Bauhaus Software today announced Boardomatic v2, a new fully digital storyboarding system for Bauhaus Mirage, the company’s award-winning 2D animation product. Designed for 2D animators and storyboard artists accustomed to working on paper, Boardomatic v2 combines a customizable template system, automatic pan generation, print formatting and more.
‘Storyboards are the critical first step of every animation and live action production,’ comments Bauhaus president Paul Ford. ‘Boardomatic 2’s patent-pending technology provides the complete suite of tools needed to produce fully-digital storyboards with the same accuracy and far greater flexibility than paper-based workflows. From thumbnail to final printed board output, Boardomatic 2 is a first-ever, speed-optimized digital emulation of the same process used for years throughout the industry.’
Key Boardomatic v2 allows for both fully digital and scanned-image board creation. Key features include storyboarding and thumbnail templates for quick and easy industry-standard horizontal or vertical storyboards; the Digital Thumbsheet tool for creation of digital thumbnails and single or batch transfer to storyboard panels; an advanced pan creation system with 12- and 16-field guides for automatic creation of custom pans; powerful text tools for inserting dialog, timing and other data; and automatic print controls, including a wide variety of horizontal and vertical board layouts for printing to any standard printer or Adobe PDF format. In addition, project management and utilities options allow for sub-project management and custom UI preferences.
According to Bauahus, Boardomatic beta testers have reported more than as fifty percent time savings compared with storyboarding on paper alone. The option of outputting Boardomatic 2 files to PDF also makes sending finished boards to outside production facilities faster and easier.
Boardomatic will ship on March 3, 2006, and is available for a limited time at the introductory price of $149 through the Bauhaus Software web store. Boardomatic and the Mirage suite of products are available through both the Bauhaus website (www.bauhaussoftware.com,) and authorized distributors worldwide. Bauhaus Mirage is available for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
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