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export in animation paper
Hi, how are you? I have a question about Animation Paper that I'd like to ask you (my English isn't very good, so I'm using Google Translate, lol).
1. What program do I use to export it so I can paint it later?
If it can be exported, I want to export it to PSD since I use Photoshop, and I think that would be my question.
gracias totale :D
Taking advantage of my publication, when it comes out complete, how much will the price of the license be? xd?
Hi rangerLuis!
No problem with the Google Translate! I hope you can understand my answer. 🙂
With Animation Paper we have done a few ways of exporting. This enables you to import in virtually every other animation or paint software to do the coloring/painting. My suggestion, when exporting to Photoshop, is to export as a sequence of png files. Go to the menu File > Export > Frames... You have various options when you export frames, so try to experiment and see what works best for you. You can export everything as one layer with black lines and as a simple unbroken sequence - or - to keep your layers and timing, you can choose to exclude clones, so your held drawings are skipped in the sequence to preserve information on timing, etc. You might also want to Include Alpha to make your drawings transparent where your background is going to be.
When you are finished painting using Photoshop, if you keep your file name numbering, you can import your animation back into Animation Paper, so your timing is preserved. (File > Import and Shift select first and last file, to get all your frames imported into a ref-layer). From here you can go to File > Export > Movie Clip... to export as a mp4 file. Mp4 is good for sending to people or for uploading to YouTube, social media or other websites.
I hope the above is clear enough. Let me know if you need me to explain anything better!
To answer your second question: Animation Paper 5.0 is going to be $79 usd when it comes out (hopefully within this year). This is a one time fee for a life time license - no subscription. Coloring, including other new stuff, will be ready soon after as an upgrade to 5.1 or 5.2. These "point-upgrades" will be free for 5.0 license owners.
Best,
Niels