1. An animation authoring apparatus comprising: a storyboard editor to provide a storyboard editing screen, to interact with a user to edit a storyboard, and to store the edited storyboard, wherein the storyboard comprises scene information, a screen shot for each cut, and a screenplay, all being displayed on the storyboard at the same time; a parser to parse syntax of the edited storyboard; and a rendering engine to convert the edited storyboard into a graphic animation based on the parsed syntax of the edited storyboard.