Storyboard

Storyboard · 4:3 Frames

Classic 4:3 frames for animatic and educational-video storyboards.

Storyboard 4:3 12 sheet variants

About Storyboard · 4:3 Frames

A storyboard sheet using the classic 4:3 academy ratio - still the right choice for educational video, broadcast-archive material, and vintage-feel animatics. Further reading: A practitioner reading list covers the standards lineage in more depth.

Standards lineage

Frame aspect matches SMPTE 1.33:1 academy ratio.

A short history

The 4:3 academy ratio was set by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1932 and dominated film and television until widescreen took over in the 2000s.

Where designers reach for it

  • Educational and training-video storyboards
  • Documentary previs sequences
  • Archive-format reconstruction
  • Web-class and MOOC content boards

Printing this grid

Every variant on this page is delivered as a vector SVG with physical millimetre dimensions baked into the file, so a compliant printer driver will reproduce it at exact 1:1 scale by default. Choose the sheet size that matches your printer tray, set scaling to 100 % (never "fit to page"), and verify with the calibration check on our how-to-print guide. Buyer's guide: Comparing the major architectural scale rulers can help you pick the right physical scale rule to use over the printed grid.

Available sheet sizes (12)