Boardsmith · script in, boards out
INT. LOCK-UP GARAGE — NIGHT
NADIA pulls the shutter down. Still in the grey wool coat. She does not look back at the car.
The same actor, the same coat, in all sixty panels.
Boardsmith reads your script, locks your characters and locations once, then boards the whole thing in a consistent style with real lens language. Fifty panels in about twenty minutes.
No card. First scene on us.
Panel 12 / 60
35mm · eye level · two-shot
01 · Character lock
The same face across 60 panels.
Define a character once from a reference or a description. They keep the same face, hair, wardrobe and age across every panel, every scene, and every revision.
Locations lock the same way. Rebuild the garage in panel 48 and it is the same garage, the same shutter, the same sodium light.
Panel 04
EXT. FORECOURT
Nadia, grey wool coat, three-quarter back, walking out of frame left.
Panel 19
INT. CAR
Same face at 50mm, seatbelt over the same coat, rain on glass.
Panel 33
INT. STAIRWELL
Hair wet now — the wardrobe holds, the continuity note carries.
Panel 60
EXT. BRIDGE
Sixty panels later, still recognisably the same person.
One reference. Zero re-prompting. Revisions inherit the lock.
02 · Lens and framing
Controls that mean something.
Ask for a 35mm two-shot at eye level and you get a 35mm two-shot at eye level. Coverage, eyelines and screen direction stay consistent from panel to panel.
18mm
Wide · distortion held
35mm
Two-shot · eye level
50mm
Clean single
85mm
Close · compressed
Low angle
Hero, 20° up
Over shoulder
Eyeline preserved
Dutch 12°
Only where you ask
Screen left
Direction held all scene
03 · Export
Into the formats ADs actually use.
Export as a numbered PDF board, an Avid-compatible shot list, a Frame.io upload, or an animatic with your scratch VO cut to the panel durations.
Panel numbers survive the round trip. Renumber in Boardsmith, re-export, and the shot list matches the board on the wall.
Numbered PDF board
Six-up or one-up, slugline header, panel numbers baked into the artwork.
Avid-compatible shot list
CSV with scene, panel, lens, movement and duration columns your AD can paste straight in.
Frame.io upload
Pushes each panel as its own asset so notes land on the frame they belong to.
Animatic with scratch VO
Cut to your panel durations, exported as ProRes or H.264 with a timecode burn-in.
04 · Styles
Six styles, rough marker to full comp.
Pick the finish that matches the conversation you are having. Switch style and the whole board re-renders with the character lock intact.
01
Rough marker
Grease-pencil weight, no shading. For the first pass you show nobody outside the room.
02
Clean line
Even contour, flat greys, readable at thumbnail size on a phone.
03
Noir ink wash
Hard key, deep blacks, wash gradients. Sells mood before it sells blocking.
04
Full colour comp
Client-facing finish with palette continuity across every scene.
05
Photoreal previz
Lens-accurate, lit, close enough to the plate to survive a director's read.
06
Loose thumbnail pass
Deliberately unfinished, for when the idea is not finished either.
05 · Rights and training data
You own every frame.
We do not train on your scripts or your boards, and there is a written contractual commitment, not a toggle in settings.
Contract, not a setting
The no-training clause is in the MSA every account signs. It does not move when the pricing page does.
Scripts deleted on request
Delete a project and the script, the character locks and the boards go with it, backups included, inside thirty days.
Clean for commercial delivery
Boards go out to agency and network legal without an asterisk. Indemnity on request for feature work.
06 · Pricing
Per project, not per image.
Boards get revised. Charging by the frame would just make you board less, which is the opposite of the point.
Spot
£39
per single spot
One commercial, up to 60 panels, every style, all exports.
Unlimited revisions for 30 days
Short
£180
per short film
Up to 300 panels across all scenes, with locked characters and locations reused throughout.
Unlimited revisions for 90 days
Feature
£640
per feature-length board
Full feature coverage, department-shared locks, animatic exports and priority render queue.
Unlimited revisions for six months
07 · Start
Board your next script.
Paste a scene, lock a character, and watch the panels come back in the style you asked for. The first scene is free and takes about four minutes.
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