Integrated Animatic Timeline
Upload your soundtrack or voiceover and time out your animatic with the zoomable timeline.
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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.
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. New to the format? Here's what an animatic is.
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Timeline
Build animatics without leaving your storyboard
Upload audio, set timing, preview the sequence, and keep every storyboard edit connected to the animatic automatically.
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.
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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.
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Upload or generate images
Generate images with AI or upload your own stills, then adjust frames until the story works.
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Share for review & sign-off
Share a link with clients, collect frame-level comments, and get your storyboard signed off.
“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.”
Connect preproduction to the rest of your stack
Scripts, boards and sign-off stay in Boords. Everything else plugs in.
- Work from Claude and ChatGPTDraft scripts and build boards from a chat.
- Client notes in your Slack DMsMentions, replies and comments on boards and scripts you follow.
- Hand off to the edit and the deckAfter Effects, Premiere Pro, Resolve, PowerPoint and more.
See all integrations & exports
AI connections and Slack DMs are on every Boords plan, even Free.
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
Send the approved animatic as a client-ready PDF or MP4, or open it in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or After Effects with every frame at its signed-off timing and your soundtrack underneath.
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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.
