Re: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 8.1 MAC
Jhuls Morgan
Used by storytellers, directors, and creatives globally, Storyboard Pro empowers you to get your ideas down, structure the sequence and elaborate the story so it can be shared, pitched and promoted on your terms. This all-in-one storyboard solution combines drawing, scripting, camera controls, animatic creation capabilities and sound. Seamlessly integrating with Harmony, Storyboard Pro is the way to get your content off the ground quickly and easily.
As you are creating your boards, Storyboard Pro is automatically laying your panels in sequence on a timeline. This is the basis for your animatic, a video version of your storyboard. From there, adjust the timing of your scenes, add transitions, time your camera animation and even animate each layer of a panel to create easier, more compelling movements for your story.
Please know you are not alone. I am having the exact same issue, please fix this in an update Toonboom! It is heavily hurting my workflow, up till this moment I have been more than satisfied with your product.
This blue box is the actual size of the canvas for bitmap layers it prevents inadvertently drawing a series of very large bitmap and render your storyboard project super heavy. Although, if you need your bitmap to be bigger than the default size, you can change it.
I bought an old version of storyboard a while back (1.5 I believe) and the hand tool is working fine with that version.
I just want to try out the newest version of Storyboard to see if it is worth upgrading.
Please help. This bug is making it virtually unusable.
Each year, we select creators to participate in the Toon Boom Showreels. The showreels are intended to recognize animation and storyboard artists who make exceptional use of our software, whether they are industry professionals, freelancers, students, or hobbyists. We will consider any candidate who advances the craft of animation in their work using Toon Boom Harmony or Storyboard Pro. Toon Boom pulls together two distinct showreels each year, one that highlights work from studios and professionals and one that puts forward the works from students and schools.
Toon Boom Animation Inc., or just Toon Boom, is a Canadian software company founded in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec that specializes in the development and production of animation and storyboarding software for film, television, the World Wide Web, video games, mobile devices, training and education.
This software is used in pre-production to create storyboards for a wide variety of project types including 2D and 3D animation, stop motion, and live action productions. Storyboard Pro contains all the tools required to create storyboards and animatics. Its toolset includes vector and bitmap drawing tools, pencils and textured brushes, a built-in camera, audio tools, a timeline for timing control, and a 3D toolset to integrate imported 3D models.
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is one of the most popular storyboard and animation software programs on the market. With Storyboard Pro, you can create and turn storyboard thumbnails into animations. Not only does it have creative drawing and animation tools, it also allows you to adjust and import 3D models to include in your animations.
Toon Boom Animation is a software program that allows students to draw, animate or add special effects to create content of their choice. In this course students will explore storyboarding, scripting, camera controls, animatic creation capabilities and sound. Does the student like the idea of creating animated stories but insecure about their drawing skills? No problem! The Toon Boom program has hundreds of characters, images and backgrounds to select from and use while learning the same animation techniques as their peers. By the end of this course students will have been guided through the core concepts of animating in Storyboard Pro. They will also have a short project they created to show for it!
Toon Boom Animation's award-winning software is the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding. Toon Boom solutions provide everyone from enthusiasts to professionals with the artistic freedom to create in any style and efficiently publish anywhere. Customers include Bento Box Entertainment, Disney Television Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Fox Television Animation, Mercury Filmworks, Nelvana and The Spa Studios. Toon Boom technology is available in Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish. For more information, visit: toonboom.com.
Michael Hurwicz looks at Toon Boom Storyboard -- software for creating storyboards and animatics for 2D animation, 3D animation or live-action -- to see if it will draw you in or leave you staring blankly at the screen.
Expressive Freedom. First, the main purpose of a storyboard is to tell a story with a minimum of fuss and bother, and a maximum of verve and expressiveness. Yes, the storyboard artist does break the story into scenes and shots, thereby advancing the visual thinking process toward the final product. But the main thing is to let creativity flow, to give the characters life, expression and feeling. During storyboarding, artists should use the tools they're most comfortable with, the tools they can use without thinking about them. For many artists, that is pen or pencil and paper. For others, it may be Flash, Illustrator or Photoshop. Let the artist work in his or her favored medium for this critical creative phase of animation. This is the place to minimize technology and maximize freedom. It's the wrong place to interpose anything that could come between the artist and his or her inspiration. This would seem to argue against having any software specifically targeted at creating storyboards.
