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Yesterday I read an article about a new animation software called Animation Paper. It's not even on the market and even if it's available, I guess it will take many years to catch up to the toolset of TVPaint. But I thought it's quite interesting anyways.

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It's basically a reboot of the old Plastic Animation Paper application that was out a few years ago. It's good for pencil tests and the like, but you still need a app like Photoshop or Gimp for doing layout, inking, coloring, etc.
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Oh right, I didn't noticed there isn't a fill tool or detailed brush settings on the screenshot of the GUI.
http://animationpaper.com/wp-content/up ... enshot.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But I really like the simple and clean interface.

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schwarzgrau wrote:Oh right, I didn't noticed there isn't a fill tool or detailed brush settings on the screenshot of the GUI.
http://animationpaper.com/wp-content/up ... enshot.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But I really like the simple and clean interface.
There has been quite a bit of "buzz" created about Animation Paper in the last couple of weeks (after having been given a big boost by a free press release from Cartoon Brew the Animation Paper Facebook page has grown to almost 4,000 "Likes" overnight), but from what I can tell there is no software yet . It seems this may be the start of a crowdfunding venture . There is no "simple clean interface" yet , only a proposal . I believe the screenshots on the website are mock-ups of what he intends it to look like , some day ...

I wish him well , but I'm not sure what the market is for this . Digicel Flipbook essentially has everything he's proposing for a "simple" animation program (and actually Digicel Flipbook has a pretty good coloring system, but in my experience Flipbook has always been a bit buggy on Mac and they don't really offer robust tech support for Mac users ... I've had many frustrated students trying to use Flipbook , despite me recommending they get TVPaint ) or there is also the revival of the Pencil open-source software , now called Pencil2D for those who want the clean simple interface and some basic drawing tools to do pencil test animation.
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I already wrote this on Cartoonbrew: any new version of this must strongly avoíd the usability nightmare of old PAP.

At the school I teach now they finally have TVP. Before they had PAP and TB Animate. After I demonstrated just a bit of TVP, 1/3 of the students wanted to buy it right away (but have to get the money first).
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PAP for Mac has begin crowd funding.



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I contributed to his Indiegogo campaign. Mostly because I'm curious to see where this goes. Hopefully he'll get his funding together.
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Lukas wrote:I contributed to his Indiegogo campaign. Mostly because I'm curious to see where this goes. Hopefully he'll get his funding together.
Same here.
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https://animationpaper.com/

Alpha version is now out. Will indeed be an affordable alternative to TVPaint.
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