Story Planner Pro

by Digital Video

Product Features

• Story Planner Pro is designed for cinema, advertising, animation, and video games industries, by trying to help simplify the creation process of storyboards. Users will be able to create sketches, make and format text, and import images or sketches into a series of panels that are numbered to help with organization.
• The software will come complete with a full set of drawing tools such as a pencil, brush, airbrush, and eraser, multiple custom presets for drawing tools and colors, and a real-time animatic preview window. With the added selection tool, users can transform and duplicate different sketch sections.
• Also included in the application is the ability to edit the animatic or soundtrack, and to export any sketches as image files in PNG format. Other exporting capabilities enable users to print or export in PDF format, or to export scenes as toonz scenes.
• Story Planner Pro adds to the Standard version to enable creation of more complex animations within a timeline editor, and to control the animation of the camera and graphical layers in each sketch layer. When the finished product is previewed, the animatic can be generated with a single-click command.
• Mac OS X 10.4 or above, Windows XP, Windows Vista<br>For more information, go to www.toonz.com.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• ASIN: B001TL5CQ6
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 23, 2009

Product Description

Story Planner Pro is designed for cinema, advertising, animation, and video games industries, by trying to help simplify the creation process of storyboards. Users will be able to create sketches, make and format text, and import images or sketches into a series of panels that are numbered to help with organization.

The software will come complete with a full set of drawing tools such as a pencil, brush, airbrush, and eraser, multiple custom presets for drawing tools and colors, and a real-time animatic preview window. With the added selection tool, users can transform and duplicate different sketch sections. Also included in the application is the ability to edit the animatic or soundtrack, and to export any sketches as image files in PNG format. Other exporting capabilities enable users to print or export in PDF format, or to export scenes as toonz scenes.

Story Planner Pro adds to the Standard version to enable creation of more complex animations within a timeline editor, and to control the animation of the camera and graphical layers in each sketch layer. When the finished product is previewed, the animatic can be generated with a single-click command. The timeline controls the animation of the camera and of graphical elements placed in sketch layers. Audio tracks can be added and edited to create a sound track in sync with the animatic, and fade and dissolve transitions can be used. After a real-time preview, the animatic can be generated with a single-click command.

Mac OS X 10.4 or above, Windows XP, Windows Vista