[Potato Queen]

I was wondering if there’s a way for my to shrink my animation and all of the layers, without doing so frame-by-frame? I have a 344 frame animation, and 6 layers, so…I don’t want to go through all that. 😅

[Niels]

Hi Potato Queen! Thanks for your question.

I understand 🙂 There’s not a direct way of doing that in the current release unfortunately. We are working on it – and we’ll have a great feature for this in a future release.

However, to help you now, if you need to just shrink everything towards the center of the frame, you can do it this way:

1) Go to the menu File > Scene Settings… And change your resolution as follows…

2) If you want to make more room around your drawings, say 120% (aka 20% extra), then you multiply your resolution by 1,2. I don’t know your current resolution, but as an example, if it is HD 1920 x 1080, you type in 2304 x 1296 (i.e. 1920 x 1.2 and 1080 x 1.2). Make sure to choose the option “Crop/Center” and click OK. All your frames and layers will now have the extra space around it.

3) You can now scale it all back to your original resolution, by going to Scene Settings again and select (or type) your original resolution (like HD 1920×1080). This time make sure to use “Keep Aspect” and click OK. Voila! 🙂

Remember, in Animation Paper, you can change resolution, scale and rescale all you want, without any degradation or blur happening to your lines. No worries 😉

Let me know how it goes and if your have further questions!

Thanks,
Niels

[Potato Queen]

Thank you! It’s working well, and I’ll definitely use this more in the future! I look forward to seeing all the new features you add when they’re out! I love using animation paper, so thank you!

[Niels]

Great to hear this workaround worked for you! And thank you very much for your kind words! All the best

[Potato Queen]

Hi! So, I’ve been able to shrink my art, but I was wondering if I could shrink the canvas? I make shorts, and no matter how much I shrink my animations, they don’t fit in the shorts frame. I figured that if I could draw within that size, then I could keep my animation within that view.

[Niels]

Sure, best way is to just start with the correct resolution. If you are doing shorts for Youtube, I would use 1080×1920 i.e. a vertical “portrait” aspect. On other social media, like Instagram, you can go with square, like 1080×1080.

So when you start your projects, make sure to go to the menu File > New Scene… and type in the preferred resolution.

If you need to change resolution on existing animation you might have done in 16:9 horizontal “landscape” aspect, you can experiment with the options in Scene Settings.

I hope this helps?

[Potato Queen]

Yep! Thank you!