Toonboom Storyboard Pro handles 2D objects and allows sketching and exporting in storyboard format. An animatic typically consists of pictures of the storyboard synchronized with the soundtrack. They ended up drawing a fully colored storyboard to send to the animation studios. Then sketch a "thumbnail" storyboard. Afterward, the animators compiled the scenes and developed a new storyboard with the computer-animated characters. Frank Weiss served as animation director, and Greenblatt worked as storyboard artist. The software allows both storyboard and timeline-oriented editing. The scenes were shot without a script or storyboard. The rough outline was given to storyboard artists, who expanded it into a full storyboard. The comic was illustrated by Jim Campbell, a writer/storyboard artist on the television series. So he asked Nolan to let him create the entire storyboard for a film. Hillenburg also functioned as storyboard director, and Drymon worked as storyboard artist. In 1980, Ranft joined Disney as a writer and storyboard artist. The German special limited edition contains three DVDs and a book containing the movie's storyboard. The filmmaker Alan Parker has described the works as an ancestor to the storyboard.