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Smoothing stroke

#1 · May 27, 2025, 4:46 pm

Hi , G

I have to say that animation paper is the cleanest and most efficient 2D animation program I have ever used. It has fulfilled almost all my needs in the design phase of 3D animation. Due to physical reasons, my hands shake slightly unconsciously, so I would use the brush smoothing function in krita or lazy nezumi to solve the problem of shaking hands, and I wonder if you can add a smoothing stroke function in your software.

thanks again for your great work !

#2 · May 27, 2025, 4:56 pm

Thanks for your kind words and for bringing the subject of smoothing up!

We do actually have a subtle and clever stabilising algorithm running at all times for all strokes. It is not just simple smoothing, so it will not affect deliberate corners etc. This algorithm is running at all times for all strokes and is not adjustable. It works almost unnoticeable but quite effectively.

We do already have a more conventional smoothing feature on our todo-list though, so this is something we plan to add in a future version.

Thanks,
Niels

#3 · September 3, 2026, 12:10 am

Animation Paper truly excels at both speed and focus on the core drawing aspect, making it ideal for early 3D block-outs and rough keys. Taking a break to read your comment putting vape mod kits aside, a built-in stroke stabilizing function like Krita or Lazy Nezumi would be a fantastic quality of life update for artists with delicate motor control. While line smoothing isn't natively integrated into the brush engine as of now, overlaying third party applications like Lazy Nezumi Pro tends to offer global smoothing for most Windows drawing apps. That being said, passing this request along to developers would be greatly appreciated, as implementing an in-house stabilizer option would make the cleanup and roughing phases so much more accessible to all!

#4 · September 3, 2026, 6:48 am

Hi AmeliaThomas,

Since the original discussion above, we actually have implemented additional smoothing - but on the brush only (not pencil and marker). The attempt is to make the brush ideal for clean-up/inking.

If you haven't seen it (in beta3) then please try it and let us know if that works for you? Might take a little getting used to of course.

Thanks,
Niels