Simple Animator had an issue where if you wanted to do something that happened repeatedly it was cumbersome. Imagine a bird flapping it’s wings with 3 states (frames). You’d have to repeatedly place down those 3 flapping wings in the timeline over and over. This was really slow and error prone. So we added the sequencer! In the actor editor you can create sequences of states that repeat over and over. Placing a sequence keyframe on the timeline meant that the keyframes would automatically rotate for you!

Small update to the simple animator. If you’re using a pressure sensitive screen or stylus you’ll have varied line thickness in the actor editor! I’ve found it gives your lines a much more organic feel. You can try it out now in the Actor Editor, click Draw an Actor to bring up the drawing canvas. This works with iPads with stylus too!

The simple animator workflow up to this point has always meant you had to import your images into the application. There’s a bunch of powerful applications out there for drawing and image editing so we felt it was best if we left that part of creating your assets outside of the application. BUT - we always wished we could do little doodles in the Simple Animator without having to rely on outside applications. And that’s exactly what you can do now! You can draw your own actors (and mouthshapes) right in the simple animator. You don’t have to leave to an external application to do your simple drawing and editing! Click on “Draw an Actor” in the actor studio to check it out!.

For the longest time, the blabberize blog wasn’t given some love. It’s been overhauled and ready for us to write stuff. We’re going to be bringing you all the news and thought peices related to the blabber-verse!

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