As a former classroom teacher of French and Spanish, English Language Arts, and Social Studies, my business now is creating resources for language teachers to tell stories and teach about culture, geography, history, and other content...in a language that may be quite new to the students. So, with that kind of work, you can bet I am always on the lookout for the best tools to visually scaffold the information so it is easier to understand through pictures, icons, and other design elements. I use Storyboard That almost every single day in my work on these materials. Since the resources are for (mostly) children and teens, I prefer a comic or cartoon-y style. Storyboard That is my go-to "character generator." I use it to make and pose characters into scenes and then I combine these groups of characters with Canva, to create PNGs that I then make into presentations for giving mini-lessons in class, texts for kids to read in class, etc. For me, Canva AND Storyboard That together are the perfect solution, and the price is right, for my purposes, as Pixton (which integrates directly with Canva) charges about $500 a year for the rights to replicate your work using their library for commercial purposes, whereas Storyboard That is only $12 or so a month, which includes that permission level for your original compositions. Pixton without that level of permission is about $40 a month, so you would need to think about what the integration of the two would be worth for you in terms of efficiency or the available images and effects in Pixton. For $144 a year, Storyboard That is an excellent option for me. And for free, you can create three active storyboards at a time, so you could potentially use it and never pay a dime.
Storyboard That might be a bit more popular than GIPHY Says. We know about 1 link to it since March 2021 and only 1 link to GIPHY Says. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
This app’s mission stands concise and straightforward: “Google for GIFs.” GIPHY World allows its users to inflate the real world around them with GIFs & stickers, offering an enormous library of visuals to everyones’ liking. Source: about 3 years ago
If you're feeling overwhelmed, you can also use free comic book making software like storyboardthat.com. Source: almost 2 years ago
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Storyboarder - Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.
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Boords - Making storyboards can be fiddly.
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Pixton - Our goal at Pixton Comics is to enable everyone in the world to make comics.