Advanced Storyboard Pro
2h 27mAdvanced2021-02-25
Authors

Mark Simon
Story Artist, Producer, Director
Course details
If you’re a storyboard artist, you want the best drawing tools. You also need to continually improve your skills and keep up with the latest tech in order to turn out better and faster storyboards. While you may have a grasp of the basics of Storyboard Pro, there are many advanced features you could be using to improve your storyboards and animatics. In this course, Mark Simon takes a deep dive into the advanced tools in Storyboard Pro, sharing tricks of the trade to help you work more efficiently and offer more to your productions. Mark covers topics across the whole spectrum, from new tools to improve drawing and editing, to setting up your workspace to work better for you, adjusting audio, exporting to other programs, advanced drawing techniques, and project management. He even shows how to share, split, and merge Storyboard Pro files with other artists, which is useful when working on big productions. This course will help you create better and faster storyboards more easily.
Skills covered
Storyboard ProToon BoomStoryboardingAdvancedMotion Graphics and VFXAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - What is this course
- 02 - What you need to know
1. Edit UI Interface
- 03 - Adjust your workspace
- 04 - Edit your preferences
- 05 - Live-action vs. animation project settings
2. Manage Toolbars
- 06 - Open and close toolbars
- 07 - Move and organize toolbars
- 08 - Customize your toolbars
3. Drawing
- 09 - Contour editor
- 10 - Centerline editor
- 11 - Cutter tool
- 12 - Edit bitmaps
- 13 - Sketch mode and tab
- 14 - Model view
- 15 - Share drawing
- 16 - Fill with gradients
- 17 - Fill with textures
- 18 - Edit gradients and textures
- 19 - Paint with masks
- 20 - Add perspective to text
4. Layers
- 21 - Pin art to camera
- 22 - Art to face camera
- 23 - Auto-fill over the entire scene
- 24 - Lock and unlock layers
- 25 - Copy layer to a video track
- 26 - Layers you don't want to export
- 27 - Spread layer motion over multiple panels
5. Camera
- 28 - Keyframe sync mode
- 29 - Copy camera from selected panels
6. Audio
- 30 - Split clip
- 31 - Audio gain
- 32 - Audio effects stack
- 33 - Lock and disable audio sync
- 34 - Solo mode for audio
7. Project Management
- 35 - Lock scene numbers
- 36 - Final editing in Storyboard Pro
- 37 - Export to edit suites
- 38 - Import animatic from edit suites
- 39 - Storyboard properties
- 40 - Split files
- 41 - Merge files
- 42 - Extract files
- 43 - Insert files
- 44 - Merge and replace files
- 45 - Enable acts and sequences
- 46 - Snapshots
8. Tips and Tricks
- 47 - Create storyboard templates and reusable art
- 48 - Smart add panel
- 49 - Lock and disable video
- 50 - Notes using voice annotations
- 51 - Preset notes and arrows layers
- 52 - Show 2D art in 3D top view
- 53 - Designate panels not to export
- 54 - Make notes obvious
- 55 - Sketch before using perspective guides
- 56 - Camera mask to help see actual frame
Conclusion
- 57 - What's next
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