I would love to see some integration between Affinity products and Crazytalk Animator.  I'm convinced that it would benefit both companies.  I own Flash CS5 so I can alter the Buddy templates, but would love to ditch Adobe totally.

How about it guys?

Moving away from Flash would be a huge mistake on th epart of Reallusion.

1. It's the standard for Flash format.
2. its the easiest to learn and use.
3. Its actually the cheapest optiuon. At $20/mo flash itself is actually the cheapest option out there.

The only other real option that RL has is to create built in drawing and painting tools inside of the software itself. Based on history, this usually comes with an additional $200 - $300 pricetag. I doubt RL is ready to jump into that area. based on history also this, almsot always results in poorly designed tools with incredibly crappy workflows.

If your gonna spend an extra $300 anyway, just spend it on flash wihich is already the superior tool to use anyway.



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I just installed the Windows Beta of Affinity and from what I've seen so far is that it will not open DrawPlus or Flash files (i.e. the DP template) and  does not export into SWF format.
Just from that alone, Affinity, the "replacement" for DrawPlus, is a bust for using with CTA.
I don't know what formats the new CTA3 will use for importing images and character templates but hopefully it is something other than SWF (which is an older format) since it seems that Adobe will be the only one supporting it.

Jeff



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SWF is an open format created by Macromedia. They realeased the SDK a long tinme ago and any company is able to use the format and create their own products.

Personally Im ok with whatever format as long as the development tools are up to par. but frankly there really isant anything thats really up to par outside of photoshop, illustrator and Flash.

Clips Studio/ manga studio shows a bit of promise but nothing on the side of scripting support .



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>>> be sure to check out http://toontitan.com for professional grade assets, templates, and custom tools for Cartoon Animator and more.

Clips Studio/ manga studio shows a bit of promise but nothing on the side of scripting support .

That is pixelbased not vector

2. its the easiest to learn and use
3. Its actually the cheapest optiuon. At $20/mo flash itself is actually the cheapest option out there. CTA 3 should be open to all 2D programs and many formats 
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Flash is not for me the best easiest or cheapest Application . For me personally it is xara . The only reason for Flash to use is the layering for CTA and actually that should be a function in CTA itself
That means not matter where I draw and which vector format I use (pdf, ai. eps . svg . swf...) . Import as Sheet and adjust all in CTA 3 .

Afinity Designer seems to me a stripped Version from DWplus . I'm not very impressed . So many feature are not included. Also NO SWF .  But funny to see,   how can change a grey GUI the minds. 


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xara, Illustrator,  and Anime Studio have SWF too, but all  are useless if  only Flash and Draw Plus can do the Layer for CTA X



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I was hoping this was an answer to my post about the Sketchup file causing an error message when I try and load it into 3DExchange.
Then the entire site closes.

 I'm not very impressed 
Affinity Designer is a lot of hype and very little meat. DrawPlus is far superior to Affinity Designer and Serif is not budging on making improvements such as UI color or SWF export. Corel and Adobe had to learn about dark black UI's being hard on people of age and use in other types of environments. (I use iC 5.5 for this same reason.)




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Tutor could you please help me with the problem I posted.

Anything I make in Sketchup will not load in 3DExchange and it just shuts the program down when I try to load it.

I thought maybe the file was too big but I made a simple box and got the same results.

The stuff in the 3D warehouse loads with no problem. It seems it is just the stuff I make.