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Storyboards are just cheap tools that filmmakers use to make films. I am not trying to be disrespectful, but hear me out.
Storyboards, to be honest, put filmmakers out of work...because they're just a cheaper way to find shots than hiring a film crew to shoot tests.
The art of storyboarding developed out of a necessity film producers needed to fill.
It isn't actually a true artform that stands on itself alone. It is beautiful art, and storyboard artists are insanely talented...but, if films didn't exist, neither would storyboards.
That's what graphic novels/comics/manga/etc are for. That's the art. Storyboarding is a day job for graphic artists who also write graphic novels/etc.
A computer can make storyboards for a film, and storyboard artists can still make graphic novels/comics/manga/etc for their art.
Storyboards simply help filmmakers find their shots cheaper than sets, actors, lights and cameras do. Storyboarding is a child...filmmaking is the parent.
AI is so well suited to this, that it would be ridiculous to not use it as the tool it is supposed to be used as.
Most commercials I’ve been on still do test shoots even with storyboards made. They just use iphones. And as for my direct industry, I’m in animation, storyboards are really essential since you can’t just create the whole project from the start. There is also definitely an art to doing storyboards, not ever artist I’ve worked with can do storyboards. I knew a few people whose career was just storyboards. So much can be discovered through storyboards, especially if all departments are involved.
Doesn't seem like most people in this post understand filmmaking. They're usually a lot more like a technical diagram than a piece of art, especially early in preproduction.
It's also really hard to explain what you want to someone without several revisions