I've been spending a little time making some Photoshop tools to aid storyboarding and I figured I'd share them.
First up, pencils. I've searched high and low online for a good pencil brush but haven't been satisfied with any of the ones that I've found, so I made my own. I've just made two brushes for storyboarding use, a pencil and a graphite stick.
Next I made a couple of actions for automating the setup of a storyboard.
The first action creates a simple 16:9 panel with action-safe and title-safe guides.
The second action creates a whole storyboard layout with guides marking out boxes for individual panels and description text.
The idea is that I draw an individual panel in its own file, then place it into a storyboard file, snapping the panel to the guides in the storyboard file. This allows easy manipulation of the board, as well as swapping images with a couple of clicks.
So there we are! You can download these tools here [EDIT: I changed the archive to a zip file]:
www.andysanimation.co.uk/Other%20Files/Tools/PhotoshopStoryboardingTools.zip