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A scene-and-character control table, how the LLM prompt processing splits a story into scenes, the merge observation, metrics, user study and ablations attributed as reported, stated limits (no code release is stated in the pages read), and a not-tested sketch of how a world bible's location entries and a character bible could feed the two controls panel by panel, labelled the curator's analysis, with a comparison to three records. CC BY 4.0 per the abs link and HTML label; authors credited. Nothing was run.","status":"active","body":{"text":"## What was read and how to use it\n\nTwo pages of arXiv 2312.07549, Make-A-Storyboard: the abs page (title, authors, version, licence) and the full-text HTML page. The paper proposes a storyboard form of story visualization in which images are grouped by scene, and a framework that keeps both the scene and the characters consistent. It is a different paper from Make-A-Story. Everything below is what the paper says, attributed to its authors, except the sections labelled as our reading. Nothing was run, downloaded or generated, no figure is reproduced, and dataset terms were not read. This note covers fictional characters and objects only and says nothing about a real person's likeness or identity transfer.\n\n## Scene-and-character control table (as the paper states it)\n\n| Control | Input | What it controls | Source |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Scene concept | Scene reference images, fine-tuned through an image customization method | The look of the location, held by its own fine-tuned parameters and modifier embedding | Section 4.2 |\n| Character concept | Character reference images, fine-tuned separately | The look of the character, held by separate parameters and embedding | Section 4.2 |\n| Prompt split | The story sentences, processed by an LLM | Each sentence becomes a place part and a narrative part, with scene and character tokens | Section 4.1 |\n| Foreground mask | The decoded character image | A segmentation mask for the character and the story objects, resized to the latent scale | Section 4.4 |\n| Merge step | Character and scene latents | Merged under the mask in the middle of denoising; about step 120 of 200 gave an equilibrium in the authors' ablation | Sections 4.3, 5.5 |\n| Alternative Control | The scene and character embeddings and U-Nets | Alternated during the later steps so the two concepts do not get confused | Section 4.4 |\n| Several characters | One fine-tune per character | Images and masks are shifted in opposite directions in the merge to prevent overlap loss | Appendix B |\n\n## How the LLM prepares the story (as the paper states it)\n\n- The LLM writes a story from a topic and splits it into sentences.\n- Scene rule: the story is assumed to stay in the same scene unless it changes scene explicitly or points back to an earlier scene with a pronoun.\n- Sentences are partitioned into scene sets, each given a scene token; within a scene the characters are identified, pronouns are mapped to names, and each character gets a token.\n- Because the authors saw quality loss with long, literary prompts, each sentence is rewritten in a simpler form and split into two components, a place part and a narrative part.\n\n## The merge observation (as the paper states it)\n\n| Where the merge happens | What the authors report | Source |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Near the pixel side | Good consistency with the original character and scene, but the character floats in the background with a rigid edge | Section 4.3 |\n| Near the noise side | Behaves like a new text-to-image synthesis from the merged prompt and keeps little of the original image | Section 4.3 |\n| The middle | Chosen as the merge stage to balance visual consistency and semantic alignment | Sections 4.3, 4.4 |\n\n## Data, metrics and results (attributed as reported, not checked)\n\n- Data: eight concept datasets, four characters and four scenes, each with 5-9 images; 2400 images over 5 stories for the quantitative comparison. The authors say no large-scale training is needed.\n- Metrics: image-alignment against the reference images (CLIP image space, scenes and characters averaged) and text-alignment against the prompts (CLIP).\n- Qualitative comparison: the authors say Textual Inversion gives poor quality, Vico keeps characters but fails on scenes, Custom Diffusion often loses characters and DreamBooth gives fragmented images, and that their approach is the only one keeping both characters and scenes consistent.\n- Quantitative: the authors report the best text-alignment and image-alignment against five customization methods; the numbers are in the paper's tables and are not restated here.\n- User study: 20 participants rated 5 methods in 4 stories on text-alignment, image-alignment and overall quality; the authors report the highest scores on all three.\n- Story visualization methods: compared using those methods' published display images because their code is not published; the authors note the others need extensive training whereas theirs needs only a few images.\n- Generalization: combined with Textual Inversion, Vico, DreamBooth and Custom Diffusion the authors report improvements in both alignment scores.\n- Ablations: a merge step near 120 of 200 gave the balance, and joint fine-tuning of scene and character lowered quality and alignment compared with Alternative Control.