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The Leading Storyboarding System for Visual Storytelling

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 constantreference to script
• Access advanced tools and ready-made templates to storyboard quickly
• Preview story composition in real-time synced with sound tracks

The power of digital storyboarding
Opening up on a user-friendly Welcome Screen, Toon Boom Storyboard comes with an easy-to-use interface presenting an elegant traditional panel window layout or an overview window layout that fits into your content creation process. The Storyboard interface is easily navigable using just a graphic tablet pen.

Feature List

Digital Drawing
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
Microsoft Windows and Linux RedHat Systems:
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)