Point Draughtsman at your storyboard panels, a shot list or an FCP 7 XML edit, and it builds the master sequence: one shot per row, each with its own cine camera, the listed lens and the right length. While you lay out, the panel sits over the camera view. When the board changes, sync again and your camera work stays.
No more typing every shot into Sequencer, adding a camera per row and keeping the storyboard open on a second screen. A storyboard is an asset, so the whole team works from the same board through source control.
A panel folder, a shot list (CSV or plain text), an FCP 7 XML edit, or any mix. Review every new, changed and removed shot first.
A master sequence with one shot per row: its own cine camera with the listed lens, a camera cut and the right length.
Scrub in Sequencer: the panel under the playhead sits over the camera view. Switch to Lines and match the drawing.
Export the board, the camera or both side by side as MP4 or PNG frames, with burn-ins.
Panel names like 010_A.png, SC01_SH010_P02.png or Seq1_Img3_Frame48.pngare read automatically, or set your own pattern. Shot lists from Excel or Google Sheets, in English or Turkish, with durations in seconds, frames, 3+12 or timecode. FCP 7 XML with exact panel timing.
Every shot shown as new, changed (with what changed), same or removed, with its matched panels and anything the reader didn't understand.
A shot trimmed in Sequencer keeps its length, a lens changed on the camera is kept and reported. Pull timing brings Sequencer edits back into the board.
Spawnable cine cameras with the listed lens and a filmback in the board's aspect, and a camera cut for every shot.
Board, Camera, Side by side and Board over camera, as MP4 or PNG frames. Shots without a panel get a title card.
Shot number and name, timecode, frame counter, panel, lens, dialogue as subtitles and a title, in any character the font has.
The storyboard, its panel textures and its sequences are assets: the whole team works from one board through source control.
Import, review, build, sync, pull timing, overlay and animatic export from scripts.
Read a new storyboard delivery, review the plan in code, sync the master sequence and write tonight's animatic, all from a script.
Python docs
import unreal
draughtsman = unreal.get_editor_subsystem(unreal.TADraughtsmanSubsystem)
board = draughtsman.create_board("/Game/Previs", "SB_Forest")
options = unreal.TADraughtsmanImportOptions()
options.panel_folder = "D:/Boards/Forest/Panels"
options.shot_list_file = "D:/Boards/Forest/shots.csv"
plan = draughtsman.make_import_plan(board, options)
print(plan.num_new, plan.num_changed, list(plan.warnings))
draughtsman.apply_import_plan(board, plan)
report = draughtsman.build_sequence(board)
print(report.master_sequence, list(report.kept_lens))import unreal
draughtsman = unreal.get_editor_subsystem(unreal.TADraughtsmanSubsystem)
board = unreal.load_asset("/Game/Previs/SB_Forest")
settings = unreal.TADraughtsmanAnimaticSettings()
settings.mode = unreal.TADraughtsmanAnimaticMode.SIDE_BY_SIDE
settings.output_path = "D:/Boards/Forest/animatic.mp4"
settings.lens = True
result = draughtsman.export_animatic(board, settings)
print(result.frames, result.width, result.height, result.fell_back_to_png)Sold on Fab under the Fab Standard License. Both licenses get the same plugin: every feature and the full C++ source, for Unreal Engine 5.0 – 5.8.
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Any tool that exports images, and any tool that exports Final Cut Pro 7 XML: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Storyboarder and most editing tools. Shot lists come from any spreadsheet saved as CSV, or from a plain text file.
Syncing only changes what the list changed. Cameras, keys and other tracks in the shot sequences stay; a shot you trimmed in Sequencer keeps its length unless the list gives it a new one; a lens you changed on the camera is kept and reported.
No. Cameras are spawnables inside the shot sequences, and the panel overlay is a post-process pass on the active level viewport only. No actors are added to the level, Play In Editor and packaged games are not affected, and nothing of Draughtsman is packaged.
No. It is a fast render of the level viewport through the master sequence, like a playblast, for reviewing timing and framing. Use Movie Render Queue on the same master sequence for final frames.
Save the sheet as CSV first (in Google Sheets: File > Download > CSV). English and Turkish column names are recognised, and decimal commas work.
Unreal Engine 5.0 to 5.8, in the editor on Win64, Mac and Linux. MP4 animatics are written on Windows; on Mac and Linux animatics are PNG frames.