“I wrote the script, broke it down, and watched the shot list build itself - all in one tab. I used to bounce between four apps to do that.”
Screenplay software that writes your script breakdown for you.
A real screenplay editor with Final Draft and Fountain import, revision mode and live collaboration. Every scene heading, character and location flows straight into the breakdown, the schedule and the shot list. No re-typing, no copy-paste.
See the Script editor →Every app, every tier
Twenty connected production apps, one project file.
Every plan from Hobbyist to Enterprise ships the full suite. Tiers differ on seats, monthly credits, cloud storage, white labelling and queue priority - never on capability.
The morning briefing your bond company will read first.
Twelve industry-canonical categories, tagged in seconds.
Top sheet to bottom line. Variance the night before.
Stripboard scheduling your 1st AD will not fight you on.
DPRs, BTS gallery, the on-set log that organises itself.
Auto-built. Email + SMS dispatch. Weather built in.
Roster, deal memos, character bibles. Cross-app synced.
Scouting, permits, logistics. Every scout, mapped.
Inventory + costume continuity in one searchable library.
Picture cars and unit. Insurance, plates, drivers.
Crew + equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.
The screenplay editor that writes the breakdown for you.
Built from your script. Lens, framing, every shot.
Storyboard frame editor. Boards your director will sign.
Professional brushes. GPU canvas. In your browser.
Style-locked image generation. Your own custom artist.
Screenplay to playable animatic in one click.
The launchpad. Every project at a glance.
Every asset, every version, every project. Searchable.
Real-time channels, project-scoped. No more lost threads.
No sign-up needed - step inside a real production (Origin: Ascension) inside the actual app suite. Fully read-only; nothing you touch is saved.
Build your own style - or pick from ours.
The only AI storyboard generator built by a storyboard artist.
Mitchell James Hughes is a visual storyteller who lives between imagination and execution - a working storyboard artist whose craft turns scripts into cinematic moments long before the cameras roll. With nearly two decades across advertising, film, branded content and design, his work is rooted not just in drawing frames, but in emotion, pacing, composition and the language of cinema itself. Using the popular models for his own efficiency, he noticed handfuls of issues - so the StoryboardCanvas AI Artist became the frame brainchild of decades of work. Use chat mode, or deep-dive into the Frame Builder in Director mode, where every dropdown is synced to every detail, item and note, ready to attach to your prompt in seconds. He leaves his line, tone and colour as our signature artist style - pick any of his styles, or train your own AI artist with the style-bible engine, and the Style-Lock Engine holds every frame to that hand: clean line, greyscale tone or full colour.
Twenty frames of a real production - drawn, locked and made in StoryboardCanvas.
The Style-Lock Engine
Pick a style, or build your own - and it stays locked.
Built by the founder - a working artist
Mitchell Hughes, StoryboardCanvas' founder and a working professional storyboard artist, drew the line, tone and colour himself. The look is real craft, not scraped off the internet.
Train your own custom styles
Drop a few reference frames and run AI Style Sync. Your studio look becomes a locked artist you can pick from - exactly like Mitchell's - and reuse on every future board.
A lock no prompt can break
Your locked style sits above your prompt. Ask for photoreal and it stays on style - the locked look always wins, every single frame.
Re-drawn the moment it drifts
Every frame is scored against the reference for line, tone and colour, then automatically re-drawn the instant it falls off the look.
Surgical inpainting
Repaint one corner of a frame and the engine redraws only that region - in the same locked hand, never the whole board.
Synced to your whole project
The Frame Builder pulls every scene, character, prop and note from your project, so a board lands with your script's detail baked in - not a generic prompt.
One locked style, every creative mode:
One frame. Three finishes.
Or lock your own. Drop a few reference frames, run AI Style Sync, and the engine holds every future frame to your studio look - across storyboards, posters, concept art and key art alike.
Early access · in their words
What filmmakers say about StoryboardCanvas.
Producers, directors, writers, storyboard artists and crew pressure-tested the suite through early access. Real people, real roles, in their own words.
“Call sheets that pull straight from the schedule and the breakdown. The day-before scramble is basically gone.”
“The budget and the schedule finally talk to each other. Change a shoot day and the cost report just knows.”
“The draw tools are properly good - real brushes, real layers - and the boards drop straight into the animatic.”
“One project file from first draft to wrap. My team stopped emailing versions around because there's only ever one source of truth.”
“I plan coverage in the shot list and the AI artist renders the frame in our locked style. It's a real previs loop, not a toy.”
“Cast, locations, props, vehicles - every department in one place, and they cross-reference each other. No more spreadsheet archaeology.”
“I replaced Final Draft, StudioBinder and Movie Magic with one subscription. The maths made the decision for me.”
“The animatic exports clean to my NLE with timings intact. Handover used to lose half a day to reformatting.”
