[Niels]

OK, thanks a lot, JalenR11 and Patcherips, for your reports. We’ll look into it.

JalenR11, I can’t get to your png – I have now requested permission to see it. Thanks.

[Niels]

OK. Must be something else then. Weird.

[Niels]

Did you try the qt.conf trick?

I guess you need to enable Windows Ink again and then do this:

Find the file “qt.conf” (probably here C:\Program Files\Animation Paper\qt.conf). Delete it or rename it (to save it). Then launch Animation Paper again.

This will force Animation Paper to use Windows Ink.

I’m not sure it will work – but definitely worth a try! Please let me know how it goes.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Yes, this is because we haven’t implemented support for video files yet. It will come soon in one of the next alpha releases.

But thanks for mentioning it!

(Until we have it done, you can export a sequence of png’s – like you already know)

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Sure. You mean using “gestures” like pinching to zoom, and so on, right? This is in our plans. Just haven’t gotten to it yet. 😉

Thanks Rodrigo!

[Niels]

It must have been some kind of glitch in the connection. I’m sure your activation key is fine. Just try again and it should work.

Let me know how it goes.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, cool. I understand. At some point soonish, we will add the ability to set up your own custom shortcuts.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Cher,

If you are able to assign keystrokes to your pen buttons, then I would use the R (Rotate), H (“Hand” aka Pan) and Z (Zoom) shortcuts. They work already.

Unless it is important for you to hold the spacebar in combination with the pen buttons? Why not just the pen buttons?

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Kim! Thank you.

[Niels]

You are right – they way to do it is to just have a blank with a number of clones, until the action starts further down. We have opted to do it like this to keep things simple and consistant.

I do hear you though. You have a point and it’s definitely a thing to consider. We need to think it through regarding how things would work when merging layers, jumping between layers, lighttable issues, playback, etc, etc. It’s always not as simple as it seems – at least if you want to keep everything clear and simple on the surface. 🙂

Anyway, thanks a lot for mentioning it. It’s noted!
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Kim – thanks!

Actually I have had my own ideas on exactly that since the first Animation Paper ideas popped up. I mean the ability to keep a palette and change colors after they have been used in frames, so you can do things like adjusting colors instantly and globally after a scene have been fully painted, etc. I later found out Toonz have somewhat similar features as what I dreamed of 🙂 Anyway, this is planned and will be part of the coming alpha releases.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Eli!

Did you succeed in submitting your activation key? If that’s out of the way, you can just go ahead and start drawing…

You don’t really need to setup anything. You draw, you add frames (hit the plus-icon or use the hotkey Ctrl ArrowDown if you are on PC or Cmd ArrowDown if you are on Mac). You draw some more.

You flip through your drawings using your arrow keys.

After you have done a rough animation quickly sketched out (default done in blue pencil) – then you add a new layer (hit N on your keyboard) – and you can start cleaning it up in black.

Hit Space to play your animation.

That’s the very short version. 🙂 Did that help at all? Otherwise let me know if you have specific problems or questions.

Also make sure to check out our tutorials – they will show you most of what you need to know to get started: https://youtu.be/IO7sxaZonhA

Good luck!

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

I agree Shahd! That would be a useful feature. And actually, this is one of the only things that the old PAP, but not the new AP, could do.

But I’m sure we’ll find a good way (user experience wise) to implement it into AP. It’s on our list.

Thanks for your comment!

[Niels]

Cool. Thank YOU Jeff!

[Niels]

Thanks for this Jeff. Sure I know about LN. And others have reported the same thing – I would expect it to be the same for the latest versions as well. Thanks for your video – very helpful! We have it on our list – so we will look into it when we get to it. 🙂

Were you aware that AP already have a quite clever stabiliser built in? This function hasn’t got any settings (at least for now) and works all the time in a very subtle way, but it actually makes a huge difference – without most people even noticing it. I would expect that people would notice if it wasn’t there though. 😉