Case Study - AI - Media & Animation
An animation studio that produces narrated history films reached out to Providus for a custom product build. Each of their films needed hundreds of rough storyboard frames, and the artists drew every one by hand. However, characters and locations drifted from frame to frame, and the studio’s single-file app could not keep the look consistent. They required a storyboarding tool that could draw frames quickly, hold the same style across an entire film, and protect each artist’s work.
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Storyboarded for one full film
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Cost per AI-drawn frame
Every film needed hundreds of rough frames. A team of three to four artists had to draw each one manually.
Characters and settings changed from one frame to the next. The artists spent extra time fixing details that should have stayed the same.
The studio’s original single-file app had no safe way for two artists to work on the same film. One artist’s save could overwrite another’s changes.
We built Storyboard Copilot, a web app that draws one black-and-white frame per shot with Gemini image models. Character sheets, reference images, and the film’s art direction go with every request, so all characters and locations stay consistent across the whole film.
Artists can play the frames back in a built-in animatic player and export a print sheet for review. Every save creates a new, unchangeable version, so two artists cannot overwrite each other’s work. A browser-side IndexedDB working copy keeps editing fast, and AWS S3 stores every version.
All Technologies Used
Full film storyboardedThe studio storyboarded a complete history film at 146 panels.
Secure editsVersioned saves let several artists work on one film without losing changes.
Legacy tool retiredStoryboard Copilot replaced the studio’s original single-file app.
Consistent characters & locationsCharacters and locations stay the same from the first frame to the last.
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