ShotList.Studio was founded by Ani Kajaia, a production designer. They spent years in the room where a film gets planned, and kept watching the same thing go wrong: not the ideas, but the handoff. A director walks in with a complete picture of a scene in their head — and it takes three meetings, two misread PDFs and a whiteboard argument before the crew is looking at the same film.
Pre-production drowns in miscommunication. Everyone is talented; everyone is guessing. Ani's conviction is that this gap is now optional. If software can read the script and make the director's picture explicit — on a page, in minutes, with every shot pointing back at the line that asked for it — then the meetings can be about the film instead of about the misunderstanding. That is the whole product: collapse the distance between the picture in one head and the picture in everyone else's.
Here is the other conviction, held just as firmly: real art cannot be replaced by AI. The frames this tool draws are not the movie, and they are not trying to be. They are communication tools — prototypes to argue with, fast sketches that get a room seeing the same thing so the real decisions can start. When the boards need to carry a production, when a set needs to be designed, when an image needs to mean something, that work belongs to human artists. Ani is one; this tool was built from that side of the table.
Use the generated frames to pitch, to argue, to lock the list. Then hire the hand. When you're ready for a storyboard artist, we'll connect you with one.
We're small, we answer our own email, and we'd genuinely like to know what your pre-production looks like — especially the parts that still hurt. Write to hello@shotlist.studio, or send us a script and see what it reads.
See the tool