Users can customize the built-in brushes or create their own in Photoshop, Harmony or Storyboard Pro. New customisation in the bitmap brushes allows an artist to change the roundness, hardness and angle of tips, and also add randomness to vary the resulting lines. As well as FBX and 3DS, users can now import Alembic and Collada CG content into storyboards. The application’s 3D camera has been made more interactive and makes it easier to perform 3D camera tilts, pans, rotations and rolls. To add 2D drawings to 3D scenes, you can also create a drawing layer over a 3D surface that faces the camera and quickly draw artwork over 3D models. The model maintains contact with the surface regardless of any changes.

The ability to snap 3D models to surfaces, which makes it easier and faster to position and animate 3D models on a 2D plane like a floor or wall, for example, when blocking out shots. The 3D workflow updates help integrate 2D and 3D more effectively.

Storyboard Pro 5's new creative tools and technical functions support projects with varied production constraints and helps storyboard artists work with several departments at once. The new version also improves on the application’s 3D workflows and its integration with editorial processes. Toon Boom Animation’s release of Storyboard Pro 5 software for pre-production and storyboarding includes updates that enable pre-production pipelines for CG, live action and games cinematics. Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5 Updates Pre-Production for CG & Live Action

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