Story planning

Storyboarder

First, despite this project describing itself as "open source," it's not open source enough to satisfy the Open Source Initiative definition. It's MIT with a few exceptions to stop you making money off the code. These exceptions were motivated by the developer's bad experience with someone forking the project and removing references to the company that developed the software and is perhaps why you need to enter an email address to get a download, even when the code is hosted on GitHub. Despite this, the project is still worth the attention because it's a brilliant way for children in particular to experiment with stories and storyboards, and there's very little software like it for Linux. Because the project is still in its infancy, perhaps with some proper support and discussion, the developer may be convinced to open source the project properly in future.

Storyboarding is the process of sketching out your plan for a story across different pages, creating a primitive cartoon script that a director might use to organize the shots for a film, including composition, locations, and movement. Storyboarder helps you do this with various drawing tools and pens, much as you can with Krita or Gimp, along with additional fields to describe a shot or the dialog. The application does try to keep things simple, by only offering a restricted palette and a few tools, but it's not intended to create the final output. You really just want to move through your ideas in the flow of thought, rather than create a masterpiece out of each frame. You can "play" through the pages to see how it feels and obviously edit and reorder the boards as you see fit. The application has a professional feel, even with its link to Photoshop, and is a great way of planning out a short film or animation project, especially if you're teaching about film or showing children how to plan their next project.

Project Website

https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder

Plan each shot of your next YouTube masterpiece with a great piece of (almost) open source software.

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