Overview. An important function of a storyboard is to allow the viewer -- be it an investor, producer, director or animator -- to get a quick visual overview of the whole story. A computer screen is inherently the wrong place to do that, because it can't show you all the drawings at once in one long, uninterrupted sweep, the way you see them on a corkboard. Storyboard artists I questioned confirmed that they were happy with corkboards. They seemed to have little interest in storyboarding software.
Cost. Even assuming the artist masters the storyboarding software completely, so it becomes second nature, what can storyboarding software offer that is worth $900 (Toon Boom Storyboard's list price)?
Efficiency. Finally, if you use your animation program to create your boards, you'll also create assets, which can be integrated with maximum efficiency into the final project. If you're using Flash to animate, for instance, why not just use Flash to create your storyboard? If you're using a Toon Boom product, like Toon Boom Studio, Toon Boom Solo or Toon Boom Harmony, surely any of these programs is capable of creating storyboard art.
Despite these doubts, I went ahead with testing Toon Boom Storyboard. I liked the user interface. It was easy to get oriented and start creating storyboards. Having used the Toon Boom Studio animation software was a help, since many of the tools (such as drawing tools) and concepts (such as the use of the camera) were similar.
One big difference between Toon Boom Studio and Toon Boom Storyboard is that Storyboard forces you to think in shots and panels. In contrast, Toon Boom Studio allows you, though by no means forces you, to organize your animation into scenes. To put it another way, Toon Boom Storyboard forces you to think like a storyboard artist.
But it goes beyond that. The Storyboard timeline is a mini-storyboard (minus text elements such as dialogue). There is nothing similar in Studio. The Toon Boom Storyboard timeline0 is automatically divided into discrete shots and panels. With Storyboard, you can see what your boards are going to look like. Studio just doesn't have that capability. Clearly, this makes Storyboard a better environment for building storyboards.
In addition, Storyboard has:A "Panel" tab for entering dialogue, action notes, slugging (timing for the panel), and notes, for the current panel or shot. Only the information associated with this particular panel or shot is visible in this tab.A "Storyboard" tab where you can store a script that will be visible from all panels and shots (The first figure above shows the Panel tab.)When you export as a PDF for printing, the Panel tab information is used to construct the storyboard, as shown in the figure below left.
You can also render an animatic (essentially an animated storyboard) as a QuickTime or Flash file or as a Targa sequence. The animatic contains only the graphics, not the information in the Panel tab. QuickTime and Flash versions can also contain audio.
This makes a lot of sense to me. If you're going to be working on your storyboards over the Internet, the corkboard-centric approach is out, and a more computer-centric approach starts to make sense. At that point, most of my objections disappear. Though I think Storyboard will be overkill (or simply "overspend") for a one-person shop and for many small, centralized operations, I can see that it could be a valuable tool for a geographically dispersed team, keeping everybody on the same page (or panel) and creating a common framework in which to work. Geographically dispersed teams are more the rule than the exception these days. So I think Storyboard could find wide applicability.
Storyboard Pro is one of the outstanding animation apps made by Toon Boom Animation. They are the Industry standard with clients like Disney, Warner Bros, and Pixar. Now, I'm not a storyboard artist. I'm also not an animator. While I've always been interested in the art of animation, it's only recently that I started doing it. After some initial research, I decided to use Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Harmony to create the cut scenes for my game, Crow's Quest.
While Storyboard Pro isn't a full-fledged animation tool, it does have a timeline. This timeline helps to breathe life into your storyboards. With this software, it's possible to create a series of moving panels by adding music, sound effects, voice overs, transitions, camera angles, and more. You can even adjust the timing for all of your panels, individually.
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