[Niels]

Thanks Tamas – if I understand it correctly, installing WinTab drivers can actually work for people not even using Wacom. I wish I could help you better and point you to the exact driver.

Anyway, we are working on making Animation Paper recognise more tablets and touch screens out of the box.

[Niels]

Sure. The drawing-engines are of course different and does different things. But we have plenty of things we can do to optimise. We will look into it when we get to it pretty soon. 🙂 Thanks!

[Niels]

Thanks Rebekah! Yes, exporting in a movie format is not ready yet. We plan to have it done in Alpha 4. Alpha 3 is released in a couple of weeks if all goes well. Then a few weeks later – Alpha 4.

[Niels]

OK, 4K resolution is very demanding.

I would rather work in lower resolution to get great speed and lag free drawing. As you may already know, Animation Paper will scale perfectly without degradation, blur or loss, so you can safely work at 2K or even 1K. And then just go to 4K or higher when you later want to export.

[Niels]

OK, it seems quite visible on my monitor – but monitors are different, so we might need to turn up the lines a bit. And we need to have a setting in preferences somewhere, so people can adjust as they please. Thanks, Ni Ni.

[Niels]

OK, I understand now. 🙂 Thanks. I think this might turn out to be too much for the scope of Animation Paper, but I’ll keep your points in the back of my head. We’ll see.

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Ni Ni. More options, like the ones you are suggesting, might come in future versions. But maybe the vertical way, modelled after the traditional exposure sheets, is just a matter of getting used to it?

The flip canvas horizontally is planned (you can already see it in the menu as greyed out “Mirror View”) and coming soon in one of the next alphas.

[Niels]

Hi Ni Ni – That grid looks to me as intended. Would you rather have it more visible? It shouldn’t be too intrusive in my opinion.

[Niels]

Hi Christopher, OK, thanks. That doesn’t sound right. What resolution are you sketching in? What are the specs of your computer?

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Artem! (And Pedro!) Hopefully this will help others. And we have something to go by. Cool!

[Niels]

OK. Cool.

Actually I think this will be taken care of when we get to coloring. I mean, you will be able to fill your areas with color – and those filled areas could work as a mask, if some option is turned on, – so when drawing shading/shadows/light we could have it respect that mask so you can’t draw outside of the colored areas.

That would be great!

[Niels]

Thanks for letting me know Francisco. We’ll try to find a solution for alpha 3.

[Niels]

OK I see, Kuya. Thanks for that gif.

But isn’t that a good example of stuff you want to do in compositing later? I mean, I am not trying to make Animation Paper do everything you know. On the contrary I want it to do “one thing” but do it very well. And that is the animation it self. Using compositing for stuff like masks, blurs, layering effects, etc is best done in your favourite compositing software anyway.

Do you agree? If not, tell me otherwise and tell me why. 🙂 I am listening.

[Niels]

Thanks Francisco!

What computer are you using – and what OS? Please let me have some specs. 🙂

[Niels]

You are most welcome, Yuzh Yuzh!