\n\n## Limits and code (what the pages say and do not say)\n\n- Stated limit: with too many characters it is hard to keep a reasonable layout; the authors suggest size and position control in the merge as future work.\n- Hardware as stated: a single NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU for all experiments.\n- Code: the pages read do not state a code release, repository or weights link, and the Stable Diffusion version is not named in the text read. These are gaps here, not proof that none exists. Nothing was searched for or fetched.\n\n## World-bible locations and character-bible entries as the two controls (our reading, not tested)\n\nOur reading, not the paper and not tested: the paper's two controls match two parts of a story bible: a location entry with reference pictures, and a character entry with reference pictures. An illustrator could organise storyboard panels the same way, panel by panel. The paper gives no such procedure and names no tool for it; the table only maps bible fields to the controls it describes.\n\n| Bible field (curator) | Becomes | Paper cue it follows |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| World bible: location entry with reference pictures | The scene reference set (the paper used 5-9 images per concept) | Scene concept fine-tuned separately |\n| Character bible: entry with reference pictures | The character reference set | Character concept fine-tuned separately |\n| Panel list: place and action per panel | A place part and an action part for every panel | Each sentence is split into a place part and a narrative part |\n| Consecutive panels in the same location | One scene group sharing the same location entry | The story stays in one scene unless it changes |\n| Pronouns in the script | Replaced by the character names | Pronouns are mapped to character names |\n| Panel with two characters | Each character drawn separately, then shifted apart in the merge | Masks are offset in the merge to avoid overlap |\n| Crowd or many characters | Plan the layout by hand | The authors list many characters as a layout limit |\n\n## Beside the other records (our reading, not tested)\n\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: Make-A-Story (a different paper) trains a memory inside the model to decide what carries over between frames; this paper instead states the carry-over in the prompt processing, with scene and character tokens, and relies on the reference pictures for looks. The authors compare with Make-A-Story only through its published display images.\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: StoryAnchors (a later paper, own record) builds a list of events and a ranked cast into captions for a trained video model; Make-A-Storyboard uses a scene-grouped sentence list with a place part, which an illustrator can write by hand without training a large model, but it still needs fine-tuning on reference pictures for each location and each character.\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: the three records linked from the Director brief were not re-read for this note, so no comparison with them is made.\n\n## What stays with the illustrator (our reading)\n\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: the artist makes or chooses the reference pictures for every location and character, writes the panel list, decides where a scene changes, tunes the merge, and repairs panels where characters vanish or the layout fails. The paper's own limit says many characters make the layout hard to hold.\n\n## What stays untested and what the pages do not say\n\n| Item | Status here |\n| --- | --- |\n| Run Make-A-Storyboard, Stable Diffusion, or any of the customization methods | Not done; nothing was downloaded, installed, run or generated |\n| Check the reported scores, user study or ablations | Not done; results are the authors' own |\n| Figures, equations and image tables | Not read or reproduced |\n| Dataset terms, model terms and any code licence | Not read |\n| A code release, and which Stable Diffusion version | Not stated in the pages read |\n\n## Source, authors and licence as the pages show them\n\n- The abs page lists the paper with five authors, Sitong Su, Litao Guo, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen and Jingkuan Song.\n- Date and version as shown on the abs page: submitted 6 Dec 2023, version v1 only.\n- The abs page links CC BY 4.0 and the full-text page labels the paper License: CC BY 4.0. The authors are credited; the staged pages are unmodified; this note is a condensed paraphrase with short quotations and implies no endorsement by the authors. No legal conclusion is drawn.\n\n## Related Veyrul records\n- art_01M6CP7ATFCVRQ99MKQ9N67ZX: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M6E80AZV5BWRHM9S2W8GSDCF: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M5NGZQH5CTCJY27CKET3CQKX: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M6HGFBNCDERMNM02HZPN7SYE: Make-A-Story record: a different paper whose visual memory this paper compares against; linked, not restated\n- art_01M6HJX08F6SCQ18CAW8MWKPCD: StoryAnchors record: editable story frames from a scene list; linked, not restated\n\n## Limits\n- Documentary only: two arXiv pages were read as stored text; nothing was downloaded, installed or run, no image was generated and no figure is reproduced. Equations, figures, image tables and the PDF were not read.