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Click on the FrameForge™ 3D Studio Box to download a working DEMO of the only 3D Storyboarding software program that lets you work like a director, not a graphic artist...

Click HERE to download a demo! Don’t draw storyboards. Direct them!™
That's not just a slogan; it's the whole philosophy behind FrameForge 3D Studio 2.  Its virtual set and fully articulated actors bring the location to you, giving you the freedom to explore and experiment with your vision as a director in ways never before possible.

FrameForge 3D Studio will turn your Storyboarding prep-work from an exercise in graphic arts into a dynamic, creative directorial experience.  It does so by giving you an easy-to-manipulate 3D virtual film studio where you can build rooms, street corners, exteriors or whatever you need with drag'n'drop simplicity then add props and set dressing, block and pose your actors, and start shooting. 

Highlights

•  3D Made Easy!  Props and characters move as easily as pieces on a chess board, making 3D Storyboarding even easier than the old-fashioned clip-art 2D storyboarding programs.
•  Complete Pose Control allows you to apply reusable poses to actors or define new ones with resolution down to individual fingertips.
•  Real-World Object Interactions makes seating a character into a chair or giving them a gun as easy as dragging them together.  
•  Instant Set Building with drag'n'drop scalable walls that snap together, featuring movable, sizable windows and  doors that open to any angle desired.
•  Multiple Camera Views let you easily place, set and display multiple angles and shots
•  Real-World Camera Controls include Pan, Tilt, Dolly, Zoom, and Crane
•  Shot Information includes camera height, angle of view, and zoom settings
•  Integrated Shot Manager with scalable, stretchable movement arrows and shot framing boxes
•  Slide-Show playback of stored storyboard frames with individual shot duration and dissolve
•  Storyboard Shot linking to scripts written in Movie Magic® Screenwriter, Final Draft® or virtually any other script writing package
•  Exports a Variety of Formats including HTML pages, JPEG Files, or Macromedia® Flash® Animations

System Requirements

300 MB Free Disk Space
256 MB RAM(minimum)

Windows
Pentium III 500Mhz
Windows XP/NT/2000 or better
XP Theme enabled
 Macintosh
G3 Processor 500 Mhz
System 10.3 (to run Version 2)
System 9.1 (to run Version 1*)
*included on CD
 

The real world is 3D.  Your storyboarding program should be too.

Need to start a crane shot from twenty feet up, then crane down around a school bus dropping off kids, and end with a push in tight on a doorway?  With FrameForge 3D Studio, you can literally shoot all that just as if you were on location. You can even add in location and/or equipment limitations too.  For example, if you know that the room you'll be shooting in has an 8' ceiling, or you only have access to a 35-200mm zoom lens, you can enter those limitations for that set and FrameForge 3D Studio won't let you plan anything you can't actually do.

Simple, Intuitive Interface

FrameForge 3D Studio's design is based on a the paradigm of a television control room, with monitors at the top of the screen displaying the set through up to eight different cameras simultaneously.  (Click the image on the left to see a full-sized version for better clarity)

Its use of familiar concepts and Real-World Camera controls make framing shots so easy that storyboarding in FrameForge 3D Studio becomes a process of creative exploration far beyond just “getting it on paper.” 

The Control Room is where you build your sets, place your cameras, and record shots for your storyboard.  In addition to the view through the cameras, it also gives you an overhead bird's eye Blueprint View which is an invaluable tool for building and populating sets.

 
Working in 3D has never been easier!

FrameForge 3D Studio was designed specifically to make 3D Storyboarding easy.  Quickly and easily create sets with our drag’n’drop walls that stretch and snap together. Add movable, hinged single & double doors that open to any angle, and movable, completely sizable windows. You can give the walls a specific length and height, or build your set free-hand then read back the wall measurements for live set construction. 

And when you're shooting, you can make individual walls (or other objects) invisible for a specific camera only. This makes it easy to capture a shot you couldn't have otherwise without compromising the integrity of your set—the equivalent of pulling out a flat on a sound stage. 

Built sets can easily be reused in other projects, and even shared with other FrameForge 3D Studio users.

 3D Storyboarding is easy with the Blueprint View
 
More than Interiors - a lot more
With a number of supplied location "floors" (2d drawn images of streets, grass, city intersections and so on), numerous prop & picture cars, buildings, trees and even topology objects, you can create the exteriors you need in very short order. Or perhaps you'll want to drop in one of the supplied panoramas for a 360 degree backdrop… or even go shoot a 360 panorama of your real location and bring THAT in as your set's backdrop.

FrameForge 3D Studio comes with over 750 posable, manipulatable objects common to the home, office and outside world. Everything from school buses, bicycles, computers, guns and knives all the way down to the kitchen sink.  They work like their real world counterparts too: Executive Chairs swivel & tilt, tensor lamps lift and bend, desk drawers open and trees even lose their leaves. And as you would expect, most of them can have patterns and colors changed so you can have that neon pink couch in front of the poster of Elvis… or a red convertible instead of a yellow one

 
Real World Object Interactions
Pre-established relationships between objects make it even easier.  Drag an actor into a chair or onto a motorcycle and he’ll automatically sit appropriately.  Or drag a gun over to his ex-girlfriend and she’ll grab it in her hand.  Don’t like that exact pose?  No problem; adjust any of the actor’s joints as desired, either with pre-posed full and partial poses (only affects some joints, such as an arm or head), or choose direct joint control with resolution down to individual fingertips to communicate your emotional and visual intent like never before.  If you build a new pose/relationship we haven’t thought of, you can save it, reuse it, share it with other FrameForge 3D Studio users, and even optionally designate it to be automatically applied when those specific objects collide in the future.
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