PuppetPad

PuppetPad 1.9 is here, and your puppets tell a story, scene by scene. STORYBOARD Turn your layers or groups into scenes. Select them, make a storyboard, and it becomes a block on its own line of the timeline, like a clip in a video editor. Drag the blocks to put the scenes in order. Pull either end of a block to stretch or squeeze the scene: everything inside follows in proportion, so a 2 second animation pulled to 3 seconds plays slower instead of being cut. There is also a speed slider from 0.25x to 4x, Reverse and Duplicate. Layers you leave out, like the background, stay in every scene. Play loops the scene you picked, or runs all your scenes one after the other, and Export joins one or several storyboards in a single file, with the sound cut along. TIMELINE MARKERS Tap the thin strip above the ruler to drop an orange marker, tap it to send the playhead there, drag it to move it or off the strip to delete it. They are only guides and change nothing in your animation. With Snap on, the playhead, your keyframes and the storyboard blocks stick to them. WHATSAPP STICKERS Making animated stickers has a much better flow now. Each sticker goes into a gallery in the new Stickers tab, and when a gallery reaches three you send the whole pack to WhatsApp right from the Export window, all animated. ALSO IN THIS VERSION A stop button next to Play goes back to the start and deselects everything. Storyboards fold away with an arrow, like groups. A layer follows the folder it joins. Maximum effort!