Wednesday 14 May 2014

All about storyboard software

Story boarding is an effective way of communicating a story to audience through different images before the picture comes into reality. Earlier story boards were restricted to  films and drams but, now students and teachers are using this story board technique to explain complex documents. In the past days, the storyboard artist had to struggle much by drafting the images on the paper with the help of the pencil to get pre visualization effect.  The invention of digital story board software has ruled out all these hassles away. The current article is t to tell you different aspects of digital storyboard software.
Digital storyboard software is used in many industries today. Specially, the creative film and drama industry is taking the advantage of the digital storyboard software to the fullest. They are able to pre visualize the entire film document before it is shot and making the required corrections in the images is quite easy with the digital story board software.
Making the film with the traditional storyboard is time consuming and complex as well. The storyboard artist has to struggle much to bring the final outcome that is required by the client. Each scene of the film or drama has to be depicted in picture  with the hand drawn diagrams and still, the expected clarity   is not assured. Even a minor correction suggested by the client will compel the storyboard artist to work from the starch again to get the desired output of the client.
I don’t tell you that the current technology invention in storyboarding will keep you away from creativity but, this digital story board software is an addition to the creativity of the story board artist. It will save him a good amount of time in coming up with the initial images and corrections if any. Apart from that, it will also help in enhancing the creativity of the digital story board artist.    
This digital software provides shortcuts that makes the entire story of storyboarding simple and easy to any artist. There is no need for you to be master artist or professional illustrator to get world class results. All you need is creativity and your enthusiasm to expose it to the outside world.
You easily create slick modern layouts within minutes and it is very easy to learn. The intervention of technology in the field of story boarding has brought impossible thinks into reality. Creating a story board in minutes was un thinkable in past decades.  These digital story boards are also called as previs some times because they are used to pre visualize the movie before it actually kicks off.  The digital story board software is   roughly split between three areas namely 2D, 3D and character/environment style and design. 2D products are digital version of the  traditional story board but allows manipulation of characters in no time.
On the contrary, 3D applications are meant to operate in real time so that the director can make the required changes on the fly with very small rendering lag time.

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