Storytools - Storyboard Tools

Blender addon - Set of tool for storyboarding in Blender

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Sponsored by:

• CNC
• Autour de Minuit Studio
• Samuel Bernou (Maintainer)
• Version 1.0 was sponsored by El Guiri Studios

Description

Add a storytools Tab in viewport sidebar

After installation, restart blender once to enable material association handler

Create New Drawing

Popup choices to Add a new grease pencil object in facing camera

Multiple Choice:

• At cursor position or right in front of camera
• Parented to camera
• Tweak distance directly (in meters)

When creating a new object:

• A default palette for storyboard is automatically loaded
• Draw mode is auto-reset to Origin - Front Axis

Drawing Objects Stack

Keep same mode across object when selecting in this stack

Special Behavior

When selecting a material, it "stick" to current active layer (i.e: when selecting this layer again, it will switch back to this material)

Bottom Toolbar

Action gizmo buttons to easily place object and camera All transform actions respect autokey

Objects Actions:

• Pan object
• Move object forward/backward
• Rotate object on camera view axis (Ctrl to snap on 15 degrees angles)
• Scale object
• Align object to camera: rotate object to have front axis face view (-Y direction)
• key object tranform at current time (note: object, not GP frame)

Camera Actions:

• Pan camera
• Move camera forward/backward
• Toggle Lock camera to view
• Key camera position