Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

Truly completing the production pipeline, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 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, Storyboard Pro speeds up production planning and enables you to reach new heights with increased production integration. Its advanced features make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard.

User Profiles:

Ideal for storyboard artists

Essential for directors and producers

A must for every visual storyteller

Type of projects:

Commercials

Features

Series

Documentaries

Games

Scientific presentations

Key Benefits:

Shorter time to production

Reduce costs

Visualize your ideas

Animate your storyboards

What's New:

True WYSIWYG multi layer drawing engine

Use onion skinning for easy creation of key poses

Draw behind mode to paint behind contour line

Merge layers

Flip drawings or layers

Improved pipeline integration

Support AAF to export to editing solution such as Avid editing system, Adobe Premiere

Export to CSV to retrieve your SB into spreadsheet application such as Excel

Import and Export layered PSD and maintain layers independent

Enjoy enhanced PDF support with password protection, extended panel and new customization option added

Support foreign languages

Print time code over exported movie

Extended animatic features

Spread camera and layer motion over panels

Control ease in and out independently per layers and camera

Define camera and layer hold time at beginning or end of panels

Link Audio track to panel to always keep your audio files in sync

Windows Tablet PC and Vista Support

Several performance improvements

Features:

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro comes with an intuitive interface presenting either an elegant traditional panel window layout or an overview window layout that fits into your content creation process. Easy to learn and use, Storyboard Pro mimics the traditional storyboarding process, navigating with just a graphic tablet pen in a user-friendly environment.

Flexible motion-layer based panel display with dynamic camera capabilities.

Complete set of drawing tools, including a 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.

Extensive import and export capabilities, including printing, with Harmony/Opus/Solo, EDL, AAF, CSV, PDF, PSD, SWF, AI, JPG, TGA, PNG and QuickTime file formatting.

Flexible configuration
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro fits easily into your current production environment. Scan paper storyboards to accelerate the review process and update your team instantly. Produce a paperless storyboard and animatic using a Wacom tablet to preserve the paper feeling. Use a TabletPC for portable storyboarding during production meetings, final touch-up on stage or at home.

System Requirements

Macintosh

OS: Mac OS X v10.4

PowerPC G5 and Intel

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

110 MB of available hard disk space for the software

ATI or nVidia video card with 128 MB of RAM

Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution

Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)

Windows

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and TabletPC

2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor (Recommended)

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

110 MB of available hard disk space for the software

nVidia video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM

Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution

Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)