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arxiv: 2605.23508 · v1 · pith:B5MRMPENnew · submitted 2026-05-22 · 💻 cs.GR · cs.AI· cs.CV· cs.MM· eess.IV

DrawVideo: Generating Long Video from Storyboard Keyframe Sketches

Chuanzhi Xu , Huiqi Liang , Bang Shi , Huiming Zhang , Yifan Xiao , Guangcheng Lin , Haodong Chen , Qiang Qu
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classification 💻 cs.GR cs.AIcs.CVcs.MMeess.IV
keywords long video generationsketch-guided synthesisstoryboard controllabilitykeyframe sketchestext-to-videoSketchLongVideo datasethierarchical shot generationappearance consistency
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DrawVideo turns storyboard keyframe sketches into coherent long videos by generating shots independently with sketch, appearance, and motion controls.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes DrawVideo as a sketch-guided framework that decomposes long videos into separate shots, each controlled by a black-and-white sketch for pose and layout, an appearance prompt for identity and style, and a motion prompt for dynamics. It applies a hierarchical global multi-shot, local single-sketch process: create a reference keyframe aligned to the sketch, expand the motion prompt into action-state keyframes, then synthesize the clips between them. A new SketchLongVideo dataset built from animation sources supplies the training pairs through shot detection and sketch conversion. This setup aims to deliver structural controllability and narrative coherence where single long-prompt text-to-video methods fall short.

Core claim

DrawVideo decomposes long videos into independently controllable shots, each defined by a black-and-white sketch that sets pose and layout, an appearance prompt that fixes identity and scene, and a motion prompt that directs temporal changes. The method follows a global multi-shot, local single-sketch strategy that first produces a structure-aligned reference keyframe, expands the motion prompt into derivative keyframes, and then generates the intervening clips to assemble each shot. Experiments on the introduced SketchLongVideo dataset demonstrate resulting structural controllability, appearance consistency, visual stability, and coherent long-video output.

What carries the argument

The hierarchical global multi-shot, local single-sketch strategy that builds each shot from a sketch-defined reference keyframe plus expanded motion keyframes before synthesizing clips between them.

If this is right

  • Sketches give direct control over pose, composition, and layout for each shot instead of relying on text alone.
  • Appearance prompts maintain consistent character and scene identity across independently generated shots.
  • Motion prompts allow targeted guidance of action states within each shot without overloading a single prompt.
  • The approach supports longer videos by avoiding the limits of single-prompt text-to-video generation.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The method could be adapted for iterative storyboard refinement where users adjust sketches and regenerate only affected shots.
  • It points toward direct pipelines from traditional animation pre-production storyboards into final video output.
  • Independent shot generation may allow parallel computation or editing of individual segments in production workflows.

Load-bearing premise

Generating shots independently through the hierarchical sketch-plus-prompt process will produce overall narrative coherence without extra cross-shot consistency mechanisms.

What would settle it

Generate a multi-shot video from a storyboard sequence and inspect whether character identities, scene elements, or action continuity break at shot boundaries; visible mismatches would show the claim does not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.23508 by Bang Shi, Chuanzhi Xu, Guangcheng Lin, Haodong Chen, Huiming Zhang, Huiqi Liang, Qiang Qu, Weidong Cai, Yifan Xiao, Zhicheng Lu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of DrawVideo. A director provides a sketch keyframe and a pair of prompts [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: SketchLongVideo video-based dataset construction pipeline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Framework architecture of DrawVideo. DrawVideo progressively generates controllable [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Examples of sketch-to-keyframe coloring. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualizations of the motion continuity and consistency of three DrawVideo-generated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative Comparison on a Storyboard about Phone-Interaction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative Comparison on a Storyboard about a scene on a boat. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative Comparison on a Storyboard about Fine-Grained Eating Motion and Facial [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Qualitative examples from the self-collected online-animation subset. The examples show [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative examples from the AnimeShooter-derived subset. This subset provides multi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Qualitative examples from the AI-generated keyframe subset. The examples show identity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Additional Qualitative Comparison 1. Appearance Prompt: a man with gray hair, wearing a gray t-shirt and gray shorts, He is lying on his back in a relaxed position with his arms and legs spread out, The background is a dark blue color, and there are bubbles floating around his head, suggesting he is underwater, a simple colored line art illustration of a person underwater, classic 2D cartoon animation fra… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Additional Qualitative Comparison 2. Appearance Prompt: a man with a brown hat, gray shirt, and a necklace, He has gray hair and is smiling, The background is a greenish-blue color, a simple colored line drawing with no visible texture or shading, giving it a flat cel coloring appearance, classic 2D cartoon animation frame, clean colored lineart, flat cel-style coloring, solid local colors, minimal shadin… view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Additional Qualitative Comparison 3. 43 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Additional Qualitative Comparison 4. Appearance Prompt: a cartoon character with black hair, wearing a white shirt and a black vest, The character is seated at a table with a stack of colorful plates in front of them, The character is holding a pair of chopsticks and appears to be eating, The character's face is partially obscured by the chopsticks, but it is clear that the character is focused on eating,… view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Additional Qualitative Comparison 5. Appearance Prompt: a cartoon character with a round face, long black hair, and a white shirt with a black tie, The character is holding chopsticks in their right hand and appears to be in a thoughtful or contemplative pose, The background is a solid orange color, a simple colored line art frame with a cartoon style, classic 2D cartoon animation frame, clean colored lin… view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Additional Qualitative Comparison 6. 44 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Additional Qualitative Comparison 7. Appearance Prompt: a man with a white hat and a white shirt, standing in a room with a window behind him, His facial expression is one of surprise or shock, with his mouth open and eyes wide, The man's skin tone is light, and his hair is dark, The room has a neutral color palette with a beige wall and a window with bars, a simple colored line drawing with no visible te… view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Additional Qualitative Comparison 8. 45 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p045_19.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Long video generation requires high-fidelity synthesis, coherent narrative structure, and user control over extended time spans. Existing text-to-video methods often rely on a single long prompt, limiting control over pose, composition, layout, and motion. We propose DrawVideo, a sketch-guided, storyboard-driven framework for controllable long-video generation. DrawVideo decomposes long videos into independently controllable shots, each defined by a black-and-white sketch, an appearance prompt, and a motion prompt. The sketch controls pose and layout, the appearance prompt defines identity, scene, and style, and the motion prompt guides temporal dynamics. DrawVideo follows a hierarchical 'global multi-shot, local single-sketch' strategy: it first generates a structure-aligned reference keyframe, then expands the motion prompt into derivative keyframes representing action states, and finally synthesizes clips between adjacent keyframes to build each shot. We also introduce SketchLongVideo, the first dataset for sketch-guided text-to-long-video generation, constructed from animation videos via shot detection, keyframe extraction, vision-language recognition, prompt decomposition, and sketch conversion. Experiments show that DrawVideo achieves strong structural controllability, appearance consistency, visual stability, and coherent long-video generation.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes DrawVideo, a sketch-guided storyboard-driven framework for controllable long-video generation. It decomposes long videos into shots defined by black-and-white sketches (for pose/layout), appearance prompts (for identity/scene/style), and motion prompts (for dynamics). The method uses a hierarchical 'global multi-shot, local single-sketch' strategy: generate a structure-aligned reference keyframe, expand the motion prompt into derivative keyframes, then synthesize and interpolate clips between keyframes to form each shot. It also introduces the SketchLongVideo dataset constructed from animation videos via shot detection, keyframe extraction, vision-language recognition, prompt decomposition, and sketch conversion. Experiments are reported to demonstrate strong structural controllability, appearance consistency, visual stability, and coherent long-video generation.