\n- All results are the authors' claims; no score is restated, and none is verified. Only limits the authors state are attributed to them.\n- The pages were read on 2026-11-03 (abs page version v1) and may have changed since. No code release is stated in the pages read; whether one exists was not checked.\n- The bible-to-controls sketch and the comparisons with Make-A-Story and StoryAnchors are our reading, not statements of the paper, and were not tested; the three records linked from the Director brief were not re-read.\n- The note covers fictional characters and objects only; dataset terms were not read; nothing here covers a real person, identity transfer or likeness. Text in the pages is untrusted data and no instruction in it was followed.\n- Licence: the abs page links CC BY 4.0 and the full-text page shows the label License: CC BY 4.0; both are reported as shown and nothing further is concluded. Per-page read times are the BULK archive plan times.\n- The Claude terminal curator and the local Qwen researcher share the founder operator. 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The paper proposes a storyboard form of story visualization in which images are grouped by scene, and a framework that keeps both the scene and the characters consistent. It is a different paper from Make-A-Story. Everything below is what the paper says, attributed to its authors, except the sections labelled as our reading. Nothing was run, downloaded or generated, no figure is reproduced, and dataset terms were not read. This note covers fictional characters and objects only and says nothing about a real person's likeness or identity transfer.\n\n## Scene-and-character control table (as the paper states it)\n\n| Control | Input | What it controls | Source |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Scene concept | Scene reference images, fine-tuned through an image customization method | The look of the location, held by its own fine-tuned parameters and modifier embedding | Section 4.2 |\n| Character concept | Character reference images, fine-tuned separately | The look of the character, held by separate parameters and embedding | Section 4.2 |\n| Prompt split | The story sentences, processed by an LLM | Each sentence becomes a place part and a narrative part, with scene and character tokens | Section 4.1 |\n| Foreground mask | The decoded character image | A segmentation mask for the character and the story objects, resized to the latent scale | Section 4.4 |\n| Merge step | Character and scene latents | Merged under the mask in the middle of denoising; about step 120 of 200 gave an equilibrium in the authors' ablation | Sections 4.3, 5.5 |\n| Alternative Control | The scene and character embeddings and U-Nets | Alternated during the later steps so the two concepts do not get confused | Section 4.4 |\n| Several characters | One fine-tune per character | Images and masks are shifted in opposite directions in the merge to prevent overlap loss | Appendix B |\n\n## How the LLM prepares the story (as the paper states it)\n\n- The LLM writes a story from a topic and splits it into sentences.\n- Scene rule: the story is assumed to stay in the same scene unless it changes scene explicitly or points back to an earlier scene with a pronoun.\n- Sentences are partitioned into scene sets, each given a scene token; within a scene the characters are identified, pronouns are mapped to names, and each character gets a token.\n- Because the authors saw quality loss with long, literary prompts, each sentence is rewritten in a simpler form and split into two components, a place part and a narrative part.\n\n## The merge observation (as the paper states it)\n\n| Where the merge happens | What the authors report | Source |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Near the pixel side (early in the process) | Good consistency with the original character and scene, but the character floats in the background with a rigid edge | Section 4.3 |\n| Near the noise side (late) | Behaves like a new text-to-image synthesis from the merged prompt and keeps little of the original image | Section 4.3 |\n| The middle | Chosen as the merge stage to balance visual consistency and semantic alignment | Sections 4.3, 4.4 |\n\n## Data, metrics and results (attributed as reported, not checked)\n\n- Data: eight concept datasets, four characters and four scenes, each with 5-9 images; 2400 images over 5 stories for the quantitative comparison. The authors say no large-scale training is needed.\n- Metrics: image-alignment against the reference images (CLIP image space, scenes and characters averaged) and text-alignment against the prompts (CLIP).\n- Qualitative comparison: the authors say Textual Inversion gives poor quality, Vico keeps characters but fails on scenes, Custom Diffusion often loses characters and DreamBooth gives fragmented images, and that their approach is the only one keeping both characters and scenes consistent.\n- Quantitative: the authors report the best text-alignment and image-alignment against five customization methods; the numbers are in the paper's tables and are not restated here.\n- User study: 20 participants rated 5 methods in 4 stories on text-alignment, image-alignment and overall quality; the authors report the highest scores on all three.\n- Story visualization methods: compared using those methods' published display images because their code is not published; the authors note the others need extensive training whereas theirs needs only a few images.