“The shoot diary logs scenes against the breakdown as we go. By wrap I had a DPR my financiers actually read.”
“Dolly knows the whole project - she'll draft a breakdown, flag a continuity gap, then critique the boards. It feels like a real second pair of eyes.”
“Self-tapes, deal memos, availability, all tied to the characters in the script. The casting chaos finally has a home.”
Dolly AI, your AI production assistant - omnipresent across every app and surface, text, data and images, so you don't have to be.
Dolly reads your project once - script, breakdown, schedule, call sheets, storyboards, every connected app - and stays mounted on every page from there. And she remembers: locked creative decisions, your standing taste, the bible of your film, carried between sessions.
Ask her anything and she answers from your live production data, not a guess - then offers to act on it. Agent mode proposes the addition; nothing is written until you approve it. Flip on double-check and she scores her own answer against the project's real facts before you ever see it. And when a question belongs to a specialist, she brings in the family - Marlowe on script, Sable on the money, Cass on the day, Indra on casting, Vee on continuity.
The decisions are yours. The repetitive work - the re-typing, the cross-checking, the "wait, did I update that everywhere?" - is what Dolly's there to take. On every paid plan, in every app.
Reads your whole project
Script, breakdown, schedule, cast, locations - all in sync. Edit one, the rest follow.
Remembers your film
Locked decisions, your standing taste, the creative bible - carried between sessions, for the whole production.
Acts - with your approval
Agent mode answers from live project data and proposes additions. Nothing is written until you approve each one.
Checks her own work
Flip on double-check and every substantial answer is scored against your project's real facts - and revised - before you see it.
Brings in the family
Marlowe (script), Sable (line producer), Cass (1st AD), Indra (casting), Vee (continuity) - specialists one click away.
Sees the boards, briefs the morning
Director's notes on your storyboard frames, plus a risk-ordered production briefing whenever you ask.
AGENT MODE - ask → she proposes with a field-by-field preview → you approve in one click → undo in one click. Plus the proactive modes: hourly production watch, a morning briefing, and a weekly director's review of your boards. She can even read the open web and bring back the references.
Every AI action shows its price before you click and charges only on success - quick chat starts at a quarter of a credit.
Dolly in every app
WORKING IN THE BACKGROUND
She keeps watch on the whole production while you sleep.
Hourly production watch
Scans every active project against its own risk rules - unsigned deal memos, a shoot day under-staffed, a budget line about to break - and flags it before it costs you.
Morning briefing
Each day she assembles what needs your attention - self-checked against your real production data - and drops it straight into your notifications.
Weekly board review
She looks at your storyboards with a director's eye and leaves notes on composition, coverage and continuity drift - a standing review you never have to ask for.
Approval inbox
Every change she proposes waits in an inbox, across sessions - approve, undo, or dismiss whenever you're ready. Nothing is written without your say-so.
Plan, then execute
Hand her a multi-step goal and she drafts the plan; one approval runs the whole thing, checkpointed so it resumes exactly where it left off.
Production memory
She remembers locked creative decisions and your standing taste between sessions, and tidies her own memory each week so it sharpens instead of bloating.
Background work is platform-gentle and never spends a credit without an owner - and you can turn any of it on or off per project.
Twenty apps. One project. Zero replacements.
Built for filmmakers who want their tools to talk to each other and their AI to work for them, not over them. From £15/month - script to screen, on one bill.
Your film production software gets measurably better every fortnight, free, for the life of your project.
Bi-weekly cadence. Public roadmap. Honest changelog. Every quality-of-life upgrade ships to every plan, retroactively. Here's the actual board.
All data and claims within this website are based on current software. Go have a look around in our read-only DEMO - please note some of the apps need a paid subscription. Track the developers in the changelog. Thanks for the on-going support - every share helps us keep the prices where they are.
Every app in the suite, from script to shoot day.
Each app carries its own colour in the in-app nav so you always know where you are. The project file underneath stays one - change a scene heading and every other app updates with you.
The page a producer keeps open every morning.
Ten apps for breakdown, budget, schedule, cast, crew, locations, props, vehicles, equipment, and the diary that saves your bond company.
Breakdown
AI script breakdown software, in one pass.
- Full-script AI breakdown in a single pass, batched in parallel
- 12 industry-standard colour categories (StudioBinder-compatible)
- Scene view and grid view, filterable by category
- One-click push to Cast, Props, Vehicles, and Schedule
- Manual overrides preserved across re-runs
Producer
Production office software, automated.
- Eight-tile scorecard auto-rolled every morning by 6am
- Hot Cost auto-rolled from yesterday’s wrap
- AI overtime predictor
- AI Daily Production Report narrative
- Weekly Cost Report PDF
Budget
Film budget software, tax credits to bid.
