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Some live-action film directors, such as Joel and Ethan Coen, use storyboard extensively before taking a pitch to their funders, stating that it helps them to get the support they require, since they can show exactly where the money will be used.

Alfred Hitchcock's films were strongly believed to have been extensively storyboarded to the finest detail by the majority of commentators over the years, although later research indicates that this was exaggerated for publicity purposes.

Akira Kurosawa was known, particularly in his later years, for painstaking detail in his storyboarding, to the degree that the storyboard paintings for Ran ( for which he storyboarded every shot ) are regarded as fine works of art in themselves.

Other directors storyboard only certain scenes, or none at all.

Animation directors are usually required to storyboard extensively, sometimes in place of writing a script.