Toon Boom Storyboard

Toon Boom Storyboard is the leading storyboarding system for visual storytelling, perfectly suited to traditional and paperless methods. Truly completing the production pipeline, Storyboard helps you take an idea and translate it into a visual story that will become a complete production, whether animated or live-action. Developed in conjunction with expert storyboard artists, Toon Boom Storyboard speeds up production planning and enables studios to reach new heights with increased production integration. Its advanced features make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard.

Toon Boom Storyboard provides a:

Flexible layer-based panel display with motion camera capabilities

Complete set of drawing tools, including pressure-sensitive brush tool when using a digital graphic tablet and pen

Customizable caption fields to insert fully searchable textual content, such as scene descriptions and comments

Advanced timeline to control timing and automatically generate an animatic with sound tracks and transitions between shots

Real-time animatic creation with dynamic camera moves

Extensive export capabilities, including printing, image sequences, and Harmony/Opus/Solo*, EDL, SWF and QuickTime file formatting.

Ideal for storyboard artists

Work faster with drawing layers and intuitive vector drawing tools

Create better animatics in less time

Accelerate the review and approval process

Essential for directors and producers

Enjoy complete pipeline integration

Review, update and reorder digital panels instantly

Leverage the reuse of assets by accessing storyboard drawings from other panels, its library of existing drawing and sounds, and the library of other storyboard projects

A must for visual storytellers

Draw, animate and edit in one powerful package

Develop multilayer panels with constant reference to script

Access advanced tools and ready-made templates to storyboard quickly

Preview story composition in real-time synced with sound tracks

Feature List:
Draw with a complete set of vector-based tools to create resolution-independent
drawings, including:

Brush tool for freehand drawing, using solid color, gradient or textured pen styles

Basic shape tools (Line, Rectangle, Ellipse)

Text tool with essential wording feature for independent attributes for each character
(Font, Size, Bold, Italic) with automatic or user-defined kerning for multiple lines of text, with independent alignment modes, indentation and spacing

Eraser tool for correction and removal

Cutter tools, ideal for rectangular image cropping and freehand for custom cut selections

Paint tool for filling areas with solid colors, gradients or textures

Close Gap tool for closing a shape so that it can be filled with a color, without adding
a visible line
Modify, transform or recolor drawing object brushstrokes and color fills
Create brush textures to recreate the look of natural media tools, such as graphite,
charcoal or pencil
Manage color palettes using a color picker that supports solid colors, gradients and
textures, as well as an independent transparency value for each color
Create and manage an unlimited number of layers in a panel, using the transparent
layering architecture
Enjoy easy layer manipulation using drag-and-drop to rearrange layer order, swap layers
between panels and merge layers together

Customize layer display (Hide or Visible, Rename)
Apply the Transform tools to drawing objects to prepare them for transformations in the
animatic, including changes over time to the object's keyframe position, scaling and
rotation between the first frame and last frame in a panel

Captions

Include captions for each panel with information such as notes, dialogue, slug lines,
costume

Use the Global Captions field for overall comments, production notes, storyboarder
contact information, etc.

Create an unlimited number of panel and storyboard caption

Type notes directly into caption fields

Customize the caption categories

Save caption layouts as a template for future storyboards

Search tool to find caption text easily

Import TXT files directly into a caption field

Sound

Use voice annotation to add comments quickly

Add an unlimited number of voice annotations to a panel

Record voice annotations directly without using an external application

Timeline

Display thumbnail images for each panel

Manage panels and transition duration using drag-and-drop

Import an unlimited number of audio tracks

Expand sound files for overlapping dialogue, sound and music

Set sound file duration directly in the timeline using drag-and-drop

Display sound file waveforms to synchronize shots

Edit each sound file's volume envelopes

Turn individual soundtracks on or off

Shift and shuffle selections, panels or sound files all at once

Image and Audio Libraries

Reuse assets from the built-in image template library including Characters, Locations, Props and Actions

Access an unlimited number of user libraries easily to work with custom and frequently used drawings and sounds

Set user libraries as global to Toon Boom Storyboard or localize it to the current
Storyboard project

Import libraries from Toon Boom Harmony, Opus or Toon Boom Solo

Camera

Play back a panel with dynamic camera movement in real-time using the Camera tool at any time during storyboard development

Keyframe camera position, zoom and roll between the first frame and last frame in a panel

Create smooth camera movement using drag-and-drop camera path elements

Define ease-in and ease-out acceleration for smooth camera motion

Transitions

Place transitions between shots

Select different types of transitions (Cut, Dissolve, Wipe)

Define the length of the transition

Playback

Play animatic in real-time without any rendering, including all camera movements and
synchronized sound

Play back the current panel or the entire storyboard

Toggle playback to loop storyboard output

Turn sound playback on or off

Import

Import TVG, OPT, PAL, SCAN, SGI, TGA, YUV, OMF, PSD, PNG and JPG image
formats

Import a group of images to automatically create a storyboard

Import SWF animation file formats

Import PDF file formats

Import MP3, WAV, AIF and AIFF audio format

Export

Support SWF and MOV animation formats to export the current panel or full storyboard

Configure SWF and MOV formats (audio and video codec, compression )

Support PDF format

Select a layout from a list of standard storyboard page layouts

Customize page layout properties

Add headers and footers

Save new and update page layouts

Select the information you want to print, including data on the panel, scene name, start and end times, duration, transition, and text in caption fields

Support EDL format, allowing the creation of standard EDL files and the export of
QuickTime movie files for each panel synced with EDL

Produce a sequence of still images

Generate all panels into Toon Boom Harmony, Opus and Solo scenes (Dongle
required to output to Harmony/Opus/Solo file format)

System Requirements

Macintosh

OS: Mac OS X v10.4

PowerPC G5

512 MB of Ram (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)

90 MB of available hard disk space for the software

ATI or nVidia video card with 128 MB of RAM

Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution and 24-bit color depth

Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)

Windows and Linux RedHat

OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2 and XP, RedHat Fedora Core 3

2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor (Recommended)

512 MB of Ram (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)

90 MB of available hard disk space for the software

nVidia video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM

Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution and 24-bit color depth

Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)