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AI storyboard generator in your exact locked style.

Open the Frame Builder and your production is already in it - the cast in the scene, their wardrobe and hair and make-up, the location, the props, the time of day - pulled straight from the apps you've filled in. Built by storyboard artists, so there's no blank prompt box. Choose the look once, generate in any of eight modes, and send it straight to the storyboard.

See the AI Artist
The AI Artist chat mode: the user asked for a wide storyboard frame of a lone astronaut kneeling at the lip of a vast crater with a distant ringed planet, and the artist returned it as a clean monochrome line-style frame in the locked house style, with Send to Editor, Send to Animate, Download, Add to Cloud and Edit actions beneath it.
The AI Artist Direction studio showing the creative-mode tabs - storyboard frame, concept art, theatrical poster, streaming key art, mood board, EPK still, lower-third, title card and production design - the locked artist roster with Mitchell and a custom Origin Boards artist, the AI Style Sync control, two storyboard frame galleries, and the Frame Builder dropdowns down the side.
The AI Artist Style Manifesto setup panel with fields for the style description, do's and don'ts and reference notes, a grid of reference storyboard frames, and an AI Style Sync 'style analysed' control with a preview-render button.
Chat & Generate
Ask for a frame in plain words and it comes back on-model in your locked style, ready to send to the storyboard editor, to Animate, or to the cloud.

What's inside AI Artist

AI storyboard generator, style-locked.

  • Frame Builder pulls every choice from your production - scene, shot, cast, wardrobe, hair and make-up, location, props, vehicles, time of day and weather
  • Built by storyboard artists - it speaks shot language (lens, angle, framing, movement), not just prompts
  • No throwaway character bible to hand-build - your Cast app and breakdown already feed it
  • Choose the look once - built-in Mitchell (LINE, TONE, COLOUR) or your own uploaded reference - and it holds every frame
  • Eight generation modes - storyboard frame, theatrical poster, streaming key art, concept painting, mood board, EPK still, lower-third, title card
  • Up to 4 custom artists from your own references, scoped per project so two shows never bleed
  • Same character, every frame - face, wardrobe, hair and make-up carried from the Cast app
  • Surgical inpainting from the Draw suite - mask a region, describe the fix, the rest stays untouched
  • One-click Send to Editor or Animate - the frame lands with its scene linkage intact
  • A/B compare, saved Collections, batch generation, and stale-frame flags when a scene changes
Get started Replaces: a dozen browser tabs and half a dozen paid AI subscriptions

The pipeline

Where AI Artist sits in the production flow.

The on-model image factory, fed by everything upstream. The Frame Builder reads the shot list (lens, angle, framing, movement), the breakdown (cast, props, vehicles, location), the Cast app (wardrobe, hair and make-up) and the scene (time of day, weather) - so the prompt is already written before you touch it. Choose the look once, generate against a real scene, and send to the editor or the animatic with one click.

This app

AI Artist

Owned by: Director + Storyboard artist

Feeds downstream into

Inside the app

Every shipped feature, fully wired.

Each block below maps a real shipped capability to the workflow it powers. No vapourware, no coming-soon.

Fed by your whole production - the Frame Builder writes the prompt for you

Open the Frame Builder and your film is already in it. Pick a scene and it pulls the cast in that scene, their wardrobe and hair and make-up from the Cast app, the location and its time of day and weather, and the props and vehicles from the breakdown - every dropdown pre-filled from the apps you already built. Pick a shot and the lens, angle, framing, movement and lighting come across too. You're not describing a frame from a blank box; you're choosing from what your production already knows.

  • Scene picker pulls the cast, props, vehicles and location from the breakdown
  • Shot picker brings the lens, angle, framing, movement and lighting from the shot list
  • Each character's look - wardrobe, hair and make-up - travels from the Cast app
  • Environmental conditions - interior/exterior, day/night, weather - read from the scene and location
  • Every choice is a dropdown, not a paragraph you have to type

Built by storyboard artists - no throwaway character bibles

Every other AI storyboard tool is a generic image model behind a text box, and most make you hand-build a character bible from scratch before you can draw a single frame - hours of prompt-engineering you throw away at the end of the job. Ours was designed by storyboard artists. It speaks shot language, and it's fed by the cast, breakdown and locations you already filled in - so there's no bible to build. The work you did in the other apps is the bible.

  • Designed by storyboard artists, not a generic model bolted onto a prompt box
  • No character bible to hand-build - your Cast app and breakdown are the bible
  • Speaks shot language: lens, angle, framing, movement, coverage
  • Fed by the collaboration across the suite, not by throwaway prompts
  • The hours you'd waste prompt-wrangling go back into the work

Choose your look once - Mitchell or your own artist

Pick the look one time and it holds across every frame, scene and mode. Use the built-in Mitchell artist - three signature modes, LINE (graphite line, no fill), TONE (line plus grayscale marker wash) and COLOUR (line plus muted watercolour) - or upload your own reference images as a custom artist. A quality pass checks each frame against your chosen look before you ever see it, and the lock is scoped per project so two shows never bleed into each other.

