Storyboard Artist Services
Visual pre-production backed by New York's deep pool of illustration, comics, and visual arts talent.
A storyboard artist turns a screenplay into a sequence of visual panels. These panels map out camera angles, compositions, and scene blocking before filming starts. New York holds one of the world's deepest pools of illustration and visual arts talent. That depth runs from the American comics tradition rooted in the city to the art schools, ad agencies, and animation studios that made NYC a creative capital. New York storyboard artists bring this visual skill to each production.
NeedAFixer connects you with New York-based storyboard artists who pair fine artwork with the fast, polished pace the city demands. Your project may film at Steiner Studios, on Manhattan streets, across Brooklyn, in the Hudson Valley, or at Long Island sites. For each of these, our network supplies pros skilled in features, TV series, commercials, and the high-volume work that defines New York.
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Capabilities
Storyboard Expertise
Our storyboard artists picture your scenes before filming begins. This helps directors plan shots, share their vision with the crew, and spot likely problems early.
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Scene Visualization
- Shot composition
- Camera angles
- Character staging
- Action sequences
- Emotional beats
Visual Planning
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Technical Planning
- Camera movement
- Lens selection
- Lighting notes
- VFX requirements
- Transition design
Technical Guidance
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Animatic Creation
- Timed sequences
- Pacing preview
- Sound integration
- Motion indication
- Edit preview
Motion Preview
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Production Support
- Director collaboration
- Department briefings
- Revision cycles
- On-set reference
- Post guidance
Production Integration
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Why Us
Why Choose Our Storyboard Artists
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NYC Illustration Excellence
Our artists come from New York's top art schools and illustration scene, so they bring the visual energy and exact storytelling the city's creative trades demand.
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Major Production Experience
They bring pre-visualization skill from Steiner Studios, Silvercup, and Broadway stages, serving features, prestige TV, and the ad industry based in New York.
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Fast-Paced Delivery
New York storyboard artists are used to the city's tough timelines, so they deliver strong boards and animatics on tight schedules for fast-moving shoots.
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Unmatched Talent Density
We give you access to one of the world's deepest pools of visual arts talent, from comics pros to fine artists and ad illustrators across the five boroughs.
On Location
Pre-visualisation from NYC's illustration, comics, and SVA-Pratt-Cooper Union pipeline
New York's storyboard artists come up through one of the world's deepest illustration-and-comics pipelines. It runs through Cooper Union, the School of Visual Arts (whose Continuing Education programme runs the country's most-recognised storyboard-and-sequential-art tracks), Parsons, Pratt, and the long-running cartoonist tradition centred on The New Yorker, MAD Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and the New York Review of Books.
The comics half of that pipeline runs through Marvel Comics' Manhattan HQ, the DC Comics edit ties to NY, the indie-comics scene around Drawn & Quarterly delivery and the Brooklyn small-press community, and the Society of Illustrators on the Upper East Side. That lineage shapes pre-visualisation work in a distinctly New York way. You see strong figure work, sure-handed sequential staging, fast-revision discipline learned from agency-and-edit deadlines, and an ease with cinematic camera language picked up from years beside the city's DPs, ADs, and directors.
Our network reaches the freelance and studio storyboard artists who work day to day on HBO Hudson Yards features and series, Netflix NY originals, Apple TV+ NYC slates, Madison Avenue commercial work, and the prestige-TV pipelines anchored at Steiner Brooklyn Navy Yard, Silvercup, Kaufman Astoria, and York Studios.
Their tech range is broad. Artists work in Storyboard Pro, Procreate, Photoshop, and more and more inside Unreal Engine for pre-viz tied to NYC's growing virtual-production stages and the wider HBO and Netflix New York LED-volume setup. Action and VFX sequences go to artists who know camera movement, lens choice, plate needs, and the downstream compositing pipelines at Brainstorm Digital (NY), Phosphene, Brickyard VFX, and the East Coast post houses.
Commercial and advertising boards run through the Madison Avenue agency calendar. Shops like Wieden+Kennedy NY, Droga5, BBDO, Ogilvy, and Mother NY want storyboards on the city's tight pitch-and-shoot timelines, from quick pitch boards through fully rendered frame-by-frame breakdowns for high-budget campaigns. Engagements scale to fit. A single storyboard artist can cover a tight pre-viz brief, or a full pre-production department can step in with animatic editors and concept illustrators. Our producers know the $700M New York State film tax credit, MOME street-filming logistics, and the union and non-union workflows that NYC's mixed production settings need.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes New York storyboard artists distinctive?
New York packs in a rare depth of illustration, comics, animation, and fine arts talent. The city's storyboard artists often have wide visual backgrounds across editorial illustration, advertising, comics, and film. That range gives them flexible skills and lets them shift their style to fit any production's needs.
Can your artists work with NYC tax credit productions?
Yes. Our artists know the workflows of shoots that use New York State's film tax credit program. They know how New York studios run, and they slot in smoothly with both union and non-union production teams.
How do you handle street-level New York location storyboarding?
Filming on New York streets brings tough logistics — permits, traffic, crowds, and tight spaces. Our storyboard artists know these hurdles well. They prepare boards that plan for the real conditions of NYC location shooting, which helps directors run lean, well-paced shoots.
What about commercial and advertising storyboards?
New York is the hub of the US advertising industry. Our storyboard artists have broad experience making boards for ad agencies and commercial firms. That work ranges from quick pitch boards to detailed frame-by-frame breakdowns for high-budget campaigns.
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ACT 04 — On Set
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Let's map out your project with pro storyboarding.