Panel Forge 3 Documentation

Welcome to the 'PanelForge' documentation home page

PanelForge is the Drawing, 3D Layout, Storyboard and Animatic production software tailored for the pre-production needs of a modern animation production studio.

This area is under construction.

PanelForge Fundamentals:

• System Requirements
• Installation
• Introduction
• What is PanelForge and Why

Essential PanelForge Tutorials:

• Getting Started Tutorial

PanelForge Tutorial Videos:

• PanelForge Mini-tutorial: Presets
• PanelForge Mini-tutorial: Overlays
• PanelForge Mini-tutorial: Renaming & Panel Management
• PanelForge Mini-tutorial: Stage Materials

• Creating a new Project
• Canvas First Steps
• Stage First Steps
• Basic Panel Organisation

Exploring PanelForge In Detail:

• Project
• Panel
  • Canvas
  • Stage
  • Guides
  • Overlays
• Asset Library Creation
• Exporting Data
• Importing Data
• Maya Tools

• Palette Windows
  • Assets
  • Panel Information
  • Panel Timeline
  • Panel Thumbnails
  • Undo History
  • Canvas Tools
    • Hand/Zoom
    • Paint/Erase
    • Fill Bucket/Gradient
    • Eyedropper
    • Move/Free Transform/Distort
    • Rectangle Select/Lasso/Magic Wand
  • Canvas Layers
  • Colour Picker
  • Colour Swatches
  • Brush Editor
    • General
    • Shape
    • Texture
  • Brush Presets
  • Stage Tools
    • Select
    • Move/Rotate/Scale
    • Move Pivot
    • Magic Transform
  • Stage Outliner
  • Stage Object Attributes
  • Stage Material Attributes
  • Stage Material
  • Clip Information

• Main Menus
  • File
  • Edit
  • Project
  • Canvas
  • Stage
  • Window
  • Help

• Floating Windows
  • Set Panel Names
  • Find and Replace Panel Names

• Dialogs Windows
  • Application Preferences
  • New Project
  • Export
    • Image Sequence
    • Video/Audio
    • PDF
    • Alembic
    • Project
    • Edit XML
    • Project XML
  • Project Information
  • Project Notes
  • Asset Library Manager
  • Asset Reference Manager
  • Project Panel View Settings
  • Project Panel Naming
  • Project Panel FPS
  • Project Panel Defaults
  • Project Panel Resolution Resize

Revision Changes:

• Version History

• PanelForge Pro and PanelForge Studio