About StoryboardCanvas
Built by production professionals to solve a global problem in moving-image production.
StoryboardCanvas was founded by people who spent decades on set, in the edit, and in the production office — not in software. We built the tool we wished existed, because nothing on the market held a real production together in one synchronised project file.
The world problem
Four friction points that shape every shooting day.
Every problem below is one we have sat in, on real productions. They are the reasons StoryboardCanvas exists.
Our mission & the team
Make a finished, shoot-ready production faster, synchronised, and far less expensive.
Moving-image production runs on a 1990s software stack at 2026 prices. The tools that plan and produce the world's scripted content were built in separate decades, by separate companies, for separate departments — and they have been duct-taped together ever since. Every department works in a different application. No one owns the latest version of anything. Everyone pays the bill.
StoryboardCanvas replaces that stack with one synchronised project file. Twenty apps, one source of truth, every feature on every paid tier. Built for working crews of every size — from a solo creator to a studio series — so any team operates with the fluency of a studio without paying like one.
Founded by video-production professionals.
StoryboardCanvas is built by directors, producers, production coordinators, DPs, editors, and software engineers who shipped real productions before they shipped a single line of code for this product. Craft knowledge is the hiring prerequisite. Engineers who haven't been on set don't design our tools.
Every design decision is pressure-tested by a working director and a working producer before it ships. If a feature can't survive a shoot day, it doesn't survive review.
Meet the founder
Mitchell Hughes
Founder · Storyboard Artist
Mitchell Hughes is a visual storyteller who lives between imagination and execution — a storyboard artist whose work transforms scripts into cinematic moments long before the cameras roll. With nearly two decades immersed in advertising, film, branded content, and design, his craft is rooted not only in drawing frames, but in understanding emotion, pacing, composition, and the language of cinema itself.
From global campaigns to intimate creative concepts, Mitch approaches every project with the eye of a director and the instinct of an artist, building worlds where movement, atmosphere, and narrative collide. His work is less about illustration alone, and more about giving shape to ideas before they exist — turning rough concepts into something audiences can already feel.
StoryboardCanvas is the conception of every lesson learnt from many talented humans that are not mentioned here — a tool to empower humans, not replace them.
WHY WE BUILT THIS
A love letter to the people who still make the films.
We've been in your edit at 2am. We've slept under the desk to make a Monday call. We've watched a film we believed in get shelved over a budget that shouldn't have been ours to balance — and we've asked a friend to defer their fee one more time. We know what those days cost, because we've paid for them too.
Production software should be paying you back. Instead it bills over £4,500 a year for eleven separate logins that don't talk to each other, before a single crew member is hired or a single coffee is ordered. That money should be paying people on set, not vendors who built their stack in 1996.
StoryboardCanvas is the answer to that bill. Twenty production apps under one roof. One synchronised project file. One invoice. From £19 a month, with DollyAI™ inside every app — not to replace anyone, but to be the assistant a filmmaker never had. The breakdown that drafts itself. The continuity flag at 2am. The on-model frame in under a minute. Save where it shouldn't matter, so the money lands where it should: in the hands of the people on set.
AI that assists, never replaces.
DollyAI™ sits beside you in every app — drafting, checking, suggesting — while every real decision stays with the filmmaker. Built to keep crews working, not to thin them out.
Meet DollyAI™ →
What we believe
Six principles that shape every shipped feature.
Craft before tech
The software speaks cinema first — shot grammar, revision colours, stripboards, the 180° rule, why a call sheet has to be right at 5am. The tech serves the craft. Full stop.
One roof, not fifteen tabs
Moving-image production is underserved because it has been asked to duct-tape together fifteen single-purpose tools across five subscriptions. We ship one synchronised project file that every department reads and writes to.
AI that suggests, never overrides
DollyAI™ is a co-pilot. She proposes coverage, flags schedule risk, and locks your art style — but she never pulls the trigger. Every suggestion is one click to accept, one to ignore.
You own your work
Full commercial rights on every tier. We never train on your projects. Your scripts, storyboards, cast data, schedules — yours to keep, export, and take with you.
Curated style bibles, not scraped slop
Our signature style profiles are built in-house from canonical reference sets we curate ourselves — never from datasets scraped without consent. Crews get on-model frames; styles ship as named stylistic profiles, not as real-world licensed people.
Every feature on every tier
Plans differ on seats, credits, and priority — never on capability. Solo gets the same Script, Draw, DollyAI™, and revision mode as Broadcaster. No feature gates, no surprise paywalls.
Our commitment
Every app. Lifetime development. Every two weeks.
StoryboardCanvas is not a launch-and-move-on product. Every one of the twenty apps gets continuous lifetime development, on a fortnightly release cadence, steered by the people actually using it on real productions.
The feedback loop
01
File in-product
Any subscriber flags a paper cut, request, or wish directly inside the app.
02
Weekly triage
Product + working directors review the queue every week, publicly.
03
Roadmap promote
Prioritised items land on the open roadmap with target sprint numbers.
04
Ship + credit
Shipped in a fortnightly release. Contributors are credited in the Changelog.
Drawn by hand, on the same canvas.
450+ professional brushes, GPU drawing and storyboards your director will sign — the craft tools, in the same project file as the schedule, the breakdown and the budget.
See the Draw suite →
Step inside a real production.
Browse Origin: Ascension across the entire app suite — script to storyboards to call sheets — exactly as a crew left it.
Together
We are building a new world for filmmaking. And we are building it with you.
StoryboardCanvas is a long game. Every subscription is a seat at the table — your craft knowledge steers the roadmap, your shoot-day friction becomes our next release, and your work stays yours. Full commercial rights. Exportable project files. Nothing trained on. Nothing held hostage.
If you've ever re-typed a scene heading into a fifth application at midnight before a 5am call, you already know why this exists. Join before public launch and help shape what ships next.
One project file. Every department.
From first draft to final wrap — StoryboardCanvas replaces the fragmented stack with one synchronised suite.