don’t you just hate it when your brain gives you a bunch of really great ideas for a new story, but they’re all late/end game ideas with the necessity of a lot of Story™ behind them for full effect, but when you try to come up with ‘point a to point b’ your brain just kinda goes *excessive shrugging*
Yo, this has the potential to be a rly nice resource!! But it’s currently…very sloppy lol;;;
IT MIIIIIGHT BE A YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY ISSUE, TO BE FAIR, and maybe some of the issues have their own fixes that users have found (tho you wouldn’t know it considering the forum they provide is. Very empty.) but you shouldn’t really NEED a bunch of tips and tricks to get a program working as shown in advertisement.
But I downloaded and opened it up for just a little bit and, from first impressions, it rly wasn’t great. The pens were really laggy and just bad (with and without “auto line smoothing” on and here’s the same pic exported into photoshop at 100%). They’ve got really great examples on the site, so I’m really curious who has the Perfect Combo of tablet, computer and program to make this worth using (I have a Wacom Cintiq 13HD and an HP Laptop). It is nice that the pen tool will always be on the “top layer” and other colors and brushes color under it, so you don’t NEED to export photoshop, but no control over the layers isn’t great imo. And, speaking of photoshop, it’s a very. Odd choice for a company that seems to pride itself on providing content for free to also give you the option to export to a program that costs a good deal of money (but maybe they just expect you to pirate it). It’s not a great option anyway because it only works one frame at a time and, again, lags when updating in storyboarder. Onion Skinning also no longer works correctly afterwards bc it makes everything a solid and you’re just staring at a black mass in the frame before it instead of some kind of proper transparency. Nice idea, but slightly flawed implementation. They also have a very blunt sense of humor that may or may not be a deal breaker for some people (I personally don’t like being told I suck at drawing even as a joke, sorry.)
(reblogging to my art blog bc it seems most relevant here haha and plus I suspect I have plenty of followers interested in storyboarding – if it does work for you, that’s super great! But I think there should be an honest review of the product within the reblogs too so that people know what to possibly expect! I know I was pretty disappointed seeing all the praise and then opening it up and finding it didn’t work out as expected.)
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