--- title: "Cinematic Prompt Design and ComfyUI Storyboards — AI video generator workflow for cinematic & short films" description: "Camera, lens, lighting and film-preset prompt builder with LLM enhancement, plus per-shot ComfyUI storyboards and a gallery. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command." url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/directors-console updated: 2026-10-31 --- # 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="` 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 `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` installs the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md): `vargai search` and `vargai install ` with no key, every varg model after `vargai login`. Camera, lens, lighting and film-preset prompt builder with LLM enhancement, plus per-shot ComfyUI storyboards and a gallery. - **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Cinematic & short films](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/cinematic.md) - **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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-previz.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-action-montage.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-keyframe-film.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-generate.md): Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI. - [fal Recipes](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-recipes.md): Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on. - [fal Fan Cam](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-fan-cam.md): 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`), then `vargai login` and 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 -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