Storyboard Pro
Storyboard Foundation
This course takes you through the basic concepts in Storyboard Pro. You will learn how to create storyboards complete with camera moves, animation and sound.
20 Modules
40 hours 34 mins
Storyboard Concepts
Learn how to use Storyboard Pro to create storyboards complete with camera moves, animation and sound.
Project Creation
Learn about projects and how to create and optimize them.
Starting Storyboard Pro
About Projects
Creating Projects from the Welcome Screen
Creating Projects from the File Menu
Custom Resolution
Opening Projects
About Project Optimization
Optimizing Projects
Optimizing Drawings
Optimization Best Practices
Plain Vector Versus Texture Brush
Bitmap Import Optimization
Flattening Drawings
Project Properties
Activity 1: Using Feet and Frames in the Project and Printed PDF
Interface
Learn about the interface and how to efficiently navigate your way around.
Preferences and Shortcuts
Learn about preferences and keyboard shortcuts and how they can make your work more efficient.
Panels
Learn about the structure of a storyboard, and how to use panels and create scenes.
Script and Captions
Learn about working with scripts and panel captions.
Layers
Learn about layers and to work with them.
Drawing and Colour
Learn about the drawing tools and how to draw and edit shapes.
About Drawing Tools
Drawing with the Brush Tool
About the Centerline Editor
Drawing with the Pencil Tool
Drawing with Bitmap Brushes
Erasing with Hard and Soft Erasers
Using the Light Table
Reshaping with the Contour Editor Tool
Cutting
Drawing with the Polyline Tool
About Colour Swatches
Changing the Current Colour
Adding Colour Swatches
Painting
Importing Images
About the Onion Skin
Setting the Onion Skin
Flipping through Onion-skinned Drawings
Activity 1: Using Onion Skin on Layers with the Same Name
Editing Artwork on Multiple Panels
Copying Artwork on Multiple Panels
Activity 2: Drawing Scenes
Generating Auto-Matte Layers
Activity 3: Generating an Auto-Matte
Animatic
Learn how to create an animatic with camera moves, animation and sound.
About the Panel Duration
Changing the Panel Duration
About the Camera
About Camera Moves
Animating Keyframes
Copying and Pasting the Camera
Spreading Camera Motions Across Panels
Animating Layers
Adjusting the Pivot Point of Layers
About Sound
Importing Sound Clips
Adjusting the Sound Length and Timing
Locking Audio Tracks
Activity 1: Creating the Animatic
Activity 2: Animating Layers
Activity 3: Adding Sound
About Markers
Creating Markers on a Current Frame
Editing Markers
Displaying Marker Tooltips
Moving Markers
Deleting Markers
Activity 4: Adding Scene Markers
Flipping Scenes
Activity 5: Flipping a Scene
Project Export
Learn how to export a storyboard as a PDF or QuickTime movie.
Exporting to PDF
Setting Up the PDF Export
Adding Snapshot Markers
Adding Security to a PDF
Creating Custom PDF Layout Profiles
Activity 1: Exporting a PDF
Exporting a QuickTime Movie
Activity 2: Exporting a QuickTime Movie
Exporting Bitmap Images
Activity: Exporting to Bitmap with Snapshots
Exporting the Current Frame as a Bitmap Image