Blender Add-on
A complete storyboarding toolkit for Blender + Grease Pencil — built from real moments of friction in my own pipeline. One-click fill, instant camera framing, reference paste, hand-drawn effects, and phone-gyro control.
The whole toolkit
Story Bob v2.0 lives in a single View3D → Sidebar → Story Bob tab — and every tool is its own panel you can drag into the exact order you work in, or collapse when you don’t need it: Pastel Color, Camera + Shakify, Drawing Effects, References, Fill, AutoFly / AutoKey, Keyframe Shifter, Symbol Library, a full Render section, World HDRI, Cursor Snapper, and the Gyro phone controller.
Pastel Color
One click assigns a soft pastel shade to your selected objects so character, prop, and background each read as their own element — grey-on-grey soup becomes a legible composition. Saturation slider built in.
Camera
A compact camera list — select, view-through, and set focal length for every camera from one row. Press F1 to toggle the passepartout mask. Camera Shakify layers handheld wobble onto the scene camera.
Drawing Effects
Sketchy Noise keeps clean Grease Pencil lines feeling hand-drawn with subtle jitter. Paper drives a painterly compositor look — switch to Rendered to see your boards on a paper sheet.
References
Snip any reference (Win+Shift+S) and paste it straight into the viewport as an image plane with Ctrl+Shift+V. Or trace a reference image directly into editable Grease Pencil strokes — drop, click, iterate.
Fill
Arms Blender’s native Fill tool on a "Fills" layer below your drawing — click inside the sketch and it fills in one tap, gap-aware (native 5.2 Delaunay). Your line art stays untouched on its own layer.
AutoFly / AutoKey
AutoFly records the camera live as you fly the viewport. AutoKey arms a record mode: move, rotate, or scale a selected object and it lays down keyframes that follow your motion, stepping the frame forward as you go — click empty space to finish. Then Smooth Keys softens the recorded curves in the Graph Editor with one press.
Keyframe Shifter
Push every key after the playhead forward or back together — objects, Grease Pencil frames, and timeline markers all at once. Quick timing changes without dragging in the dope sheet. F5 / Shift+F5.
Symbol Library
Turn any Grease Pencil drawing into a reusable symbol. Edit the master once and every instance updates everywhere. Frame Offset staggers an instance’s timing, hide/lock keep your scene tidy.
Render
White Background drops a pure-white backdrop behind everything — in renders and the viewport — while your lights keep working. Render Viewport Anim writes a JPEG sequence; Quick MP4 renders the whole timeline to one H.264 file. Render Isolate exports the selected object as a transparent PNG straight to your clipboard, and Render Isolate Sequence does it across the timeline as an alpha PNG sequence through your scene camera.
World HDRI
Load an HDRI to light your scene and set the mood instantly, then dial it in with strength and horizontal / vertical rotation sliders. Cycle through a whole folder of HDRIs to find the right look without leaving the panel.
Cursor Snapper
Snap the active Grease Pencil object to the cursor’s First point, Center, or Base, lock a layer so it stays put, and jump between keyframes with snap-on-arrival. Re-project Strokes flattens your drawing back onto the working plane.
Gyro
Move, rotate, and draw in Blender using your phone as a motion controller over Wi-Fi. One Start button launches the server; copy the link to your phone and tilt to control — sensitivity, axes, and ports all adjustable. Great for loose, gestural blocking.
Help
Flip on Show Help for a one-line guide under every tool, right in the panel. And because every section is its own panel, you can drag them into the exact order you storyboard in — or collapse the ones you’re not using.
Install
story-bob.zip and enable it.I'm putting together tutorials, breakdowns, and — soon — 1-on-1 mentorship and small-group workshops for artists who want to go deeper into storyboarding with Blender + Grease Pencil.