Video Moodboard — style skill for style references

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A moodboard AI video models follow: lines ranked by what matters most, every line a number, drawn as a board and checked on stills. 450+ links.

What it does

A moodboard for an AI video is a short list of lines a model can obey and a person can check: where the light comes from, which five colours, which lens, which film stock, which font, which camera move. This skill writes it in the order that matters most, taken from a 48-still test on Nano Banana 2.1 and Seedream 5 Pro with two blind judges, 6,086 X posts and 14 official prompt guides: references, light, subject lock, framing, palette, motion, texture, type, sound. Light was the only line that made frames look more like film; an invented hex palette was obeyed best but looked less like film, so hex comes from a reference frame. It writes moodboard.md and a visual board.html (light diagram, swatches, framing guide, motion timeline, type specimen), tests the board on 3 stills, checks each line (palette by ΔE), and stops for approval before any video. references/links.md holds 450+ sources: 72 reference and tool databases with access, price and terms, 50 tools creators name on X, every page of 14 vendor guides, benchmarks, and all 123 cited creator posts.

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/files/4325c578-378d-4c43-ae53-3cc3218df1ea/file_6d1cb6e5cc93.mp4 — From the video-moodboard explainer (HyperFrames, varg branding, 2026-11-03): the same prompt without and with a board (credit: varg, https://github.com/vargHQ/skills/tree/main/video-moodboard)

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