It's a great idea but for an application that runs locally on my computer it's very slow. Add character movements, actions and expressions, as well as sound effects and music simply by inserting typical stage directions within your script (see image, Fig 1).
Choose a scene, place up to two characters at any of the predefined locations within the scene and start writing your dialogue. Scripts are set out pretty much in the standard screen writing format. Plotagon simplifies the film making process by linking what happens in your movie directly to the act of writing your script. I say that because, even if you'd had the most basic training in the art of film making, Plotagon is going to frustrate you with it's rigid placement of actors locked camera choices and step by step interpretation of your script.īut let's back up a bit and look at what Plotagon is attempting to do. Now that I have had further chance to really explore the software I can safely say that Plotagon will likely be frustrating for anyone with any film training at all. At the time I hadn't really looked very deep into what Plotagon could do.
I've briefly reviewed Plotagon's Animation Tool before as part of my Six DIY Animation tools post and wasn't very impressed.