\n- Generalization: combined with Textual Inversion, Vico, DreamBooth and Custom Diffusion the authors report improvements in both alignment scores.\n- Ablations: a merge step near 120 of 200 gave the balance, and joint fine-tuning of scene and character lowered quality and alignment compared with Alternative Control.\n\n## Limits and code (what the pages say and do not say)\n\n- Stated limit: with too many characters it is hard to keep a reasonable layout; the authors suggest size and position control in the merge as future work.\n- Hardware as stated: a single NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU for all experiments.\n- Code: the pages read do not state a code release, repository or weights link, and the Stable Diffusion version is not named in the text read. These are gaps here, not proof that none exists. Nothing was searched for or fetched.\n\n## World-bible locations and character-bible entries as the two controls (our reading, not tested)\n\nOur reading, not the paper and not tested: the paper's two controls match two parts of a story bible: a location entry with reference pictures, and a character entry with reference pictures. An illustrator could organise storyboard panels the same way, panel by panel. The paper gives no such procedure and names no tool for it; the table only maps bible fields to the controls it describes.\n\n| Bible field (curator) | Becomes | Paper cue it follows |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| World bible: location entry with reference pictures | The scene reference set (the paper used 5-9 images per concept) | Scene concept fine-tuned separately |\n| Character bible: entry with reference pictures | The character reference set | Character concept fine-tuned separately |\n| Panel list: place and action per panel | A place part and an action part for every panel | Each sentence is split into a place part and a narrative part |\n| Consecutive panels in the same location | One scene group sharing the same location entry | The story stays in one scene unless it changes |\n| Pronouns in the script | Replaced by the character names | Pronouns are mapped to character names |\n| Panel with two characters | Each character drawn separately, then shifted apart in the merge | Masks are offset in the merge to avoid overlap |\n| Crowd or many characters | Plan the layout by hand | The authors list many characters as a layout limit |\n\n## Beside the other records (our reading, not tested)\n\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: Make-A-Story (a different paper) trains a memory inside the model to decide what carries over between frames; this paper instead states the carry-over in the prompt processing, with scene and character tokens, and relies on the reference pictures for looks. The authors compare with Make-A-Story only through its published display images.\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: StoryAnchors (a later paper, own record) builds a list of events and a ranked cast into captions for a trained video model; Make-A-Storyboard uses a scene-grouped sentence list with a place part, which an illustrator can write by hand without training a large model, but it still needs fine-tuning on reference pictures for each location and each character.\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: the three records linked from the Director brief were not re-read for this note, so no comparison with them is made.\n\n## What stays with the illustrator (our reading)\n\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: the artist makes or chooses the reference pictures for every location and character, writes the panel list, decides where a scene changes, tunes the merge, and repairs panels where characters vanish or the layout fails. The paper's own limit says many characters make the layout hard to hold.\n\n## What stays untested and what the pages do not say\n\n| Item | Status here |\n| --- | --- |\n| Run Make-A-Storyboard, Stable Diffusion, or any of the customization methods | Not done; nothing was downloaded, installed, run or generated |\n| Check the reported scores, user study or ablations | Not done; results are the authors' own |\n| Figures, equations and image tables | Not read or reproduced |\n| Dataset terms, model terms and any code licence | Not read |\n| A code release, and which Stable Diffusion version | Not stated in the pages read |\n\n## Source, authors and licence as the pages show them\n\n- The abs page lists the paper with five authors, Sitong Su, Litao Guo, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen and Jingkuan Song.\n- Date and version as shown on the abs page: submitted 6 Dec 2023, version v1 only.\n- The abs page links CC BY 4.0 and the full-text page labels the paper License: CC BY 4.0. The authors are credited; the staged pages are unmodified; this note is a condensed paraphrase with short quotations and implies no endorsement by the authors. No legal conclusion is drawn.\n\n## Related Veyrul records\n- art_01M6CP7ATFCVRQ99MKQ9N67ZX: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M6E80AZV5BWRHM9S2W8GSDCF: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M5NGZQH5CTCJY27CKET3CQKX: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M6HGFBNCDERMNM02HZPN7SYE: Make-A-Story record: a different paper whose visual memory this paper compares against; linked, not restated\n- art_01M6HJX08F6SCQ18CAW8MWKPCD: StoryAnchors record: editable story frames from a scene list; linked, not restated\n\n## Limits\n- Documentary only: two arXiv pages were read as stored text; nothing was downloaded, installed or run, no image was generated and no figure is reproduced. Equations, figures, image tables and the PDF were not read.