Octo - Jimeng's AI-native dynamic narrative creation tool

What is Octo

Octo isJimengan AI-native dynamic narrative creation tool launched by, centered on the "Vibe Create" philosophy。The tool collaborates deeply with creators through conversational interaction, transforming AI from a passive execution tool into a creative partner. Users only need to describe ideas in natural language, and Octo can help refine the plot, design characters, build the worldview, and generate concept art and storyboard previews in real time. The tool supports uploading scripts, images, and other materials for intelligent parsing and gap detection, ultimately automatically splitting scenes, generating videos, and editing the output. Octo lets creation return to pure conversation, realizing full-process co-creation from inspiration to finished film, suitable for narrative content creators who have ideas but lack a complete execution plan.

Octo's main features

Creative dialogue feature: Octo provides a natural language interaction interface, where users can brainstorm with AI through continuous dialogue to refine plot details, scrutinize character profiles, and build worldview settings, realizing a co-creation process from vague ideas to a complete story framework.
Multimodal file parsing: The system supports uploading PDF scripts, character images, reference videos, audio materials, and other file formats. AI automatically analyzes the content and identifies setting contradictions (such as discovering characters not mentioned in the script), helping creators fill gaps.
Real-time web search: Octo integrates real-time search capabilities, automatically retrieving online information as a source of inspiration during conversations, helping creators obtain visual references, background information, or similar work cases.
Intelligent asset board: The platform automatically generates a structured character asset board (including appearance description, personality traits, character arc), environment asset board (scene settings, lighting atmosphere), and style asset board, allowing users to add or modify visual elements at any time.
Story outline generation: Based on the creative direction determined through conversation, Octo automatically expands and generates a complete story outline including introduction, development, climax, and conclusion, supports splitting the story into multiple scenes, and each scene can be further refined into specific storyboard scripts.
AI video generation: The system calls the Seedance 2.0 model to automatically generate video clips according to the storyboard script, supports regenerating a single storyboard and adjusting prompts, ensuring character consistency and visual style unity.
Infinite canvas workflow: Provides a non-linear visual creation space, where users can freely arrange material nodes, establish connections, organize creative ideas, and manage the entire project's creation process by dragging and dropping.
One-stop editing and export: Built-in timeline editor supports splicing and integrating generated storyboard video clips, adding background music, adjusting rhythm, and finally outputting a complete film, realizing closed-loop production from concept to finished product.

How to use Octo

Start creating: VisitJimeng AIofficial website, click the Octo icon on the left to enter the workspace, and press the "/" key or click the dialog box to start a creative collaboration session with AI.
Inspiration dialogue: Describe creative ideas to Octo (such as story theme, style, or duration), and jointly refine plot details, character settings, and worldview construction through multiple rounds of natural language dialogue.
Material integration: Drag and drop PDF scripts, reference images, or audio/video files onto the canvas, and Octo will automatically parse the content and prompt for setting contradictions or supplementary suggestions.
Visual Confirmation: During the conversation, Octo automatically generates character boards, scene concept art, and style references. Users can click the "+" sign on the board at any time to add or modify visual assets.
Storyboard Generation: After confirming the plot and visual direction, Octo automatically breaks the story into multiple scenes and generates a shot script, with each scene containing a detailed plot summary and shot list.
Video Production: Based on the shot script, the Seedance 2.0 model is called to generate storyboard video clips, supporting adjustments to prompts for individual shots or regeneration to ensure character consistency.
Editing and Export: In the timeline editor, video clips from each scene are spliced and integrated, background music is added, pacing is adjusted, and finally a complete narrative video is exported.

Octo's Key Information and Usage Requirements

Product Positioning: An AI-native dynamic narrative creation tool, centered on the "Vibe Create" philosophy—AI acts as a creative partner, co-creating stories with users through conversation rather than passively executing instructions.
Core Capabilities: Supports multi-turn dialogue to refine plot/characters/worldbuilding; automatically parses materials such as PDFs/images and fills in gaps; calls Seedance 2.0 to generate videos; covers the entire process from story outline → storyboard → editing.
Usage Requirements: Currently in beta testing and requires application and approval on the Jimeng AI platform.

Octo's Core Advantages

Conversational Co-creation Paradigm: Adopting the "Vibe Create" philosophy, it collaborates with AI in a "script meeting" style through natural language dialogue, transforming AI from a passive execution tool into a creative partner with "human-like" thinking, allowing inspiration to grow while chatting.
Full-Process One-Stop Closed Loop: Covers the entire chain from inspiration ideation, story outline, character design, storyboard generation to video editing, requiring no switching between multiple tools and completing all steps from text to final cut within the Jimeng ecosystem.
Intelligent Asset Consistency Management: Automatically generates structured boards (character/environment/style/object assets), continuously captures creative elements in real time, calls Seedance 2.0 to generate storyboard videos, and ensures consistent character appearance and visual style throughout.
Multimodal Material Parsing: Supports uploading materials such as PDF scripts, reference images, and videos. AI automatically parses the content and proactively identifies and fills gaps (such as discovering characters not mentioned in the script), helping to improve the logic of settings.
Real-Time Visual Feedback: Instantly generates concept art, scene previews, and storyboard sketches during the conversation. Creators can confirm the visual direction while chatting, avoiding "blind box" style generation and greatly reducing trial-and-error costs.

Comparison of Octo with Similar Competitors

Comparison Dimension	Octo	Runway	LTX Studio
Interaction Method	Dialogue-Driven——Co-create stories through natural language chat	Parameter Control——Adjust prompts, camera movement, motion brush	Structured Editing——Manually adjust storyboards in a visual storyboard
Narrative Logic	AI-Led——Automatically split scenes and generate coherent plots	No narrative capability——Only generates single-shot frames	Human-led + AI-assisted——Users manually build the story structure, AI fills in the visuals
Creation barrier	Extremely low——Just chat like having a script meeting, no professional knowledge required	High——Requires mastery of camera language and prompt engineering	Medium——Requires understanding of storyboard logic and shot design
Character consistency	Automatic management——Asset board locks in characters, automatically reused across shots	Manual control——Requires fixing seed and reference images with repeated tuning	Semi-automatic——Provides character reference images, but they must be manually applied to each shot
Creation workflow	Inspiration→Dialogue→Storyboard→Video(AI-driven)	Materials→Parameters→Single shot(Single-point generation)	Script→Storyboard→Video(Linear progression)
Best scenarios	Creating from 0——Only a vague inspiration, needs AI assistance to refine the story	Single-shot refinement——Already has clear visual requirements, pursues visual quality	Adaptation creation——Already has a script/screenplay, needs rapid visual presentation

Octo's application scenarios

Personal short videos: Quickly generate funny, heartwarming, or suspenseful short drama videos through dialogue, solving the pain point of having inspiration but not knowing how to write a script.
Serialized series: Build a unified worldview and character system, ensuring consistent characters and visual style across multiple episodes of animation or short dramas.
Advertising production: Quickly generate product story films or concept ads based on brand materials, shortening the cycle from idea to finished film.
Pre-production preview: Directors and screenwriters visualize the text script, validating character design and scene atmosphere at low cost before formal shooting.
Knowledge popularization: Transform dry knowledge points into story-based narratives, automatically generating educational videos to lower the barrier to knowledge dissemination.