IdeaRail
AI-powered storyboard generation for filmmakers — upload a script, get storyboard panels, or go all the way to a finished film.
The Challenge
Storyboarding a script before a shoot is slow and expensive — it usually means hiring a dedicated storyboard artist or skipping the step entirely and figuring shots out on set.
Script In, Film Out
IdeaRail's premise is simple: a filmmaker shouldn't need a storyboard artist on retainer just to previsualise a scene. Upload a script, get panels back.
Async by Design
Generating storyboard panels — and eventually animation — is heavy, unpredictable work. Rather than making a request wait on that, jobs are queued through Celery and processed by dedicated workers, with the Next.js frontend polling for completion instead of holding a connection open.
Separating Data From Media
Generated images and video live in MinIO-backed object storage, kept separate from the PostgreSQL database that tracks projects, scripts, and job state — keeping the database lean regardless of how much media a project generates.
Our Solution
IdeaRail turns a screenplay into AI-generated storyboards, animation, and finished films — from short ad spots to features — so a script can be visualised long before a camera rolls.
Tech Stack
Results
- Full script-to-storyboard pipeline live at idearail.io
- Scales from short ad spots to feature-length scripts
- Long-running generation jobs run async on a Celery worker queue, so the UI never blocks
- Generated media served from dedicated object storage (MinIO), separate from the application database