do not start by making polished images. Start by proving the sequence works: story beat, geography, framing, action, cut, duration, audio, and continuity.

Evidence classes to keep separate

  • Documented facts: cite or name the source when relying on platform specs, professional tool behavior, review-tool features, or production terminology.
  • Empirical observations: label anything learned from inspecting a reference, prototype, generated output, or test render.
  • Production heuristics: use as judgment aids, not universal laws. Explain why the heuristic fits the current brief.

Volatile facts such as platform aspect ratios, upload lengths, ad specs, model duration limits, generation features, or pricing must be rechecked for the current project. Source examples in this skill were verified on 2026-07-10.

Decide the right previs fidelity

Match the planning artifact to the risk:

  • Beat board: 6-12 key panels to test the story arc, useful for pitches and loose briefs.
  • Shot board: one row per intended shot, useful before image/video generation, live action, animation, or edit assembly.
  • Animatic: timed panels with scratch narration, temp music/SFX, captions, and placeholder motion to test pacing and comprehension.
  • 3D previs: rough spatial scene with camera, blocking, lens/framing, and timing when depth, action choreography, or camera movement matters.
  • Techvis: production-facing diagrams and measurements for camera placement, lens, crane/drone path, VFX plates, LED volume, stunt beats, or set constraints.

Documented fact: Autodesk describes previs as a way to lay out creative vision before production, using storyboards, animatics, shot lists, photos, or 3D previs scenes; it also notes that previs helps plan actor movement, camera placement, set design, lighting, and VFX integration. Toon Boom positions professional storyboarding around thumbnailing, visual storytelling, pitching boards, and timing camera moves in an animatic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 316 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 316 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 9625d8f7e77e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

storyboard-previsualization is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 5,190 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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