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Craftin 1.0: A Game-Changer for Storyboard Creation

Craftin Inc., based in Meguro, Tokyo, is proud to announce the launch of its innovative AI service, Craftin 1.0, on June 3, 2026. This new service enables users to generate storyboard images at an unprecedented speed, simply by inputting captions—the so-called “ji-conte”—that describe the scenes. This is particularly valuable in advertising, film production, and content creation for social media, allowing teams to visualize ideas quickly.

What is Craftin 1.0?

Craftin 1.0 is an AI-driven storyboard creation service that converts written scene descriptions into prompts suitable for AI image generation. Users can control critical elements such as character placement, camera angles, and styles while maintaining consistency across scenes. By doing so, the service eliminates the time-consuming nature of traditional storyboard creation without compromising the speed required for early-stage idea development.

The website for the service is accessible at Craftin 1.0.

Reasons Behind the Development

In the realm of video and advertising production, storyboards serve as essential blueprints for sharing ideas with clients and teams. However, creating these storyboards can be a time-intensive process, especially for creators who struggle with drawing. They often need to search for appropriate reference images online, complicating the process further and consuming valuable time.

While the evolution of image-generating AI has significantly sped up the creation of standalone visuals, professional production environments demand more than just images. Consistency in character appearances across different scenes, maintaining the same atmosphere in a world, and the ability to adjust specific elements like character positions, camera angles, and styles are crucial. Only with this level of control can AI-generated images be effectively integrated into storyboard production.

Craftin 1.0 was designed to address these needs.

Key Features of Craftin 1.0

1. Rapid Image Generation: By simply entering scene descriptions, users can swiftly generate storyboard images. The AI converts these descriptions into suitable prompts, eliminating the need for complex prompt creation while significantly enhancing the speed from idea generation to visualization. This speeds up the review processes for initial concepts and client presentations.

2. Character Consistency: It’s vital in visual narratives that characters retain their looks across cuts. Craftin 1.0 maintains character design continuity, allowing changes in expressions and poses while ensuring a seamless flow across multiple scenes.

3. Background Consistency: Maintaining a coherent background is important in video storytelling. Craftin 1.0 generates backgrounds that remain consistent throughout the scenes, preventing disjointed imagery, thus allowing a cohesive executive summary of the project.

4. Detailed Control Over Scene Elements: The service allows users to manipulate various factors such as character positioning, camera angles, and lens types. This enables crucial creative decisions regarding how scenes are framed, thereby affecting the storytelling approach.

5. Style Control to Unite Concept Tone: Whether a rough sketch, photorealistic image, or an anime-style design is needed, the service adjusts the storyboard style according to the project requirements, facilitating a clear communication of themes and tones to the clients or teams from the initial proposal phase.

The Aim of Craftin 1.0

The goal of Craftin 1.0 isn’t just the automation of image generation but to achieve a balance between speed and creative control required in professional environments. It enables advertising agencies, video production companies, creative directors, planners, producers, and social media teams to explore a larger volume of concepts more efficiently and base discussions on tangible visuals.

By visualizing project concepts quickly, it facilitates discussion and better communicates creative intentions that would be harder to convey through words alone. Craftin 1.0 sets the stage for a new workflow in storyboard production during the AI era.

Comments from the CEO

The importance of storyboards in video and advertising planning cannot be overstated; they serve as the design blueprint for sharing ideas. Thus, it’s crucial that storyboard production is not neglected, as many creators invest considerable time in this process. However, this should not overshadow the indispensable time spent on brainstorming and developing ideas. With Craftin 1.0, we aim to enable planners and video directors to produce the ideal storyboard swiftly, allowing maximum time for creative idea development.

Future Expectations

Going forward, we aim to integrate AI agents into storyboard production, establishing a system where professional project proposals and storyboard creation can occur instantaneously through conversational interfaces. By not only speeding up storyboard creation but also enhancing the entire proposal process, we will provide an environment where creators can experiment with more ideas and shape concepts in higher resolution.

Craftin Inc.
CEO Keichi Higuchi
Tokyo, Japan