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Topic: Storyboard Sotware?
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Bird_Productions
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posted 03-22-2000 06:13 AM
Hi everyone I don't suppose anypne would know of any around? If so wereabouts etc.
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FXMan
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posted 03-22-2000 08:11 AM
Hey Bird and ALL,THIS is a GREAT question and one lots of people would love to know if something like this exists. While traditionally "live" artists do "live" storyboard drawings, you gotta believe that with technology filtering into just about everything these days, that someone has come up with a reasonable package to do this. HOWEVER, I went a priced one of those drawing pads that you hook to your computer (for other reasons) and found it to be really too high to be worth it to me. With the stylus and the drawing pad in an 8" X 10" (standard paper) size it was like $600 or so. It would be nice if someone knew of one of these kinds of things that was a package with the drawing pad, stylus and a software package that would do something like this for our uses. Anyone know of one???? Let us know. Maybe this would be a good software/hardware package for someone to develop if it could be done for a reasonable price. How about some of you computer geniuses writing something like this eh? Make a few bucks and contribute to the industry. Just a thought but a great question. FXMan [This message has been edited by FXMan (edited 03-22-2000).] |
sausage
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posted 03-22-2000 08:28 AM
I created my own style template in Microsoft Word, and then created a quick toolbar for the frequent styles.It works very well. I can post the style information here if that helps. ------------------
Sausage's Lounge Area |
Frank Milne
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posted 03-22-2000 10:37 AM
I did find something in the back of American Cinematographer once. It's an advertisement. Expensive I think. I have been playing with the idea of using Flash for animated storyboards. I actually converted one of my hand drawn ones to an animated storyboard. It looks a bit goofy but with some refinement it would be fabulous.------------------
"I like to see things as I remember them, not as they were." -Bill Pullman "Lost Highway" |
FXMan
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posted 03-22-2000 11:48 AM
Along these same lines, has anyone ever seen one of those drawing pad and stylus units that is reasonably inexpensive? The only ones I've seen cost too much for just casual use. Just something to be able to sketch with that hooks to the computer so you could do quick sketching or other stuff within some other graphics program is all I'm looking for at this point. Any ideas?FXMan |
Suspiria
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posted 03-22-2000 11:59 AM
Heres a free one I found
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10074-100-908574.html?tag=st.dl.10001_103_1.lst.td |
Ghent_ep
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posted 03-22-2000 04:14 PM
The truth of the matter is for something such as Storyboarding I would recommend doing it on paper then scanning it in and fitting it neatly inside of whatever layout you may have. For 3 Reasons, first it's a whole new skill you must learn to be able to properly and effectively use a stylus and touch pad interface, and secondly it is extremely expensive and your going to get better results on paper, and last because it doesn't make it any easier, infact it's more difficult initially to work on a Wacom/etc. than it is to work on paper, and this can clamp down on your creativity. But if you absolutely must have the latest new fangled thing, or you want to experiment wit adding color and exact details with a pad, then grab a wacom 4x8 or 9x12 from Shopper.com or Pricewatch.com (I recommend the latter, I have seen midsizes at ~$220). I can't think of the stylus size off hand that we found in the end to be perfect for all our needs, you do no need a full size pad to get the best output, the midsized pads are every bit as good for achieving the same type of image as the larger pads, it's just more convenient when it gets larger.------------------
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Ghent
Endor Productions, Inc.
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Brien
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posted 03-23-2000 09:25 AM
I have a storyboard program but it is only a way to arrange pics you have hand drawn or created in another manner.Brien
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Jeff F
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posted 03-23-2000 10:07 AM
There are small "signature entry" digital pads available for little money, but they aren't of very good quality and are too small to bother with.I have seen comic book creation software, perhaps it could used to do storyboards if it allows you to imoort your own illustrations or you don't mind all of the characters being illustrated as impossibly tall muscle bound types. I learned to draw the human figure as a kid by drawing Spiderman over and over. Only later did I discover that comic book characters are drawn disproportionately, larger than life. I had to re-learn figure drawing! ------------------
Jeff F - Magic and FX
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24fps
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posted 03-23-2000 03:45 PM
I have to agree that working with paper is a better idea than trying to use a stylus pad. For a digital art class I took I used Painter and a stylus pad in my schools art department computer lab to do some storyboards. I think it was a failed experiment. While some things were easier adn quicker (filling in wall shding for instance), it took so much more time to draw anything since I was unused to the interface method, that I spent more time erasing than drawing. If you have access to this stuff in say a computer lab, play with it and see what you think - otherwise I say make a template in Word or some such and print out storyboard sheets and draw them with a pencil. It is doubtful most of us on this board really need much more than rough sketches to convey visual ideas anyway...
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MarcArts
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posted 03-23-2000 04:06 PM
I think storyboarding programs are not necessary i think no one of you draws so bad that he or she needs that. i think working on a Computer costs you a lot of your creativity! Use paper ! |
Gamecat
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posted 03-23-2000 11:19 PM
Hey I saw a program once that had like pre saved pictures of faces rooms and stuff... I don't remember wgat it was called tho  so this post is absolutely useless
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