[Niels]

Sounds great Dessie! Remember to work quickly (rough) in the beginning to first get the timing right – when satisfied – then do another pass on a layer on top, to refine your drawings (clean up). This way you don’t unintentionally use too much time on drawing details before you make sure you are actually going to use each drawing (you’re nailing your key poses and timing this way).

Good luck with it all!

[Niels]

Thank you

[Niels]

OK good to know. Thanks a lot Shebun.

[Niels]

Hi Ussa Gi,

I am not sure I understand all of your story. But I think I got, that you had a couple of AP files that was corrupted because your harddrive had errors. I am so sorry to hear this. Always devastating when you have done great work and it is ruined and nothing to do about it. As an artist you are sometimes confronted with the “pleasures” of computers like you just did. 🙁

I always think like this, when something similar has happened to me: It seems to often turn out better when you have to redo something – and at least it is always faster to do it the second time. Hand drawn animation is all about drawing and drawing – training your skills. This is training! 😉

Thanks for your sad story. I hope you end up with great results no matter if you start over or you go on to something else 😉 Good luck!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks a lot for this Shebun! This is a bug that we found ourselves some weeks ago. It can even crash AP when exporting in some cases. Sorry about that. We will have it fixed for the next release for sure.

Did you try exporting as MOV? This should work with sound and actually it is the higher quality format that Youtube will accept as well (the file is larger though, so it will require longer upload time – I hope that is fine).

Thanks,
Niels

 

[Niels]

That looks great Dessie! Thanks for showing it!

Nice work. I especially like the water swoosh thing 😉

After you have done some well earned recovering and relaxation 😉 – are you going to continue working on it or are you leaving it as it is? It would be interesting to see some breakdowns and inbetweening. But it depends on what you are aiming for of course – you do call it a test, which it is great for of course.

Anyway, thanks a lot!
Niels

[Niels]

Sorry no news on this topic yet. We have had to concentrate on a few planed (and super important) features.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Joshua,

No, not in the current version. But thanks for mentioning this! It has been requested a few times before – and we are going to implement it soon for one of the next alpha releases.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

I like that idea very much! We’ll get this alternative short cut done (we can have both).

Thanks very much Constantin!

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[Niels]

We are working on this as we speak. Yes, it will be a kind of mix, so you as a user can choose to collapse a drawing up to that point. Still figuring it all out though 😉

[Niels]

Hi Bert,

Thanks for mentioning this. Actually this is a bug that has just last week been fixed in our internal version. 🙂 So this fix is part of our next release.

To get rid of this problem in the current public version (Alpha 7), you can hit Shift when it happens.

Looking forward to be able to release the next version for you and everybody else.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Oh! That’s great BK!

I just checked and it seems my email to you, with the solution that I wrote many days ago, for some reason never left my email server. Then I could have saved you the trouble of reinstalling. Sorry. Hopefully it was worth it for other reasons.

Anyway, happy animating!

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi BK,

Yes, I think I know what that is. This happens on a few older kinds of on board graphics cards. I have a solution. Please send me an email, then I can email you back with a file and a few steps you must go through. My email address is the one you got your activation key from.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Bert,

I haven’t put that much thought into that I must admit – the tool tips are a standard system thing. The position is the same for the other tools in the tool bar and controls bar as well. And actually the same in other programs and for the rest of the system I believe.

It does make sense to have them NOT below, but above the tool though. I agree. I wonder if it is possible to change a setting in the OS preferences or if we can change it for Animation Paper. I’ll have to look into this… 😉

Thank you!
Niels

[Niels]

Thank you so much for your nice words and for your list!

 

I can tell you that some of it is already there. I’ll comment on your points below…

– The pen tools do have close-to-each other shortcuts too! The erasers are 1,2 and 3 and the pencil/marker/brush are 4, 5 and 6.

– Hovering the curser over the tool will actually show the “tool tip” – ie the name and the shortcut. Maybe you didn’t wait long enough for the first tool tip to appear? The next ones are instant, so you can “browse” around.

– Buttons in the X-Sheet are on our todo list. Coming soon! But already you can right click and get everything as a context sensitive drop down menu. Be aware, that the menu changes depending on what you are hovering over (1 – thumbnail (aka drawing), 2 – column (layer) or 3 – other area inside the X-Sheet.)

– I don’t remember hearing from others that the grid is hard to see. I suspect it depends on your monitor settings of course. It might be a good idea to include some kind of opacity adjustment though. Noted! Thanks!

– Ruler, lines. Sure! It’s on our list!

 

Looking forward to being able to release updates including these things – to make life just a little bit easier for you and others! 😉

Thanks again!
Niels