![]() So, I pitched the idea of creating a new app to the group. I had been trying to use a few storyboarding apps which turned out to be relatively useless. Actually, the app came about in a funny way when we were all at a meet-up for filmmaking in northern California. Andy and I have backgrounds in video productions from commercials to music videos, and Daniel has been coding from a young age. I talked with Fearing about the app’s development process and its current - and future - features.įilmmaker: Can you tell me about your background and how you journeyed from corporate videos to previsualization software? What was the app’s development process like?įearing: Our team consists of three individuals: myself, Andy Mileusnic, and Daniel Mileusnic. Most importantly, the app produces detailed previs - both quick experimentation and carefully designed compositions - with a very low learning curve, allowing anyone to quickly see different options for staging a scene and then communicate that with the rest of the crew and postproduction team. There’s still a time and place for quick stick figures on a napkin, but ShotPro will make sure any filmmaker with $30 and a mobile device isn’t stuck there for long. The interface is smooth and intuitive, and the breadth of objects available to populate the frame is already impressive, certainly enough to establish a reasonably specific idea of a set or location, with more on the way. Storyboard frames can be extracted from animatics, and the latter are exportable as MOV files. How well does it work? From what I’ve seen thus far, pretty darn well. Version 1.5 is about to launch (hopefully during NAB this week) with additional aspect ratios, improved object selection, individually posable legs for actors, a gyro camera control - and, most importantly, a launch on Android devices and Mac and PC computers. ![]() It launched loaded with characters, props, settings, lights and even lenses, and two updates have already followed, adding scalability for onscreen items, animatable cameras, new camera models, moveable keyframes and other features. Developed by Dan Fearing and a small team of Sacramento-based designers and coders, ShotPro already looks like a game changer in the world of DIY previsualization. ![]() The newest of these is ShotPro, an iOS app from that premiered on the App Store late last year. Just as pencil-and-paper storyboarding has by and large given way to computer-based previsualization software, high-end previs suites are now confronting much more budget-friendly software and apps. Apps, Daniel Fearing, previsualization, ShotPro ![]()
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