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Toon Boom Storyboard: Detailed Features

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[-] 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 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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