Does any one know of a good storyboarding application that is free, open source or under 100$??
Hi Wes, There is a good media pre-prod’ software called Celtx, which is open source. One of the internal modules is a storyboard assembler. You still need to do the cell sketches manually, but once scanned in, it’s easy to annotate and re-order frames to your heart’s content. http://celtx.com/ A tip that I find helps greatly with the scanning process of a lot of storyboard frames in Photoshop is, say, you have a number of sketches on an A4 page, each with a rectangle container. Scan the whole page in, then go to File>Automate>Crop and straighten photos. This will separate all the individual images ready for file naming. There are digital sketching apps, like Autodesk Sketchbook, which are very good and have storyboard templates to draw over, but it depends how comfortable one is with a pen/tablet combo. My view is it’s easier and quicker to use a pencil. I’m reasonably sure it’s possible to configure a spreadsheet app as a storyboard vehicle, importing images to cells, and annotating o