Every surface, every rule, every artifact Studio produces.
A complete reference. Studio sits upstream of animators, voice talent, live-action crews, AI tools — taking source knowledge in and producing approved, handoff-ready scripts and storyboards with a full decision trail. Target cycle: 5–7 days from source to approved storyboard.
Seven stages. Two human gates.
Research, outline, validation, and storyboard generation run automatically end-to-end. The only places work waits are the two human reviews — and validation has already self-corrected up to three times before either one.
Research
Source material is ingested and grounded. Studio pulls from curriculum, manuals, standards, prior approved scripts, and (optionally) Wikipedia REST for fact-check anchors.
Outline
A structured outline draft against your audience, tone, and pedagogy: anchor facts (6–10), key takeaways, big idea, opening, keyframes with narration and visual direction, closing, total runtime, total narrator words.
Validation
Claude runs the outline against ~14 rules: learning design, accuracy and source grounding, audience and tone fit, compliance, and production readiness — 18 checks in all. Self-corrects up to 3 times before reaching a human.
Outline review
Editor approves, sends back with structured comments, or requests changes. Send-backs inject directly into the next regeneration as explicit corrections.
Storyboard
Each approved keyframe expands into 2–4 shots (4–10s each) with prose visual descriptions, voiceover, SFX, duration. Format-specific guidance shifts visualDescription per shot.
Storyboard review
Second human gate. Approve or send back. Comments are version-tracked and tied to a specific shot or keyframe.
Complete
Versioned export to your production team — animation, live-action, screencast, AI — or routed to a Studio producer for final video.
Configure once at the top. Override anywhere below.
Project setup captures the rules everything downstream inherits. Batches can override tone, visual style, and world logic without touching the rest. Items can override anything for a single video.null means inherit; the UI badges any divergence.
Brand defaults — audience, tone, style, formats, structures, compliance
Per-release overrides — tone / visual / world logic, batch-scoped exemplars
Per-video overrides — any axis, learning objective, must-include / must-avoid
- axAudience profile
Free text + comprehension level (Very Simple → Sophisticated)
- axVoice / tone
10 presets + custom
- axmulti-selectVisual style
7 presets: Clean Flat 2D, Illustrated 2D, 2D/3D characters, Whiteboard, Kinetic Typography, Photorealistic 3D + custom
- axDuration range
Min:sec → max:sec
- axmulti-selectSetting / world logic
6 modes: Stylized real-world → Abstract concept → Historical period
- axmulti-selectProduction format
6 modes: Animated explainer, Talking head, Animation+presenter, Live action, Tutorial screencast, Motion graphics
- axmulti-selectStory structures
10 narrative modes: Definition→Mechanism→Example, Problem→Consequence→Fix, Tradeoff, Analogy, Character journey, and more
- axContent rules · compliance
Free text — language must-haves, must-avoids, regulator-specific phrasing
Three generators. All grounded in your context.
Outline, validation, and storyboard each call Claude Sonnet 4 with project context, item pedagogy, and exemplars from the knowledge library. Retry + backoff on failure. Structured JSON in, structured JSON out.
Outline
Project context (audience, tone, style, duration, compliance), item pedagogy, research summary, exemplars
- Anchor facts (6–10 grounded truths)
- Big idea, key takeaways, key points
- Opening (proportionate)
- Keyframes with narration · duration · visual notes
- Closing, production notes, total runtime
Validation
The generated outline + the resolved rule set + the reference library
- Pass / fail per rule
- Flags list with specific quotes
- Changelog if revised
- Revised outline (if self-correcting)
Storyboard
The approved outline + project visual style + production format
- 2–4 shots per keyframe
- 4–10s each
- Prose visualDescription (format-aware)
- Voiceover · SFX · duration
Fourteen checks. Up to three passes. Then a human.
Every outline is graded against this rule set before it reaches an editor. If a check fails, Studio attempts to fix it and re-validates — up to three times. Failures that survive all three are surfaced explicitly with quoted excerpts.
The same outline. Six different shot-list dialects.
Production format is a setup axis. It changes how Studio writes the visual description for every shot — so an animator gets motion notes, a live-action crew gets location notes, a screencast editor gets UI labels, all from the same approved keyframes.
Six typed entry kinds. Every draft draws on them.
Per-project repository for reference material with typed entries. Project-level and batch-level exemplars get loaded and formatted into the AI prompts at outline and storyboard time — approved work compounds into future drafts.
exemplarApproved scripts and storyboards — the reference work future drafts emulate
brand-voiceVoice notes, do/don't language, sample phrasings
formatting-ruleDocument structure, heading style, keyframe numbering
lexiconApproved terminology, alternate phrasings, deprecated terms
complianceRegulator-specific language, must-haves, must-avoids
source-materialCurriculum, manuals, standards docs, prior approved work
Approve. Send back. Comment. Every decision is captured.
Comments are structured — { note, action, stage, versionAtCreation, addressedInVersion } — and a send-back gets injected directly into the next regeneration as explicit corrections. Versions, authors, and timing are part of the record. Compliance audits become a one-click export.
Per-version diffs
Side-by-side compare of script and storyboard across any two versions.
Role-scoped sign-off
Writer, editor, SME, legal — each role's approval is logged separately.
Exportable approval record
Full decision trail per video, ready for compliance or audit.
Track the numbers that actually move the program.
Per-batch and per-project rollups · status breakdown (Awaiting review / Generating / Approved / Sent back) on every level.
Built on tools your team already uses.
Alpha outlines, beta assessments, and final storyboards live in your Drive folder. Linked from every item page.
Outline, validation, and storyboard generation via the Anthropic SDK with retry + backoff.
Optional research grounding for fact-check anchors at the research stage.
Projects, batches, items, exemplars, comments — typed schemas, versioned, exportable.
See it on your own brief.
A short call is the fastest way to know if Studio fits. Bring a real episode, a brand kit, or the backlog you wish you had shipped last quarter.