STORYBOARD PRO REVIEW:

Hello Class! Hope you’re enjoying your holiday! Below is a short review of any materials you may need to refresh yourself with to storyboard and animatic to the best of your ability!

Hotkeys and shortcuts:  Remember you can go to the settings to create shortcuts! To do so:

• open your preferences window under —> STORYBOARD PRO ——> Preferences.
• Clicking the Grey box next to the Clear button, followed by typing the key you want will let you create hotkeys for yourself to navigate Storyboard Pro Easier.
• Create the following hotkeys:
• Under LAYER:  Add Layer ( L )
• Under PLAY / Navigation: Play: (Shift + Spacebar)
• Under Storyboard: Add Panel: ( P )
• Under Storyboard: Add Scene: ( Shift + S )
• Under Storyboard: Duplicate Selected Panels: ( Shift + P )

When creating a storyboard and animatic, you are primarily working with 3 different goals in mind:

1. Create Quality Drawings
2. Create Prop[er sequences and timing.
3. Create Proper exports for animation.

Creating Quality Drawings:

Remember to use the layers to the right of your artwork.

Creating Proper Sequences and timing:

• Under Windows: Select Timeline.  Below you can see an example of the timeline panel. Create a movie by adjusting the timing of your panels. Sliding your panels for easy use can be done by clicking between each drawing: (Seen down here at 15:01)

• Remember to name each panel and include all of your information for your story!

EXPORT SETTINGS:

Go to FILE -> EXPORT -> MOVIE and FILE -> EXPORT -> PDF. Settings are below: