Toon Boom Storyboard: Detailed Features
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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