Storyboard That VS Brush Ninja

Storyboard That Reviews

1. Tina Hargaden

   | Principal Teacher at CI Liftoff | over 3 years ago
   I Use Storyboard That Every Day

   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.

   🏁 Competitors: Pixton

   👍 Pros:    Allows commercial use of your designs using their elements|Has a free option that allows you to make three active storyboards|Affordable price|Good range of racially-diverse characters

   👎 Cons:    Interface needs improvement|The dragging and clicking is often cumbersome for me.|No canva integration (pixton integrates with canva directly but costs substantially more)

Brush Ninja Reviews

Storyboard That mentions (1)

• I want to learn to letter comics. Where do I start?

  If you're feeling overwhelmed, you can also use free comic book making software like storyboardthat.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

Brush Ninja mentions (4)

• Games for kids

  That said, my kid, above all else, had the most fun with paintz.app (website), just creating pictures. He's moved onto brush.ninja now (at 7) and is doing simple gif animations. Source: over 1 year ago

• Not sure how to monetize my web app.

  I wasn't sure if that was allowed. The site is brush.ninja, I shall update the original post to show this too. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Create hand-drawn GIFs on paper

  Https://brush.ninja/ is fast/nice if you just want to do quick stick figure type animated gifs. Start by drawing something simple in the current frame, then down at the bottom, use the "duplicate" to make the next frame and add some changes. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Where to start for a 10 y.o

  I can suggest brush.ninja for online (2D) animations or OpenToonz/FlipaClip for downloadable software animations, along with Blender for 3D animations (all of these are free to download and use). Source: over 2 years ago