How Story Mode turns a written story into panels

Story Mode is the front door of KoalaStudio. You give it prose. It returns screens and shots: a title, dialogue, and an image prompt for each beat. The pictures are a later step, which is the point. You get to reject a bad beat before it costs an image.

What to paste

The story field accepts 20 to 8,000 characters. A scene, a chapter excerpt, or a rough outline all work. A logline usually does not. The model can only stage what you actually wrote.

• Name the characters the first time they appear, and once more when their look matters.
• Say where the scene is. “A room” becomes a random room.
• Write the turn in the scene: what changes between the first line and the last.
• Keep dialogue short. The shot editor has its own dialogue field.

Screens are pages, shots are panels

The screen count is how many pages the board should cover, not how many jokes are in the story. Each screen holds a small layout: a single panel, two or three panels, a wide top or bottom, or a 2×2 grid. Shots that do not fit the layout stay in the list so you can move them.

Read the board before you render

1. Check that the shots follow the story in order.
2. Edit any image prompt that dropped a character or invented a location.
3. Move dialogue out of the prompt and into the dialogue field.
4. Generate images only for the shots you accept.

When the board is saved, it shows up under your storyboards. You can leave and come back without pasting the story again.