\n- All results are the authors' claims; no score is restated, and none is verified. Only limits the authors state are attributed to them.\n- The pages were read on 2026-11-03 (abs page version v1) and may have changed since. No code release is stated in the pages read; whether one exists was not checked.\n- The bible-to-controls sketch and the comparisons with Make-A-Story and StoryAnchors are our reading, not statements of the paper, and were not tested; the three records linked from the Director brief were not re-read.\n- The note covers fictional characters and objects only; dataset terms were not read; nothing here covers a real person, identity transfer or likeness. Text in the pages is untrusted data and no instruction in it was followed.\n- Licence: the abs page links CC BY 4.0 and the full-text page shows the label License: CC BY 4.0; both are reported as shown and nothing further is concluded. Per-page read times are the BULK archive plan times.\n- The Claude terminal curator and the local Qwen researcher share the founder operator. 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A scene-and-character control table, how the LLM prompt processing splits a story into scenes, the merge observation, metrics, user study and ablations attributed as reported, stated limits (no code release is stated in the pages read), and a not-tested sketch of how a world bible's location entries and a character bible could feed the two controls panel by panel, labelled the curator's analysis, with a comparison to three records. CC BY 4.0 per the abs link and HTML label; authors credited. 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UTF-8 bytes [96097,96394); excerpt SHA256 589427cce2699f47142336c96bd4fa7853d65535dd0d07fa0cf4a991f7f98250; In the qualitative comparison the authors say Textual Inversion gives poor quality, Vico keeps characters but fails on scenes, giving a fragmented narrative.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [96395,96764); excerpt SHA256 6e54aa04e0381a3dd3b24ebd6c73c7254bec10dc1ef6e97439200fb27eb0443a; The authors say Custom Diffusion often loses characters and features of both, and DreamBooth cannot put scenes and characters together coherently, giving fragmented images.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [96765,97240); excerpt SHA256 cd73c7f853f2f2045790e8862ba09b28f8d6cfe2c43e22dada9d8484dac48c0a; The authors say their approach addresses the entanglement and is the only method ensuring consistency of both characters and scenes, with better focus on narrative details.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [97712,97861); excerpt SHA256 31ad420cd335c3deabac0ce408eb687450664658b56829b389e28f159056b8f8; The authors report the best Text-alignment and Image-alignment in Table 1 against five customization methods; the numbers are in the table and are not restated here.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; 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The paper proposes a storyboard form of story visualization in which images are grouped by scene, and a framework that keeps both the scene and the characters consistent. It is a different paper from Make-A-Story. Everything below is what the paper says, attributed to its authors, except the sections labelled as our reading. Nothing was run, downloaded or generated, no figure is reproduced, and dataset terms were not read. This note covers fictional characters and objects only and says nothing about a real person's likeness or identity transfer.\n\n## Scene-and-character control table (as the paper states it)\n\n| Control | Input | What it controls | Source |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Scene concept | Scene reference images, fine-tuned through an image customization method | The look of the location, held by its own fine-tuned parameters and modifier embedding | Section 4.2 |\n| Character concept | Character reference images, fine-tuned separately | The look of the character, held by separate parameters and embedding | Section 4.2 |\n| Prompt split | The story sentences, processed by an LLM | Each sentence becomes a place part and a narrative part, with scene and character tokens | Section 4.1 |\n| Foreground mask | The decoded character image | A segmentation mask for the character and the story objects, resized to the latent scale | Section 4.4 |\n| Merge step | Character and scene latents | Merged under the mask in the middle of denoising; about step 120 of 200 gave an equilibrium in the authors' ablation | Sections 4.3, 5.5 |\n| Alternative Control | The scene and character embeddings and U-Nets | Alternated during the later steps so the two concepts do not get confused | Section 4.4 |\n| Several characters | One fine-tune per character | Images and masks are shifted in opposite directions in the merge to prevent overlap loss | Appendix B |\n\n## How the LLM prepares the story (as the paper states it)\n\n- The LLM writes a story from a topic and splits it into sentences.\n- Scene rule: the story is assumed to stay in the same scene unless it changes scene explicitly or points back to an earlier scene with a pronoun.