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Labour impactCognitive automation2025-05-31
Storyboarder employment in France held at 719 in 2024, and analysts found it difficult to conclude that AI tools had affected it
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Event date / reported
2025-05-31
Evidence stage
Labour impactVerifiable change in hiring, headcount, hours or job scope. Highest weight — but causal attribution still has to be argued, not assumed.
Tasks this bears on
Storyboards and previsualisation
Planning shots with storyboards and rough previsualisation.
Being augmented✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
France. Payroll-declaration data from the sector's social-protection group count 719 active storyboarders in 2024, up 0.6% on the year and 39.9% on 2018, and the note concludes that it is difficult to find a positive or negative effect of AI tools on storyboarders' employment, any effect being marginal so far compared with other factors. It covers salaried storyboarders in one country from 2018 and includes six interviews.
What this means
For one planning role, the measured employment shows no AI effect yet — a check on claims that storyboards are already automated.
What it does not yet show
One country's salaried storyboarders; it does not cover freelancers elsewhere or say what happens next.
What you can check
Open the AFDAS × Audiens × CNC note on storyboarders (May 2025) and find "difficile de conclure".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
Observatoire des métiers AFDAS × Audiens × CNC — Note de conjoncture sur l'emploi et le travail des storyboarders (Mai 2025) · verified 2026-09-30 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-30 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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