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...
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
