[Niels]

Great. Thanks for letting me know. Please also come back to tell me how it goes with the WinTab drivers. Thanks a lot, Bryan!

[Niels]

Hahaha 🙂 That’s awesome! So funny! Thanks for showing it!

[Niels]

Thanks J! Appreciated.

Actually we have already experimented with building XML that loads right into FCPX. It takes your originals and does the holds, reused drawings and all – works very well.

This will come to you during this alpha stage.

[Niels]

Hi Bryan – Yes, we will do guides and a reference sheet for the final version. Also the videos are to be considered “alpha”, so we will do new ones for the final release as well.

I’m not sure I understand you correctly when you talk about “reference image not in the x-sheet” – please let me know, if your point was something else. 🙂

[Niels]

Thanks George. Appreciated.

[Niels]

Hi Georg, thanks for this.

So, to make sure I understand, you want to have a way of “recording” your strokes as you draw? So it can be played back again so viewers watch your drawings being drawn stroke for stroke, right?

That is not something we have in Animation Paper now. However, it would be fairly easy to do (as you mentioned). We have discussed this before internally, so I will put it on the list and then I’ll see if we can find a good and nonintrusive way to make it work UX-wise.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

HD 1080 is the resolution of modern standard television. There’s will be no pixelation in HD. Of course you can zoom in to see the pixels in Animation Paper, but that is on purpose so you can check the details of the actual pixels. This is perfectly normal.

If you need to output in higher resolution – if you want to do 4K for cinema viewing or monitors that can actually display that, then you can go to 4K. But the point is, you don’t need to work in 4K. You can work in say, 2K (or even 1K), and then scale up to 4K as the last thing you do before exporting. Drawings and lines done in Animation Paper will scale up perfectly without degradation or blur.

Working in 4K is demanding unless you have super hardware. No need to. So just work in 2K and export in 4K. Much better to have the fast feedback.

[Niels]

Hi Bryan,

Animation Paper seems to not work on Surface Pro. This is of course something we need to correct. 🙂

In the meantime, could you try installing WinTab drivers? This seems to have helped many people in your situation.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Yes, I got it! Thanks a lot!

Good to hear 🙂

[Niels]

Hi Patrick. In the current version (alpha 2) – you are not able to do that. Others have requested this – and it’s a good point. So, it’s on our todo list. 🙂

[Niels]

OK, thanks for letting me know. Others have said the same. I am looking into it.

For now, you can copy/paste (as you say) and you can drag original drawings around to adjust timing (you need to be in Slide Mode). But this is only sliding them through your clones – you can not swap their places (as you know). This is on purpose. But I see your need for this. So we will probably do a third mode or something. We’ll see. Thanks again.

[Niels]

Thanks for trying all this. I wish we were in the same timezone, then I could have seen this earlier and helped you out (it was night here and I was sleeping). 🙂

But you came to the right conclusion. It is caused by lassoing and stamping many times in the same drawing. This builds up data and it starts to take a lot of time (5 mins are insane!). You must have gotten a warning about this in the program (when it takes 2 seconds, which is too much already), but we don’t show the warning again. The problem is that all the data is carried over to other frames if you stamp your “bad” data there too.

Reinstalling Animation Paper doesn’t help at all. Because the problem is the excessive data that is saved in your file (and just loaded again).

It would be great if you could send me the file that makes it crash. Please send it to my email address (you can reply to the email you got from me with your activation key). Thanks a lot for this help!

To not have this problem occur again, you have to be careful not to overuse the lasso. To fix your existing file, I recommend doing a new layer and tracing your drawings over there. Then get rid of the problematic drawings/layers.

We will work to optimise all this, but best to keep these points in mind never the less.

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[Niels]

Thanks for this opinion of yours, Decio. Although I do think tablets (like Wacoms or similar) work very well on desktop computers – I tend to think you are right.

We are doing Animation Paper for the iPad Pro with Pencil. We have been planning this all a long. Both the iPad and the desktop versions have most of their code base shared. This means 2 things: 1. We will be able to finish the iPad version fairly quickly after we finish the desktop version. The main task is to redesign the interface for touch purposes. And 2. the two versions will be fully compatible. Project files made on the desktop will load perfectly on the iPad and vice versa.

I think Animation Paper will be amazing on the iPad Pro!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Niels.

[Niels]

Thanks for this Christopher.

Reordering is something others have requested too. It’s on the list. Thanks.

Auto save might be a good idea as well. However! Animation Paper can’t crash in the middle of a save!! (It must not crash at all!) If this really happened, we need to find the problem and fix it. Would it be possible for you to recall what you did before it happened? You were working in 4K you say. Did you have many drawings in this file? Have you been able to replicate this crash? Did you have plenty of space on your harddrive? Please provide as much info as you can – including info about your computer (hardware and OS).

Thanks for helping out – very important we track this down.

[Niels]

You can not draw directly on a reference layer, but you just add a new layer on top and draw on that. Hit N for New Layer.