MUMBAI: The US-based animation software solutions provider Toon Boom Animation Inc. has announced that its Toon Boom Storyboard is ready to ship. Meeting the needs of all production types-whether 2D animation, 3D animation or live action, Storyboard offers advanced features that make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard, the company said in an official release.

Toon Boom Storyboard provides: Flexible layer-based panel display with motion camera capabilities, complete set of drawing tools, including pressure-sensitive brush tool when using a digital graphic tablet and pen, customizable caption fields to insert fully searchable textual content, such as scene descriptions and comments, advanced timeline to control timing and automatically generate an animatic with sound tracks and transitions between shots, real-time animatic creation with dynamic camera moves extensive export capabilities, including printing, image sequences, and Harmony/Opus/Solo, EDL, SWF and QuickTime file formatting, adds the release.

Storyboard comes also with a complete set of templates, including characters, backgrounds, props, effects and symbols to get users started quickly.