[Niels]

Hi Lou, thanks for your point. I understand.

In your specific situation I think I would just finish it in TVP.

Next time, if you have animation partially done from elsewhere, I suggest you import at a rough state, so you can use Animation Paper to do additional timing and clean up.

Making new animation from scratch using Animation Paper is of course best, if you like the simplicity and focus it offers. As you seem to agree with. Uncluttered and unbloated.

The technical reason you can’t just alter your imported png’s or jpg’s is because they are bitmap/raster images. Animation Paper internally holds more sophisticated data for each drawing – which gives you various advantages. Like better color fills (coming soon), scalable drawings without degradation and more advanced features coming in future releases.

I hope I made sense. 😉

[Niels]

Thanks Pascal!

I’m not sure how, or if, Lazy Nezumi Pro could work as a plugin. Doesn’t it just work “on top” of the drawing software? What exactly happens when you try it with Animation Paper?

[Niels]

Hi Daniel, yeah, this is something we will look into soon. But in the meantime, did you try installing Wintab drivers?

[Niels]

Good to know Randall! Great! And no problem with the response – thanks a lot!

[Niels]

Thanks for mentioning it, Wilfred! We are aware of this problem, but good to know about it from more sources. We need to make it work properly soon. On our todo list. 🙂

[Niels]

Bryan, OK thanks for clearing that up. 🙂 But still I’m a bit confused 🙂 Sorry. 🙂 Did you try importing an image (a png file – also works with a sequence of png’s)? They show up as a reference layer. And you can turn it on/off with the eye-icon.

You probably did this and now you are asking if there’s a way to have this image separate – not as a layer in the x-sheet? There’s not a feature that does that now. But of course we could make that. But then I need to understand, why you don’t think it works having it as a layer in the x-sheet? Just want to learn, so I can make Animation Paper as good as possible and still keep it simple and uncluttered.

[Niels]

Thanks John! 🙂

[Niels]

Hi John,

You are right, you can’t. This is just a function that hasn’t been implemented yet. It will be very soon.

If you check out the menus, you can see some of the planned features that aren’t enabled yet (they are greyed out) – including Merge Visible Layers.

[Niels]

Hi John – Actually it is possible already in the current version! Just import a sequence of numbered png’s (shift-select all of them).

[Niels]

Thanks a lot John!

Customized grids including some perspective functionality is something we want to include. But it will be after the alpha stage where a lot of functionality is prioritised higher. It is a good idea, and I think we could do it in a natural way so it won’t clutter up the simplicity of Animation Paper.

Rotation tool in steps: If you use shortcuts < and > it will rotate in steps of 15°. You can always reset your view (no rotation and 100% zoom) by hitting 0. Other shortcuts to know about is the numpad number keys: You can use them as compass directions, so 8 is north (no rotation), 9 is rotated towards north east, 6 is east, and so on.

Yes custom layer colors are coming very soon. Alpha 4 or 5.

Custom brushes are not possible at the moment. We plan to do a brush system for the next major release (v6.0).

Thanks for taking the trouble of updating your system for Animation Paper. I hope you think it is worth it.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Sounds very good! Thank you!

[Niels]

That’s very cool! Thanks a lot for showing it!

[Niels]

Thank Ross! And sorry to 정언 이 – for some reason your message has slipped my attention. Sorry. Would it be possible for you to install WinTab drivers, as Ross is saying? That has helped several people with this problem. We will be looking into making Animation Paper work out of the box on more systems, but for now, this might be a solution for you.

[Niels]

Good to know you have the same opinion. Thanks Gon Freecs.

[Niels]

Hi Randall, sounds like it is running using Windows Ink. Could that be the case? Animation Paper works best without Windows Ink – so it relies on the Wacom drivers only.