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Filmmaker at a sunset-lit desk reading a screenplay beside three glowing AI reference cards — Character: Elise, Location: The Mariner Hotel, Prop: keys to Room 19/4.

Your script, given a visual language.

Storytella turns every character, location and prop from your screenplay into reference sheets — the visual ground truth that anchors every shot, frame and storyboard that follows.

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scene_0017EXT. ICE PLAIN — DAY

KAI trudges through the powder, snow goggles catching the low sun. His boots punch deep into the crust with every step. Wind erases the tracks behind him.

A black MONOLITH waits at the horizon, impossibly still.

KAI (to himself)

Exactly where she said it would be.

KAI stops ten paces out. The MONOLITH is taller than it looked from the ridge — smooth, seamless, drinking the daylight.

KAI (quiet)

It's warm.

Your breakdown is the ground.

Every character, location and prop your script defines becomes its own reference sheet — grown from the page, locked to one visual language.

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No prompts.
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Consistent sheet.

Your breakdown is the brief. Hit inspire — Storytella renders complete reference sheets for every character, location and prop in the style you chose.

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Character reference sheet — Arctic explorer Kai, front portrait with fur-lined hood and frosted snow goggles.
Character reference sheet — Arctic explorer Kai, full-body front view in heavy expedition parka and snow trousers.
Character reference sheet — Arctic explorer Kai, three-quarter front view with backpack straps and orange trim showing.
Character reference sheet — Arctic explorer Kai, three-quarter side view of the parka and trousers.
Character reference sheet — Arctic explorer Kai, full side profile with backpack visible.
Character reference sheet — Arctic explorer Kai, full back view showing pack and rigging.
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Location reference — roadside motel
Prop reference — cathedral radio
Location reference — atelier studio
Prop reference — Underwood typewriter
Location reference — Mojave highway
Location reference — pink hotel lobby
Character reference — Maya Quinn
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Full creative control.

Drive the generation yourself. Choose your model, write your prompt, drop in a reference, upload your own artwork — go as specific as your creative vision demands.

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Every character, location, prop — locked in.

Reference sheets that travel with the project — into storyboards, animatics and final video. Your characters stay your characters across every scene.

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Storyboard frame — wide aerial of a lone explorer crossing a wind-carved snow plain at golden hour.
Storyboard frame — medium tracking shot of a hooded explorer with a backpack pushing through powder at sunset.
Storyboard frame — medium profile of an explorer in snow goggles and frosted hood against a dark mountain range.
Storyboard frame — extreme close-up profile of an explorer with snow goggles raised and ice clinging to his beard.
Storyboard frame — macro insert of frost-rimmed snow goggles reflecting a distant black monolith.
Storyboard frame — top-down high angle of a single boot pressing into wind-rippled snow.
Storyboard frame — binoculars POV of a black monolith standing alone on a pale glacial basin.
Storyboard frame — low-angle silhouette of an explorer on a snowy ridge backlit by a blinding sun.
Storyboard frame — over-the-shoulder of an explorer in a backpack facing a distant black monolith across the snow.
Storyboard frame — extreme close-up of weathered eyes above a frozen face mask, goggles pushed up on the forehead.
Storyboard frame — wide tracking shot of an explorer walking toward a massive black monolith, footprints trailing behind.
Storyboard frame — silhouette of an explorer dwarfed inside a narrow lit slot in a monolith's wall, golden light spilling across the snow.

Where your project gets its face.

Reference generation sits between script breakdown and storyboard generation. Every reference you build becomes the visual ground truth for every shot downstream — through animatics and into final cut. The look you decide here is the look the film keeps.

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Your story, given a face.

Generate reference sheets for every character, location and prop in your script and lock the look across every frame.

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