[Niels]

Bringing back pleasures of traditional animation but in a modern digital way is one of the important reasons for Animation Paper. Happy you see it that way too.

I agree about the skew functionality. It’s on our todo-list already. 🙂

Thank you!

[Niels]

Very happy you like it! Thank you!

[Niels]

I’ve checked and the license server is running smoothly. It should just work. Could you try again? You do not need to go through the whole process – just paste the key in again and click OK.

[Niels]

Sure, if you had a lot of drawings marked as key, then it would not work. But I mean, only marking one drawing – the one you want to show up in your light table.

[Niels]

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation! Much appreciated!

I actually really like your first option!

The second I agree with has this built in problem that automatic numbers would change, as you say.

I like that if you are not using this feature (your first suggestion), everything is just looking fine and simple. Then if you are advanced enough to need it, then you can just take it into use. And because the drawings are often so similar anyway, having a symbol (letter) occluding part of the x-sheet thumbnail doesn’t change anything – it will only help.

This is going onto our todo! Thank you VERY much Pharan!

[Niels]

So, given that the “iffy” behaviour of A clears the drawing is correct, then the above list of points (actions and undo’s) is correct I would say.

In respect to your points, please note, that A causes it to create a new blank drawing. Pressing Esc will lose the floating selection (not clear the already empty drawing). Then Undo will bring the floating selection back (as you say). And Undo again will take it all back to where the drawing was a held clone.

But all my explaining doesn’t matter 🙂 The point is that you are right there’s something not right about A clearing the drawing. What I want is for both things to be able to happen (either not-clear or clear). I’ll think of a way. Aaaaanyway! 🙂

[Niels]

Thanks Nathan. This could potentially be a bug. But it depends on how the original from that clone was created. I mean, if the drawing you are lassoing from already was made up of a lot of stamped drawings, then that could explain it. On the other hand, if the original of the clone you lassoed from was just a simple drawing drawn on a new blank, then you found an important bug. Maybe you could try to recreate the situation, to make sure which one it is?

Remember, this warning is only coming up if a lassoed area is taking 2 seconds or more to pick up. Normally it would happen instantly, so 2 seconds is a lot – also for old slow computers I would say.

Sorry that this is becoming a technical talk. But now it is about the internal workings of Animation Paper (which is interesting as well – at least for me!). Of course people don’t need to think or worry about these things when using Animation Paper normally. 🙂

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Jose!

Your drawings look great!

As you know, you can import a sequence of png’s or jpg’s. But importing animated gifs actually work already too. 🙂 And importing movie files will soon be possible as well.

Right now imported material will just be scaled to fit your “paper”. Later (soon) we will have options to scale and reposition them. But for now I recommend doing ekstra white (or transparent) space around your source frames to make Animation Paper make them fill only a smaller part of your paper.

[Niels]

Thanks for this suggestion.

If you reuse drawings in Animation Paper. You use copy/paste to have a clone (copy) somewhere else in the timeline. They are internally linked so it is the same one drawing just repeated elsewhere. Every copy and the original highlights when you flip to it.

However, the labelling we do not have. So how would that work best? Are the numbers on the labels automatically generated or are you able to name them your self? Would some other solution work even better now that we design it from scratch anyway? Some scribbled number/note/symbol by the thumbnail or something?

Let me know how you would prefer this functionality implemented. 🙂

As you say, it is also a matter of keeping it ultra simple and not cluttering up everything. I agree it could be very helpful to have this, but we need to find the most clever – highly useful – efficient way for it to work…

[Niels]

Thanks to Nathan who just sent me the test .ap file – featuring a line with a hole in it 🙂

[Niels]

Thanks Czes! Yes, I love Affinity designer! I used it for all design in Animation Paper, graphics and GUI.

[Niels]

Working on it 🙂

[Niels]

Exactly. That is always the consideration.

[Niels]

So cool! And it says hello and all! 😉 Thanks for showing Diego!

[Niels]

No that doesn’t help. The problem is all the stamps coming from lasso. And those gets carried over. Only way to clear it is to redraw. Or don’t use that many lasso copies in the first place of course.

We are going to work on optimising this, but the theoretical problem will always be there if you stamp enough times.