Filed under: Design, Video, Windows, Productivity, Commercial, Freeware
Springboard storyboarding application
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 23rd 2006
If you work in film or video, or just want to put
together the next great Star Wars fan film, Springboard is designed to make the storyboarding easier. Or at
least computerize the process. It does have some nice tricks, like a good collection of easily editable arrows for
camera moves. The vector-based camera blocking tools remind me of Plasq's Comic Life
app, and look like a lot of fun to use. What's more, you can draw on your frames, and later animate your storyboards as
animatics, complete with transitions. All of this can be spit out to a web page (images) or movie file. Springboard is
sort of free. You have to "update" to a new free version every four months, and there's a few printing and
"export" limits. Some of that might be a deal-killer for you, because all too often you have to eventually
dump to paper and move things around manually. Sometimes there's just not a good solution in software...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
