Overview
A storyboard is a vital narrative part in animation because it allows a transition between the script (from a text) to the animation. A storyboard indicates to animators what they have to do : rhythms, how to animate, etc... A storyboard contains many details such as dialogs, special effects, camera moves.
A storyboard is made of a succession of separated pictures which represent shots. If storyboards for live-action movies can be very simple (one picture per shot), storyboards for animation have to be more precise : most of time, a shot or a scene will be composed of many pictures to describe it properly.
You will understand, a storyboard is an essential step in animation. That is why TVPaint Animation includes a storyboard module and that is also why it is important to learn how to use it.
We’ll use the Storyboard_e-conte project throughout this lesson.
Most of the storyboarding functions that will be covered in this part of the manual are only available in TVPaint Animation Professional. TVPaint Standard only offers the possibility to have a single Clip per Project.