In animation, a storyboard is a set of drawings used to convey the main idea of a story. Storyboards are usually unfinished sketches that convey the main actions that will take place. Animators use storyboards to quickly sketch out the main scenes, concepts, and characters in a story.

A storyboard is a graphic representation of how your video will unfold, shot by shot. It's made up of a number of squares with illustrations or pictures representing each shot, with notes about what's going on in the scene and what's being said in the script during that shot.