[Niels]

Animation Paper is software you run on your desktop computer (your PC or Mac). It does not run i your browser. I have noticed several people think that is the case – and I don’t understand why. How did you discover Animation Paper? Did you follow a link that said it worked from the browser or something? I am just curious as to why you think this – I might need to make some things more transparent or explain it better.

Anyway, to help you out!

You need to sign up as an alpha tester here: https://animationpaper.com/#HowMuch

Then you will receive a download link via email. After download you install it and register to get your activation key (free license) – and you are up and running!

Let me know if you have any issues or need further help.

And please explain to me why you were of the impression that you could draw in your browser somewhere on this website. I need to understand to make everything better and more user-friendly. Thanks a lot! Much appreciated.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

This is very helpfull indeed! Thank you so much.

I would love to get a video, but for now don’t bother, I don’t want to take too much of your time – I will try to see if I can replicate it my self using your excellent description. If I fail I might get back to you. 😉

Thanks again Dharmadude!

[Niels]

Hi Dharmadude!

Thanks very much being in love 🙂 and for using Animation Paper! And thanks a lot for this report of yours.

I am curious to find out if this could be caused by you accidentally hitting the shortcut for turning the lightbox on/off? The shortcut is Shift Space. If you use both Shift and Space frequently and rapidly could it be that you at some point hit both at the same time? Please let me know if this would be out of the question or not?

Your second issue with the timeline could potentially also be such a thing, I mean, did you know you can adjust the Range of frames that you see and work on? You adjust the Range by manipulating the bar below the timeline. You can set it so only one of your frames is visible out of many. Also adjusting the Range can be done using shortcuts, which are Cmd Arrow Left/Right for the Range Begin mark – and Shift Cmd Arrow Left/Right for the Range End mark. (For PC users, you use Ctrl in stead of Cmd).

Maybe these issues are due to actual bugs. Please let me know what you think! If they are actual bugs we need to investigate further and fix them of course.

Thanks a lot for your help! Vey much appreciated.
Niels

[Niels]

Great! Thanks for testing and letting me know. 🙂

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Jacob – very helpful. We are working on a solution – hopefully included in the next release if all goes well.

Best
Niels

[Niels]

Oh, yes, we have discovered some situations where Animation Paper didn’t respect the EXIF data in jpegs, which could result in exactly this – imported jpegs comes in up side down.

This has been fixed for the next alpha release (alpha 4), but you can get the fix with this interim version here (for Windows): https://www.dropbox.com/s/kepx07jvceoqqqa/AnimationPaper_x64.exe?dl=0

Let me know if the problem is now gone?

Best,
Niels

 

[Niels]

Thanks for showing this Fransisco. Looks awesome!

We are working on video import/export as we speak, so it will come very soon. Also coloring will come soon and eventually interpolation tools.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

No problem at all. Ask all you want 🙂

You can select all the drawings (clones), by clicking the first one, then hold Shift and click the last one, – and then clear them by hitting *. Or you can make them original (loose the clone link) by hitting o (keeps the content if it has any).

Hope that helps,
Niels

 

[Niels]

Hi! It does actually already exist. When you do a New Scene, you can enter how many initial frames you want.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Abdul,

Yeah, I saw your email to me about this and answered you. Here’s my answer:

Did you install Animation Paper? (I guess you must have)

When you run Animation Paper it automatically opens a small window asking for the key.

Let me know if that helped you?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

You should be able to import as a sequence, not one frame at a time. Anyway, I am happy to help and convert your ap file to mp4 or Quicktime for you. You can email it to me or email a link for the file. My email address is the one you got your activation key from.

We are actually doing the mp4 and Quicktime Prores implementation as we speak. So it will be part of the next release (Alpha 4). It is not yet decided when that will be, because it depends on how much or how little we go for coloring wise.

Anyway, feel free to send me your ap file with a few words on how you want it converted.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Sky, I recommend attending a drawing course then. 😀 Haha, sorry. Couldn’t resist. 🙂

To your real problem: I think I need more information. Did your installation go well? Did you input your activation key alright? If Animation Paper seems to run fine, then what exactly happens when you try to draw?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks for explaining. It does download in one go and once you get to installation, it just installs – it doesn’t download anything extra. Anyway, I’m glad it works for you now.

[Niels]

Oh, no. Sorry for this. You seem to have stumbled into a known issue we have on some specific older graphics cards. There’s nothing you can do right now I’m sad to say. But we are working on a solution. Hopefully we will have a real fix with the next alpha release.

If it is an option for you, you could install Animation Paper on another computer to check it out there. Otherwise, patience it the only option. Sorry.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks for mentioning this Luna.

I am not sure I understand what you are saying exactly. You had to download Animation Paper three times – because it failed to find the destination it needs to install to? It doesn’t make sense to me. Could you try to describe it more – does the installation process display any errors or warnings?

Yes, you are free to install Animation Paper where ever you want. Default is in your program files folder, but you can just change that when you install.

Almost all functionality has keyboard shortcuts. It’s a good idea to memorise your most important tools and features – take a look at the shortcuts here: https://animationpaper.com/animation-paper-keyboard-shortcuts-for-pc/

In the current alpha version (alpha 3) it is not yet possible to customise the shortcuts. But it will soon be – with one of the following alpha releases.

Let me know about your question 1 and if you have anything else.

Cheers,
Niels