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HKUDS released ViMax — a multi-agent video generation framework that combines four specialized roles into one end-to-end pipeline: Director, Screenwriter, Producer, and Video Generator. Input a concept, output a multi-shot video with consistent characters and scenes.

## The agent roles

Each agent owns a discrete stage. Screenwriter drafts the script from your concept. Director plans storyboards and shot composition. Producer handles character creation and scene continuity across cuts. Video Generator stitches everything into the final render. The framework keeps character identity and scene grammar consistent across shots — a problem that breaks single-prompt video models the moment scenes run longer than 10 seconds.

## Why multi-agent helps

Single-shot prompt-to-video models like Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 handle one continuous scene well but struggle to maintain consistency across cuts. ViMax’s bet is that splitting the pipeline into specialized agents — each holding partial state — delivers long-form coherence. From the same HKUDS team that shipped CLI-Anything earlier this week, their Claude Code plugin for turning any software agent-native.

## Why it matters

Hollywood-style multi-shot storytelling has been the obvious gap in AI video. ViMax is one of the first credible attempts to bridge it by orchestration rather than waiting for a single bigger model to solve everything. 2,700 GitHub stars and counting.