Flipping a few frames back and fourth, while you are animating, can be mapped to the touch ring or -sliders on the tablet. You access some functions as normal by clicking the interface – and some functions you will want defined on the physical buttons on you Wacom tablet (or other brand tablet). Maybe you prefer to drop the keyboard all together and only sit with your tablet? (you might even own a Wacom Cintiq) – then that’s no problem. The top part of the Animation Paper window (the title/drag bar) can be configured to hold the tools you use the most.īut once you get used to using the keyboard to activate things with one hand and drawing with your pen in the other – you’ll be lightning fast. But an effective and realtime non-destructive compression of each frame means you can have a lot of frames in even a small amount of memory. Speaking of “as many frames as you want” – it is of course limited to the amount of memory your computer holds. You can have as many frames and layers as you want. To write notes, you simply use your pen and write by hand. Dragging the pane-divider further right reveals more space for notes. The active layer in this example is blue – which means you only draw blue lines here.Īt the right side, you have your soundtrack and notes.

Setting the color at the little drop-down-tap above makes the entire layer that color. Your drawings are color coded to visually separate each layer. Layers can be linked, so when you add or remove frames on one layer, the same happens on linked layers to keep your timing. When you flip frames, the X-Sheet scrolls up/down. Your current frame is always highlighted in the middle (black rectangle). In this example the layer you are currently drawing on is the leftmost. You change the order, by dragging left/right at the bottom of the columns. The leftmost layer is the top one and so on – down to the bottom layer at the right. A layer is represented by a column of thumbnails, like a vertical filmstrip. Easily adjust your timing of keys and breakdowns, by dragging the thumbnail down (or up), adding clone frames, making the key hold longer.

The bar shows what your range is, compared to all your frames in the scene. It marks your current frame and shows the range of frames you are currently working on (in this case frame 260-408). What ever you choose, you can always zoom the sheet in or out to work on a detail or see the bigger picture.Īt the bottom of the window you have your timeline. Work in a window or enter full screen mode.

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