What Codeboard can do

Codeboard is a code-first engine for editable 2D artwork, storyboards, and animation. You write TypeScript to create drawings, arrange shots, set timing, and render images or movies. A coding agent can run the same library and CLI, inspect saved work, and apply a targeted revision.

The useful output is both the artwork you can view and the project you can keep editing. Source code describes how you authored it; a saved .cboard contains the current editable state. Start with project concepts to understand those objects, or follow the workflow from a brief to a reviewed export.

Make drawings and illustrationsCopy Anchor Link

Combine vector contours, pressure-sensitive strokes, text, and pixel surfaces. Arrange them in layers and groups, use masks or clipping, and revise individual marks later. Brushes can use procedural settings or imported tips. Pixel selections support operations such as feathering and local painting.

Choose the representation for the edit you need: contour points for a silhouette, pen samples for a textured stroke, or pixels for a painted patch. Imported pixels remain pixels; automatic image-to-vector conversion is an external step.

Read drawing, brushes, pixels, and layers.

Develop a storyboard and animaticCopy Anchor Link

Organize sequences, scenes, shots, and panels. Store action, dialogue and camera captions; set panel durations; add camera motion and audio; then export sheets or an animatic movie. Structured script records and the supported CSV/Final Draft subset help retain IDs and track changes between script and board.

Captions and script links describe the intended scene. Artwork and acting still need to be authored and reviewed. Example stories are sample inputs, so their characters, style and durations do not become requirements for your project.

Read storyboards, camera, and audio.

Animate editable 2D artworkCopy Anchor Link

Use transform keys for movement and drawing substitutions for changes of pose or expression. Control easing, holds, exposure ranges, pivots and camera framing. Rigging tools include two-bone IK, rest poses, mesh/curve/envelope deformation, explicit skin weights, and named controllers. Supplied mouth cues can become editable drawing exposures with manual corrections.

Shot-local animation separates the performance from its position in an edit. Reordering or trimming editorial clips can reuse the same source shot. Board timing and shot-local timing are distinct domains; see frames and units before combining them.

Read animation, rig workflow, and onion skins.

Reuse and revise assetsCopy Anchor Link

Reuse editable components and shared solid-color palette bindings. Tracked component instances retain a source baseline so an upgrade can report conflicts with local edits. Keep published versions when old shots must remain reproducible.

Asset refresh and conflict-aware upgrade have different behavior. A refresh can replace instance artwork; an upgrade requires a tracked baseline and explicit choices for conflicts. See components before choosing an operation.

Composite, add sound, and deliverCopy Anchor Link

Combine masks, blend modes, and ordered layer effects. Shot compositing graphs connect source, effect, mask, and blend nodes. Studio audio uses source sample ranges and rational placement; mixing and stems support explicit trimming, gain, and fades.

Render PNGs, storyboard sheets/PDFs, or movies. Saved frame jobs pin inputs and store checked frames so an interrupted render can resume. Output profiles can resize images, retain alpha, or flatten against a chosen background. Movie encoding and media decoding require compatible FFmpeg/ffprobe installations.

The current image pipeline uses RGBA8 surfaces. Color-managed image import does not establish a float/linear compositor, HDR master, or arbitrary working/view/output color transform. See export for the supported profiles and audio for mix limits.

Inspect work and make a precise correctionCopy Anchor Link

Render an exact frame, a contact sheet, an onion-skin comparison, or a detail crop. Query stable object IDs, then change the intended layer, drawing, timing, or pixel region. Save a named revision when you need a checkpoint.

Persisted edit plans provide a dry run, version checks, and a durable commit receipt. Retrying the same request can return that receipt without applying the edit twice. Snapshot review exports record the source and image hashes. A passing validation or resolved comment does not supply an artistic approval.

Read review, projects and revisions, and agent workflow.

Exchange supported dataCopy Anchor Link

Primitive 3D scenes retain their camera, solids, lights, and animation keys inside .cboard. Their SVG renderer has a bounded feature set.

PSD export, imported 3D models, automatic speech recognition, and native Harmony project interchange are outside the current native support described here. OTIO cut support does not imply AAF/FCPXML support or automatic baking of unsupported transitions.

Choose a starting pointCopy Anchor Link

For the operations exposed by your installed engine, run codeboard capabilities or call await capabilities() from the library. Read each feature's constraints as well as its status. This inventory describes implemented scope; it is not a declaration that every production workflow has been qualified. The API guide maps tasks to callable operations.