Long projects are extremely difficult
At first I really liked using callipeg and it was very useful to me but as I moved on to longer projects I ran into problems. I realised I needed to work in many small shots to stop it from crashing which was perfectly alright but then I had a looping animation on the hair and background with different lip sync throughout the whole project. I can’t insert the section as a video because the lip sync would be wrong and when I duplicate the moving sections I can’t drag them into a new shot so I have to painstakingly copy, load the other shot, paste, load back to the previous shot and to this over and over for hundreds of frames to get it from one shot to the next with the smaller one often not saving when I go to the menu like its supposed to and the longer one crashing the app constantly. So making an 11 minute long video becomes insanely tedious.
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A nice animation app
It’s a nice animation app with many features. I’ve been using it to animated for over a year. It’s very easy to figure out, and I believe I haven’t explored it entirely yet. One of my biggest complaints is how easily the app crashes. It wasn’t really that big of an issue as it only would remove a frame or two once I rebooted it. Along with that issue it does remind you to create backups in case this happens. Although, there was an incident today. When I was animating, I was reminded to back up my work as usual. I was very proud of my work and had a lot done. I was going to finish up the frame I was working on until I made a mistake. I pressed undo, and it wasn’t working right. It undid the entire frame. I pressed redo, and then over half of my work was deleted. I went back and forth between redo and undo. Unfortunately my work had been deleted. I believe this is partially my fault, but this had never happened to me until today. With that, I would recommend this app, but just be careful.
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I love it
Fun and easy to use
Love it
It’s cool and very fun and easy to use👍🥹
A few flaws
I am currently using this app for my animated show and have loved it, it’s layout especially for frames and the onion skinning are superb and make learning fun. The other features like the transformation layer are a little more finicky and are honestly quite a headache to deal with (especially when making moving backgrounds or simple camera tilts). Another problem are the brushes the ones given are quite good but have a few flaws, for example the smooth pencil which works well until it’s being used for zoomed out shots where it’s becomes streaky and unreadable, additionally the lack of clipping mask makes coloring and shadows a much harder process to the point I’ve resorted to using a different app for the whole cleanup process. I love this app and have a lot of hope for it, I want to use it for everything and hope it gets these, I guess “quality of life” features soon
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