Cinematic Prompt Design and ComfyUI Storyboards — workflow skill for cinematic & short films
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal:curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | shinstalls the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md):vargai searchandvargai install <slug>with no key, every varg model aftervargai login.
Camera, lens, lighting and film-preset prompt builder with LLM enhancement, plus per-shot ComfyUI storyboards and a gallery.
- Type: Workflow · Cinematic & short films
- Slug:
directors-console - Status: live
- Publisher: NickPittas (community)
- Source: https://github.com/NickPittas/DirectorsConsole
- Works in: Claude Code
What it does
Director's Console has three tabs: Cinema Prompt Engineering builds live-action or animation prompts from grounded camera, lens, lighting, movement and style fields or film presets and can enhance them with an LLM that sees attached images; Storyboard sends per-shot parameters through your ComfyUI workflows to one or more render nodes; Gallery organizes, rates and compares the results. Prompt authoring works without a GPU; rendering needs a running ComfyUI with the workflow's models. Python 3.11+ and Node 22+; MIT.
Use when
- Build a shot prompt from camera, lens, lighting and movement choices
- Start a look from a film preset
- Enhance a prompt from a reference image with a vision LLM
- Render a storyboard shot by shot through ComfyUI workflows
- Keep generated takes, versions and notes per shot
Install
- local:
git clone https://github.com/NickPittas/DirectorsConsole.git && cd DirectorsConsole && python start.py --setup && python start.py - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install directors-console
More cinematic & short films skills
- Previz to Seedance: Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- Turn key frames into a 30-second action montage with Kling 4: Breakdance, BMX, skate or chase montages: 3-4 stills, a one-line prompt with the moves and "no slow motion", the crash or line as the last still.
- Make a short film or music video with Kling 4: Beats, cast and look, every key shot as a GPT Image 2.5 still, one 30-second Kling 4 take per beat, then cut the best seconds like live action.
- Higgsfield Generate: Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI.
- fal Recipes: Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- fal Fan Cam: Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Any agent with a terminal:
curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh(Windows:irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex), thenvargai loginand every model is a command —vargai generate_video …,vargai estimate_cost …(https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt