How It Works

Script to screen, end to end.

Twenty synchronized apps in one project file. Type a scene, get a shotlist, generate frames, time the animatic, hand off a PPM pack — every step picks up exactly where the last left off.

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Step inside a real production.

Browse Origin: Ascension across the entire app suite — script to storyboards to call sheets — exactly as a crew left it.

No sign-upFully read-onlyA finished production loadedBest on tablet, laptop or desktop

What ships today

The numbers behind the suite.

Every figure below is live in the product today — counted from the running code, not the marketing deck.

20apps

Synchronized main apps.

Every surface a production needs, every one tied to the same source of truth — script through wrap.

22mini apps

Sub-tools and ladder pages.

Callbacks, deal memos, share links, version history, audit logs, audition rounds, admin surfaces — the production utilities that live inside the main apps.

174commands

DollyAI™ actions across the suite.

174 distinct AI actions across script coverage, breakdown tagging, shot suggestions, schedule optimisation, style-locked image gen, continuity sentinel, voice memos — every one priced before you commit, served by 460 API routes.

655KLoC

Engineered in-house.

655,279 lines of TypeScript + React across app/, lib/, components/ — no licensed engines, no third-party SaaS wrappers. The whole stack is ours, the whole roadmap is ours.

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Covers every app.

One account, one project file, one bill. Final Draft, StudioBinder, Movie Magic, Boords, Frame.io, the AI image tools — all collapsed in.

Any device — Mac, PC, iPad, ChromebookNo downloads, no installsAuto-updates, always latestReal-time collaboration built in

Script to Screen

The pipeline at a glance.

Eight stages, two tracks. Producer hands off to Director, Director hands back to Producer. Each card shows the surface that owns it and the apps it feeds downstream.

STEP 01 · BOTH TRACKS

Write the Script

Draft your screenplay in the Script app — typed-block editor, revision mode, readthrough, real-time co-writing. DollyAI™ already reads every line as you type.

Script · Breakdown
STEP 02 · PRODUCER

Break It Down

DollyAI™ runs the 12-category breakdown across the full script and pipes every tagged element — cast, locations, props, vehicles — into the right producer app. Review, refine, approve.

Breakdown · Cast · Locations · Props · Vehicles
STEP 03 · DIRECTOR

Build the Shotlist

Plan coverage shot by shot — angle, lens, movement, lighting. DollyAI™ suggests coverage from the beats. Every shot stays linked to its scene.

Shotlist · Script
STEP 04 · DIRECTOR

Storyboard the Frames

Pick the default Mitchell signature artist style — our in-house style profile — or upload your own references and let DollyAI™ lock that look across the project. Refine in Canvas Draw, lay out in the Editor, preview motion in Animate.

Editor · Draw · AI Artist · Animate
STEP 05 · PRODUCER

Budget & Schedule

Six-tab Budget tied to breakdown line items. Calendar with stripboard, DOOD, and the DollyAI™ day-order optimiser. Shoot app tracks gear and the 16-department crew roster.

Budget · Calendar · Shoot
STEP 06 · PRODUCER

Call Sheets Out

Daily call sheets build themselves from Schedule, Cast, Locations, and Vehicles. Weather, sunrise, hospital, pickup times — all auto-filled. SMS and email dispatch with read receipts.

Call Sheet · Cast · Locations
STEP 07 · BOTH TRACKS

Shoot Day

Run the day from the Shoot app on any device. Diary logs BTS media, scene completion, and daily progress. DollyAI™ summarises each day into a shareable crew recap.

Shoot · Diary · Call Sheet · Team Chat
STEP 08 · DIRECTOR

Animate & Wrap

Render approved boards as a motion animatic with timed VO. Export DPRs, wrap notes, and the full production bible in one click for post and insurance.

Animate · Diary · Files
Write · Script

It starts with the script.

Write in a professional screenplay editor, then let the breakdown tag every prop, cast member, location and effect — scene by scene, in seconds. One source of truth feeds every app downstream.

See the Script writer →
Screenwriting app — professional screenplay editor with a live scene navigator and an AI writing assistant.
THE FULL PIPELINE

Script to shotlist to storyboard to animatic — ready for PPM or shoot.

No other tool carries your project continuously from first draft all the way to a timed animatic and a PPM-ready deliverable. Type a scene, get a shotlist, generate frames with the Draw suite or the AI Artist, drop them straight into the storyboard editor, time the animatic, and hand off a pre-production meeting pack — or walk straight onto set.

01

Script

Full word-processing suite

02

Shotlist

Break it down

03

Generate

Draw or AI Artist

04

Storyboard

Compose the deck

05

Animatic

Time it, play it

06

Ready

For PPM or Shoot

Script → Shotlist (one click)

Write inside a full screenplay word-processing suite — typed blocks, dual dialogue, scene navigator, revision mode, comments, approvals, FDX/Fountain/Celtx/PDF/RTF import+export. Full-screenplay bulk-parse streams through DollyAI™ and delivers a structured shotlist per scene — shot type, lens, description, order — with per-scene credit accounting.

Shotlist → Generated frames

Every shot auto-wires to the generator of your choice: our world-beating Draw suite for hand-illustrated frames, or the style-locked AI Artist for instant on-model coverage.

Frames → Storyboard Editor

Generated or hand-drawn frames flow straight into the Storyboard Editor with scene linkage preserved. Re-order, pair, duplicate, re-generate in place, add camera arrows, add notes.

Storyboard → Animatic

Send the whole deck to Animate for a timed animatic — 27 camera presets, 9 transitions, audio, and one-click FFmpeg MP4 export. The same project file. No re-import, no re-entry.

…and the rest of the pipeline

The vast Producer Suite that turns a deck into a shoot.

An animatic is half the story. Every module below is a full production app — each one talks to the script, the breakdown, the schedule, and the cast graph automatically. Zero copy-paste between apps. Zero out-of-date versions in the Slack thread. One file, top to bottom.

Breakdown

12-category industry colour coding. Cast, props, wardrobe, VFX, vehicles, SFX — auto-tagged per scene.

Schedule

Stripboard, DOOD, day-order optimizer, shoot-day tracking with live cast availability.

Call Sheet

Auto-fills from shoot day. Weather, pickups, hospital. PDF + email dispatch to the whole crew.

Cast

Profiles, availability, deal memos, character refs, casting coverage. The full character continuity graph.

Locations

Scout, permit, logistics, travel-matrix planning. Scene-to-location matching with Dolly assistance.

Props

Hero + background props, costume continuity, hire management, status tracking, scene refs.

Vehicles

Picture cars + unit vehicles, insurance, driver assignments, plate tracking, scene alerts.

Shoot

13-category gear inventory + 16-department crew roster. Shoot-day readiness at a glance.

Budget

6-tab Cost Report / Variance / Forecast / Top Sheet / POs / Petty Cash with 6 production-type templates.

Diary

Daily Production Reports (DPRs), 11 view modes, BTS media capture, scene completion logging.

Crew

16-department roster with roles, rates, deals, call-sheet auto-inclusion, departmental view.

Files

Versioned project files, sections, comments, deliverable tracking. Every document, audit-trailed.

Plus Team Chat, Review + Share Tokens, Notifications, Team Roster, and the full Files / Cloud system — all synchronised across every app.

AI Storyboard Generation · vs the field

Our frame generation vs. every other option

Most "AI storyboard" tools are one of two things: a generic image generator with a storyboard template, or a static deck tool with a generator tacked on. StoryboardCanvas is the only system where a single project file carries the generated frame directly into a shotlist, a storyboard editor, and an animatic — with character continuity, style lock, and scene linkage preserved through every step.

Capability
StoryboardCanvas
Midjourney
Generic AI
Boords AI
Boards SaaS
LTX Studio
AI video
Storyboarder
Desktop app
Style lock across all frames
Locked style bible + on-model QA rescore
Style refs (--sref), drift remains
Per-board art style
Elements keep look, shot-scope
No AI generation
Character continuity
Character graph + reference lock, project-wide
Omni-Reference, one image
Character Guidelines (built-in)
Elements, auto-extracted
No AI generation
Generated from script automatically
Full-screenplay bulk parse → frames
Manual prompts per frame
Paste script → scene frames
Script → scenes + shots
Manual only
Eight generation modes — board, poster, key art, concept, EPK
One engine, eight modes
Freeform image only
Boards only
Video shots only
Boards only
Inpaint / region edit on a frame
In-app inpaint + reference injection
Vary Region (inpaint)
No
Retake (reshape a shot)
Manual redraw
Hand-drawing on top of generated frame
Draw suite in the same file
None
Basic shapes only
None
Yes (desktop)
Real art brushes
450+ brushes + paper textures, custom builder
N/A
N/A
N/A
Pencil / pen only
Frame → scene-linked shotlist → schedule
One project file, auto-sync
Export + copy-paste
Boards only
Video timeline only
No scheduling
Storyboard → timed animatic in same app
Animate module, 27 camera presets
No
Built-in animatic
Video native
No
Producer tools (budget, call sheet, cast)
Full Producer Suite included
None
None
None
None
Credits included in base plan
Yes — every tier includes credits
Subscription, fast-hours
Per-plan generation cap
Compute credits / seconds
Free, no AI
Real-time team collaboration
Presence, comments, review tokens
No
Comments + share links
Team workspaces
Single-user

Based on publicly documented feature sets as of May 2026. Competitor capabilities change; we refresh this table when they do.

The Suite

The complete suite. One project file. Zero re-entry.

Change a scene heading once - breakdown, schedule, call sheets, and storyboards all update themselves.

Producer Stack · 11 Apps

Breakdown

AI tags every prop, costume, and SFX in seconds. No more hand-tagging.

Producer

The production cockpit. EFC + variance + hot-cost + bond reports + EPK — every morning, by 6am.

Budget

Top sheet to bottom line. Six templates. Variance in real time.

Cast

Roster, deal memos, availability, character bibles. The cast book, automated.

Locations

Scouting, permits, logistics. Every shoot location, mapped and ready.

Props

Inventory plus costume continuity, in one searchable library.

Vehicles

Picture cars and unit vehicles. Insurance, plates, drivers, scene refs.

Calendar

Stripboard scheduling. Eight views. The one tool your AD will not fight you on.

Call Sheet

Auto-generated from your schedule. SMS dispatch. Weather built in.

Shoot

Crew plus equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.

Diary

Production diary, DPRs, BTS gallery. The crew log that organises itself.

Shoot · On set

Everything the floor needs.

Gear across 13 categories, crew across every department, call sheets and the daily production diary — the on-set source of truth, on any tablet, even when the signal drops.

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On-set Shoot hub — gear inventory across 13 categories and the full crew roster for a feature production.

Under the hood

Built for real productions

The systems behind the surface — the data model, the AI layer, and the production-grade exports that make this work on a real set.

The Producer Stack

Script → Breakdown → Schedule

Six production apps that share one database. The script changes, the breakdown updates, the schedule rebalances, the call sheet re-renders — automatically.

  • Write app with revision mode and industry-colored pages
  • Breakdown with AI-tagged props, wardrobe, VFX, stunts
  • Real stripboard with DOOD and day-order optimizer
  • Auto-generated call sheets with SMS/email delivery
The Director Stack

The Director's Canvas

Six creative apps from screenplay to shotlist to storyboard to animatic. Draw by hand, generate with AI Artist, or mix both — all on the same canvas.

  • Full screenplay editor with typed blocks
  • Shotlist with angle, lens, and movement metadata
  • Editor canvas with drag-snap, layers, and presenter mode
  • Draw app: GPU-accelerated painting at 60fps
Your Co-Pilot

DollyAI™, in every app

A filmmaker's assistant that reads your script, respects your style, and suggests the right move at the right moment. One Dolly, every app, zero drift.

  • Reads every document in your project
  • Suggests coverage, schedules, and continuity fixes
  • Holds your art style across every AI frame
  • Explains every suggestion with an audit trail
The Whole Roof

One synchronized suite

Everything shares one project file. Change a scene heading and the breakdown, schedule, call sheet, and storyboard all know. No more re-entering the same information in five tools.

  • One project = script + boards + schedule + callsheets
  • Change propagation across every app
  • Versioned Files app with never-lose-saves
  • Role-aware dashboards for producers and directors
Production-Grade

Shoot-day ready

Call sheets that deliver themselves. Schedules that optimize themselves. Exports that match industry-standard formats. Built for real productions, not hobby projects.

  • Auto-distributed call sheets via email and SMS
  • Stripboard + DOOD + company-move awareness
  • Import and export Movie Magic, Gorilla, Final Draft, and CSV
  • 300 DPI storyboard PDFs and MP4 animatics
Team Ready

Per-seat permissions

Organisation owners pick exactly which of the twenty apps each invited seat can see. Eleven role presets, thirty-six app gates. Invite a storyboard artist and they see Editor + Draw + AI Artist + Shotlist — never the budget.

  • 11 role presets: owner, producer, director, writer, storyboard artist, animator, production designer, production coordinator, editor, viewer, admin
  • 36-app override matrix per seat
  • Real-time cross-tab sync inside 250ms — drag a strip on one device, every other tab updates
  • Audit log captures every share-link mint, revoke, and access change

Capabilities

The whole pre-production toolbox

Real Screenplay Editor

Typed blocks, scene numbering, dual dialogue, revision mode with locked numbers and colored pages. Reads and writes FDX, Fountain, Celtx, PDF, and RTF.

Production Breakdown

Dolly auto-tags props, wardrobe, VFX, stunts, SFX, animals, and vehicles. Category library, per-scene reports, and sync to the schedule.

