Category: Reviews
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Obligatory Post about AI
Well, AI is here, so what do we think? So much has been said already by so many others, and to be honest, I’m still wrapping my head around the implications already. To be specific, when I say AI, I’m referring to the broad concepts of text-to-image Generative AI stuff like Midjourney and Dall-E and…
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What I’m Packing Now
My New Mobile Studio: Wacom MobileStudio Pro and MacBook Pro This is a post about my new digital studio, but to put the excitement I have for this setup in context, I think it’s a great idea to backtrack a bit. A couple of years ago, I posted about my ‘new’ Cintiq companion – new, at…
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Visual Storytelling Websites, Links and Art Resources
Storyboards have been around quite a long time, always lurking behind the scenes, but it seems like in recent years the profession is getting more recognition, and that’s exciting. There’s all kinds of new resources popping up and so I want to also collect some links to those sites and artists that might additionally prove interesting to…
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My New Cintiq Companion!
I’ve got a new addition to my work setup- my Cintiq Companion! It’s a handsome little device- Wacom-made, so of course it’s driven primarily though a pressure-sensitive screen. It’s touch sensitive as well, and with the Windows OS driving it, it’s similar to the Microsoft Surface tablet- but the form is different and the…
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There’s a new player in town… introducing Shotbox
UPDATE 3/25/2015 – Sorry to pass along some news: Shotbox.se has shut down, and so this post is basically moot. Shotbox used an online subscription model, and had promising but limited applicabilities as far as producing presentation-style storyboards. For their part, on their website at least, they say they don’t have the time or money…
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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 4 is here! Yay?
I was working onsite yesterday and got an email notification from Toon Boom announcing their new update to the successful and highly-lauded application, Storyboard Pro, now in version 4. The email touts the many new features, the most significant of which are the new “bitmap drawing” tools. You might be thinking “Don’t most drawing programs…