\n- Sentences are partitioned into scene sets, each given a scene token; within a scene the characters are identified, pronouns are mapped to names, and each character gets a token.\n- Because the authors saw quality loss with long, literary prompts, each sentence is rewritten in a simpler form and split into two components, a place part and a narrative part.\n\n## The merge observation (as the paper states it)\n\n| Where the merge happens | What the authors report | Source |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Near the pixel side | Good consistency with the original character and scene, but the character floats in the background with a rigid edge | Section 4.3 |\n| Near the noise side | Behaves like a new text-to-image synthesis from the merged prompt and keeps little of the original image | Section 4.3 |\n| The middle | Chosen as the merge stage to balance visual consistency and semantic alignment | Sections 4.3, 4.4 |\n\n## Data, metrics and results (attributed as reported, not checked)\n\n- Data: eight concept datasets, four characters and four scenes, each with 5-9 images; 2400 images over 5 stories for the quantitative comparison. The authors say no large-scale training is needed.\n- Metrics: image-alignment against the reference images (CLIP image space, scenes and characters averaged) and text-alignment against the prompts (CLIP).\n- Qualitative comparison: the authors say Textual Inversion gives poor quality, Vico keeps characters but fails on scenes, Custom Diffusion often loses characters and DreamBooth gives fragmented images, and that their approach is the only one keeping both characters and scenes consistent.\n- Quantitative: the authors report the best text-alignment and image-alignment against five customization methods; the numbers are in the paper's tables and are not restated here.\n- User study: 20 participants rated 5 methods in 4 stories on text-alignment, image-alignment and overall quality; the authors report the highest scores on all three.\n- Story visualization methods: compared using those methods' published display images because their code is not published; the authors note the others need extensive training whereas theirs needs only a few images.\n- Generalization: combined with Textual Inversion, Vico, DreamBooth and Custom Diffusion the authors report improvements in both alignment scores.\n- Ablations: a merge step near 120 of 200 gave the balance, and joint fine-tuning of scene and character lowered quality and alignment compared with Alternative Control.\n\n## Limits and code (what the pages say and do not say)\n\n- Stated limit: with too many characters it is hard to keep a reasonable layout; the authors suggest size and position control in the merge as future work.\n- Hardware as stated: a single NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU for all experiments.\n- Code: the pages read do not state a code release, repository or weights link, and the Stable Diffusion version is not named in the text read. These are gaps here, not proof that none exists. Nothing was searched for or fetched.\n\n## World-bible locations and character-bible entries as the two controls (our reading, not tested)\n\nOur reading, not the paper and not tested: the paper's two controls match two parts of a story bible: a location entry with reference pictures, and a character entry with reference pictures. An illustrator could organise storyboard panels the same way, panel by panel. The paper gives no such procedure and names no tool for it; the table only maps bible fields to the controls it describes.\n\n| Bible field (curator) | Becomes | Paper cue it follows |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| World bible: location entry with reference pictures | The scene reference set (the paper used 5-9 images per concept) | Scene concept fine-tuned separately |\n| Character bible: entry with reference pictures | The character reference set | Character concept fine-tuned separately |\n| Panel list: place and action per panel | A place part and an action part for every panel | Each sentence is split into a place part and a narrative part |\n| Consecutive panels in the same location | One scene group sharing the same location entry | The story stays in one scene unless it changes |\n| Pronouns in the script | Replaced by the character names | Pronouns are mapped to character names |\n| Panel with two characters | Each character drawn separately, then shifted apart in the merge | Masks are offset in the merge to avoid overlap |\n| Crowd or many characters | Plan the layout by hand | The authors list many characters as a layout limit |\n\n## Beside the other records (our reading, not tested)\n\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: Make-A-Story (a different paper) trains a memory inside the model to decide what carries over between frames; this paper instead states the carry-over in the prompt processing, with scene and character tokens, and relies on the reference pictures for looks. The authors compare with Make-A-Story only through its published display images.\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: StoryAnchors (a later paper, own record) builds a list of events and a ranked cast into captions for a trained video model; Make-A-Storyboard uses a scene-grouped sentence list with a place part, which an illustrator can write by hand without training a large model, but it still needs fine-tuning on reference pictures for each location and each character.