[Niels]

No problem Mike 🙂

yeah, the red frame number was supposed to indicate that it can’t keep up. However, right now there’s a bug with it, so it will turn red at odd times – even when it is absolutely not struggling. 🙂 we’ll get it fixed soon.

Doing your animation scene for scene is normally the way to go. And then edit them together afterwards as you suggest. This is often a simpler way of working and also is less demanding on memory usage. However, it should be perfectly doable to have a few scenes together as one file – no problem. But why it is in your case is puzzling…

For now try the scene by scene approach. When Frederik (programmer) is back, we might be able to investigate this better.

[Niels]

Hi Kirian,

But aren’t you already using Animation Paper? Then you ARE alpha (and soon beta) tester! If you haven’t downloaded it yet – feel free! Download pre-release – as it says in the menu above.

[Niels]

Thanks Mike 🙂 Our plan right now is to do alpha 6 and 7 and then we should be feature complete. This means we can go to beta. Beta will probably be three months from now and then a couple of months in beta getting the last bugs fixed – and then! We can release the finished 5.0 and letting people buy it. If we don’t run into anything unexpected then that is hopefully it. At least roughly speaking.

[Niels]

Oh, that actually makes great sense to me. Thanks for explaining, Mike! This is noted for great features for future versions.

[Niels]

Came to think – are you out of memory maybe? Could you check how much memory is free on your system before you load your ap-file and after?

[Niels]

Hi again Mike,

Sorry for the delay. My programmer has been off sick and now he is on vacation, so unfortunately I couldn’t get him to take a closer look at your file. But I have looked at it my self. First of all, what a great song and nice and funny idea for the video. I like it.

I don’t see anything that pops out as problematic with your animation, layers, background layers etc. Also, whatever the resolution or complexity each frame would have, it is all cached and should play perfectly. And actually it does play perfectly here at my end.

Looking at your computers specs above, that looks fine too. So unfortunately I can’t explain the lagging you experience.

What happens when you switch off one, two or three layers before playing? Does that change anything? I don’t expect it will.

I converted your file from 1920 x 1080 to 1280 x 720. I have emailed it back to you. Going to a lower resolution should have a positive impact for you. Let me know if that helped or not?

And by the way, when you are done with your video, you can just change resolution back up to 1920 x 1080 and have all your details intact. Do that before you export your final video. No visual information lost, no blurring. It’s AP magic 😉

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Mike, thanks for explaining. Yeah, I know. There’s a few apps (like Clip Studio, Sketchbook and Photoshop) that is painting programs but introduced some kind of animation capability as a patch on top. Animation Paper is designed and built for animation from the start. Completely different.

Alpha 6 is not far away. But as I mentioned on the blog some time ago, we have decided to get Animation Paper done without the coloring features first. We need to get it out soon. And it will be soon now. Animation Paper 5.0. People will like it is complete in the sense that it is fully tested and features works fully as intended. And then, immediately after, we release 5.1, which has a the coloring features. This will be a free upgrade for all who bought 5.0.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

[Niels]

[Niels]

Hi Kirian, OK I see! Thanks a lot for explaining.

And you are in luck! We actually just finished our big customise screens for Animation Paper. This will be part of the next release – Alpha 6.

You will able to drag whatever tool you need from the list at the left to the interface. Take a look below…

[Niels]

Thanks Mike – yeah, I see. And I got the smile! 🙂 I do see more of a need for that with software like Maya and Harmony though, where you are more assets focused, have rigs and scripts and all that. With AP I feel it is more simple, everything is based on drawings. But still – I hear you 🙂

A question: What is holding you back from just creating your library using well organised folders and store ap files with your characters, modelsheets, basic expressions, cycles, etc? Or are you thinking of something more centralised and universal?

If you wanted to copy/paste drawings from one file to another that is totally possible now.

As you probably are already very well aware of, I’m always trying to keep AP simple. Therefore I’m always little reluctant. 😉 But let me know more.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks. I feel though that CT and AP has two very different visions/goals. And that dictates a lot of the choices in the design of the UX. But of course I will be able to learn plenty of stuff from Clip Studio. What exactly do you mean by “family friendly”?

[Niels]

Thanks Mike! I got your file!

It’s late here in Denmark – I will have a look tomorrow, and get back to you.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Mike,

It seems it for some reason is struggling to keep up. So it will skip frames to try to keep in sync – but apparently it doesn’t succeed.

Would you mind uploading your .ap file somewhere and email me the link so I can investigate what is happening? Or you can we-transfer it to me. My email is the one you got your activation key from.

Also, what is your computer specs? OS, memory, CPU, etc?

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, I see. Thanks a lot Constantino. And by the way, I have no problem understanding – your english seems very good to me.