Boords

A storyboarding tool first and an AI tool second, which is the right order for teaching — students still make shot-by-shot decisions and add camera direction. Character reuse across frames actually works, solving the consistency problem that makes general image generators useless for boards. Animatic export with timing and scratch audio is a real teaching artifact.

Generating 12 style-consistent storyboard frames from a written shot list, then revising camera angles frame by frame. Building a timed animatic with scratch VO to teach pacing before anyone shoots. Running a boards-to-client critique with frame-level revisions.

Expensive for classroom use at $26/month annually per seat with no visible lab or per-class licensing, and AI credit allocations per tier are not published, so you cannot budget a semester in advance. The AI art style is generic and stiff; students who can draw will find it worse than their own thumbnails, which can undercut a boards unit meant to build drawing confidence.