Types of Storyboarding
The types of Storyboarding can be broadly divided into six major categories:
- Digital Storyboarding: The modern form of storyboarding where the Storyboards are designed and created on digital software rather than pen and paper.
- Traditional Storyboarding: This is Traditional Storyboarding technique where the designer creates and designs storyboards on paper using pen rather than digitally.
- Video Storyboarding: In Video Storyboarding, designers use video form content or animated illustrations as their Storyboards rather than static images.
- Written Storyboarding: In this form of Storyboarding, designers rather use written description of the process rather than depicting it using illustrations.
- Sketched Storyboarding: This is one of the most popular form of Storyboarding where the designers rather than having perfect illustrations, uses rough sketches for depicting the user journey.
- 3D Storyboarding: 3D Storyboarding is the technique used when the user journey involves of VFX or 3D sequences, this is not common with web design rather used in XR Storyboards.
What is a Storyboard?
Storyboard – We all have seen or heard of Storyboards, we used to love them as kids. All the comics we used to read in our childhood are good examples of a Storyboard.
A Storyboard is a collection of visual elements set to depict any information visually, mostly it is used to depict a story or a process. But for designers, it’s a bit different, Storyboard is a way to map our user’s journey with the application or website in simple sketches or illustrations. Each illustration in a Storyboard would represent a unique step taken by the user at every stage of the website or application.
In this article we will be talking about what is a Storyboard, why we need it, and the Types and Uses of a Storyboard.
Table of Content
- What is a Storyboard?
- Why do we need a Storyboard
- Types of storyboarding
- Purpose of storyboarding
- How to Create a Storyboard
- Uses of Storyboards
- Advantages of Storyboarding
- Disadvantages of Storyboarding
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