- Twelve-tab budget module
- Tax Incentive Estimator
- Fringe Matrix
- Cashflow Schedule
- AICP Bid Builder
Cast
Cast management with a self-tape portal.
- Auto-extracted character list from your screenplay
- Actor profiles with headshots, reels, conflicts, and rate cards
- Availability calendar that flags double-bookings
- Continuity photos and wardrobe notes per scene
- Casting Portal
Locations
Location management and scouting.
- Interactive map with pins for every scouted location
- Permit status chips
- AI Artist location concept renders
- Insurance, contact, fee tracking with 30-day expiry alerts
- Tech-scout photo galleries with annotations + lightbox EXIF
Props
Prop management and costume continuity.
- AI-extracted props list from your script
- AI Artist prop concept renders
- Source tracking: own / rent / buy / build
- Per-item budget, vendor, and return date
- Scene assignment with conflict alerts
Vehicles
Picture-car and unit-vehicle management.
- Picture-car and crew-transport tracking
- Driver assignment with call times
- Insurance and registration expiration alerts
- Parking maps embedded in call sheets
- Fuel, mileage, and return-condition logs
Calendar
Film scheduling with a stripboard.
- Eight views
- DOOD (Day-Out-of-Days) report for every actor
- 1st AD Agent
- Dolly day-order optimizer
- Company-move and meal-break awareness
Call Sheet
Call sheet software, auto-generated.
- Auto-fill from Schedule, Cast, Locations, Vehicles
- SMS dispatch with one-tap RSVP
- Pickup, makeup, wardrobe, and set-call times
- Weather, sunrise/sunset, and nearest-hospital lookup (auto-geocoded)
- Signed public share tokens
Shoot
Equipment and crew, on shoot day.
- Gear inventory
- Crew roster
- Live intelligence bands
- Production overview strip
- Embedded Call Sheet, Budget, and Breakdown modules
Diary
Production diary, DPRs and continuity.
- 11 view modes
- Live Continuity Tablet
- Costume + Makeup Continuity capture
- Shoot-day sidebar with one-click filter
- BTS photo and video uploads with scene linking + lightbox
The creative spine - script to animatic, end to end.
Six apps for the writers, directors, DPs, and visual storytellers - with DollyAI™ riding shotgun the whole way.
Script
Screenplay software that writes the breakdown.
- Typed screenplay blocks with Tab cycling
- Scene headings, dual dialogue, parentheticals
- Revision mode with locked numbers and colored pages
- Watermarked distribution
- AI Clearance Scanner
Shotlist
AI shot list with lens planning.
- Full shot grammar: angle, size, lens, movement
- Cinematography parameters per row
- Lens × Sensor × Shot Validator
- Lighting and sound notes per shot
- Setup time estimates feed the schedule
Editor
Storyboard editor and frame canvas.
- Drag, snap, group, and layer frames on a pixel canvas
- Smart alignment guides and auto-spacing
- Camera-movement overlays
- Frame → AI animatic clip → schedule loop
- Scene and sequence templates for pitch decks
Draw
Pro storyboard drawing software.
- Stock ABR brush library + brush studio with full settings controls
- Custom Tip Painter
- Custom Texture Creator
- Trade brushes in .sbcd
- Adobe .abr brush import
AI Artist
AI storyboard generator, style-locked.
- Frame Builder pulls every choice from your production
- Built by storyboard artists
- No throwaway character bible to hand-build
- Choose the look once
- Eight generation modes
Animate
Storyboard to animatic software.
- One-click: frames + camera arrows + script timing -> animatic
- 27 camera presets + 9 transitions + proper timeline editor (trim, ripple, snap)
- Onion skinning + auto-tweening across keyframes
- Aspect-ratio templates (16:9, 21:9 anamorphic, 9:16 social, 1:1) with safe-zone overlays
- Multiple stacked audio tracks
The shared layer underneath every app.
Dashboard, files, team chat, cloud library - the connective tissue every other app rides on.
Dashboard
Production dashboard for every project.
- All active productions with phase and health
- Today's call sheets and approvals queue
- Dolly's daily brief
- Cross-project search and recent-file jump list
- Role-aware
Files
Production file manager and asset library.
- Full version history on every asset
- Never-lose-saves
- Linked previews across script, storyboard, and shot list
- Drag-in imports and drag-out exports
- Search by scene, character, prop, or date
Team Chat
Production team chat, per department.
- Channels, DMs, and threaded replies
- Comments anchored to script lines and frames
- @mentions, approvals, and audit trails
- Presence indicators and live cursors
- Read receipts on call sheets and sides
Cloud Library
Cloud asset library, every project.
- Cloud-synced project files across every device
- Reusable character, location, and prop libraries
- Shared reference boards and locked style profiles
- Per-project or per-studio visibility controls
- Offline-first
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