How do you split a storyboard grid into individual shots for AI generation?

AI image models often return a storyboard as a single grid: a 2x2, 3x2, or larger contact sheet with several panels packed into one file. An image-to-video model cannot animate that file directly, because it would treat the whole grid, gutters and all, as one frame and produce motion across the panels rather than within a single shot.

Splitting the grid first gives you clean, individual frames. Each panel becomes its own still, framed as the shot you actually intended, and each still can then seed its own video shot. That is the difference between animating a picture of a storyboard and animating the shots the storyboard planned.

Board-Chop detects the grid layout automatically. It reads the rows, columns, and gutters, including dark or thin ones, and works out where each panel begins and ends, so you do not crop by hand or guess at pixel coordinates.

The whole split runs in your browser. Your grid is never uploaded to a server for the free chop, so it is fast and private, and you get back clean individual images you can download at once or pick from selectively.

Splitting is only half the job for AI generation. Once you have the individual frames, the next step is turning the panel you want into motion. A chopped frame can be handed straight into an image-to-video shot, where it becomes the first frame and the model generates motion outward from the composition you already approved.

From there, frame chaining carries a sequence forward: the last frame of one shot starts the next, so the storyboard you drew becomes a continuous run of shots rather than a set of disconnected clips.