How It Works
Script to screen, end to end.
One project file. Twenty integrated apps. Every step flows into the next. Every document stays in sync. No re-entry, no export-import chains, no stale data.
Script to Screen
The pipeline at a glance. One project file.
The whole production pipeline, in order — script, breakdown, shotlist, storyboard, schedule, shoot, wrap. Every step hands off automatically to the next. No re-entry, no copy-paste, no lost revisions.
Script to shotlist to storyboard to animatic — ready for PPM or shoot.
No other tool carries your project continuously from first draft all the way to a timed animatic and a PPM-ready deliverable. Type a scene, get a shotlist, generate frames with the Draw suite or the AI Artist, drop them straight into the storyboard editor, time the animatic, and hand off a pre-production meeting pack — or walk straight onto set.
01
Script
Full word-processing suite
02
Shotlist
Break it down
03
Generate
Draw or AI Artist
04
Storyboard
Compose the deck
05
Animatic
Time it, play it
06
Ready
For PPM or Shoot
…and the rest of the pipeline
The vast Producer Suite that turns a deck into a shoot.
An animatic is half the story. Every module below is a full production app — each one talks to the script, the breakdown, the schedule, and the cast graph automatically. Zero copy-paste between apps. Zero out-of-date versions in the Slack thread. One file, top to bottom.
Breakdown
12-category industry color coding. Cast, props, wardrobe, VFX, vehicles, SFX — auto-tagged per scene.
Schedule
Stripboard, DOOD, day-order optimizer, shoot-day tracking with live cast availability.
Call Sheet
Auto-fills from shoot day. Weather, pickups, hospital. PDF + email dispatch to the whole crew.
Cast
Profiles, availability, deal memos, character refs, casting coverage. The full character continuity graph.
Locations
Scout, permit, logistics, travel-matrix planning. Scene-to-location matching with Dolly assistance.
Props
Hero + background props, costume continuity, hire management, status tracking, scene refs.
Vehicles
Picture cars + unit vehicles, insurance, driver assignments, plate tracking, scene alerts.
Shoot
13-category gear inventory + 16-department crew roster. Shoot-day readiness at a glance.
Budget
6-tab Cost Report / Variance / Forecast / Top Sheet / POs / Petty Cash with 6 production-type templates.
Diary
Daily Production Reports (DPRs), 11 view modes, BTS media capture, scene completion logging.
Crew
16-department roster with roles, rates, deals, call-sheet auto-inclusion, departmental view.
Files
Versioned project files, sections, comments, deliverable tracking. Every document, audit-trailed.
Plus Team Chat, Review + Share Tokens, Notifications, Team Roster, and the full Files / Cloud system — all synchronised across every app.
AI Storyboard Generation · vs the field
Our frame generation vs. every other option
Most "AI storyboard" tools are one of two things: a generic image generator with a storyboard template, or a static deck tool with a generator tacked on. StoryboardCanvas is the only system where a single project file carries the generated frame directly into a shotlist, a storyboard editor, and an animatic — with character continuity, style lock, and scene linkage preserved through every step.
Based on publicly documented feature sets as of Apr 2026. Competitor capabilities change; we refresh this table when they do.
Step by step
The pipeline, in detail
Write the Script
Draft your screenplay in the Script app — typed-block editor, revision mode, readthrough, real-time co-writing. DollyAi™ already reads every line as you type.
Break It Down
DollyAi™ runs the 12-category breakdown across the full script and pipes every tagged element — cast, locations, props, vehicles — into the right producer app. Review, refine, approve.
Build the Shotlist
Plan coverage shot by shot — angle, lens, movement, lighting. DollyAi™ suggests coverage from the beats. Every shot stays linked to its scene.
Storyboard the Frames
Pick the default AI artist style — modelled on award-winning storyboard artist Mitchell Hughes — or upload your own references and let DollyAi™ lock that look across the project. Refine in Canvas Draw, lay out in the Editor, preview motion in Animate.
Budget & Schedule
Six-tab Budget tied to breakdown line items. Calendar with stripboard, DOOD, and the DollyAi™ day-order optimiser. Shoot app tracks gear and the 16-department crew roster.
Call Sheets Out
Daily call sheets build themselves from Schedule, Cast, Locations, and Vehicles. Weather, sunrise, hospital, pickup times — all auto-filled. SMS and email dispatch with read receipts.
Shoot Day
Run the day from the Shoot app on any device. Diary logs BTS media, scene completion, and daily progress. DollyAi™ summarises each day into a shareable crew recap.
Animate & Wrap
Render approved boards as a motion animatic with timed VO. Export DPRs, wrap notes, and the full production bible in one click for post and insurance.
The Suite
The complete suite. One project file. Zero re-entry.
Change a scene heading once - breakdown, schedule, call sheets, and storyboards all update themselves.
Producer Stack · 10 Apps
Breakdown
AI tags every prop, costume, and SFX in seconds. No more hand-tagging.
Budget
Top sheet to bottom line. Six templates. Variance in real time.
Cast
Roster, deal memos, availability, character bibles. The cast book, automated.
Locations
Scouting, permits, logistics. Every shoot location, mapped and ready.
Props
Inventory plus costume continuity, in one searchable library.
Vehicles
Picture cars and unit vehicles. Insurance, plates, drivers, scene refs.
Calendar
Stripboard scheduling. Eight views. The one tool your AD will not fight you on.
Call Sheet
Auto-generated from your schedule. SMS dispatch. Weather built in.
Shoot
Crew plus equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.
Diary
Production diary, DPRs, BTS gallery. The crew log that organises itself.
