Aneri Ghosh

Stefan, thanks for the resources. Will have a patient look at all.

Konstantin, so I took the lead from your first post and realized that Blender was open source, what joy .So I have downloaded it. And yes we are talking of same animatics as pointed by you ….but much fewer key frame storyboards.

The learning curve I am guessing is going to be similar. As for the differences you had pointed out still wouldn't be able to tell, but will take your word of experience for it. Will start toying around and will figure where I end up.

But thanks a ton for setting me in the right direction.

Thanks

Hello Konstantin,

Don't mind at all explaining.

Firstly I wasn't and still not aware of the problems that you have higlishted in Houdini. Secondly ours is a independent feature and we function on shoe string budgets. So plan well I was looking for a 3D solution. I was aware of Houdini and its free version i.e Houdini apprentice. Hence the choice.

If there is another free 3D solution with all the features required for the purpose, I am all ears.

Thanks

BabaJ thanks for the response. To answer your queries:

1.I want to storyboard for a feature film.
2.I am doing it for the lighting crew, cameraman, vfx and ofcourse for the direction team.

Now I am aware of the convetional ways of storyboard and they are all good, like you mentined, for the respective purpose in context. In my case though I have 3 camera setup, moving camera and vfx hence the detail is essential. To top it all we are shooting under killer timelines.

So I would like to do as much homework as possible. Going back to my orginal query, I would like to do a 3D storyboard using the animation facility. Since Houdini is new to me hence understandably there is a learning curve. But there is also as much reference content to learn. So I am looking to be pointed in proper direction correspnding only to Houdini.

Hope that makes things clear.

Thanks