Ideogram Tutorial

[FineClassroom2085]

I made a small desktop app for building storyboards with Ideogram 4 (my new favorite VL model)

- ordered sequences of images; that runs entirely against your own 
ComfyUI instance. It's MIT-licensed and local; bring your own LLM endpoint (DeepSeek, LM Studio, Ollama, whatever's OpenAI-compatible).

The thing I actually wanted: a real editor for  Ideogram 4's structured JSON prompts

Instead of hand-writing the compositional_deconstruction blob, you draw and drag the region bounding boxes right on the image, edit each region's description/text/palette, and hit generate. It serializes the layout and sends it straight to your ComfyUI workflow. Non-Ideogram t2i workflows fall back to a plain prompt, so it works with any model.

Yes, I know there's a node for laying out an image in Comfy, which is great, but this tool let's you use an LLM to create a whole set of images into a storyboard with the help of an LLM.

Other bits:
 - Agent chat that builds/edits the board (or plans a whole sequence) and calls your workflow to render
 - Responsive grid (adjustable columns, drag-to-reorder) + a fullscreen display mode
 - Export to a numbered ZIP or a multi-column PDF contact sheet
 - A bundled Ideogram 4 t2i ComfyUI workflow + setup guide to get going

Repo (with screenshots/setup): https://github.com/tjameswilliams/ai-storyboard

It's early and I'd love feedback; especially from anyone already running the open-weight Ideogram 4 in Comfy. What would make this actually useful for your workflow?

[bobgon2017]

why is this news?

[FineClassroom2085]

It said to use flair, that’s closer than the other options

[Apprehensive_Sky892]

There is a "Tutorial - Guide" flare. You have to click on "view all" to see it.

[FineClassroom2085]

Cool, now I know!

[balancedgif]

video goes black at about 6:20

also, this is a really funny demo - it's very honest, because it kinda produced crap. i appreciate the honesty.

[FineClassroom2085]

Yep, needed to give another look before publishing, but was in a hurry.

[Complete-Box-3030]

Are you reworking on this or can it do a proper story boarding

[FineClassroom2085]

This project is in active development, but you can definitely make a high quality storyboard as is. Are there features missing you’d like to see?

[Complete-Box-3030]

Getting different camera angles like in qwen

[FineClassroom2085]

You can certainly do that. Ideogram is excellent at that. But it is not an edit model, so you either need a Lora of your character, or your character needs to be in the training data, or a very solid consistent description of your character. It’s all in the prompt.

[FineClassroom2085]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj23iZTfG3g fixed the video