  • Built-in Mitchell artist: LINE, TONE, COLOUR
  • Or up to 4 custom artists from your own reference images
  • The look holds across every frame, scene and mode - no drift
  • Per-project - your Tuesday show and Wednesday show never mix
  • A quality pass rejects off-look frames before you see them

Eight modes - beyond the storyboard frame

Storyboard frame, theatrical poster, streaming key art, concept painting, mood board, EPK still, lower-third and title card - eight modes, each with its own composition, aspect ratio and finish. The same production context flows into every one, so your poster and your boards share the same world.

  • Storyboard frame (16:9 / 21:9 / 9:16 / 1:1)
  • Poster - 2:3 vertical, theatrical one-sheet, bottom 25% reserved for typography
  • Key art - 16:9 streaming hero, negative-space-aware
  • Concept - production-grade environment and character paintings
  • Mood board - 4-cell 2×2 reference grid on neutral grey
  • EPK still - photo-real press-kit, anamorphic lens flares
  • Lower-third and title card - TV graphics with transparent alpha

Same character, every frame - the continuity engine

Lock a character once and the engine keeps the same face, wardrobe, hair and make-up across every frame, every scene and every mode - anchored to the Cast app and the character's profile, not to a prompt you have to repeat. Zero face-drift across a 200-frame deck. Rename or delete a scene and the affected frames surface for review.

  • Anchored to the Cast row and character profile
  • Face, wardrobe, hair and make-up held across scenes
  • Reads correctly in every artist mode
  • Zero face-drift across a 200-frame deck
  • Stale-frame detection when a scene heading changes

Inpainting - surgical edits without re-generating

Live from the Draw suite. Paint a mask with any brush, describe what should fill it, and the AI replaces only that region while keeping the rest of the frame untouched. Text-prompt or freeform mask, your chosen look preserved, and every edit reversible.

  • Mask painted with any Draw brush, or a freeform lasso
  • Text-prompt the replacement - "add a window", "remove the prop"
  • Only the masked region changes; the rest stays byte-identical
  • Your chosen look carries across the inpaint
  • Inpaint history per frame - every edit reversible
Generate the look

No blank prompt box, your film instead.

There is no empty box to fight. The cast, their wardrobe, the location and the light are already in the frame because the other apps told it - so what comes out looks like your film, in the one style you locked.
AI Artist app for StoryboardCanvas film production software - AI storyboard generator, style-locked.

DollyAI™ in this app

AI commands wired into AI Artist.

A few of the 200+ DollyAI commands across the suite, here in AI Artist. Every one shows its credit cost before you commit, and every response is anchored in your real project - not a generic prompt.

Generate frame

25 cr

An on-model frame against the active scene - cast, location, props and look already pulled in. Mitchell or any custom artist, any of the 8 modes.

Inpaint

5 cr

Surgical edit of a masked region - the rest of the frame stays untouched.

Lock a custom artist

12 cr

Reads your reference images and locks the look. Hash-cached - unchanged re-syncs are free.

Recalibrate

4 cr

Re-anchors a custom artist if its look starts to drift. Per-style, per-project.

Character continuity check

3 cr

Cross-frame check that the same character reads as the same character across the deck.

Mood-aware prompt fragment

1 cr

Sets the tone - gritty, dreamy, comedic - while keeping the chosen look intact.

Custom-artist preview

2 cr

Quick low-res preview of a custom artist's look before you commit the full lock.

Frequently asked

Common questions about AI Artist.

Do I have to build a character bible before I can use it?

No - that's the whole point. Every other AI storyboard tool makes you hand-build a bible from scratch. Ours is fed by the work you've already done: the cast, the breakdown, the locations. Open the Frame Builder, pick a scene, and the cast, wardrobe, hair and make-up, location, props and vehicles are already there.

Where do a frame's details come from?

From your production. The Frame Builder reads the shot list (lens, angle, framing, movement), the breakdown (cast, props, vehicles, location), the Cast app (wardrobe, hair and make-up) and the scene (time of day, weather). You choose from dropdowns; the prompt builds itself - no blank box.

What makes it different from Midjourney, Runway or LTX?

It was built by storyboard artists, and it's fed by your whole production. Those tools are general image models behind a prompt box - you bring every detail and rebuild a character bible each time. Here the cast, locations, props and shot data you already entered feed every frame, and the look you choose holds across the whole deck.

Will the same character look the same in every frame?

Yes. The continuity engine anchors face, wardrobe, hair and make-up to the Cast row and character profile - not to a prompt you repeat. The same Sarah in scene 1 reads as the same Sarah in scene 200, in every mode.

Can I create my own artists?

Yes - up to 4 custom artists per account. Each has 3 named style slots (your labels) and takes your own reference images. The AI reads them and locks the look; unchanged re-syncs are free. Or just use the built-in Mitchell (LINE / TONE / COLOUR).

Can I edit a generated frame without regenerating from scratch?

Yes. Surgical inpaint is live from the Draw suite - paint a mask with any brush, describe what should fill it, and only that region changes while the rest of the frame stays byte-identical. Your chosen look carries across.

Which deliverables can it make besides storyboard frames?

Eight modes: storyboard frame, theatrical poster, streaming key art, concept painting, mood board, EPK still, lower-third and title card - each with its own composition, aspect ratio and finish, and all fed by the same production context so they share one world.

The Promise

AI Artist is on every tier.

No locked features, no Pro-only exports, no surprise paywalls. Every AI Artist tool on this page ships on every plan - Hobbyist to Enterprise.

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