Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Storyboard Pro versions
• Using the exercise files

1. Intro to Storyboarding

• The purpose of storyboarding
• The benefits of storyboards for a production
• The differences between live-action and animation storyboards
• Why move from paper to digital drawing in Storyboard Pro?

2. Setting Up Files

• How to open and set up a new Storyboard Pro file
• How to open and set up a new Storyboard Pro file
• Saving and backing up Storyboard Pro files
• How to move Storyboard Pro files and folders

3. Understanding the Workspace

• An overview of the workspace
• Workspace overview
• Workspace layout options
• Edit Stage view
• Stage view grids
• Zoom, rotate and move around in the workspace
• Navigation toolbar
• Zoom timeline
• Working with the Panel view dialog, text, and tools

4. Reviewing the Timeline

• Setting default times for new panels
• Timeline markers
• Moving, splitting, and combining panels and scenes
• Adding audio tracks
• Add a video track
• Import video to a video track
• Reposition a video track
• Using video tracks
• Edit video track
• Create a background layer for an entire shot or scene
• Edit background layer in entire shot/scene

5. Understanding Layers

• The basics of bitmap vs. vector layers
• Using layers to speed up your work
• Adding, duplicating, copying, pasting, and deleting a layer
• Importing an image as a layer or scene
• Understanding naming, ordering, and default layers
• Group layers
• Coloring grouped layers
• Understanding layer adjustments
• Radial and directional blurs
• Blurring a layer

6. Using the Drawing Tools

• Types of brushes
• Creating, editing, and deleting custom brushes
• Resize Brushes
• Using the Draw Behind tool
• Smoother lines with stabilizer and pulled strings
• Using a dynamic brush
• Using the Light Table and the Onion Skin
• Choosing, editing, and saving colors
• Stamp tool
• Using shape tools
• Working with paint (fill)
• Automatically fill layers using Generate Auto-Matte
• Guides and vanishing points

7. Editing Drawings

• Select elements of your drawing
• Moving, scaling, stretching, and skewing drawings
• How to edit contours and add perspective to your drawings
• Flipping an image horizontally or vertically
• Flip scenes

8. Text and Captions

• Adding text to images
• Editing your visual text
• Importing and using your script

9. Libraries

• What are libraries, and how do you use them?
• Saving images and panels to a library for reuse
• Import images and audio from a library

10. Camera

• Using keyframes for camera motion
• Editing camera motion
• Resetting the camera

11. Animatics

• Import as shots, scenes, or layers
• Import graphics into a video track
• Import 3D object into 3D scene
• Import 3D image into 2D scene
• Animating layers and using Layer Transform
• Adding keyframes to layers
• Import graphics into a video track
• Editing Layer Transform
• Moving and transforming grouped layers
• Motion editor
• Navigating layer keyframes
• Changing timings and slide edits
• Adding transitions to your scenes
• Change timing and slide edits
• Animatic Editing mode

12. Working with Audio

• Adding and organizing your audio tracks
• Importing audio
• Editing audio
• Recording audio directly onto the timeline

13. Numbering

• Numbering scenes and shots in animation vs. live-action projects
• Editing and locking scene numbers
• Auto-renaming scenes

14. Exporting Files

• Setting layer export options
• Exporting to PDF
• Exporting to movie
• Exporting to bitmaps and PSDs
• Exporting to Harmony and Animate files
• Exporting audio soundtracks

15. Tracking Changes and Notes

• Tracking notes as well as changes and edits to your boards
• Tracking and validating changes

Conclusion

• Next steps