NEW IN VERSION 2.0 >> THE ANIMATIC (Pro, beta) • Your scene can move now. Switch on Animatic in the shot generator, draw paths on the plan, and figures walk, run, crouch and jump along them. The animations are Unreal Engine's, on StoryB's own mannequins. • Figures sit on chairs, sofas and beds, get into cars and out again, ride bicycles and motorcycles, and travel on buses. • Cameras move too, keyed on a timeline the way After Effects keys them: where the camera stands, pan and tilt, roll, lens and focus, each with its own easing. A camera can follow a figure, look at a point of its own, or ride on a car or a figure, steadied if you like. • Pose on top of the movement: turn a head or raise an arm with keys on a figure's body parts while it walks. • Cut the action into boards. Cut to picks the camera at the playhead, Add Snapshot gives a shot one more board. Save Animatic lays every board into the storyboard, each with its own picture and length. • The animatic plays as a film in the main window's timeline and goes into the video export frame by frame. • Cars drive nose first on their own turning circle, their wheels roll and steer, and doors, hoods and trunks open. SHOT GENERATOR • It opens inside the document window, in place of the boards, and much faster. • Free View: fly round the scene to pose it without moving the shot's camera. • What a film is shot on: pick a camera body and its recording mode, or type a sensor size, with an anamorphic squeeze. A 35 mm lens now frames what a 35 frames on that sensor. • Characters: save a figure's body, build and clothes under a name and put it on any figure. Change the character, and every board with it follows. • Locations: + Add new location names the set you built, and any board can stand in it. A change to a location goes to every board it is on, or becomes a new location. Furniture and trees belong to the location. • X-Ray (⌥Z): see through a thing to pose a figure inside a bus. • A figure dropped onto a vehicle is asked where it sits. A card from the model library lands on whatever is under the pointer. • Height and body shape are set in fields you type into or drag across. • The head turns further and the arms reach higher. • ⌘D duplicates a camera. • The floor and the sky go on for ever. MODEL LIBRARY • Two buses, with doors that open and a seat for every passenger. • Every car's doors open. • A bull that walks. TIMELINE • Timeline mode is for the film. The drawing tools step aside, the tracks get the room, and drawings stay on the still boards, never over an animatic's motion. • ← and → move the playhead one frame. \ fits the whole film in (Zoom to Sequence), and \ again goes back. • Trimming or moving sound no longer changes the zoom. • The boards of one continuous shot are one clip, with its playback speed written on it. • Past the last board the picture is empty. • The switch between Boards and Timeline is animated. EXPORT • File ▸ Export holds every way out. New: Comic Book (CBZ), and OpenTimelineIO (.otio, Pro) for Resolve and Premiere. MORE • A project opens on the board you left it on. • ⌘S shows Saved. • Saving an animatic shows how far it has got. • Scene Not Saved offers Save to Board. CHANGES • The camera "Storyboarder (35 mm)" is now called "StoryB (classic)". • The plan's pointer tool is on Q. FIXES • A two-digit shot label no longer pushes the board's panel out of place.

NEW IN VERSION 1.2 >> THE SCRIPT!!! • You can now import a script into a project and work on the script and the storyboard side by side. File ▸ Import Script… opens Fountain, Final Draft, Highland and Story Architect files. Boards are created one per scene or one per paragraph, and the scene numbers come from the script. • The script beside the boards. Press S to open the script panel. Clicking a paragraph selects its board in the storyboard; double-clicking a paragraph assigns it to the current board. Paragraphs can be merged, split and edited right in the script panel. When you rearrange boards, the script lines attached to them move along with them inside the script. • Script export. Save it as Final Draft or as a PDF. • Storyboarder projects made from a script come over whole, with every scene in the script's order. DRAWING • The drawing toolbar has been reworked and now follows the logic of popular drawing apps: Paint, Smudge and Eraser (B, D, E). Pencil, pen, brush and tone are now simply brushes in the library, and any tool can use any brush. Click a tool again to open the library. • Smudge drags paint around just like Photoshop's, with a Strength slider. • Soft Round — Photoshop's soft brush, with pressure. • Pen pressure: a graphics tablet, or an iPad's Pencil through Sidecar, draws heavier the harder you press. • A new colour panel: Disc, Classic, Harmony, Value and Palettes. The three colours are shared by all brushes. • Perspective guide (Pro): one, two or three vanishing points per board (right-click for its menu); hold ⇧ and a line snaps to them (P). • Light table (Pro): every layer except the one you are drawing on fades back (⇧L). • Paste a layer onto all selected boards at once. EDITING • Tap the timing. In Timeline mode, start playback with the Tap button (to the right of Rec) and press Return to end each board. A very natural way to set a board's length — by how it feels. • Full-screen playback (F), and a mute switch on every sound track. • New frame aspect ratios: 4:5 and 5:4. MORE • The shot size (Close up, Medium, Long…) and the camera angle are read from the scene and go into the shot list and the PDF. • The shot list can print each shot's plan from above beside its frame, and marks where a shot is interrupted and where it resumes. • Scene headings go out with the boards: above the PDF page, in the shot list and in the editing sequence. • Double-click a board to select every board of its shot. • Keyboard Shortcuts in Settings shows every key on a keyboard. • Lamps light the Drawn look just as they do in Storyboarder, and Standard 3D now has soft shadows. • StoryB Pro can now be bought once, for good — not only monthly. • Redeem Code is in the Pro panel and the About window. Ask for free access in our official Telegram group: t.me/storybapp CHANGES • Keys 1–4 no longer select the pencil, pen, brush and tone. B paints, D smudges, E erases; the brush is chosen in the library. FIXES • ⌘⌫ while typing no longer deletes the board. • Delete over a lasso selection clears the selection, not the whole board. • Closing the window stops playback. • Perspective lines no longer disappear when you zoom in. • A board with depth of field keeps its blur when it is redrawn without Pro. • Editing the script no longer leaves stale data on a board. • When only some boards are exported as video (Range), the sound now comes from under those boards and stays in sync.

NEW • Depth of field. The camera now has a real aperture, from f/1 to f/22, and a focus. Click a figure or an object and the focus stays on it as it moves, while everything else blurs the way that lens would. • Rain. Put a box of rain into the scene and set how dense and how dark it is. • Lasso Fill. Press G, draw round a shape, and it fills with your colour. Hold ⌥ for straight sides. • Shadows in the Drawn look. Lamps cast the true shape of every object, room and figure, and a shadow on a wall takes the wall's own tone. • Lamps on the plan. See them, drag them across the floor, select them with everything else. • Aim a spot by pulling the handle at the end of its beam. With Fixed aim point on, it keeps looking at the same spot while you move it. • Joints stop where a body stops. Knees and elbows bend one way only, fingers curl like fingers, and a knee no longer folds backwards in a kneeling pose. • Rotation rings turn the way you pull them, from any side of the figure. • Settings shows the two looks as pictures. • In Standard 3D the sun's shadow is a checkbox, Sun casts shadows, off by default. • A tidier figure panel: tabs across its full width, and each worn thing on its own card. FIXES • A model the camera stands right up against no longer vanishes from the frame. • Standard 3D boards are lit the same as the viewport, with no dark band across the floor and no marks in the sky. • Posing handles stay sharp when the lens blurs the frame. • Keyboard shortcuts work again straight after typing a name. • The drawing toolbar no longer runs off the edge of a narrow window. • Smoother camera moves around dressed figures.