Storyboards.com

What Storyboards.com does

Storyboards.com, operated by Animatic Media Inc., is a private creative production platform founded in 1999 that supplies pre-production creative services — primarily storyboards, photo compositions, and event illustrations — to advertising agencies, consumer brands, and film/TV production companies. Its core offering is a curated network of 45+ elite storyboard artists delivering work across multiple illustration styles (tight color, loose pencil, photomanipulation, digital painting, CGI, graphic), supported by Pro Workspace, a proprietary collaboration platform built for illustration and animation project workflows. The platform reports having delivered 10,000+ story-driven projects to 6,000+ agencies and brands, with named enterprise customers including Leo Burnett, TBWA, Ogilvy, FCB, Goodby Silverstein, Nissan, Reebok, Clorox, and Miller Lite.

The company monetizes through three primary streams: (1) project-based custom storyboard services priced per brief (quote-based, with pricing driven by complexity, style, frame count, and turnaround), (2) subscription access to Rendermind, an AI-powered storyboard tool that provides full copyright ownership to paid subscribers, and (3) add-on animation services including animatics, director pre-visualization, and social media content creation. Go-to-market combines direct sales to enterprise agencies and brands with a self-serve, product-led growth motion for the AI tier. Operations span six offices across the United States (Miami, Chicago), the United Kingdom (London), Australia (Sydney), Germany (Berlin), and South Africa (Cape Town), with 11–50 employees total. There is no disclosed venture capital or private equity investment, and the business is structured as a founder-owned, independently operated creative services platform.

Name

Storyboards.com

Legal name

Animatic Media Inc.

Website

https://storyboards.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Storyboards.com is a private creative production platform, founded in 1999, that supplies pre-production storyboard, illustration, and animation services to advertising agencies, consumer brands, and film/TV producers via a global network of 45+ artists and an AI storyboard generator.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Creative Production Services

NAICS

Postproduction Services and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries (51219), Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (7115)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819)

akta.pro primary industry

Previsualization (Previs) & Storyboarding for Animation (MPADACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Content Studio & Creative Resourcing (In-house/Embedded Teams) (BPAFAIAJ), Content & Creative Studio for Creators (Concepting/Production) (MPAAAHAD)

Keywords

• Creative production services
• Storyboard illustration
• Animation services
• AI storyboard generation
• Pre-visualization production

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Lauderdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Storyboard Services: Professional storyboard creation services where clients submit creative briefs and receive custom illustrations. Revenue generated on a per-project basis with pricing based on complexity, style, and timeline.
2. AI Storyboard Generator Subscription: Subscription-based access to AI-powered storyboard creation tools. Paid subscribers retain full ownership and copyright of generated images.
3. Animation Services: Additional production services including animatics, director pre-vis, and full animation capabilities

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Storyboards.com is a creative production studio that supplies pre-production creative services to the media industry, primarily custom storyboards, photo comps, and event illustrations created by a network of 45+ professional artists. The company also operates an AI-powered storyboard generator (Rendermind) for self-serve illustration creation and provides animation services including animatics, director pre-vis, and social media content. A proprietary Pro Workspace collaboration platform connects clients, producers, and artists across projects.

Product overview

Storyboards.com is a creative services platform connecting clients with professional storyboard artists and offering AI-powered tools for visual content creation. The platform operates a marketplace for hiring storyboard artists across multiple illustration styles (tight color, loose pencil, photomanipulation, digital painting, graphic, CGI), complemented by AI Storyboard Generator for automated illustration generation. Animation services include Animatics (animated storyboards), Social Media Content creation, and Director Pre-vis services. The ecosystem is supported by Pro Workspace, a proprietary collaboration platform for team coordination, and Pro Workspace enables end-to-end project management from creative brief through production to animation delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Pro Workspace: Customized collaboration platform built specifically for illustration and animation projects
• RenderMind

Products and services

• Storyboard Artists Hire service providing professional storyboard artists for custom storyboards, photo comps, and event illustrations across multiple illustration styles (tight color, loose pencil, photomanipulation, digital painting) for advertising agencies and brands.
• AI Storyboard Generator (Rendermind) Subscription-based AI-powered online storyboard creation tool that allows users to pose, generate, and create storyboard illustrations. Paid subscribers retain full ownership and copyright of generated images.
• Animatics Animation services where storyboard artists create animatics to help get ideas through research and into production faster, bringing static storyboards to motion.
• Social Media Content Customized handcrafted content for social media platforms, leveraging the latest trends to create engaging visual content for digital marketers and brands.
• Director Pre-vis Pre-visualization services that bring the director's vision to life before production begins, visualizing project concepts for film and commercial production.
• Shooting Boards Shooting board services for visual planning of production shots, commonly used in advertising and film production.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 10,000 story-driven projects completed since 1999
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• The Board: The Board (theboard.com) is a storyboard and illustration production company serving advertising agencies and brands, directly competing with Storyboards.com in the same custom storyboard marketplace model and target customer base.
• Storyboard That: Storyboard That is an online storyboard creation platform offering self-serve storyboarding tools and templates, comparable to Storyboards.com's AI Storyboard Generator (Rendermind) self-serve offering.
• Boords: Boords is a storyboard creation and pre-production software platform for agencies, filmmakers, and animators, competing in the same digital storyboarding category with both SaaS and collaboration features.
• StudioBois: StudioBois is a storyboard and concept art studio serving advertising, film, and gaming clients, directly competing for the same agency and brand storyboard commissions.
• Gentleman Scholar: Gentleman Scholar is a creative production studio specializing in storyboarding, animation, and design for advertising campaigns, overlapping with Storyboards.com's animatics and director pre-vis services.
• Gunner: Gunner is a storyboard and concept art studio serving major brands and agencies, competing head-to-head with Storyboards.com for advertising pitch boards and illustration work.

Broad incumbents

• Buck: Buck is a large, established creative production studio offering animation, design, and storyboarding services across advertising and entertainment, operating at broader scale than Storyboards.com with overlapping capabilities.

Emerging players

• Midjourney: Midjourney is a generative AI image platform that can produce storyboard-quality visuals at low cost, representing an emerging substitute to custom human storyboard services and adjacent to Storyboards.com's own AI tool.
• Runway: Runway provides generative AI video and image tools increasingly used for pre-visualization, animatics, and storyboarding workflows, competing for the same advertising pre-production budget.

Others

• Wonderful Machine: Wonderful Machine is a creative services platform connecting agencies and brands with photographers, illustrators, and production talent, comparable as an adjacent marketplace infrastructure to Storyboards.com's artist-broker model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/storyboards
• Instagraminstagram.com/storyboards
• Xx.com/StoryboardsIAS
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/storyboards-online

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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