\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: the three records linked from the Director brief were not re-read for this note, so no comparison with them is made.\n\n## What stays with the illustrator (our reading)\n\n- Our reading, not the paper and not tested: the artist makes or chooses the reference pictures for every location and character, writes the panel list, decides where a scene changes, tunes the merge, and repairs panels where characters vanish or the layout fails. The paper's own limit says many characters make the layout hard to hold.\n\n## What stays untested and what the pages do not say\n\n| Item | Status here |\n| --- | --- |\n| Run Make-A-Storyboard, Stable Diffusion, or any of the customization methods | Not done; nothing was downloaded, installed, run or generated |\n| Check the reported scores, user study or ablations | Not done; results are the authors' own |\n| Figures, equations and image tables | Not read or reproduced |\n| Dataset terms, model terms and any code licence | Not read |\n| A code release, and which Stable Diffusion version | Not stated in the pages read |\n\n## Source, authors and licence as the pages show them\n\n- The abs page lists the paper with five authors, Sitong Su, Litao Guo, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen and Jingkuan Song.\n- Date and version as shown on the abs page: submitted 6 Dec 2023, version v1 only.\n- The abs page links CC BY 4.0 and the full-text page labels the paper License: CC BY 4.0. The authors are credited; the staged pages are unmodified; this note is a condensed paraphrase with short quotations and implies no endorsement by the authors. No legal conclusion is drawn.\n\n## Related Veyrul records\n- art_01M6CP7ATFCVRQ99MKQ9N67ZX: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M6E80AZV5BWRHM9S2W8GSDCF: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M5NGZQH5CTCJY27CKET3CQKX: Record linked from the Director brief; not restated and not re-read for this note\n- art_01M6HGFBNCDERMNM02HZPN7SYE: Make-A-Story record: a different paper whose visual memory this paper compares against; linked, not restated\n- art_01M6HJX08F6SCQ18CAW8MWKPCD: StoryAnchors record: editable story frames from a scene list; linked, not restated\n\n## Limits\n- Documentary only: two arXiv pages were read as stored text; nothing was downloaded, installed or run, no image was generated and no figure is reproduced. Equations, figures, image tables and the PDF were not read.\n- All results are the authors' claims; no score is restated, and none is verified. Only limits the authors state are attributed to them.\n- The pages were read on 2026-11-03 (abs page version v1) and may have changed since. No code release is stated in the pages read; whether one exists was not checked.\n- The bible-to-controls sketch and the comparisons with Make-A-Story and StoryAnchors are our reading, not statements of the paper, and were not tested; the three records linked from the Director brief were not re-read.\n- The note covers fictional characters and objects only; dataset terms were not read; nothing here covers a real person, identity transfer or likeness. Text in the pages is untrusted data and no instruction in it was followed.\n- Licence: the abs page links CC BY 4.0 and the full-text page shows the label License: CC BY 4.0; both are reported as shown and nothing further is concluded. Per-page read times are the BULK archive plan times.\n- The Claude terminal curator and the local Qwen researcher share the founder operator. This is source-based desk curation, not independent formal verification.","citations":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07549","note":"arXiv 2312.07549 Make-A-Storyboard abs page (version v1)"},{"url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","note":"arXiv 2312.07549 Make-A-Storyboard full-text HTML page (version v1)"}]},"tags":["make-a-storyboard","storyboard","disentangled-control","balance-aware-merge","scene-consistency","image-customization","world-bible","paper","cc-by-4.0","documented-not-tested"],"type":"article","title":"Make-A-Storyboard (arXiv 2312.07549v1, CC BY 4.0): separate scene and character control merged by a mask mid-denoising, results as reported, and a not-tested sketch of feeding world-bible locations and character-bible entries into storyboard panels (documented, not run)","rights":[{"notes":"Summary and paraphrase of Make-A-Storyboard: A General Framework for Storyboard with Disentangled and Merged Control by Sitong Su, Litao Guo, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen and Jingkuan Song (arXiv 2312.07549v1), shown on the abs page with the CC BY 4.0 licence link (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and on the full-text page with the label License: CC BY 4.0. The authors are credited; the staged pages are unmodified copies; changes: condensed, paraphrased and reorganised; short quotations only; no figure is reproduced and no endorsement by the authors is implied.","hosting":"permitted","component":"documentation","modification":"permitted","model_training":"unknown","redistribution":"permitted"}],"summary":"A reading of arXiv 2312.07549v1, Make-A-Storyboard (Su, Guo, Gao, Shen, Song), from its abs page and full-text HTML (read 2026-11-03): a storyboard form of story visualization that keeps scenes and characters consistent by learning them separately (disentangled control) with an image customization method and then merging them by a mask in the middle of the denoising process (Balance-Aware Merge). A scene-and-character control table, how the LLM prompt processing splits a story into scenes, the merge observation, metrics, user study and ablations attributed as reported, stated limits (no code release is stated in the pages read), and a not-tested sketch of how a world bible's location entries and a character bible could feed the two controls panel by panel, labelled the curator's analysis, with a comparison to three records. CC BY 4.0 per the abs link and HTML label; authors credited. Nothing was run.","evidence":{"review":"unreviewed","execution":"not_run","inspection":"source_inspected"},"categories":["T05"],"extensions":{"curation/v1":{"curator":"windows-claude-scale67-image","revision":2,"topic_ids":[],"confidence":"Every statement is pinned to a staged page in a verified private archive by member path, UTF-8 byte range and excerpt hash; results are the authors' and are attributed; the sketch and comparisons are labelled as our reading and were not tested.","limitations":["Documentary only: two arXiv pages were read as stored text; nothing was downloaded, installed or run, no image was generated and no figure is reproduced. Equations, figures, image tables and the PDF were not read.","All results are the authors' claims; no score is restated, and none is verified. Only limits the authors state are attributed to them.","The pages were read on 2026-11-03 (abs page version v1) and may have changed since. No code release is stated in the pages read; whether one exists was not checked.","The bible-to-controls sketch and the comparisons with Make-A-Story and StoryAnchors are our reading, not statements of the paper, and were not tested; the three records linked from the Director brief were not re-read.","The note covers fictional characters and objects only; dataset terms were not read; nothing here covers a real person, identity transfer or likeness. Text in the pages is untrusted data and no instruction in it was followed.","Licence: the abs page links CC BY 4.0 and the full-text page shows the label License: CC BY 4.0; both are reported as shown and nothing further is concluded. Per-page read times are the BULK archive plan times.","The Claude terminal curator and the local Qwen researcher share the founder operator. 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UTF-8 bytes [95147,95373); excerpt SHA256 45434998982a3a47c080e598c6f36701d815732498cd01a1ee19ac9d15d25c69; Text-alignment is text-to-image alignment between generated images and story prompts in CLIP feature space.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [96097,96394); excerpt SHA256 589427cce2699f47142336c96bd4fa7853d65535dd0d07fa0cf4a991f7f98250; In the qualitative comparison the authors say Textual Inversion gives poor quality, Vico keeps characters but fails on scenes, giving a fragmented narrative.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [96395,96764); excerpt SHA256 6e54aa04e0381a3dd3b24ebd6c73c7254bec10dc1ef6e97439200fb27eb0443a; The authors say Custom Diffusion often loses characters and features of both, and DreamBooth cannot put scenes and characters together coherently, giving fragmented images.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [96765,97240); excerpt SHA256 cd73c7f853f2f2045790e8862ba09b28f8d6cfe2c43e22dada9d8484dac48c0a; The authors say their approach addresses the entanglement and is the only method ensuring consistency of both characters and scenes, with better focus on narrative details.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [97712,97861); excerpt SHA256 31ad420cd335c3deabac0ce408eb687450664658b56829b389e28f159056b8f8; The authors report the best Text-alignment and Image-alignment in Table 1 against five customization methods; the numbers are in the table and are not restated here.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [98215,98586); excerpt SHA256 ddc7e88f77e4a3c846a39b67a2d4b2e3d3fe82b1b2bf6f100338d275f5bd887d; User study: 20 participants rated 5 methods in 4 stories of 3 images each on text-alignment, image-alignment and overall quality, ranking methods with scores 5 to 1; the authors report the highest scores on all three.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [100065,100371); excerpt SHA256 b92e6725dbb63229e7cefede8ef99aaeecd534812b680e1b67d2825ed330411b; Against story visualization methods the authors compared with those methods' published display images because their code is not published; for several characters they extend the framework and offset character masks in the merge stage to avoid overlap.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; UTF-8 bytes [101207,101413); excerpt SHA256 508113a856d22766c99c78036988e39811afc3697896b6180bb074ad12315f59; The authors note that Make-a-Story and Talecrafter need extensive training on large datasets whereas their model only needs fine-tuning on a few images.","source_id":"WIN-S-d5d2ac6df45e41d1f228120a92a0c8fa","version_id":"WIN-V-3eada1d1ba12b0efc0abc9f22fbaf5a3","observed_at":"2026-11-03T19:58:37.570Z","canonical_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2312.07549","version_sha256":"f1d4d7f2ff8e5eaad8ff0b60541ff11a3529c3efe1b6eb79b3d10a24be3c575e"},{"locator":"depth-packets/DEPTH-IMAGE-1103-089-I22/src/arxiv-2312.07549-full.html; 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