AI storyboard generatorFrom an idea or a script
to a storyboard, shot by shot.

It is a tool that turns written material — a screenplay scene, a brief, or a logline — into a sequence of storyboard panels without an artist drawing each one. A capable one breaks the text into distinct shots, applies shot grammar such as establishing shots and coverage, and holds the same characters, costumes, and style from frame to frame.

Paste your screenplay, brief, or logline into M Studio. The AI splits it into shots with framing and shot descriptions. Save each main character as a reference, then generate the full board. Regenerate any single shot that drifts, then move the approved board into animatic, voice, or video.

M Studio has no free plan, but you can try it for $1 for 24 hours: the trial writes one film's script, draws the storyboard for its first 10 shots and makes a video clip of each of them. After that, plans start at $99/month, and within 24 hours of your first plan payment you can ask for a refund of it, minus what you generated at standard prices. Free tools exist, but most stop at loose images with no character references or handoff to video.

A storyboard generator produces still panels that show framing, blocking, and shot order. Previs software adds timing and motion so you can watch the sequence before the shoot. M Studio does both in one project: it generates the storyboard from your script, then turns approved frames into an animatic or AI video previs with voice and sound.

For most projects, M Studio replaces a separate storyboard app, a previs or animatic tool, an AI image generator, a text-to-video tool, a voiceover service, and a sound-effects library. Script, storyboard, animatic, voice, SFX, and export live in one project. It does not replace a scheduling or budgeting app, and a storyboard artist still adds value on hand-drawn hero boards.

Yes. Frames accept uploaded images, so boards drawn by an artist, shot on location, or produced in another tool can be brought in, ordered, captioned, and reviewed alongside AI-generated panels. Mixed boards are common — teams often generate coverage with AI and drop in hero frames created by hand.

For script → storyboard → animatic → video clips in one tool, M Studio. For agency-style hand-drawn boards with heavy collaboration, Boords. For Adobe-ecosystem teams doing occasional concept boards, Firefly. For professional animation studios with trained storyboard artists, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro. See our detailed best storyboard software 2026 review for full evaluation.

Yes. Paste screenplay pages or upload the script as a PDF, and M Studio plans the whole film first, then writes the shots with framing, a description, and an image prompt for each. You can edit any shot's text before its frame is generated.

It gives you the tools to. Each character gets a reference image, and an @char mention in a shot's prompt sends that image to the model with the prompt. Locations work the same way with @location. Drift still happens on some shots — when it does, regenerate that one frame instead of the board.

Yes. Paste the script into M Studio and it is broken into shots, each with framing and a description; then a frame for each shot is drawn with the same cast. For client review, turn on a read-only share link that opens without a login, or download the storyboard PDF, which prints every shot's frame, shot size, dialogue, and note. The cut also exports as MP4. Approved shots then continue into animatic, video, voice, and sound in the same project.

Both, in a browser: there is nothing to install, and it works on a desktop or laptop. Unlike a drawing app, it writes the shots and draws the frames for you, then keeps going into video clips, voice and sound. If you draw your own boards, you can upload your pictures as frames too.

M Studio plans start at $99/month with a monthly budget for AI video and storyboard pictures (each plan card shows how much it buys), and wallet credits cover use beyond it. Dedicated storyboard apps charge per seat, usually $15–$25 per user per month.