Project Guide
A project is the top-level container for a single short-drama series or production. Everything — episodes, characters, generation tasks, and assets — lives inside a project.
What is a project?
In Lomio, a project represents one creative production. This might be a 10-episode romance series for TikTok, a standalone short thriller for YouTube Shorts, or a multi-season drama franchise. The project holds:
- Metadata (title, genre, platform, description, tags).
- Episodes and their scripts, storyboards, and prompts.
- A character roster specific to this production.
- A knowledge base of reference documents and style guides.
- All generation task history and outputs.
- Video assets produced for this production.
Creating a project
- In the studio left sidebar, click Projects, then New Project.
- Fill in the required fields: Title and Genre. All other fields are optional but recommended.
- Set the Platform (TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, WeChat Channels, Other). This influences aspect ratio defaults and generation prompt context.
- Set the initial Status — usually Development for a new project.
- Click Create Project.
Project fields reference
Title
The production title. This appears throughout the studio and in exported materials. Required.
Genre
Select from the genre list (Romance, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Slice of Life, Drama, Action, Other). Genre affects prompt templates and generation defaults — choosing the correct genre leads to better on-brand AI outputs.
Platform
The intended distribution platform. Platform selection sets the default aspect ratio and duration guidelines used during video generation and storyboard layout.
Visibility
Projects have two visibility modes:
- Private (default) — visible only to workspace members.
- Workspace — visible to all members of the workspace even if they were not originally assigned to the project. Useful for team-wide visibility without granting edit rights.
There is no public visibility mode — Lomio projects are always workspace-scoped and never externally accessible via a public URL.
Status
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Development | Active writing and character work. AI generation is available. Most projects start here. |
| Production | Scripts are locked; video pipeline is running. Generation tasks for new scripts are typically disabled. |
| Completed | Post-production is done. Project is read-only by default. Assets are retained. |
| Archived | Hidden from the main project list but not deleted. Assets are retained. Can be unarchived. |
Tags
Free-form labels for filtering and organizing your project list. Useful for large workspaces with many productions — e.g. romance, season-2, client-x.
Description
A short synopsis or production brief. This description is fed into generation prompts as context, so a well-written description improves the quality of AI-generated scripts and storyboards.
Episodes
Within a project, content is organized into episodes. Each episode has:
- Episode number and title.
- A synopsis (brief summary of what happens in the episode).
- A script — the full dialogue and action lines, AI-generated or manually written.
- A storyboard — visual shot-by-shot breakdown used to drive video generation.
- Status — Draft, Review, Approved, or Locked.
- Generation task history specific to this episode.
Adding an episode
- Open a project and go to the Episodes tab.
- Click Add Episode, enter the episode number and title, and optionally add a synopsis.
- Save. You can now use the Generation Guide to generate the script for this episode.
Knowledge base
Each project has a knowledge base — a collection of documents that are indexed and retrieved automatically during generation. Examples:
- World-building bibles and lore documents.
- Character style guides and dialogue tone references.
- Platform-specific content guidelines.
- Previous episode scripts (for continuity).
Upload documents (PDF, TXT, Markdown) from the project's Knowledge Base tab. The RAG engine indexes them automatically, and relevant passages are injected into generation prompts when appropriate.
Organizing work across projects
Large studios often have dozens of concurrent productions. Use these features to stay organized:
- Tags on projects for quick filtering.
- Pinned projects — pin frequently accessed projects to the top of the list via the project card menu.
- Archive completed or paused productions to keep the active list clean.
- Status filter — use the status dropdown on the project list to show only Development, Production, or Completed projects.