Toon Boom Storyboard Pro should help you do away with all the paper and pens that people normally associate with storyboarding without a computer. The interface is somewhat dull, and the layout disappoints: tools like the colour palettes are not easily accessible enough. The drawing tools are very basic; Storyboard Pro is meant for rough sketching and basic drawing, and we’d have liked better brushes. Some changes to the brush can be done to inprove on the default set, though. Sounds can added to the shots; voice-overs can be recorded in the software and added. you can also add notes- useful for dilogues.
The Onion skin feature is especially useful: it allows artists to use earlier panels as a reference and make accurte additions to the next shots.
A few templates are provited as well. You can select from ready-made characters and items and add them to a scene by a simple drag-and-drop move.
The colour selector in Storyboard Pro is pretty advenced; itdisplays a wide range of colours using three separate parameters-Hue, Saturation, and value, for the three standrad colours-red, green and blue, However, this three wheel selection mode window is too large to fit into a resolution of 1152 x 864. A minimum resolution of 1280 x 1024 is required.
Storyboard Por has incorporated cameras similar to those in 3D modelling application. The camera can be panned and moved about. Transition effects can be set between shots-this makes Storyboard Pro a viable option as an animation tool (to some extent). Prepared animations can be exported as rendered frames in TGA and JPEG or as QuickTime or Flash animations.
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro demonstrates that by moving the process of storyboarding to a computer, it’s possible to exponetially improve flexibility-mark changes effortless; easily put detail put into perpoduction plans.
$999 for the commercial version may seem high, but remember that professional studious’3D softwere and compositing softwere run into lakhs. Still, you can find similar storyboarding softwere at around half the price. The edcational package for studebts-which adds a watermark-is expensive, at $499.
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