Real Stripboard Scheduling

Color-coded strips, DOOD reports, company moves, meal-break awareness, and a Dolly day-order optimizer. Imports and exports Movie Magic, Gorilla, CSV, and FDX — your stripboard travels with you.

Auto Call Sheets

Pulls from Schedule, Cast, Locations, and Vehicles. Pickup times, weather, nearest hospital, one-click email and SMS delivery.

Character Continuity Engine

Identity embeddings keep every character's face, wardrobe, and pose consistent across every AI-generated frame.

Cinematic Shot Intelligence

Focal length, shot size, lens presets, camera movement, and lighting logic — the grammar of cinema, structured and reusable.

Real-Time Collaboration

Channels, threaded comments, frame-anchored notes, @mentions, per-frame approvals, and presence indicators.

GPU-Accelerated Draw Suite

GPU-accelerated rendering, off-thread compositing, full stylus pressure and tilt, our brush engine, 15+ blend modes.

Art Style Lock

Pick your style once and Dolly holds it. In-house signature style profiles + your custom reference bibles — never LLM-slop.

Production-Ready Exports

300 DPI PDF sheets, hi-res PNG frames, CSV shot lists, MP4/MOV animatics, FDX / Fountain screenplays, and Movie Magic / Gorilla stripboards — every export in an industry-standard format.

Never-Lose-Saves

Autosave history, named versions, editable drafts, and full restore points on every file. Roll back any asset to any point.

Dolly, in every app

One assistant across all 20 apps with selection awareness, image awareness, and a 16-table parallel project-context fetch. She knows which scene, shot, character or prop you've clicked — and she's seen every storyboard frame, character photo, and location scout in the file.

Eight AI Artist Modes

All eight modes live today — style-locked storyboard frames, theatrical one-sheets, streaming key art, concept paintings, mood boards, EPK stills, lower-thirds, and title cards. Every mode prompt-engineered to its industry deliverable, every output bound to your project's locked style bible.

Voice-to-Script + Translation

AI-powered voice-to-script transcription. Multi-language screenplay translation. 100+ AI writing actions — coverage, continuity, dialogue polish, beat sheets, scene rewrites, character bibles.

Character TTS Read-Through

Auto-cast voices by character age and gender from the breakdown. Listen to any block, any scene, in the right voice — premium AI voices or browser TTS for free.

Editorial Handoff Bridge

Animatic → Premiere XMEML, DaVinci EDL, OpenTimelineIO. Plus calendar .ics subscriptions, ZIP wrap-package archives, casting contact-sheet PDFs, and mobile call-sheet share links — no install needed.

Crew + Cast SMS Reminders

SMS-operator-powered shoot-day reminders with @-mentions, deal-memo notifications, DOOD shift alerts, and review-comment pings. Mobile call sheets open on any phone — no app.

Cmd+K Command Palette

Search projects, characters, scenes, shots, locations, props, and files instantly from anywhere. The fastest path through the whole suite in a single keystroke.

The Magic

Two stacks, one project.

The Producer stack runs the logistics. The Director stack runs the creative. Both stacks share the same project file, so a scene rename in one flips every dependent surface in the other in real time — no export, no import, no version drift.

Producer Stack

Built for the production office

  • BreakdownAI tags every prop, costume, and SFX in seconds. No more hand-tagging.
  • ProducerThe production cockpit. EFC + variance + hot-cost + bond reports + EPK — every morning, by 6am.
  • BudgetTop sheet to bottom line. Six templates. Variance in real time.
  • CastRoster, deal memos, availability, character bibles. The cast book, automated.
  • LocationsScouting, permits, logistics. Every shoot location, mapped and ready.
  • PropsInventory plus costume continuity, in one searchable library.
  • VehiclesPicture cars and unit vehicles. Insurance, plates, drivers, scene refs.
  • CalendarStripboard scheduling. Eight views. The one tool your AD will not fight you on.
  • Call SheetAuto-generated from your schedule. SMS dispatch. Weather built in.
  • ShootCrew plus equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.
  • DiaryProduction diary, DPRs, BTS gallery. The crew log that organises itself.
Director Stack

Built for the creative lead

  • ScriptThe screenplay editor that writes the breakdown for you.
  • ShotlistAI-built from your script. Lens, framing, every shot mapped.
  • EditorStoryboard frame editor. Ship boards your director will sign.
  • DrawPro-grade brush engine. GPU canvas. Apple Pencil Pro. In your browser.
  • AI ArtistStyle-locked image generation. Your custom artist, every frame.
  • AnimateScreenplay to playable animatic in one click.

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