Panel Forge 5.0 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