ShotPro

Make no mistake, for the price this is a very powerful program. You can do so much with this app. I love almost everything about it BUT the character posing. Posing characters is endlessly frustrating. Arms are always bent in the wrong direction. I can get joints to move where I want them. It’s always such a struggle to pose characters in Shot Pro. In fact, the character posing is frustrating enough for me to dock 2 stars until that element of the program is refined. The posing is especially difficult with the dedicate Mac App. I wish the developer would implement a rotating X/Y/Z orbital posing tool like what is used in Frame Forge. Because just grabbing a point on the skeleton, and wrestling with it endlessly, is clunky and not very efficient. Seriously, if they’d just fix the posing I think this would be the best PreViz app on the market, beating out the big players. I’d even pay more for proper posing.

I like what this lets you do, and it’s pretty helpful, but when controlling the camera, the X and Y-axis controls apply to the wrong axis. Normally X is for left/right panning and Y is for up and down tilting, but in this app, the controls are flipped but labeled as X and Y. I wish there was a setting to flip the controls so that if people use it the current way they can keep it.

A virtual studio at your fingertips...If you can imagine it you can build it. Shot Pro has everything you need to build a PREVIZ so you can quickly communicate your vision to your cast and crew! As a working TV director I have found ShotPro to be an invaluable tool that every filmmaker should have in their tool kit!! Andy at Webgames is quick to address any issues and upgrade ideas! He has incorportated at leas a dozen of mine making this a must have APP Most Previz software on the market today like StoryBoardQuick charges hundreds of dollars and they cand do a fraction of what ShotProd can execute !! Get it now before Andy realizes he could charge more for this fantastic PreViz App! Cheers