Direct an AI Film From Screenplay to Previs and Final Cut — workflow skill for cinematic & short films
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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.
Open Film Skills: 21 agent modules for screenplay, cast, sets, props, genre looks, storyboard prompts, 3D previs and production.
- Type: Workflow · Cinematic & short films
- Slug:
open-film-skills-screenplay-to-cut - Status: live
- Publisher: 62656456 (community)
- Source: https://github.com/62656456/ai-film-skills
- Works in: Claude Code
What it does
Start from an idea, novel, screenplay or approved shots and hand each stage to its own skill: director-agent writes and diagnoses the screenplay, character/scene/prop skills produce reference prompts with identity and space contracts, eight genre skills set the look, ai-storyboard-director compiles shots into a six-module video master prompt, and produce-ai-video runs generation, selection, edit and sound when tools are available. Experimental packs add bounded 3D whitebox previs; the repo publishes the stills, previs and generated videos it was tested on, such as a chase scene blocked in 3D and then generated. The skills write prompts and plans; you bring the image and video models. Apache-2.0, with Chinese and English guides.
Use when
- write or fix a screenplay before storyboarding
- design character, scene and prop references that stay consistent
- plan blocking, camera, light and cuts into one video master prompt
- apply a genre look such as noir, horror, wuxia or war
- check camera and blocking with a 3D whitebox previs before generating
Install
- Codex:
git clone https://github.com/62656456/ai-film-skills.git && cd ai-film-skills && python scripts/install_skill.py --list && python scripts/install_skill.py director-agent --platform codex - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install open-film-skills-screenplay-to-cut
Example output
https://github.com/62656456/ai-film-skills/raw/main/docs/research/whitebox/chase-comparison/generated-full.mp4 — example (credit: 62656456)
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