Posted on November 16, 2011 in Storyboarding | 2 Comments
Our friends at Celtx have created a new app, Celtx Shots, to capture your next great idea. It is the first app with both storyboarding and set blocking built-in allowing you to create storyboards and block scenes in the field, on the set, or anytime inspiration strikes.
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Posted on May 20, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Storyboarding | 2 Comments
Plotting, writing, character development, inking styles and story telling techniques are explained by the biggest names in comics. Stan Lee hosts Todd “Spawn” McFarlane, Rob “Youngblood” Liefeld and Jim “Wildcats” Lee as they offer tips and illustrate the realities of creating comic books.
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Posted on May 18, 2011 in Featured, Filmmaking 360, General Production, General Screenwriting, Storyboarding | 8 Comments
Not only is the iPad is revolutionizing the filmmaking world in terms of new innovative tools, but also in the way it’s leveling the playing field by performing similar functions as expensive equipment that was once out of reach for many indie filmmakers.
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Posted on March 28, 2011 in Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 1 Comment
This is a live demo of the Celtx media pre-production software. Presented in New York in Feb. 2011 by filmmaker/educator Mike Jones.
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Posted on November 23, 2010 in Contests, General Screenwriting, Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 3 Comments
We would like to thank all the members from all around the world that entered the contest. We hope everyone had as much fun creating their adaption and storyboards as we did judging them. The adaptations ranged from faithful to re-imagined departures. The storyboards where even more diverse. Methods varied from hand drawn, found images, South Park style shapes and the built in Celtx Sketch Tool.
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Posted on November 10, 2010 in Storyboarding | 8 Comments
Hitchcock was known for his extensive storyboarding down to the finest detail of production. He was reported to have never even bothered looking through the viewfinder, since he didn’t need to do so. Looking at his storyboards versus the finial film it’s safe to say that is a vast overstatement.
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Posted on November 9, 2010 in Storyboarding | 1 Comment
Our favorite opensource filmmaking tool just added a new app to the Celtx family. Celtx has announced that version 1.0 of our thier ClipSketch iPad app is available in the Apple App Store for the introductory price of $1.99!
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Posted on October 22, 2010 in Outtakes | 1 Comment
We’ve been talking a lot about pre-visualization lately (including our excellent 500 Storyboard Tutorials & Resources feature) but the Taiwanese firm NMA.tv is taking pre-visualization to the next level by using 3d previz software to render current events into easy to understand animatics.
Here is their take on the giant bed bugs that are taking over New York City (monsters always attack the Big Apple)
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Posted on October 15, 2010 in Featured, Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 9 Comments
Once the script is written – how do you effective communicate the visual direction of your film? The answer is storyboards – essentially a scene-by-scene visual guide to the screenplay of the film.
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Posted on October 13, 2010 in Featured, Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | No Comments
In the world of open source filmmaking programs, nothing comes close to competing with Celtx. It is the essential all-in-one media pre-production software package that combines script writing, scheduling, storyboarding and much more all in to one software package.
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Posted on October 7, 2010 in Contests, General Screenwriting, Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 16 Comments
FilmmakerIQ.com has teamed up with Celtx, the creator of our favorite open-source filmmaking tool to give you the opportunity to enter the Dark Gothic World of Edgar Allan Poe. Here’s your chance to really show off your screenwriting and pre-visualizing skills by adapting and storyboarding Poe’s poem “The Raven.”
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Posted on September 20, 2010 in Directing, Storyboarding | 2 Comments
In this episode of Celtx’s Motion Sketches they consider the choices the director has to make and the steps a filmmaker can take to ensure that their choices are informed and considered. Knowledge is power.
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Posted on August 5, 2010 in Storyboarding | 1 Comment
Ben and Paul from Blunt Productions demonstrate the important process of storyboarding as a tool to plan your film.
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Posted on July 16, 2010 in Storyboarding | No Comments
Alan Natale of Tech Burrito demonstrates the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro for the iPad ($7.99 in the iTunes App Store). This could be a very useful tool not only for creating storyboards, but sharing them digitally and instantly with the entire crew. If I where Wacom, I think I would be a little nervous.
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Posted on July 12, 2010 in Featured, Filmmaking 360, General Production, General Screenwriting, Storyboarding | 30 Comments
For this feature we have rounded up some of the best and most useful Filmmaking Apps that our Deal Leader Steve Jobs has approved for the App Store. As more filmmakers explore the possibilities with these powerful mobile devices, we are sure this list will continue to grow.
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