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There's also this feature in Animanatee, a cool homebrew for DS (the anim can be played on the upper screen while you draw on the lower one).
I agree it can be a great feature for TVPaint.

So have you used it and do you find it useful, or is it just a gimmick?

I don't have used Animanatee a lot yet, since it's a very limited application compared to TVP, of course.
But the few times I've used it I found this auto-refresh play very useful, mostly because the onionskin there is very basic (only 1frame before and after, with the same grey level..).

So in TVPaint as we have all the options we need in the lightable and the flip-book preview, we can live without this auto refreshed preview, and press the flipbook shortcut each time you want to check the movement.
I understand some people can find it useful.
But I imagine that this can become very resource/cpu consuming with fat projects with lots of layers, so maybe the benefit doesn't worth the power it needs here.

Good points; makes sense. But for painting alone it should be very useful.

yeah it seems to me it would be very good for pencil testing, in the early stages of an animation when the scene is light rather than when things get big and heavy

CoreyAnimator wrote:yeah it seems to me it would be very good for pencil testing, in the early stages of an animation when the scene is light rather than when things get big and heavy

But I should think that this alone, plus the business of animating color brush strokes would be well worth the existence of it in TVP.

Paul Fierlinger wrote:

CoreyAnimator wrote:yeah it seems to me it would be very good for pencil testing, in the early stages of an animation when the scene is light rather than when things get big and heavy

But I should think that this alone, plus the business of animating color brush strokes would be well worth the existence of it in TVP.

I agree with u Paul, I think it would be 2. Can see a lot of possibilities with a tool like this.

Toon Boom Animate 2 already has this feature for looping. Its just an early attempt at implementing a Dynamics Physics engine like in Animae Studio Pro.7.0. It would be nice if it was in the next version of TV Paint along with Autosmooth and a nice color wheel.

Scoobyx wrote:Toon Boom Animate 2 already has this feature for looping. Its just an early attempt at implementing a Dynamics Physics engine like in Animae Studio Pro.7.0. It would be nice if it was in the next version of TV Paint along with Autosmooth and a nice color wheel.

Scooby are you a troll ?

of course he is ... read his 10 posts in 1 month...

Scoobyx wrote:I found the lack of a magic wand to be shocking.

" lack of magic wand" ...????
he has probably never kept tvpa open more than 20" .

Hervé wrote:

Scoobyx wrote:Scooby are you a troll ?

or a sophisticated bot, embittered by (binary) life!

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