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In reply to: Alpha 3, Win x64, misses some dll’s at start-up
Happy it worked! Thanks, Tarun!
Yes, you are right, you need to drag out a bunch of clones to reveal the audio waveform and be able to listen to it. We are debating this behaviour and might change it. Thanks for giving me your opinion. Definitely appreciated.
Off-pegs isn’t working using the keys? Wow, we were not aware of this. It works on my test computers here.
You are on Windows 8.1. What kind of hardware/computer are you using? It will be helpful for us to know a bit more, to help find the problem. Thanks a lot!
In reply to: Where is the Activation Key???
In reply to: Alpha 3, Win x64, misses some dll’s at start-up
In reply to: Alpha 3, Win x64, misses some dll’s at start-up
In reply to: Background and character coloring
Thanks Michael!
Everything from the old PAP has been up for consideration – I wanted the modern version of PAP so to speak. Generally speaking, PAP is in a few areas built on outdated conventions. Also some of it’s features could be done simpler and/or more efficient. So that’s what I have done with Animation Paper.
A good example is how you work with blue and black pencil. I mean, in a way it works the same, but it is less complicated, easier to work with and aligns better with modern conventions. In Animation Paper you do this blue/black thing too: Use the blue pencil for your rough pass and then clean it up on top using black. If you need another pass, you can turn your black lines blue and do another refinement pass in black. Exactly the same as you are used to with PAP. In PAP you were stuck with a pseudo layer, where black and blue was technically the same layer, so the black lines were always on top of blue, and the blue lines would be destroyed by the black lines. Having them on actual separate layers is both simpler and better. At least that’s my opinion. 🙂
So to turn your blue lines to black, you just click the little gizmo at the top of the layer column in the X-Sheet – and select the color you want the lines changed to.
How you reach each function (tool icon) is going to be highly customizable in Animation Paper (coming soon in one of the next alpha releases). Especially the Speed Dials will be great (comparable to the “marking menus” in PAP).
Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
NielsIn reply to: A big, big, HUGE tools suggestion!!!
Good evening, Mike! 😉 (Greetings from Denmark) 🙂
Thanks for your HUGE suggestions! 🙂 Much appreciated. These are all features that we already have on our consider list.
The line tool is probably going to get in pretty soon, but symmetry, perspective and other things in that category are waiting for more immediately needed features, like coloring. 🙂 Also I want to keep the simplicity intact, so I need to balance it all. So we’ll see! Thanks a lot for your input!
Best,
NielsIn reply to: i do not know how to start a project
No problem 🙂 I’m sure the Huion comes with some kind of driver you have to install. Shouldn’t be a problem though.
You can use any program to help you do lip-sync, but if it was me I would rather do it “by hand” because the performance of your character is so much more than just getting the poses of the mouth in sync. You need to analyse the voice and emotion of it anyway to do the complete facial expressions and get your character to “act” well. Import your voice track into Animation Paper and listen to it over and over again. Draw your key poses and drag out clones so your key poses match the audio. Then you experiment with alternative poses/expressions or you can just start filling in drawings between your keys with more mouth poses until you have all of your animation done. 🙂 Lip sync is both simple and complicated at the same time. 🙂
In reply to: i do not know how to start a project
Hi Suzie!
Thanks a lot for your questions – not silly at all!
1. It depends on your preference. Many people, including my self, like it better to draw on a tablet with a screen, like a Wacom Cintiq or a Huion. You have better visual feedback this way. On the other hand the good thing about drawing on a tablet placed on your table and looking at what you draw on your computer screen is that your hand is not blocking anything. 🙂
About working digitally (as opposed to physical paper), I find it is a matter of getting-used-to, but also a matter of weighing pro and cons. Paper is great for the natural feel of course. However, you get so much from working digitally drawing directly onto the screen, like instant linetesting (just hit play), perfect erasers, undo, lasso and copying things, trying stuff out and saving multiple versions, refining your drawings and animation easily and endlessly, much faster workflow, etc, etc. I’m sure others can add to these points. 😉
Yes, Huions work great with Animation Paper.
2) Yes, you can easily import sketches drawn on paper. You need to have them scanned or taken as photos into your computer first as png’s or jpg’s. Name your files with numbers, so they sort as a sequence. In Animation Paper you just hit Import and select all your images in one go. They will automatically import in sequence on a new “reference” layer. You can then time everything, so you make each drawing hold for one or more frames. Then add a new layer (or more) on top to trace them, clean them up with “ink” or add breakdowns or inbetweens as well if you want to. A the end you can color your drawing as well and import a background (or foreground). (Coloring is coming in one of the next alpha releases).
In short: Yes! 😉
Let me know if what I said makes sense. 🙂 You are most welcome to get back to me with further questions.
Best,
NielsIn reply to: Suggestion
In reply to: Surface Pen Support?
Hi Purty64, yes, normally you would have pressure sensitivity. Are you running the latest release (Alpha 3)? Did you do the thing described in my email moving away the qt.conf file? This should hopefully do the trick.
The eraser and zooming by pinching are not supported yet, but this is on our todo and will come soon in one of the next alpha releases.
Please let me know if the qt.conf thing makes pressure work?
Cheers,
NielsIn reply to: Suggestion
In reply to: Way to make a reversal of sequence?
Actually this is already in the latest version. You just hold down Shift when stamping – then it keeps the selection floating. You can also stamp with the Return key, and therefore use Shift Return to keep it.
Also after you lost your floating selection, you can get the latest one back, by hitting Shift Esc.
In reply to: Bug right after running the program
OK, thanks for trying that out for me Fabian!
Good thing that we are in alpha. Finding all these bugs/problems – that we don’t get our selves on our own test systems, is exactly the reason to have it tested by many people like we are now. We will look into this and get it fixed. Thank you!
Best,
NielsIn reply to: Bug right after running the program
In reply to: Audio timeline display and playback issue
