by WerwackFx·Workflow
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Storyliner earns its place in the superhive library by keeping storyboarding, non-linear editing and rendering inside a single Blender workspace, with a UI its developer describes as designed by a professional, for professionals.
Storyliner is a Blender add-on for telling stories inside the 3D View, from storyboard through camera management to rendering. Its core is a non-linear, real-time editing environment: starting from a scene that contains an action, you create shots based on new or existing cameras, set their time range, and order them however you want them to appear in the edit.
Because the editing is non-linear, shots do not have to follow the scene's chronology. You can swap them, shoot the same part of the action from several points of view, and include ellipses. Switching on Edit Play Mode plays the resulting edit directly in the 3D View. Storyliner also supports grease pencil sketching per shot, continuous drawing across shots, hybrid edits that mix storyboard shots with scene cameras, and a Retimer for global and local time control.
Shots and sequences render through Eevee, Cycles or a custom playblast as independent batch jobs, and you can generate a PDF storyboard or export sequences as PDF edit sheets. Edit lists move in and out of Blender via OpenTimelineIO. Because the feature set is large, Storyliner is offered in four editions aimed at different disciplines.
Storyliner is best for artists, directors and studios planning and editing animated stories in Blender, from storyboard and previz through non-linear edits to batch rendering.
Storyliner is completely free to download and use.
Storyliner renders images, shots, edits and sequences through Eevee, Cycles and a custom playblast option, running them as independent batch jobs. You can follow the rendering progress and interrupt it at any time, and sequences can be exported as edit sheets in PDF files. Some rendering capabilities may belong only to specific editions, so check the edition comparison on the developer's page to confirm what your edition includes before planning a render workflow around them.
Storyliner exports edit lists with OpenTimelineIO so you can continue editing outside Blender, and it can import edit lists from most editing applications to update the edit in your scene. This lets edits move in both directions between Blender and an external timeline. As with other capabilities, some import and export options may be tied to particular editions, so review the edition differences on the developer's page before relying on a specific round-trip workflow.
Storyliner is split into four editions because the full feature set is large, and each edition targets a different discipline. Certain capabilities, such as parts of the storyboarding and studio tools, belong only to specific editions. The developer provides an edition comparison so you can match features to your needs. For the exact split of features and current licensing across the four editions, see the developer's page before choosing which one fits your work.
Storyliner is listed as free here in the catalog. Licensing can change over time, and the add-on comes in four editions with differing feature sets, so the terms for each edition are best confirmed on the developer's page. That page also hosts the edition comparison, which shows which storyboarding, rendering and editing features are included where. Treat the free listing as a starting point and verify the current licensing directly with the developer before committing to a particular edition.
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