Storyboard Pro

The complete storyboarding system for professionals

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is the leading storyboarding system for visual storytelling, perfectly suited to traditional and paperless methods. Truly completing the production pipeline, 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.

The power of digital storyboarding

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 earn 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 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, PDF, PSD, CSV, SWF, AI, JPG, TGA, Flexible configuration PNG and QuickTime.

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.

Ideal for storyboard artists

Work faster with layers and intuitive vector drawing tools.
Create better animatics in less time without exchanging and converting data between applications.
Leverage the reuse of assets by accessing storyboard drawings from other panels, and the library of other storyboard projects.
Update and reorder digital panels instantly.

Essential for directors and producers.

Enjoy complete pipeline integration.
Share storyboards easily with extensive digital export formats.
Accelerate the review and approval process with the tracking of notes and audio comments.

A must for every visual storyteller

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 synched with sound tracks.

Animate your storyboard

It’s more than a storyboard with independent motion per layer, dynamic camera moves and unlimited sound tracks, all in real-time.

Visualize your ideas

From mind to matter, create directly inside Toon Boom Storyboard Pro with true WYSIWYG vector based drawing tools.

Shorten time to production

An integrated storyboard pipeline facilitates data exchange and the creation of production libraries for assets re-use.

Reduce costs

Paperless logistics means no shipping cost and instant delivery, no more time spent on printing and copying
machines. Perform dialogs translation in sync with panels and captions.

Features for storytelling

Digital Drawing
Draw with a complete set of WYSIWYG vector-based tools to create resolution-independent drawings, including:-

Brush tool for freehand drawing, using solid colour, gradient or textured pen styles.
Basic shape tools. (Line, Rectangle, and 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.
Use Draw behind mode to quickly paint behind lines without adding new layer.
Cutter tools, ideal for rectangular image cropping and freehand for custom cut selections.
Paint tool for filling areas with solid colours, gradients or textures.
Close Gap tool for closing a shape so that it can be filled with a colour, without adding a visible line
Modify, transform or re-colour drawing object brush strokes and colour fills.
Create brush textures to recreate the look of natural media tools, such as graphite, charcoal or pencil.
Manage colour palettes using a colour picker that supports solid colours, gradients and textures, as well as an independent transparency value for each colour.
Apply the Transform tools to drawing objects to prepare them for transformations in the animatic.
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 togethe.r
Switch on Light Table to see through layers and clean drawings.
Quickly flip panels with onion skinning to draw key frames as you go.
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.
Key frame layer’s position, scaling and rotation between the first frame and last frame over time.
Spread layer’s motion over several panels to create quickly multi-panels background panning.
Create smooth layer movement using drag-and-drop layer path elements.
Define ease-in and ease-out acceleration for smooth layer motion.
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) and attributes. (Lock, Export availability on PDF or animatic)

Transitions

Place transitions between shots.
Select different types of transitions. (Cut, Dissolve, Wipe)
Define the length of the transition.

Captions

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

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 panel and transition duration using drag-and-drop.
Import an unlimited number of audio files.
Link audio tracks to panels to keep sound files in synch during editing.
Expand sound files for overlapping dialogue, sound and music.
Set sound file duration directly in the timeline using drag-anddrop.
Display sound file waveforms to synchronize shots.
Edit each sound file 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 Pro orlocalize it to the current Storyboard project.
Import libraries from Toon Boom Harmony, Opus or Solo

Camera

Play back a panel with dynamic camera movements in realtime using the Camera tool at any time duringstoryboard development.
Key frame 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.
Copy camera key frames to create complex camera motion over several panels.

Playback

Play animatics 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 PSD and preserve independent layers in panel.
Import SWF animation file format.
Import PDF file format.

Export

Support SWF and MOV animation formats to export the current panel, selected panels or full storyboard project.
Configure SWF and MOV formats. (audio and video codec, compression)
Overlay time code on exported movie.
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.
Set snapshot markers to print timing positions inside a panel.
Support EDL and AAF format, allowing the creation of standard CMX EDL files or Legacy AAF and the export of QuickTime movie files for each panel or scene synched with EDL to export storyboard timeline to major editing applications.
Produce a sequence of still JPEG or TGA images at current storyboard frame rate or one per panels.
Export PSD images with independent layers.
Export current visible frame to JPEG or TGA image.
Create CSV files containing all panel information and bring it into any spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel.
Generate all panels into Toon Boom Harmony, Opus and Solo scenes.

System Requirements

Mac OS X Systems:

OS: Mac OS X v10.4 and v10.5
PowerPC G5 and Intel
512 MB of Ram (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)
110 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 Systems:

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
Video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution

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