AI storyboarding and animatics

Boards quick enough to change your mind on. Every scene of your script as a frame, AI-generated for speed or drawn by hand when the job needs it, delivered as a PDF, a Figma file, an Excel grid or our own internal tool for your team to comment on, and animated by the same people who made it.

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What we make

●Storyboards from a script or a brief: every scene as a frame, in the look the finished film will have.
●Animatics: the approved frames cut to a scratch or final voice, so the pacing is agreed before anything is animated.
●Frames generated with AI, which is the faster route and where most boards start now, or drawn by hand when the job needs it — art-directed either way until the frame is right.
●Delivered as a PDF board, as a Figma file, or even in Excel or our own internal tool — whichever your team would rather comment in, frame by frame, with every round kept as its own version.
●Animation starts from the signed-off frames, with the same studio carrying it through to the finished film.

The animation these boards lead into: Motion graphics and animation.

Frames from a board drawn here, before a second of it was animated.

The board, frame by frame

Every scene as a numbered frame — these ones drawn by hand. Click any frame to see it larger. The client comments on the frames themselves, and every round is kept as its own version.

Three ways a board arrives

Which one you get depends on what you want and what the project needs. The frames themselves are generated with AI for speed, or drawn by hand when the job needs it.

Frames

Every scene as a frame, generated with AI for speed or drawn by hand when the job needs it, as a PDF board you can send round.

A Figma board

Frames your team opens and comments on, each round kept as its own version.

A scene-by-scene grid

Shot type, script, timing, audio and references in one row per scene, for a film that has to be planned before it is drawn.

Questions we get

Yes, and that is the point of it. Every scene comes to you as a frame to read, comment on and sign off, and the animation is built from the approved frames. Changing a frame costs minutes; changing an animated scene costs a day.

Generated first in most cases, because it is faster and it puts a board in front of you sooner. Where a project needs it we draw the frames by hand instead, the traditional way, and we tell you which you are getting. Either way the frame is art-directed until the composition, the product detail and the brand are right, and nothing reaches you as a generated picture nobody has looked at.

Either. Send a script and we board it; send a brief and we write the script first, and both come to you for approval before anything is drawn in earnest.

Usually a PDF board of numbered frames you can send round internally, or a Figma file, or even Excel, or our own internal tool if your team would rather comment on the frames themselves — every round kept as its own version, so nothing is lost between iterations. An animatic cut to voice comes with it where the timing matters.

No. Which tools touch your material is written into the scope, and a model whose terms would keep or train on your material is not used on your account.

Boarding and animatics sit inside the project and are quoted by the day like the rest of the work, agreed in writing before anything starts.

What clients say, in their words

Every line is quoted as written. Nothing is edited for effect.

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Motiohead were fantastic for our latest documentary project. We handed them a ton of research, and they transformed it into brilliant, clear, cinematic motion graphics that drove the story. They were incredibly fast and delivered without any fuss. If your film needs high-end visuals then motiohead are a great choice!

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Tell us what you need and when

One message is enough. You will have a reply within one working day, with the questions we need to ask first, if any.

What happens next

1.
Tomorrow, a reply. From the studio, with our answer or a couple of questions.
2.
This week, a plan. What you get, when, and what it costs, in writing. NDA first if you like.
3.
Then we make it. You watch the first cuts on a link and say what you think.

Or write to hello@motiohead.com