[Niels]

Thanks for your question Taiwan Coleman – and thanks for explaining Mike!

[Niels]

Hi Karl. Thanks a lot for letting me know.

Loading scenes with audio will normally work just fine, so something special must be going on. Its probably still a bug though, so we need to find it and fix it. I also hope to be able to help you in your current situation. Would you mind emailing me your problematic .ap file? I hope we can analyse it and find out what is causing the problem.

My email address is the one you got your activation key from. If the file is very large, please use wetransfer or some other way of sending large files.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Sorry, not yet. But we are planning on doing localisation – including Spanish.

Lo siento aún no. Pero estamos planeando hacer la localización, incluido el español.

[Niels]

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[Niels]

Is this the Sidecar setup on Mac? I know this works fine with Animation Paper, but I’m not sure what exactly you are asking. You can detach the X-Sheet as a separate window, so this can be placed where you like it. Or you can have a reference window, that always show your full frame – although you are drawing zoomed in and rotated in the main AP window. Maybe this helps somehow?

[Niels]

OK thanks Ethan. Appreciated. I will note this and think about it.

[Niels]

Animation Paper is supposed to be a commercial product – I love the idea of open source – but going the open source route with AP I’m not so sure about.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

That wasn’t in my plans, no. But please tell me more about what exactly you are dreaming of – and how would it work UX wise? Thanks!

[Niels]

Hi! Thanks a lot for your excellent suggestions. Can you elaborate a little on what you mean by “managing” reference images/footage?

[Niels]

Very soon we release the last alpha version (Alpha 8) – after that we go to beta. We don’t expect a lot of problems with that, because Animation Paper is already very stable. And then it is time for the official 5.0 release. It is hard to set a precise date, and it depends on possible unexpected findings, but later this year is realistic.

 

[Niels]

Hi Ethan, thanks for asking!

There’s a good reason why the painting tools (including bucket fill tool) doesn’t work. It’s because we haven’t implemented them in yet. 😉 Earlier in development of Animation Paper, we had a lot of greyed out menu items and tools, that was to come. We did this so people could get a view on what we where planning on doing. Now that the paint tools are more or less the only thing missing, I know it must be more confusing than informative. And that’s why, in the next release (Alpha 8) the whole Paint menu is hidden.

Paint and coloring are the very first features to be implemented after we have finalised the official v5.0 release. Paint/coloring will be a free 5.1 update.

To color you animation in the current situation, you can export your animation and color them elsewhere (like in Photoshop or the free Krita or whatever paint package you might have available). You can export as a sequence of PNG frames with numbering showing where any clones might be and layer information. A more advanced way of exporting is using OCA (Open Cell Animation), that enables you to export to multiple other software and transfer information on timing, layers, FPS, etc. More about OCA here: https://animationpaper.com/animation-paper-oca-export-for-pc/

Let me know if you have additional questions!

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Link Komas!

The color features are coming as the first free update after the official 5.0 release. This includes fill tool. I’m looking so much forward to it my self! 😉

Perspective tool is also on our todo-list, but more vaguely defined at the moment. It would be interesting for me to know what exactly it is you need from a perspective tool. What’s your dream perspective? 😉

Thanks again,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks very much for your kind words!

I am happy to let you know that an autosave/backup feature is exactly what we have ready for our very next release (Alpha 8)! We are right now working on the last issues on Alpha 8 – and as soon as we are ready with that we can release it. A matter of days/few weeks.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Yes, me too! 😉 Thank you!

[Niels]

Hi Arely, Yeah, the last Alpha release was almost a year ago now. We planned to go beta only a couple of months later. But we had a major unforeseen setback because our main programmer Frederik sadly had to leave the project so close to the finish line. Since then we have changed programmer 3 times, which have used a lot of time. Almost a year – very unfortunate for progress. In long periods we have had to just wait standing still. However, we are now very happy with Alex, who is our new main programmer. Things will be back to a good steady pace from now on. Alpha 8 is finished very soon and we will then go to beta and the finished release next. Very exciting!