Significance. If the performance claims hold with supporting quantitative evidence, the work would offer a practical user-controllable approach to long video synthesis that improves on single-prompt text-to-video methods by incorporating explicit sketch and prompt controls per shot. The introduction of SketchLongVideo as the first dataset for this task is a clear positive contribution that could enable future research. The hierarchical decomposition strategy is a reasonable engineering response to the challenges of extended temporal coherence.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract (central claim paragraph): the assertion of 'coherent long-video generation' rests on the unelaborated assumption that independently generated shots (via local single-sketch pipelines) will maintain global character identity, layout consistency, and narrative progression when concatenated. No cross-shot attention, global consistency module, or post-alignment step is described, making this the load-bearing weakest link for the overall coherence claim.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (experiments sentence): the reported 'strong structural controllability, appearance consistency, visual stability, and coherent long-video generation' are stated without any accompanying quantitative metrics, ablation results, or error analysis, preventing verification that the hierarchical strategy actually delivers the claimed performance.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract provides no implementation details, model architecture diagrams, or training procedure, which limits assessment of reproducibility.
  2. Dataset construction steps (shot detection, keyframe extraction, etc.) are listed but without quantitative statistics on the resulting SketchLongVideo corpus (e.g., number of shots, average length, diversity metrics).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment below and will revise the abstract to ensure claims are precisely supported by the method and experiments described in the full manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (central claim paragraph): the assertion of 'coherent long-video generation' rests on the unelaborated assumption that independently generated shots (via local single-sketch pipelines) will maintain global character identity, layout consistency, and narrative progression when concatenated. No cross-shot attention, global consistency module, or post-alignment step is described, making this the load-bearing weakest link for the overall coherence claim.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract does not describe an automatic cross-shot mechanism. The method generates shots independently using per-shot sketches, appearance prompts, and motion prompts; global character identity is maintained by the user providing consistent appearance prompts for recurring elements across the storyboard, while narrative progression follows the user-defined shot sequence. No cross-shot attention or post-alignment is implemented. We will revise the abstract to clarify that coherence relies on consistent user-specified controls rather than an implicit global module, and to avoid overstating automatic long-range consistency. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (experiments sentence): the reported 'strong structural controllability, appearance consistency, visual stability, and coherent long-video generation' are stated without any accompanying quantitative metrics, ablation results, or error analysis, preventing verification that the hierarchical strategy actually delivers the claimed performance.

    Authors: Abstracts are concise summaries; the full manuscript's Experiments section reports quantitative results (keypoint alignment for structural controllability, CLIP-based similarity for appearance consistency, temporal difference metrics for stability) along with ablations on the hierarchical components and error analysis via failure cases. We will revise the abstract to qualify the claims as 'demonstrated in experiments' and ensure wording aligns directly with the quantitative evidence presented in the paper body. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity detected; derivation is compositional and self-contained

full rationale

The provided abstract and strategy description present DrawVideo as a decomposition into independent per-shot generation using sketches, appearance prompts, and motion prompts, followed by hierarchical keyframe expansion and interpolation. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citations invoked as uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes smuggled via prior work appear. The central claim of coherent long-video generation is supported by the described pipeline and introduced dataset rather than reducing to its own inputs by construction. This matches the default expectation of a non-circular paper.

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