[Niels]

Haha – that is fantastic! Thank you very much for your nice words and for sharing this.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi again, would you mind emailing me your .ap file? Or send it with WeTransfer.com or something if it is large. We hope we could get lucky and maybe find a hint in your file to what might cause the problem when exporting.

My email address is the one you got your activation key from.

Thanks a lot!
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks for the info. I’ll ask my more technically litterate colleague about this and get back to you! 🙂

[Niels]

OK.

Do you see the file in the place you exported to? Maybe just even a 0 byte size file?

If you have told me this info before please forgive me – but can I have info on what Windows version you are using and what hardware please?

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi George,

I am not familiar with Amazon Fire. I undertand it is some sort of tablet. But does it run Android?

Right now, we are focusing on making Animation Paper for the desktop computers (Windows, Mac and Linux) – after that we plan to do tablet versions (iPad and Android).

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

You are most welcome!

[Niels]

Exactly. That’s my thought at least.

[Niels]

Hmm… not sure about that idea, Absurd E. 🙂

[Niels]

Alright!! I’m glad it finally worked for you! Was it the portable version that did the trick?

I will look forward to your feedback! Thank you so much!

Enjoy,
Niels

[Niels]

Dear Windows 7 computer,

You are not old, just experienced! 😉 You have a wise mind peeping out behind your probably not so high res view screen. 🙂

I do believe you should be able to run our software, but I need you to tell me a little more about your self! 😉

Are you are 64 bit or 32 bit system? If you are 32, did you try the 32 bit version af Animation Paper?

Also we have a portable (zip) version, maybe you will appreciate that one better?

Even though you are not the youngest sprinter type in town, please take a little nice and easy stroll to this place (you have been there before): https://animationpaper.com/download-pre-release/ – then download what you like best!

… Thanks for your very funny message George – I hope the above helps. Maybe you already did try this? Please let me know and we’ll get to the bottom of this. Thanks for being so interested in AP!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Great 🙂

[Niels]

Cool. Thanks!

[Niels]

Thanks Sythgara – we are doing and testing this and a couple of other similar fill tool methods. So I think you will like it, when we finally have it ready. Looking forward to it! 🙂

[Niels]

We might be able to do a vector exporter at some point (it’s on our list). But for now, your option is to export as a sequence of png files or a mov prores file with alpha. If you need it at a high resolution, you can go to File -> Scene Settings, to change to a higher resolution as a final step before you do the export. While scaling up, AP will re-render everything, so all lines and drawings will be at full res and super crisp.

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Sythgara! Your expression animation looks great! Thanks for sharing it. I will retweet it. But first I’ll better answer your questions/comments…

Yeah, the pen options are very basic on purpose. We haven’t done a real brush system, because we have focused on nice but simple lines and the line engine under the hood. That enables you to do a lot of really cool stuff in later releases. But check out scaling up your lines/drawings – it’s like magic right? 😉 Anyway, we plan on evolving the pen options more in the next major release.

Lasso selection copying itself to other layers: I am not sure what that is about either 😉 I don’t understand what you are describing? What do you mean by “jaw”? Could you have changed to another layer while having your floating selection up? This way you can easily paste drawings on other frames or other layers. But it shouldn’t just happen of course. If this is a bug – are you able to replicate this?

More tools in Tool Bar: Your Speed Dials and Tool Bar will be configurable, so you can choose which and how many tools will populate them. If all goes well, this will be part of the next alpha release already (Alpha 5).

Resize entire animation: To have your entire animation in another format (resolution/aspect ratio) you just go to File -> Scene Settings – where you can go up or down in resolution and/or change to a more or less wide format, etc. You can have it stretch your drawings, keep aspect or crop/center.

Zoom with mouse wheel: On our list – Coming up soon.

Scroll bars: Do you mean in the main drawing area view? Aren’t those just annoying? Hold H (or Space) for the hand tool. Let me know, why you think scroll bars are important.

Audio: You will hear the audio while you “scrub” your frames (dragging the playhead back and forth), so you can get exact sync. We didn’t put audio on flipping with the cursor keys (or Q/W) on purpose.

Color Wheel: Coming soon – and very easily accessible. 😉

Soft brush: Sure – when we do our line engine upgrade.

Group Shots: Yeah, my thought has always been to animate shot for shot and then edit them together in any editing software later on. I believe that would work best – but let me know if you believe otherwise?

Anyway, thanks a lot for your thoughts! Let me know if you stumble across more!

Best,
Niels