Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

Toon Boom Animation this week released Storyboard Pro, another application in its production pipeline for professionals. Toon Boom's Storyboard Pro allows users to take an idea and translate it into a visual story. Developed in conjunction with expert storyboard artists, the company says that Storyboard Pro speeds up production planning and enables artists to achieve advanced production integration. The application offers a paperless system for the traditional storyboard process digitally using a graphics tablet and pen and is designed for films, documentaries, gaming, advertising, and animation projects. It includes advanced features for storyboarding, integrated simultaneous creation, and effective pre-production management. It is available as a Universal Binary for Mac OS X v10.4 (1GB of RAM is recommended). The $900 software is available with an extra $100 discount through April 27th.

Storyboard Pro features a true WYSIWYG multi-layer drawing engine with “onion skinning” functions for creating key poses as well as a draw behind mode to paint behind contour lines and the ability to flip and merge drawings or layers. It also offers advanced integration with production pipelines and extended animation features.

In addition, the application offers a variety of functions for advanced workflow integration: it allows users to export storyboards to AAF for integration with Avid or Adobe Premiere-based editing systems, CSV export for Excel integration, import/export of layered PSD files, enhanced PDF functions (password protection, extended panel and new customization option), support for foreign languages and the ability to print time code over exported movie.

by MacNN Staff