FrameThrower
FrameThrower provides the largest searchable film reference library ever built, with over 2.3 million frames and 1.9 million clips from movies, commercials, and animation, indexed with about 50 data points per frame. Users can search by text, image, color, or script to find visual references in seconds, and build moodboards and lookbooks for pitching. The platform offers a free plan, a Pro tier at $7/month billed annually, and a metered API for developers.
- Creator / Creative Economy
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Film professionals and students spend hours scrubbing through movies to find specific visual references for lighting, composition, or color. This manual process is time-consuming and often requires owning physical media or knowing exactly which film to pause, making it difficult to efficiently study craft or build visual pitches for productions.
Solution
FrameThrower provides the largest searchable film reference library ever built, with every frame of thousands of films, anime, and commercials indexed and searchable. Users can search by visual attributes like lighting, lens, shot size, color, or a plain description of what they have in mind, finding references in seconds rather than evenings. The platform includes a lookbook builder that converts scripts into scene-by-scene visual pitch boards using real film frames, and a moodboard builder that lets users search the library and drop frames directly into boards organized by scene or sequence. Anime titles include motion clips for every cut to study movement and pacing, and the library is growing weekly with new content.
Target Audience
Primary users are film, animation, and art students, teachers and film schools, directors, cinematographers, gaffers, production designers, art directors, colorists, editors, storyboard artists, animators, commercial and agency creatives, producers pitching projects, AI filmmakers, and developers building creative tools.
Features
- Search by visual attributes including lighting, lens, shot size, color, or natural language description of a shot
- Search by image, accepting a reference image to find similar frames
- Search by script to generate scene-by-scene visual pitch boards
- Moodboard builder with integrated library search, allowing frames to be dropped directly into boards and shared via a single link
- About 50 data points tagged per frame by an in-house film professional team
- Motion clips for anime titles showing every cut to study motion and pacing
- Public API and MCP integration for AI agents, with metered per-call pricing
- Library of 2,380,615 frames and 1,946,140 clips across movies, ads, and animation, including 35,887 commercials