Storyboard Software
If you search for “storyboard software” on the Internet you will
find several examples—some of them freeware. Some programs
are more like production planning boards; others let you import
photo images or help organize your own informal sketches. With
the most advanced types, you create images by loading standard
components from the program’s library—backgrounds, actors, and
props—and then customizing them to fit your story. One of these
programs is a program called FrameForge.
Like software for architects or CG animators, FrameForge
creates environments in three dimensions so that the camera
can move around in space.
Views from different
camera setups
Set ground plan
The FrameForge work screen.
(FrameForge)
In this series, the camera dollies into the scene, reframing the subjects as it moves.
Using standard components, you can build a variety of environments—all of them fully three dimensional.
A restaurant. A living room. A city street. An office.
And, you can populate these environments with characters customized to fit your story. Using
“texture mapping,” you can actually place the faces of actual actors on the characters.
You can select several
ethnic types and dress
characters in different
costumes.
You can adjust characters’
ages and change the
colors of clothing items.
You can pose characters
in different attitudes…
…because they can
be adjusted at natural
human bending points.
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