Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the release of Toon Boom Storyboard, a storytelling aid for both traditional and paperless animation methods. Developed in conjunction with professional storyboard artists, Toon Boom Storyboard is designed to speed up production planning by offering advanced drawing capabilities and the ability to preview the animatic in real-time with dynamic camera moves. Producers can also review and shuffle unlimited panels digitally and maximize the use of their existing assets.
Features of Toon Boom Storyboard include a complete set of drawing tools that includes a pressure-sensitive brush for use with a digital graphic tablet and pen,
customizable caption fields for inserting fully searchable textual content, and an advanced timeline for controlling timing and automatically generating an animatic with sound tracks and transitions. Export capabilities include printing, image sequences and Harmony/Opus, EDL, SWF and QuickTime file formatting.
Toon Boom Storyboard is now available as an Early Access Program to all animation studios using Toon Boom Harmony and Opus. The commercial release is scheduled for Aug. 1, and will be launched at SIGGRAPH 2006. For additional information on Toon Boom and its products, go to www.toonboom.com.
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