The Escape Studios Animation Blog is a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. We use Panel Forge in our storyboarding evening class, taught by Blue Zoo's very own Francesca Adams. Storyboarder is a great free software package that we recommend students download to try out their hand at storyboarding.Īnother great piece of story software that we are teaching at Escape Studios is PanelForge, developed at Blue Zoo Animation, which combines the 2D traditional drawn approach with a 3D Layout pass, enabling artists to get very quick results, and also eliminating the traditional disconnect between the story department and 3D Layout.
What other storyboard packages are out there? For example, rather than re-draw a background countless times, Storyboard Pro allows you use layers (like in Photoshop) so you don't have to re-draw panels. But, increasingly, digital tools are speeding up the process, and most professional board artists now use some kind of digital interface to help create an efficient workflow. Storyboarding is, in many ways, done in the same traditional way it always has been, by drawing sequential pictures to tell a story. Why can't story artists use pencil and paper? It's standard-issue at many studios, and very versatile. Toonboom Storyboard Pro is today one of the leading software packages to support the work of Storyboard artists. Why do our animators need Storyboard Pro?
Storyboarding is an important part of the pre-production process, and an area which continues to experience a significant skills shortage here in the UK. We're in the process of acquiring some licenses for Toonboom Storyboard Pro to support our third year animation students at Escape Studios.Ī number of our third year animation students want to specialise in storyboarding, and to support this we're getting them the leading industry software in this area.
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