Storyboard Development
Building on the experience from last week, I found the process of creating the second environmental storyboard much smoother. Having already developed a workflow for generating images, I was able to achieve results more efficiently.
This time, AI also surprised me. Some of the generated storyboard images exceeded my expectations and captured the atmosphere I had imagined for the project. The lighting, composition, and sense of scale felt cinematic and helped strengthen the emotional tone of the post-apocalyptic journey. This reminded me that AI can sometimes produce unexpected results that inspire new creative ideas rather than simply following instructions.
First Experiments with Video Generation
After completing the storyboard, I began experimenting with AI video generation. I chose Seedance as my primary tool.
For the first test, I provided a storyboard image without characters, the turnaround sheets of the two main characters, and a description of the desired mood and camera movement. Although the video was technically successful, the result was not as strong as I had hoped. The characters lacked consistency, and the overall performance did not fully match the atmosphere of the storyboard.
To improve the result, I provided additional references, including a storyboard image that already contained the characters. This produced a noticeable improvement. The opening shots were much closer to my expectations and successfully captured the visual style and mood of the project.
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Reflection
However, a new problem emerged. While the beginning of the generated videos looked promising, later shots often lost continuity and appeared disconnected from the earlier scenes. The environment, character behaviour, and visual logic sometimes changed unexpectedly.
This experience highlighted an important limitation of current AI video tools. While they can create impressive individual moments, maintaining consistency across a sequence remains challenging. AI appears to be effective at generating short visual ideas, but less capable of understanding the broader narrative relationships between shots.
As a result, I began to see AI not as a complete filmmaking solution, but as a tool that still requires significant human direction to maintain storytelling coherence and visual continuity.