Storyboard Studio
A browser-based studio that takes a project from script to storyboard to animatic to export, installable as an app and usable offline.
The challenge
Storyboarding sits in an awkward gap. Paper and pen are fast but impossible to share or time; heavyweight desktop suites are powerful but slow to open, expensive, and tied to one machine. Small teams and solo creators kept telling us the same thing: they wanted to move from a script to a timed animatic quickly, in the browser, without an install or a steep licence.
The hard part is that a storyboard is not just images. It is images plus timing, transitions, mood, and audio, played back in sequence. That is a real editing problem, and doing it smoothly in a browser tab is not trivial.
Our solution
We built Storyboard Studio as a single browser application that carries a project all the way through: arrange frames on a board, set timing, transitions, mood and audio per frame, then play it full-screen or export a self-contained animatic. No install, no plugins, and because it is a PWA it installs to the desktop and keeps working offline.
The interface uses a deliberately cinematic dark and gold theme so it feels like a tool made for film people, not a generic web form.
What we built
- A frame-based board editor with per-frame timing, transitions, mood and audio
- Full-screen playback of the sequence as a timed animatic
- Self-contained animatic export that plays anywhere
- Script view, timeline and dashboard as a connected workflow
- Installable PWA with offline support via a versioned service worker
- Accounts and subscription billing with a 14-day no-card trial
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The outcome
The result is a complete script-to-animatic pipeline that runs in any modern browser and installs like a native app. It is live and running on a subscription model, isolated per user, with a free trial so people can try the full workflow before paying.
For us it also became the template for a family of browser-based creative and compliance tools that share the same auth, billing, and offline foundation.
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