[Niels]

That is the weirdest thing ever!! Thanks for getting in contact about it Melissa!

I’ll ask the more technically literate people about this and get back to you asap…

[Niels]

That’s great news! Thanks for letting me know.

[Niels]

Thanks lot for this diligent post of yours, Pharan. It deserves that I really dive deep into it and do some proper thinking. 😉 I really get your points and I think I agree. I want to do things so they work most efficiently for the user, but that includes not “inventing” alternative ways without really good justification. Let me think about it all. I will love to respond to all your questions at the end of your comment… I’ll get back to you when I have better time to think about it… 😉

Truly appreciated,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks a lot for that suggestion, Pharan. It makes great sense to be able to see the resulting resolution. Noted.

Yeah, ProRes with alpha is great. 🙂

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks Andrew! Great you have that workflow down. Good work!

[Niels]

The presets are this update (Alpha 8). The more advanced brush system is probably going to be a free update from 5.0 to 5.1.

[Niels]

First of all, yes, we will keep the simple uncluttered approach.

I do remember our earlier conversation now. My point is, that the pencil in Animation Paper is of course a digital approximation based on algorithms, not physical graphite. So the settings means a lot. In Alpha 8, you will be able to do preset pencils, so you can easily switch between favorite settings and always have a few different pencils, markers and brushes ready at your fingertips.

Later we will build a more advanced “brush” system… it will all help with getting your mechanical pencil closer.

[Niels]

Oh, OK 🙂 We are working on the very last few things, so it’s a matter of hours now 😉 Hopefully we can release Alpha 8 in 2 days – maybe even tomorrow!

[Niels]

Please explain what would make the mechanical pencil you are dreaming of different from what you got already in Animation Paper?

[Niels]

We will release the next alpha version very soon. Hopefully before Christmas. 🙂

It is ready to use now. It is quite robust and works well. The next release will add a few more great features.

If you mean when will it be ready to be sold? This will be some time during 2024.

[Niels]

OK, I’m sorry to hear that. I’ll talk to my programmer, to see if there’s anything we can test for – in order to find out what the problem is.

[Niels]

Strange. Your activation key is good. Even if I got our system to issue a new activation key, it would be the exact same one for you.

The problems is something else. Something with the connection between your laptop and our license server. I do know that a few others have had similar problems, but their problems always seemed to go away if they just tried it again later. Did you try it again by any chance?

Please let me know. I would like help – and get to the bottom of this.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks Mike – before the holidays is exactly what we are aiming for. We do have some wrinkles to iron out first though. Fingers crossed!

[Niels]

You should be able to use the same activation key as you used on your old install. Do you still have the email?

[Niels]

Hi Mr Crisps – in the current version there is not. We don’t even have color and paint. 🙂 But this will come! Coloring features and a more advanced brush system is the first and most important thing on our todo list for the first free point-upgrades (5.1 and 5.2) after the 5.0 release. 5.0 is what we are working on finishing currently with the Alpha 8 release coming very soon.

I’m probably confusing more people with all these release numbers 🙂 – but here’s my answer in a nutshell: We will soon be working on a more advanced brush system, which will include custom brushes, preferably photoshop brush compatible if possible.

Thanks,
Niels