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Layout Storyboard

Layout Storyboard describes a subject or story moment once, and builds an entire contact-sheet layout in a single LLM call — a 2×2 (4 panels), 2×3 (6 panels) or 3×3 (9 panels) grid, in one of five dedicated visual languages: cinematic photography, manga panels, graphic novel, concept art, or anime keyframes. Each visual style has its own fully separate system prompt with its own typography, shading and rendering rules — this isn't one prompt with a style keyword swapped in.

The shared design discipline across all five styles: every panel must be a genuinely different story beat (WORLD/establishing, ARRIVAL, SEARCH, CONFRONTATION, REACTION close-up, DETAIL macro, ACTION, ESCAPE, AFTERMATH) — not just the same moment reframed. A contrast rule requires adjacent panels to differ in at least 3 of: subject size in frame, depth of field, camera height, story-beat type, and lighting emphasis. Every grid is required to include at least one pure establishing shot, one reaction close-up, and one detail macro.

Guided walkthrough

1. Step type: Workflow picker

   Choose engine

   Pick the imported engine, or auto-selected if you only have one.

2. Step type: Prompt input

   Subject or story

   The shared world and subject every panel will draw from — e.g. a weathered detective in a rain-soaked Tokyo alley at night.

3. Step type: LLM transform — llm.ideogram_storyboard

   Generate storyboard

   Builds the full grid layout in one call, following the shared story-beat and contrast rules described above, rendered in the chosen visual style.

   • Grid — 2×2 / 2×3 / 3×3, default 2×3 (6 panels).
   • Visual style — cinematic photography, manga panels, graphic novel, concept art, or anime keyframes; default cinematic photography.
4. Step type: Parameter group

   Format

   Seed, steps, CFG, image count.

5. Step type: Ideogram composer

   Composition

   Review the full grid and each panel's placement before generating.

6. Step type: Action — generation.submit_queue

   Generate Image

   Sends the composed grid layout to the queue as a single image.

7. Step type: Result view

   Result

   Save, Upscale, Send to Refine, Regenerate.

Examples