Storyboard app for iPad and Apple Pencil

Everything a storyboard artist needs, on iPad

Upshot is a complete storyboarding app for iPad: draw, time and play back your boards on the tablet you already carry, then hand them to the rest of the pipeline.

• Built for Apple Pencil

  Pressure and tilt from the first Apple Pencil onward. With Apple Pencil Pro, barrel roll, squeeze and double tap are mapped out of the box.

• Layers, onion skin and light table

  Draw every panel in layers, check it against the panels around it with onion skin, or trace over a reference on the light table.

• Camera moves on the panel

  Block pans, zooms and pushes with in and out frames drawn right on the board, and see them play in the animatic.

• Timeline and animatic

  Give every panel a duration, drop in scratch audio, scrub the sequence and play it back as an animatic without leaving the app.

• Toon Boom and Avid round trip

  Import from and export to Toon Boom Storyboard Pro with open source plugins, or export an AAF and bring the sequence into Avid Media Composer.

• Open project format

  Every project is plain SVG and JSON. Open it in Inkscape or any vector tool, script against it, and never get locked in.

Step-by-step guides for the Toon Boom and Avid workflows are in the resources.