The Toon Boom Storyboard software helps you take an idea and translate it into a visual story that will become a complete production.
Storyboard comes with an intuitive and user friendly interface that will make your digital storyboarding a breeze.
Deliver rich looking storyboards instantly and effortlessly to everyone using the best storyboarding software on the market
Toon Boom Storyboard: Detailed Features
Digital Draw
Draw with a complete set of WYSIWYG 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 and 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, Unicode with Input Method Editor support for typing foreign languages
•Eraser tool for correction and removal
•Cutter tools, ideal for rectangular image cropping and freehand for custom cut selections
•Use Draw Behind mode to quickly paint behind lines without adding new layer
•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
•Flip horizontally or vertically selected objects or layer content
•Flatten strokes inside a layer to optimize and reduce overlapped objects
•Merge layers to group them together
•Switch on Light Table to see through layers and clean drawings
•Support screen rotation on Windows Tablet PC
Scenes, Panels and Layers
•Add an unlimited number of panels per scene for complex scene descriptions
•Duplicate, re-order, join or detach panels from a scene easily
•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)
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, story boarder contact information
•Create an unlimited number of panels and storyboard captions
•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
•Support Pen Input panel user interface on Windows Tablet PC
Image Library
•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
Transitions
•Place transitions between shots
•Select different types of transitions (Cut, Dissolve, Wipe)
•Define the length of the transition
Import
•Import PSD, SGI, TGA, YUV, PSD, PNG and JPG image formats
•Import a group of images to automatically create a storyboard
•IImport SWF animation file format
•Import PDF file format
Export
•Support PDF format with password protection and foreign language encoding support
•Select a layout from a list of standard storyboard page layouts
•Customize page layout properties, with headers and footers
•Save new and updated page layouts
•Select the information you want to print, including data on the panel, scene name, start and end times, duration, transition, text in caption fields and layers
•Print extended panel to include the scope of the entire scene
•Produce a sequence of still JPEG. PSD or TGA images per panel
•Export current visible frame to JPEG or TGA image
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Mac: System Requirements
Mac OS 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6, 10.6.3
PowerPC (minimum) G5 and Intel (Recommended)
512 MB of RAM (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)
500 MB of available hard disk space for the software
Video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution
Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
Microsoft Windows
PC: System Requirements
Microsoft Windows Vista, XP or 7 and TabletPC 32bits
2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor (Recommended)
512 MB of RAM (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)
500 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)
Free Apple QuickTime® Player
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