Directors Can't Draw
Directors Can’t Draw (DCD) is a visual storyboarding and previsualization workspace for filmmakers. Users can create boards by drawing in a web browser, uploading images, or using AI-assisted tools to develop visual ideas. The workspace includes tools to refine rough sketches, explore alternate camera angles, adjust selected elements, and plan camera placement, lenses, and character blocking in a 3D environment. Users can organize shots into sequences and create animatics with adjustable timing, sound, and recorded voiceovers in a timeline. DCD is designed for directors, cinematographers, storyboard artists, and production teams who need to communicate shot concepts and plan scenes before filming.
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Shai
Shai transforms written scripts, creative briefs, or video ideas into polished storyboards—automatically generating scene breakdowns, characters, angles, and compositions with AI. Trusted by 10,000 creatives from Netflix, Territory Studio, Atomic Cartoons, Hogarth, and other professional studios worldwide.
Key features include:
Script-to-scene automation: Upload any script format (Word, PDF, Final Draft) and get instantly generated storyboard images and production shot lists.
Cinematic suggestions: If any detail is missing, Shai proposes lighting, compositions, and camera movements for you.
AI Image generation at scale: transforms your whole script into images for your storyboard with one click.
Real‑time edits: Tweak camera angles, shot sizes, character details on the fly—updates reflect instantly across collaborators.
AI video & animatics: For premium users, generate video animatics from your storyboard with AI-driven motion and transitions in minutes.
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Camera-Storyboard
Camera-Storyboard is an interactive scene layout tool for planning photo and video shoots. It works equally well for photography, videography and film. This application was designed by a professional car photographer based on his own production experiences. Start with a birds-eye view of the shoot location. That might be from Google Earth, a satellite image, a digitized architectural drawing, an artist's rendering or even a photo of a sketch you've made. In Camera-Storyboard, create a new document based on that image and add scene objects such as suns, subjects, people and lighting packages— right on top of the original image! Drag the objects around and scale and rotate them into position. You now have a visual plan for your shoot. If you use a sun position app, you can include sun positions for the entire day in the same document! Landscape photographers can lay out proposed shots along with sun positions and times.
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Storyboarder
We built Storyboarder because the storyboarding tool we wanted simply didn't exist. We are making it better every day. In fact, we have released it free and open source. You can and even make improvements. Can you apply storyboarding and pitches to the story development process as animation has done? We think so. We would love to hear your feedback to make Storyboarder the best storyboarding tool possible. Light pencil for roughing, hard pencil for fine lines, pen for most work, brush to tone, note pen to write notes, and eraser! Theres no friction. Add a board. Draw. Add another. Draw. Duplicate. Copy. Paste. Rearrange. There is nothing stopping you. Add metadata for a board on the right panel. You can also enter timing information and shot type. Draw your roughs and do layout in Storyboarder. If you need more control, just click the edit in photoshop button!
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