Brief · A frontier creative AI system from CGA Creative

Concept in.Visuals out.

Brief turns an idea into the storyboard every film starts with. The one your team aligns on, a client signs off on, an editor builds from. Then style, motion, and sound, in the order films get made.

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Wide shot, path through the trees at first light 06_Wide-Shot_Path_v3 Storyboard · B&W
Shot

The walk to the workshop.

Subject
Protagonist, alone, moving through the trees
Size · Lens
Wide Shot · 35mm
Light
Available, dappled morning through pines
Time
Morning, mist clearing
Atmosphere
Still, contemplative, patient
Camera register
Static. Held. Slow cinema.
Why this exists

AI gave us infinite variation. Brief makes us commit.

Working with AI requires more discipline, not less. Without early commitment on each shot, you regenerate, you tweak, you start over. Weeks burn on projects that should have shipped. Real productions don't work that way. They lock composition first, color second, motion third. A century of cinema built on that discipline.

Brief is the first AI tool built on the same restraint. You start in black and white, because that's where composition lives. Once your shots are locked, color comes next. Then motion. Then sound. Same order professionals have always worked in.

And the models doing the work behind every Brief? Always the best ones available. The leader changes every few weeks. We track the frontier so you don't have to. You just bring the idea.

The scene sheet

Brief sequences the whole scene.

Nine shots from a single scene. Brief plans the composition, the rhythm, and the camera moves as one coherent piece. What your team aligns on isn't a folder of options. It's a sequenced scene.

PRIMITIVE / Scene 01 · B&W storyboard · Pass 01
Scene 01 · 9 shots · 1:28 runtime
Director Erich Archer
Ratio 2.39:1
Pass 01 / B&W
Date 05.2026
F.001 0:12
The mountain wakes first. 01_Extreme-Wide-Shot_Mountain Static · Held long · 24mm
F.002 0:08
He woke earlier. 02_Wide-Shot_Man Static · 35mm
F.003 0:06
Coffee, before light. 03_Close-Up_Coffee Macro · Locked off
F.004 0:14
Carried by the morning. 16_Extreme-Wide-Shot_Man Static · Held long · 24mm
F.005 0:08
Out to the work. 06_Wide-Shot_Path Walking dolly · Tracking · 35mm
F.006 0:10
Where the tools wait. 07_Medium-Shot_Workshop Slow dolly in · 35mm
F.007 0:08
In his place. 14_Wide-Shot_Man Static · 35mm
F.008 0:08
Hands know what to do. 10_Close-Up_Hands Macro · Locked off
F.009 0:12
And then he sees it. 20_Extreme-Close-Up_Eye Macro · Static · Held
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How Brief works

Seven steps from idea to finished scene.

Brief ships the first four stages today. Color, motion, and sound come next. The order matters: you lock composition before you commit to a look, the look before you commit to movement, the movement before you commit to sound. The same way real films get made.

i
Scene

Tell Brief what you're making. A few sentences, or upload a script. Brief writes back a clear creative vision in your voice.

ii
Style

Brief locks in a visual style for your project: the colors, the kind of light, the feel of the camera. Every shot inherits it.

iii
Shots

Brief breaks your scene into sixteen to twenty-two shots, each with its own subject, camera angle, lens, and mood worked out.

iv
Storyboard

Brief renders each shot as a moody black-and-white image so you can see your film before you commit to color or motion.

Coming next · Included in the open beta
v Stylize Pick a look. Photoreal, anime, 35mm film, watercolor, painted, anything you can describe. Every locked shot inherits it. Compositions stay. The visual language transforms.
vi Animate Every styled shot becomes a video clip with the camera move Brief planned for it. Pans, dollies, push-ins, sequenced for the scene's rhythm. Your storyboard, animated in the style you chose.
vii Score & finish Ambient sound and effects layered across every clip. Then your full scene plays back inside Brief, ready to share.
Where this is going

The storyboards you make today become stylized video clips tomorrow. Same compositions, sequenced for the scene's rhythm, in the look of your choosing. Photoreal, anime, 35mm, watercolor, whatever you want. The black-and-white frame you lock now is the moving image you watch later, in your direction.

Open beta. Free while we build it out together. Every stage on the road ships at no charge while Brief grows into the full concept-to-finished-scene system.

What you take home

A real first draft of your film. Not a folder of options to keep picking from.

A printable PDF you can pin to a wall, screenshot into a deck, or send to a collaborator. A locked direction the team commits to, instead of another gallery of variations to argue about.

  • Creative briefA clear synthesized vision in your voice. The thing you'd send a collaborator so they understand what you're making before a single shot exists.
  • Shot listSixteen to twenty-two shots sequenced for the scene, each with its subject, framing, lens, light, atmosphere, and mood worked out.
  • PromptsEvery shot has a model-ready prompt plus a Midjourney-formatted version, so you can render in Brief or take it elsewhere without translating.
  • StoryboardA black-and-white frame for every shot, rendered inside Brief and printable as a single branded PDF. One artifact, fully composed.
Open beta

Brief is free for everyone right now while we build it into a full film-making system.

Make as many storyboards as you want. Color, motion, sound, and finished clips when they ship, all at no charge. No credit card. No trial expiring.

Open beta · everyone in
Make storyboards on us. The full film-making tool included at no charge while it builds out.
  • A clear creative vision, a locked visual style, a full shot list, and a black-and-white storyboard
  • A Midjourney-ready version of every prompt, in case you want to render somewhere else too
  • A printable, branded PDF of your storyboard you can share with collaborators
  • Stylize, animate, score, and finish. Every future stage included.
  • When Brief turns storyboards into stylized video clips in the look of your choosing, it stays free during the open beta
Free for everyone right now. Open beta while we build it out together.
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Built by

Erich Archer

Creative strategist · AI video producer · CGA Creative

I built Brief because I wanted to make films with AI without giving up everything good about how films actually get made. Two decades in television and film. Two years deep in generative AI. The tools out there give you endless options and no way to commit. Brief is the opposite. It helps you decide.

The first film I'm making with Brief is PRIMITIVE, my submission for the XPRIZE Future Vision competition. The film is about people who build their own tools instead of renting big ones. Brief is one of those tools. I'm using it to make a film about the idea behind it.

Brief is in open beta. Free for everyone right now. You get full projects with unlimited shot renders and regenerations, and everything we build next at no extra cost while we build it out together.

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