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Overview
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Used by storytellers, directors, and creatives globally, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro empowers you to get your ideas down, structure sequences, and elaborate stories so they can be shared, pitched, and promoted on your terms. This all-in-one storyboard software combines drawing, scripting, camera controls, animatic creation capabilities, and sound. Seamlessly integrating with Harmony, Storyboard Pro is the way to get your content pitched and greenlit quickly and easily. Whether you're creating for 2D or 3D animation, live-action productions, or gaming, Storyboard Pro provides a flexible platform that maintains the integrity of your artistic expression while offering cost and time savings. With its professional-grade tools and reliable support team, accessible whenever you need help, Storyboard Pro sets the industry standard for storyboarding software. |
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Why Storyboard Pro
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Features
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Scripting Integration
Whether you start your project with a script or choose to write the script as you draw your boards, Storyboard Pro has you covered. You can import your full script from any source and always stay aligned with the most crucial part of any production: the story. Add captions to your panels by simply dragging and dropping sections from your script. If you've used Final Draft to create your script and manage your scenes, shots, or panels, Storyboard Pro can automatically generate a storyboard from a .fdx import with scene breakdowns, naming, and captions. This seamless integration ensures that your storytelling process is efficient and cohesive, allowing you to focus on the creative aspects rather than technical hurdles.
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Drawing Engine & Tools
Toon Boom’s legendary drawing engine, capable of seamless work in vector and bitmap simultaneously, allows you to push the boundaries of creativity. Sketching or drafting has never been so responsive with the Brush tool, which has been developed to feel as close to a real brush as possible. Set up advanced brush attributes, add textures to your vector lines, and see them update while drawing. Modify your lines as you see fit or convert bitmap lines to vector (and vice versa) with or without textures. If precision is important, you can utilize Storyboard Pro’s rich library of rulers, guides, and grids. Work in isometric view for gaming production or create a fisheye view of your shot. You can also mirror your workspace to view your work from a new angle. Create complex images with multiple layers while making use of texture shading, transparency, and overlays. With Storyboard Pro, you can work efficiently and take your boards to new heights.
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Built-in Camera and Multiplane
Storyboard Pro features a full 3D environment built from the ground up, which you can activate at any time. All your layers can be manipulated on all three axes simultaneously, allowing you to create immersive worlds. Storyboard Pro’s camera can be placed or animated either by framing your panel on two axes at a time or by converting it to a 3D camera. Issues with parallax are a thing of the past. You can time your camera animation on one panel or extend its movement over multiple panels; Storyboard Pro will always help you convey the desired action. With the multiplane capabilities, you can add depth to your scenes by placing elements at different distances from the camera, enhancing the visual storytelling of your project.
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Animatics (Timeline Editing) and Conformation
As you create your boards, Storyboard Pro automatically lays your panels in sequence on a timeline. This forms the basis for your animatic—a video version of your storyboard. From there, you can adjust the timing of your scenes, add transitions, time your camera animation, and even animate each layer of a panel to create more compelling movements for your story. The Storyboard Pro timeline will be familiar to the most demanding video editors, allowing you to edit multiple video and audio tracks, adjust durations with the “ripple subsequent panels” feature on or off, reposition your in/out points dynamically, or cut/insert portions of your edit. You can export your animatic in multiple formats, in parts or as a single rendered video. Storyboard Pro now allows you to export to Apple® ProRes™, boosting full compatibility with the most demanding industry requirements. This ensures that your projects meet professional standards and are ready for collaboration or presentation.
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Sound Editing and Effects
No animatic would be complete without the addition of sound. Add as many soundtracks as you want from the most commonly used formats. Record your own temporary tracks directly from Storyboard Pro’s timeline if needed. Link any audio clip to your storyboard panels so that you never lose sync or lock background sounds throughout the editing process. Do your mixing directly in Storyboard Pro by adjusting audio levels for multiple or individual clips, dynamically adding keyframes while monitoring audio levels to avoid clipping. To give your sounds more personality, open up the Effect Stack view and add a variety of effects. If you need further refinement, Storyboard Pro lets you export your entire sequence as merged or individual tracks in a variety of formats and quality levels. This comprehensive sound integration ensures that your story is told not just visually but also audibly, enhancing the overall impact of your project.
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3D Integration
Understanding the creatively demanding nature of modern projects, Storyboard Pro is built within a fully 3D environment. This allows you not only to manipulate 2D planes on multiple axes but also to import 3D assets and incorporate them into your panels, animating them as you would any other layer. Bring in FBX, OBJ, or Alembic files, access sub-nodes, add keyframes to any individual 3D asset, and animate the 3D camera. With Storyboard Pro, watch your animatic come to life, whether your project is a 3D, 2D, live-action, gaming, or hybrid production. This level of integration ensures that your storyboard remains versatile and adaptable to various production workflows, allowing for greater creative expression and technical precision.
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What's new
Symmetry Drawing Guides
Three symmetry drawing guides have been added to Storyboard Pro 24: Vertical Symmetry, Horizontal Symmetry, and Dual Axis. When active, the symmetry guides mirror the strokes drawn by the artist by duplicating them on the other side of the guide. For example, using the Vertical Symmetry guide allows artists to quickly draw characters without having to draw both sides. This feature enhances efficiency and ensures symmetry in designs, which is crucial for character development and complex illustrations.
Pencil Lines with Opacity
The Pencil tool has been improved to support opacity variations on lines as they are drawn. Artists can control the amount of transparency on lines by applying more or less pressure on their stylus, giving them more control over the artistic look of their drawings. The resulting pencil lines have a more natural look while still retaining the ability to be easily reshaped using the contour editor. This enhancement allows for more expressive and dynamic artwork, closely mimicking traditional drawing techniques.
New Brush Properties for a More Natural Look
New properties have been added to the Brush tool to randomize the position of the brush tip when generating textured strokes. These properties help improve the natural look of textured brushes and open new artistic possibilities. Brushes that mimic soft brushes, sponges, and airbrushes will now be easier to create, as well as replicating brushes from other drawing software. This offers artists a wider range of tools to express their creativity and achieve the desired visual effects.
Faster Loading and Manipulation of 3D Models
The technology used to load and display 3D models has been completely overhauled to provide faster loading, display, and manipulation within Storyboard Pro. Large models that used to slow down the software can now be visualized and manipulated without performance issues. This improvement significantly enhances the workflow when working with complex 3D assets, making the process smoother and more efficient.
Drawing on Rotated Layers
Drawing tools have been overhauled to allow artists to draw and modify drawing layers that have any orientation. Previously, drawing tools would not work if the viewing angle was more than 5 degrees. Now, drawing tools can be used on drawing layers regardless of the viewing angle, allowing artists to quickly sketch and add details without interruption and in the context of the scene. This flexibility facilitates more dynamic and creative compositions.
Summary of Benefits
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro empowers creatives globally by combining robust drawing tools, script integration, and advanced camera and animatic features in one platform. It offers flexibility and functionality that allows for high-quality creation while saving time and costs. With its industry-standard reputation and a supportive community, Storyboard Pro maintains the integrity of your artistic expression. Its new features, including symmetry guides, enhanced brush tools, and improved 3D integration, make it an indispensable tool for modern storytelling across 2D and 3D projects.