Blender addon - Set of tool for storyboarding in Blender
Sponsored by:
- CNC
- Autour de Minuit Studio
- Samuel Bernou (Maintainer)
- Version 1.0 was sponsored by El Guiri Studios
Add a storytools Tab in viewport sidebar
After installation, restart blender once to enable material association handler
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
Keep same mode across object when selecting in this stack
When selecting a material, it "stick" to current active layer (i.e: when selecting this layer again, it will switch back to this material)
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 (
-Ydirection) - 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
The tool presets are combos or customizables button + shortcut.
Each set Blender tool with options, like a Macro.
Defined through a shortcut and appear as button in the Tool preset topbar at the top of the viewport.