AaronChicago Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 BLOCKER by Afternow A new way to previs with your phone. You can program which camera you'll be using, and different focal lengths. Drop in characters, adjust their height, and sun/light placement. Then figure out blocking. It has a few funky bugs but it's freakin amazing for a free app. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blocker-by-afternow/id1256222832?mt=8 kaylee, TwoScoops, Jonesy Jones and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MurtlandPhoto Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Woah awesome. Downloaded to my phone and tablet. Thanks! AaronChicago 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zak Forsman Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 downloaded it. bought some expansion packs. awesome. AaronChicago 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronChicago Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 17 minutes ago, Zak Forsman said: downloaded it. bought some expansion packs. awesome. I need to get that expansion pack as well. It has furniture models, and cars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salim Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 I'm going to give it a try. But just curious how easy it is to make your shot list. Can you guys share some screenshots of what you have drafted so far? kaylee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaylee Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 10 hours ago, salim said: I'm going to give it a try. But just curious how easy it is to make your shot list. Can you guys share some screenshots of what you have drafted so far? yeah id love to see what people are doing with this. my storyboards for my project rn are pencil on paper lol. NOT that theres anything wrong with that~! ? salim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronChicago Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 So far I haven't used it for an actual storyboard. I've mostly been playing around with different focal lengths and character blocking. salim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Hartman Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 On 3/10/2018 at 12:32 AM, kaylee said: yeah id love to see what people are doing with this. my storyboards for my project rn are pencil on paper lol. NOT that theres anything wrong with that~! ? Paper and pencil will always be the quickest way to get things from your brain to materilization. You are using different centers of your brain doing this, as opposed to other methods like navigating an app. But as far as refinement, polish and the details of focal length, sun direction/light source, this app looks promising. I'm going to try to find something similar for Andriod... kaylee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaylee Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 9 hours ago, Matthew Hartman said: Paper and pencil will always be the quickest way to get things from your brain to materilization. You are using different centers of your brain doing this, as opposed to other methods like navigating an app. But as far as refinement, polish and the details of focal length, sun direction/light source, this app looks promising. I'm going to try to find something similar for Andriod... yeah i agree. i mean if needed id be doing both – a thumbnail breakdown of the shots, then go into the previz software last time i tried to the software was pretty clunky and my computer sucked... now theres smartphone apps that blow that stuff away. unreal in general i feel like storyboarding is a super conflict between right brain/left brain... or something. its the old patting your head and rubbing your stomach times a million. but after i get the most BASIC thumbnails down on paper – which in fact are perfectly useable as storyboards themselves, they show focal length, blocking, etc. – then its a whole different situation and its easy. its the initial transfer of words (even words that ~I~ wrote) to cinema language that can be tough!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Hartman Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 There are a handful of Android storyboarding apps on Google Playstore, but nothing as refined and polished as "Blocker" in terms of including augmented reality into the workflow. To avoid platform restrictions (which is an old business model approach for successful app building in 2018) we can start looking at web based tools, so that anyone with access to browser can use them. I've played with the following application for a few months and it does require some massaging but it has a pretty nice feature set and it's 100% free too: https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/ Some others for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plotagon.plotagon https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webgames3d.shotproandroid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.PowerProduction.StoryBoardQuickDirect https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield.storyboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.us.hollywoodcamerawork.shotdesigner https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reelapps.RAShotListerApp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chemicalwedding.artemis https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.celtx.script Cheers kaylee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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