From boards to animatic

Turn Storyboards into Animatics. In One Tool.

Build, time, and share animatics from your existing boards. The pre-pro tool agencies and brand teams use to lock pacing before the edit.
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Revisions are cheap on a board, expensive on a shoot

A board revision costs ten minutes. A reshoot costs a day, a crew, and a client relationship. Boords turns the board into a timed animatic in one click, so pacing gets signed off before anyone opens an editor.
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Boords storyboard view of the scene
Boords animatic view of the same scene with timeline and audio
Timeline

Build animatics without leaving your storyboard

Upload audio, set timing, preview the sequence, and keep every storyboard edit connected to the animatic automatically.

Integrated Animatic Timeline

Upload your soundtrack or voiceover and time out your animatic with the zoomable timeline.

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Instant, Distraction-Free Playback

Play your animatic as a full-screen video without leaving Boords. Perfect for presentations.

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Keep Your Animatic & Storyboard in Sync

Need to add, move, or delete frames in your storyboard? Any storyboard edits automatically appear in your animatic, too.

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Workflow

From script to sign-off in three steps

Add your script or brief, build the storyboard frames, then turn the sequence into an animatic your team and clients can review.
Boords AI Script Import UI
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Add your script or brief

Paste your script or client brief and we'll convert it into a structured storyboard automatically.

Boords AI Storyboard Generator Preview
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Upload or generate images

Generate images with AI or upload your own stills, then adjust frames until the story works.

Boords Collaborative Storyboarding UI Preview
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Share for review & sign-off

Share a link with clients, collect frame-level comments, and get your storyboard signed off.

Hope Morley
Boords helps us create a consistent look and feel for all our boards, and saves our art directors from wasting time futzing with layouts. It helps us spend time on the creative, not the formatting. It's every creative's dream.
Hope Morley/COO at Umault
Integrations

Connect preproduction to the rest of your stack

Use Boords as the sign-off layer while your production tools, AI agents, and internal systems stay in sync around the work.
Public API

Build storyboards from your own pipeline

Create projects, import scripts, update frames, manage comments, and keep storyboard data moving between Boords and the tools your team already uses.

Webhooks

React the moment work changes

Send signed event notifications to your services when projects, storyboards, frames, or comments change, then process updates without polling.

Production

Everything your team needs after the first cut

Add camera moves, manage versions, use stock or AI-generated imagery, and export presentation-ready animatics from one workspace.

Built-In Camera Moves

Our predefined, industry-standard camera movement indicators make your directorial vision crystal-clear.

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Simple Versioning

Effortlessly iterate on your storyboards with simple version management. Create new versions, complete with existing feedback, in seconds.

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Stock Library & AI Image Generator

Search millions of free-to-use images without leaving your storyboard using our Unsplash and Iconfinder integrations, or generate images with our AI Image Generator.

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Multiple Export Formats

Export your storyboards as presentation-ready PDFs, PNG files, and even MP4 animatics.

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Boords automatically does the tedious work caused by rearranging frames of a storyboard. We can do more trial and error without stress and be more creative.
Boords helps us streamline our storyboarding process and makes it easy to produce storyboards the way we want to. Our clients can provide feedback easily and it's effortless for us to make changes as needed, letting us focus on the creative.
Boords made storyboarding faster, flexible and above all, easy to collaborate on. It's adding so much value to the ultimate goal of bringing stories to life.
Online animatics for faster sign-off

Create your next animatic in Boords

Turn storyboard frames into a timed animatic, collect feedback, and export production-ready files from the same place.

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Boords storyboard software interface