Story development turns raw ideas into a structured narrative that AI tools can execute. In practice, it links your logline, characters, world, and theme to beat sheets, shot lists, and panel layouts. The goal: a clear blueprint that preserves character consistency, pacing, and visual continuity across generations.

• Premise and logline: one-sentence promise of conflict and outcome.
• Characters: goals, flaws, visual identifiers (hair, palette, props), and reference set.
• Worldbuilding: rules, locations, era, motifs, and mood board.
• Plot structure: beats/sequences with cause-and-effect, stakes, and reveals.
• Theme and tone: the throughline that guides dialogue, lighting, and palette.
• Visual style bible: model/version, style tags, palettes, seeds, lenses, and do/don’t examples.

1. Discovery: collect references, define theme, set constraints (length, rating, style).
2. Outline beats: write a beat sheet (opening → inciting → midpoint → crisis → climax → resolution).
3. Character kit: 3–5 reference poses per character, color keys, naming and token conventions (e.g., LoRA/textual inversion IDs).
4. Style lock: pick base model(s), sampler, CFG, aspect ratios, seed policy, and negative tags; document them.
5. Storyboarding: generate roughs with ControlNet (pose/depth), iterate panel flow and camera grammar.
6. Shot list and panels: specify camera, composition, lighting, emotion, and continuity notes per panel.
7. Iteration loop: script → boards → test renders → inpaint/fix → final; track changes in a versioned doc.
8. Assembly and QA: check reading order, balloon placement, color continuity; export in target specs.

• Logline prompt: “A [protagonist] must [goal] before [stakes], but [obstacle], in a [tone] [genre].”
• Beat prompt: “Beat [#]: [location], [time]. [Character] wants [X], faces [Y], turning point: [Z]. Mood: [tone].”
• Shot/panel prompt formula: “[Character tokens], [distinct action], [camera/ lens], [composition], [lighting], [emotion], [environment], [style tags], color palette [X], seed [N].”
• Dialogue prompt: “In-character dialogue for [beat]: voice traits [A], subtext [B], max [N] words, avoid [list].”
• Continuity cue: “Match [character token], keep [prop/palette], maintain [seed], angle matches previous shot ±[variation].”

• Character consistency: lock tokens/LoRA, keep 2–3 hero reference frames, reuse seeds for close shots.
• Pose and framing: ControlNet (OpenPose/Depth/Lineart) to replicate body language and camera height.
• Palette control: define primary/secondary colors per character; use LUTs or consistent color tags.
• Style stability: fix model/sampler/CFG; document negative tags (e.g., extra fingers, melting textures).
• Prop and set continuity: maintain prop IDs; inpaint for small corrections rather than full re-renders.
• Layout flow: respect reading direction, panel rhythm (beat strength ↔ panel size), and gutter consistency.

• Off-model faces: strengthen character token, raise weight, add face ref, reuse seed, or inpaint eyes/mouth.
• Drift in costumes/props: add exact descriptors, checklist props per scene, and lock palette.
• Timeline gaps: rewrite transitions; add bridge beats or establishing shots.
• Repetitive shots: vary camera height, lens length, and staging (foreground blocks, silhouettes).
• Wordy panels: cut to one idea per balloon; move exposition to captions or a setup panel.

• Each beat has clear goal, conflict, and turn.
• Character visuals match their kit across scenes.
• Seeds and palettes documented and reused where needed.
• Reading order and panel emphasis match story intensity.
• Balloons legible; no tangents with art; tails point correctly.
• No unresolved props or costume changes between adjacent shots.
• Exports match platform specs (size, color profile, margins).

• Logline: Who + Goal + Stakes + Obstacle + Tone.
• Character sheet: token/LoRA, 3 refs (neutral, action, close-up), palette, props, do/don’t list.
• Beat sheet: 12–18 beats with location/time, conflict, turn, image ideas.
• Shot list: panel ID, camera, action, emotion, continuity notes, seed, ControlNet refs.
• Style bible: model/sampler/CFG, negative tags, lenses, palettes, texture cues, framing rules.

• Writing and beats: any LLM or outliner for structure and dialogue passes.
• Reference capture: mood boards and shot libraries.
• Image generation: diffusion model(s) with ControlNet/IP-Adapter; inpaint/outpaint for fixes.
• Consistency aids: LoRA/textual inversion, face/pose refs, seed management.
• Layout: storyboard/panel editors; vector tools for balloons and SFX.
• Version control: track seeds, prompts, and exports alongside scripts.