The Boords Blog
We're sharing practical lessons, insights and tips on working in the creative industry
The 16 Types of Camera Shots & Angles (Video Guide)
Do you sometimes feel like your vision for a film is lost in translation? It can be a frustrating experience, but one that can be avoided (or at least minimised) by understanding and implementing some storyboarding fundamentals.
How to storyboard – the basics
Discover the fundamentals of the storyboarding process, and learn about some tips and tricks you can use in your own work.
9 strategies for dealing with tight-turnaround projects
A collection of techniques for dealing with short-term projects
Wall-ready storyboards
Export your storyboards in portrait format, and preview your changes live
Growing a studio, the hard way
Lessons learned growing Animade, and the process we use to run and grow the company today
The Seven Steps of Animation Production
A handy step-by-step guide to the animation production process
Announcing our brand new Frame Editor
We've launched our new frame editor! It's jam packed with new features and improvements
Drag and drop your storyboards and projects
Re-order your projects and storyboards within your dashboard
Custom filenames for your frames
Boords now allows you to append any suffix to your exported file name
Quickly switch between slideshow & grid view modes
You can now switch between slideshow and grid view modes right in the editor.
Passwords synced between storyboard versions
We've just release a small update which syncs passwords between all versions of your storyboard
New keyboard shortcuts
Share references to specific frames within the shareable view, automatically