# Storyboard Creation — guide skill for camera & shots

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Storyboard a video before generating: shot types, angles, moves, the 180-degree rule, annotated panels.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/guides.md) · [Camera & shots](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/camera.md)
- **Slug:** `inference-sh-storyboard-creation`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** inference.sh (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/inference-sh/skills/tree/main/guides/video/storyboard-creation
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** inference.sh account, belt CLI (`belt login`)
- **Cost:** Billed by inference.sh
- **Adoption:** 11 installs, 781 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Film and video storyboarding: shot vocabulary, camera angles and movement, continuity rules including the 180-degree rule, panel layout and annotation format. FLUX draws the panels through inference.sh.

## Use when

- Planning shots before generating video
- A storyboard for a client or team

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill storyboard-creation -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill storyboard-creation -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill storyboard-creation -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill storyboard-creation -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** flux_dev

## More camera & shots skills

- [fal Cinematography](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-cinematography.md): Direct cinematic stills and video: shot language, camera moves, lenses, lighting, grade and film texture.
- [Video Shotcraft](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/video-shotcraft.md): 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.
- [Camera Moves](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-camera-moves.md): 22 camera moves with direction, speed and an end frame — dolly in to bullet time — in six models' syntax.
- [Shot Sizes & Angles](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-shot-sizes-angles.md): 17 framing cards — extreme wide to insert, eye level to worm's-eye — with model-ready clauses.
- [Lens & Optics](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-lens-optics.md): 10 lens and focus cards — compression, anamorphic, rack focus, split diopter — written as visible effects.
- [Composition & Framing](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-composition-framing.md): 9 composition cards — thirds, symmetry, leading lines, negative space, 2.39:1 — for stills and video.