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Installation
The newest version of the add-on is available to patrons on Patreon.
The add-on is available for free on Gumroad.
From Blender's Edit menu, select "Preferences...".
In the column of buttons on the left, pick Add-ons.
Press the "Install..." button at the top right and choose the zip file for this add-on. NOTE: if updating the add-on, quit Blender after install and then restart Blender.
The Storyboard panel is available in the sidebar of the 3D Viewport.
Open the sidebar by pressing the n key while the mouse is in the 3D View.
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From the View menu, select Sidebar.
Create Storyboard
A new storyboard can be created in many ways. It can be started in 2D Animation mode or General mode (traditional Blender 3D Layout). The Create Storyboard button will open a new floating window.
The flow of panels starts in the upper left and goes horizontally left to right and then continues to a next row (if the vertical count is higher than 1).
After pressing OK, a series of panels, cameras, and a new directional light are created.
The point of creating a series of panels at first is that an extra camera is created to view (or render) a group of panels.
If the storyboard was created in a 3D layout mode, press the camera toggle button next to the Storyboard interface or press the zero button on the numerical keypad of a full size keyboard.
Once the storyboard is created, the Create Storyboard button gets replaced by a Draw button. For a storyboard panel without a Grease Pencil object, the button will make a new object and go into draw mode. Layers and materials that are active in the Storyboard add-on preferences will be created for the current shot.
At the top of the Viewport window, there is a Tool Settings bar that allows changing various Grease Pencil settings.
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