Storyboard in Blender with Storytools + Spark sequencer

In this hybrid Storyboard mini-demo, you'll see how to use Storytools and Spark addons to create a storyboard in Blender.

Version 2 of Storytools was developed at ADV Studio with the support of the CNC.

Storytools:

Presentation and feature overview here :    • Storytools Blender Addon: Interactive tool...  

Storytools repository (download link in readme) : https://github.com/Pullusb/storytools

Documentation: https://pullusb.github.io/storytools-...


Sequence management:

Spark:
For blender 4.4 and above, get Spark from my updated fork: https://github.com/Pullusb/SPArk-sequ...
For Blender 4.3 and below, go to this release from original repo: https://github.com/NickTiny/SPArk-seq...

Storypencil (very similar) directly available in Blender, hosted on extension platform.

For the other addons used in this video, go to Storytools documentation, in Resources category.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Create storyboard pages
01:20 - Shot management
01:47 - Animatic workspace setup
02:42 - Creating 3D set
02:57 - Adding first scene strip
03:25 - About scale
04:04 - Colorization
04:18 - Colorization smart filling
04:33 - Tool Presets shortcuts
04:49 - Tool Presets Customization
05:58 - Retiming camera animation
06:32 - Drawing on surface
06:58 - Split layers into objects
07:22 - Spark : new shot scene choices
07:45 - Shared Folder to handle collection links
08:13 - Camera focal tweak
08:56 - Reproject strokes
09:19 - Auto offset new GP frames
10:36 - Adding render scene
11:13 - Quick voice over with Push to Talk addon
11:38 - Final render and demo ending
12:03 - Result and outro