[Niels]

Greyed out menu points are features not done yet. Colors will come too in one of the following alpha updates.

[Niels]

Thanks a lot for your points! All of them we already have on our list and will consider carefully. Most is easy to implement, your Photoshop brush point is exactly what we hope to do, but it might turn out very difficult (impossible). Some kind of brush system (if not PS compatible) will going to be a reality at some point I’m sure.

[Niels]

If you just import a png, jpg or gif with your background image, preferably in the correct size/resolution, then it will show up as a reference layer set to 50% opacity.

Make sure this layer is behind all others (drag the buttons left/right at the bottom of the x-sheet) and turn up the opacity to 100%.

That will do it!

[Niels]

Actually this will be covered, I believe, by our annotations feature (to come soon). You will be able to write (scribble) notes, like numbers with key-circles, charts and everything else in the row “annotations” in the x-sheet. Also you can drag this row over next to any other row (layer) and even link it, so when you alter anything timingwise in your animation, your scribbles (line for line) in the annotations row will follow their respective drawings.

[Niels]

Your point 13 is on our list too! 🙂 You will be able to chose between light and dark checkers and in small and large size. Take a look in the disabled Paint menu – you can see them there (not implemented yet – coming soon).

[Niels]

Thank you, Kuya, for this list. Very good points! And actually they are all on our todolist already! 🙂

Some of them, like the crop tool, will not be exactly like PS, but fitting Animation Papers other tools. The point is that you will get what you need – like moving/scaling multiple drawings at a time, etc.

[Niels]

OK, thanks for this! We’ll try it and see how it feels. You might be right about it being better.

[Niels]

Very nice to read this. Thank you a lot Mark!

Does anyone know how to assign rotation to the Wacom control ring? Could the shortcuts < and > (rotating in steps) be used?

[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. 🙂