Black Forest Labs has named filmmaker Martin Scorsese as an adviser and is highlighting a storyboard workflow built around its FLUX model, positioning the partnership as a way to connect AI tools with cinematic production.

The company said Scorsese will help shape what it calls "visual intelligence," a broader effort to build models that can reason across physical and digital contexts. Black Forest Labs said the technology could be useful not only for filmmakers, but also for architects, designers, engineers and other creative professionals.

In a post announcing the collaboration, the company said it met with Scorsese for a working storyboarding session using FLUX. Scorsese described the longstanding challenge of turning ideas in a director’s head into something a cast and crew can see and respond to. He said the ability to make those ideas visible is important because some creative decisions need to be seen and felt rather than only described.

Black Forest Labs said Scorsese wants to use FLUX to bring ideas to life while keeping human taste, values and judgment central to the process. The company framed the relationship as advisory, with Scorsese helping guide its work on visual intelligence.

The director also discussed how the tool could fit into film pre-production. According to the company, he said FLUX lets him share visual concepts more clearly and quickly with the production designer, art director and cinematographer so they can build on them. He said that the ability to visualize and immediately share storyboard ideas felt creatively freeing and could help teams move faster without sacrificing quality or craft.

Scorsese also linked the collaboration to a broader history of technology in filmmaking. In remarks published by the company, he pointed to earlier uses of 3D in Hugo and de-aging technology in The Irishman as examples of how new tools can expand storytelling possibilities. He said cinema is still a relatively young medium and should remain open to change as it evolves.

The announcement arrives as AI companies increasingly court high-profile creative figures to lend credibility to their products and influence their development. In Black Forest Labs’ case, the Scorsese partnership appears aimed at showing how generative visual tools might support pre-production work, especially storyboarding, where speed and clarity can matter as much as visual detail.

Black Forest Labs did not provide technical details about any product changes tied to the collaboration, but it used the announcement to showcase FLUX as part of a larger creative workflow rather than a standalone image tool. The company described its mission as advancing visual intelligence for "every craft" and said it sees the technology as a foundation for future work across entertainment and other industries.

The company also invited visitors to follow future FLUX model updates and press inquiries through its website.