Director Stack · 6 Apps
Script
The screenplay editor that writes the breakdown for you.
Shotlist
AI-built from your script. Lens, framing, every shot mapped.
Editor
Storyboard frame editor. Ship boards your director will sign.
Draw
Procreate-class brushes. GPU canvas. Apple Pencil Pro. In your browser.
AI Artist
Style-locked image generation. Your custom artist, every frame.
Animate
Screenplay to playable animatic in one click.
Platform · Dashboard · Files · Team Chat · Files / Cloud
What ships today
Capability you can't buy anywhere else.
Every tile below is a feature that already exists in the product today. No vapourware, no coming-soon.
Under the hood
Built for real productions
The systems behind the surface — the data model, the AI layer, and the production-grade exports that make this work on a real set.
Capabilities
The whole pre-production toolbox
Real Screenplay Editor
Typed blocks, scene numbering, dual dialogue, revision mode with locked numbers and colored pages. Reads and writes FDX, Fountain, Celtx, PDF, and RTF.
Production Breakdown
Dolly auto-tags props, wardrobe, VFX, stunts, SFX, animals, and vehicles. Category library, per-scene reports, and sync to the schedule.
Real Stripboard Scheduling
Color-coded strips, DOOD reports, company moves, meal-break awareness, and a Dolly day-order optimizer. Imports and exports Movie Magic, Gorilla, CSV, and FDX — your stripboard travels with you.
Auto Call Sheets
Pulls from Schedule, Cast, Locations, and Vehicles. Pickup times, weather, nearest hospital, one-click email and SMS delivery.
Character Continuity Engine
Identity embeddings keep every character's face, wardrobe, and pose consistent across every AI-generated frame.
Cinematic Shot Intelligence
Focal length, shot size, lens presets, camera movement, and lighting logic — the grammar of cinema, structured and reusable.
Real-Time Collaboration
Channels, threaded comments, frame-anchored notes, @mentions, per-frame approvals, and presence indicators.
GPU-Accelerated Draw Suite
GPU-accelerated rendering, off-thread compositing, full stylus pressure and tilt, our brush engine, 15+ blend modes.
Art Style Lock
Pick your style once and Dolly holds it. Licensed profiles from working storyboard artists — never LLM-slop.
Production-Ready Exports
300 DPI PDF sheets, hi-res PNG frames, CSV shot lists, MP4/MOV animatics, FDX / Fountain screenplays, and Movie Magic / Gorilla stripboards — every export in an industry-standard format.
Never-Lose-Saves
Autosave history, named versions, editable drafts, and full restore points on every file. Roll back any asset to any point.
Dolly, in every app
One assistant across all 20 apps with selection awareness, image awareness, and a 16-table parallel project-context fetch. She knows which scene, shot, character or prop you've clicked — and she's seen every storyboard frame, character photo, and location scout in the file.
Eight AI Artist Modes
Style-locked storyboard frames live today, plus seven specialist modes shipping next - theatrical posters, streaming key art, concept paintings, mood boards, EPK stills, lower-thirds, and title cards. Every mode prompt-engineered to its industry deliverable, every output bound to your project's locked style bible.
Voice-to-Script + Translation
AI-powered voice-to-script transcription. Multi-language screenplay translation. 100+ AI writing actions — coverage, continuity, dialogue polish, beat sheets, scene rewrites, character bibles.
Character TTS Read-Through
Auto-cast voices by character age and gender from the breakdown. Listen to any block, any scene, in the right voice — premium AI voices or browser TTS for free.
Editorial Handoff Bridge
Animatic → Premiere XMEML, DaVinci EDL, OpenTimelineIO. Plus calendar .ics subscriptions, ZIP wrap-package archives, casting contact-sheet PDFs, and mobile call-sheet share links — no install needed.
Crew + Cast SMS Reminders
Twilio-powered shoot-day reminders with @-mentions, deal-memo notifications, DOOD shift alerts, and review-comment pings. Mobile call sheets open on any phone — no app.
Cmd+K Command Palette
Search projects, characters, scenes, shots, locations, props, and files instantly from anywhere. The fastest path through the whole suite in a single keystroke.
The Magic
Everything is synchronized.
Change a scene heading in the Script app. Watch the breakdown update, the schedule rebalance, the call sheet re-render, and the storyboard re-order itself. All in real time. All without a single re-export.
Built for the production office
- BreakdownAI tags every prop, costume, and SFX in seconds. No more hand-tagging.
- BudgetTop sheet to bottom line. Six templates. Variance in real time.
- CastRoster, deal memos, availability, character bibles. The cast book, automated.
- LocationsScouting, permits, logistics. Every shoot location, mapped and ready.
- PropsInventory plus costume continuity, in one searchable library.
- VehiclesPicture cars and unit vehicles. Insurance, plates, drivers, scene refs.
- CalendarStripboard scheduling. Eight views. The one tool your AD will not fight you on.
- Call SheetAuto-generated from your schedule. SMS dispatch. Weather built in.
- ShootCrew plus equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.
- DiaryProduction diary, DPRs, BTS gallery. The crew log that organises itself.
Built for the creative lead
- ScriptThe screenplay editor that writes the breakdown for you.
- ShotlistAI-built from your script. Lens, framing, every shot mapped.
- EditorStoryboard frame editor. Ship boards your director will sign.
- DrawProcreate-class brushes. GPU canvas. Apple Pencil Pro. In your browser.
- AI ArtistStyle-locked image generation. Your custom artist, every frame.
- AnimateScreenplay to playable animatic in one click.
Stop juggling tools. Start making films.
Every app, every feature, every tier. No feature gates, no surprise paywalls.