Professional Storyboarding Services

Here is how this works in practice. Storyboarding in Spain draws on an unusually deep illustrator bench fed by four body-level pipelines. ECAM (Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid). Founded 1995 and now Spain's top film school. ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya) in Terrassa near Barcelona. Bande à Part Escola de Cinema in Barcelona. And the audiovisual program at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Their graduates have populated Pedro Almodóvar's storyboard sessions for two decades.

Here is the short of it. Boards that José Luis Alcaine (Volver, Pain and Glory, the director's regular DP since the 1980s) reads alongside the director when blocking the colour-saturated interiors that define El Deseo's visual language. We commission boards in pencil-on-paper for Almodóvar-school emotional drama, full-colour digital for streaming-sites period pieces. And Storyboard Pro / TVPaint pipelines for the previs work that comes off Mediapro Studios at Sant Joan Despí. Bambú Producciones (Velvet, Las Chicas del Cable) and Filmax Barcelona.

Here is the breakdown. The Spanish animation lineage gives our storyboard pool a hybrid live-action/animation skill that few European markets match. Lightbox Animation Studios Madrid (the Tadeo Jones franchise — three feature films, 2012/2017/2022 — plus Goya wins for Best Animated Feature). Ilion Animation Studios Madrid (Planet 51 with Sony 2009, Mortadelo y Filemón Mission Implausible 2014), User T38. And Filmax Animation Barcelona have trained a generation of artists fluent in both feature-film previs and classic 2D board work. We deliver bilingual board packs in Spanish, Catalan (for TV3 and Catalan-language theatrical).

Basque (Euskera for EITB and Basque State cultural-fund shoots) and Galician (Galego for TVG). With embedded shot specs that map cleanly to the AEAT-compliant cost reports our line producers file against the ICAA 30% rebates. The 50% Canary Islands credit and the 70% Navarra credit. Cloud delivery via Frame.io or ftrack ships OK'd boards to directors in London, Los Angeles. México DF and Buenos Aires within 24 hours of lock.