What is Storyboarder?
Storyboarder is an open-source and free storyboarding and planning application designed for anyone that needs to visualize ideas quickly. It allows filmmakers, animators, game designers, and artists to sketch story ideas, cameras, characters, and shot sequences with ease to iterate on story quickly.
Storyboarder has a variety of useful tools for rapid storyboarding including onion skinning to compare frames, perspective guides, timers, size controls, templates, and more. The simple and clean interface allows users to focus on the story rather than getting bogged down in complex tools or interfaces.
Some key features include:
- Sketch mode with basic drawing tools
- Onion skinning to compare previous frames
- Perspective guides
- Custom viewports and aspect ratios
- Robust import/export options
- Keyboard shortcuts for efficiency
Storyboarder targets indie filmmakers, animation directors, story artists, game designers, comic artists, and more that need to plan out visual stories or concepts quickly. The open source nature encourages custom scripts and plugins from the community to evolve the tool.
Overall, Storyboarder aims to provide an intuitive but flexible environment for rapid storyboarding that gets out of the way so artists can focus on their narrative.
Microsoft PowerPoint, Clip Studio Paint, OpenToonz, Source Filmmaker, Plotagon, Storyboard That, iClone, Google Slides, LibreOffice - Impress, Penultimate, Cine tracer, LibreOffice - Draw, Talkr, StudioBinder, StoryBoardPro, Moviestorm, Slidev, Brush Ninja, Storyboard Generator, nawmalMAKE, Boords, Storyboard Artist, FrameForge, Redboard are some alternatives to Storyboarder.