[ancientworldnow]

That sounds actively harmful. Often we want story boards to be less specific so as not to have some non artist decision maker ask why it doesn't look like the storyboard.

And when we want it to match exactly in an animatic or whatever, it needs to be far more precise than this, matching real locations etc.

[gregmac]

I hadn't thought about that in movie context before, but it totally makes sense.

I've worked with other developers that want to build high fidelity wire frames, sometimes in the actual UI framework, probably because they can (and it's "easy"). I always push back against that, in favor of using whiteboard or Sharpies. The low-fidelity brings better feedback and discussion: focused on layout and flow, not spacing and colors. Psychologically it also feels temporary, giving permission for others to suggest a completely different approach without thinking they're tossing out more than a few minutes of work.

I think in the artistic context it extends further, too: if you show something too detailed it can anchor it in people's minds and stifle their creativity. Most people experience this in an ironically similar way: consider how you picture the characters of a book differently depending on if you watched the movie first or not.

[sbarre]

I know you weren't implying this, but not every storyboard is for sharing with (or seeking approval from) decision makers.

I could see this being really useful for exploring tone, movement, shot sequences or cut timing, etc..

Right now you scrape together "kinda close enough" stock footage for this kind of exploration, and this could get you "much closer enough" footage..

[shermantanktop]

I think of it in terms of the anchoring bias. Imagine that your most important decisions are anchored for you by what a 10 year old kid heard and understood. Your ideas don’t come to life without first being rendered as a terrible approximation that is convincing to others but deeply wrong to you, and now you get to react to that instead of going through your own method.

So if it’s an optional tool, great, but some people would be fine with it, some would not.

[cpill]

I guess this will give birth to a new kind of film making. Start with a rough sketch, generate 100 higher quality versions with an image generator, select one to tweak, use that as input to a video generator which generates 10 versions, coffee one to refine etc