Animatic Builder

This page is the home of the storyboarding, animatic building web app Animatic Builder.

Current Stable: v1.00

“Nightly” Build: v1.10
Speed Improvements implemented, however stability might be affected and UI elements are currently undergoing a paring down.

Current in development feature: iPhone Horizontal Orientation + Massive Speed Increases for more than 100 frames.

Currently Animatic Builder is licensed under the GPL which means it can be freely modified and distributed with attribution. This license can change at any time for future versions. This software is provided as is, there is no warranty or responsibility expressed or provided.

The old development tree. So far a number of features already implemented.

1. Animatic Builder – Development Tree

   1. Update System

      1. Shot reordering system
      2. Asynchronous connection
         1. Remove update lag
         2. Enable Image/Movie preview during upload
      3. Support for multiple sequences
      4. Multiple versions of a sequence

   2. User Interface

      1. Clean-up, Simplify and Beautify
      2. Re-tune to place focus on shots, especially during playback
      3. Make metadata collapsible
      4. Current shot detection and highlight
         1. Play from current
         2. Update current shot

         3. Consolidate playback controls

            1. Move shot/note controls to playback bar
            2. Only information in sequence
            3. Center controls in window
            4. Goto shot number

      5. Rebuild scrolling

         1. Disable scrolling

         2. Re-enable scrolling to match device

         3. Fixed position for iPhone
         4. Center and focus shot
      6. Build ‘breathing’ transition between previewing and playback
      7. Investigate seamless camera operations, pan, zoom, rack

   3. Offline Support

      1. Portable version separate from server
      2. Reads/Writes text information to single file
      3. Uploaded and parsed by online version
      4. Save different versions of sequences
      5. Take advantage of device specific databases
      6. Download/upload zipped file of associated content

   4. Audio Engine

      1. Simple audio playback timed to shots
      2. Replace/add browser scroll-bar with both audio/video markers
      3. Keep audio/video time-line integrated

   5. A more creative/inspiring name than Animatic Builder

Most recent build, be sure to have the latest version of your browser!

Animatic Builder version 1.0

Animatic Builder is built on PHP, SQL, and most of all jQuery. Beautiful, wonderful jQuery.

There are a couple scripts in use not built by myself, most notably the Ajax image upload script. When I have a second I’ll add proper attribution.