What is Reddit's opinion of TVPaint Animation?

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I wouldn't called this an "animation" program. It's more like hand drawn animation scanner, cleaner, coloring + composition tool.

I tried it for 10 minutes and couldn't really find any way that you could actually make decent animation in it.

And I am a 2D and 3D animator who has tons of experience with this type of stuff.

This seems to be a tool that is used in a particular animation pipeline, but it is not a full solution.

If you want a full solution, I'd suggest TVpaint. Not free at all, but certainly a real animation program

Perhaps someone could use this as the basis for a real animation program, but in it's current state, if you actually just want to make some animation, this is not really a viable option in my opinion.

*Edit: If you read their information clearly, they do state this pretty well in their information. I just feel like most people won't understand the difference between what they want an animation program to be, and what this actually is.

After Effects is not very good a cell animation. I've seen people use Photoshop or Flash. There are also software specifically designed for cell animation. EDIT: Here's one I've seen cell animators use. http://www.tvpaint.com/

TVPaint without a doubt. It's a multi-platform, professional 2D animation software that's recently been released for Android (their "nomad" license) as of version 10.

http://www.tvpaint.com/

I recommend the software in general -- however, if I were you I'd wait till they release the latest version 11 for Android (currently available for Win/Mac/Linux), which should fix an interface scaling issue that makes the UI too tiny to be usable on any modern tablet with a display resolution larger than FHD. (1920x1080)

Also, don't expect to be pumping out full-res 1080p+ animation on your tablet like you can with your laptop; though I'm sure you knew that. My Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 can muster 720p before it starts to get a little choppy on the playback. Though for on-the-go roughs, it isn't that big a deal, since I'll later be cleaning up on my workstation anyway. I actually tend to use it way more often and effectively for storyboarding and animatics, as well as a hell of a sketching app.

Though they're not clear on the pricing for Android (you'll have to email them for a quote), I'd expect to pay somewhere in the $500 USD range -- possibly lower if they offer student pricing on Android licenses -- but I admittedly have not had to deal with that. The full, unrestricted "Pro" license for Win/Mac/Linux is around $1350 USD.

At the very least, give their demo a try.

Hi! We've used Adobe Flash for most of the films, but have recently been looking at TV Paint -http://www.tvpaint.com/v2/content/article/home/ TV Paint has been made specifically for 2D animation. Our longest serving animator - Laura Nailor, has said she's really enjoying using TV Paint, compared to Flash. It gives a better, smoother line. If you're interested in 2D animation, it's worth checking out the demo version. Thank you for your question - Emma

Here are TVPaint Prices assuming you live in the United States. It looks to be developed by a small team and you don't much hear about it outside of maybe art school animation programs or from studios and professionals using it. You can look up Aaron Blaise on youtube for some videos he's done on TVPaint 10 and 11.

Alternatively you can try animating in Krita 3.0 or OpenToonz. Not sure how OpenToonz works, but as for creating full quality animation you'll be exporting .png sequences from Krita and probably stitching them all together in a video editing software. If you're already using Photoshop, you could try changing your Workspace to Motion and tinkering with that but I haven't figured it out. In any case you'll probably exporting .png sequences, and you'll probably have to employ an old-fashioned timesheet to time audio lipsyncing.

Not positive, but I think it has to do with limiting how much CPU power is used so that as it's rendering the frames, it doesn't slow the frame rate at all. If that is the case, then I have no idea why they wouldn't allow higher quality playback for people with stronger computers. Although, I found a topic on their forum regarding this, so you might give it a shot: http://www.tvpaint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4095&p=33747&hilit=Quality+button#p33747

http://www.tvpaint.com/ is great if you have a bit of dosh. Cross platform and production-ready 2d animation, although it's more suited for cel animation or an illustrative style than pixel art. You'll need a tablet to make good use of it. For pixel art animation I can recommend Pro Motion, which is available in a humble bundle for a little while longer.

No its not like ms paint at all. It is a full 2D animation package. If your interested in knowing more about it here's a link to their site: http://www.tvpaint.com/ . Also check out our "Bouncing Ball video"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nurNWBXyrK4), it shows how tv paint works

Just for an alternative, I really like TV Paint and I recommend this tablet as it's cheap and really reliable.

For software, I like TVPaint Animation. But, as I said, I'm sure other software can handle this if the video is appropriately processed by hardware between the tape and the hard drive.

I would suggest you should really give TVpaint a try if you're serious about animation. Not just .Gif's for on websites. You'll basically just be making videos, you could always convert those in photoshop if you really want it to be .GIF.

Got any examples of your work maybe? :)

Edit: Also like Kylerk already stated, the lightbox feature WILL improve your animation drastically. Photoshop is not meant to be animated in. You will see your final speed straight inside the app just like with flash.

Here's a link. http://www.tvpaint.com/v2/content/article/home/