Storyboard 27/3

Looking at my poster, what stands out is compared to the chair, the rest of the background looks a little plain. It definitely provides a contrast but I'm not sure the focus is on the characters like it should be. I probably should have shrunk the perspective so that the chair is smaller, and the kitty and ghost are bigger. Alternatively, made the chair etc even bigger. The line where the back wall meets the floor is too high for the current view angle. Also maybe have the chair centered as well, so the chair arm lines both point to the same vanishing point as the picture frame and bookshelf.

RIP, no storyboard licence for my profile. Good thing I still have it at home, and have an idea of what I'm doing. At least I can get a visual refresher from the tutorials.

Storyboard Pro

General Preferences - terminology style to live action, turn on auto save (advanced tab), turn up the Undo levels.

Importing a script, with captions. Storyboard tab in palette area, click on the far right icon and import caption. Find the text file to import. Copy appropriate parts of the script in the panel tab boxes.

Make the backgrounds a lighter grey so make your characters stand out in front. Uses less computing power than changing the layer opacity. Using the light bulb will fade out all layers except for the one you are working on. There is a draw behind option to help with colouring in the character without covering the lines.

Use keyframes to adjust camera position in each shot in the timeline view. Keyframes are restricted to the shot they are created in. Adjust the playtime of a shot, adjust the right hand side or type it in manually in the Panel tab. Hold alt to adjust the timing of a shot without affecting the total time of the animatic.

Timeline workspace whenever doing anything that involves timing and movement. Make sure the running man is turned on in the layer that you want to animate.