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Toon Boom Animation announces availablity of animation software ‘Storyboard’
MUMBAI: The US-based animation software solutions provider Toon Boom Animation Inc. has announced that its Toon Boom Storyboard is ready to ship. Meeting the needs of all production types-whether 2D animation, 3D animation or live action, Storyboard offers advanced features that make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard, the company said in an official release.
Toon Boom Storyboard provides: Flexible layer-based panel display with motion camera capabilities, complete set of drawing tools, including pressure-sensitive brush tool when using a digital graphic tablet and pen, customizable caption fields to insert fully searchable textual content, such as scene descriptions and comments, advanced timeline to control timing and automatically generate an animatic with sound tracks and transitions between shots, real-time animatic creation with dynamic camera moves extensive export capabilities, including printing, image sequences, and Harmony/Opus/Solo, EDL, SWF and QuickTime file formatting, adds the release.
Storyboard comes also with a complete set of templates, including characters, backgrounds, props, effects and symbols to get users started quickly.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
