Why I bought Affinity Designer

[Gochris]

Hello!

I am an independent animator, a one person studio. I am not a normal Affinity user. 

Here's why I bought Affinity Designer:
Low cost
it's not an Adobe product
ease of use
good company produced training on YouTube
the Spotlight site is really, really terrific - I am not nearly as clever as the artists you feature, which is why I love
to read about how those real pros use Affinity products

But the main reason I bought Affinity Designer:
the CONTENT STORE. 

If your sales and marketing people ever wonder whether it was worth it to put that marketplace together, the answer is yes.
I imagine it is driving sales for you. Support it in any way you can. 

Thanks, 
Chris Webb

PS: There is room in the market for a low cost, vector based animation program. Adobe has ruined Flash, and if I were a 14 year old
and wanted to get into drawing 2D animation, currently there is not a vector based starter product out there. Everyone is forced to
starting with a 3D freeware product called Blender. Like all 3D graphics products, learning Blender from scratch takes a lot of work.
And most of that work has nothing to do with drawing stuff and seeing it move. 

Blender is not a 2D animation product, and doesn't appeal to the millions of teenagers who are doodling in notebooks at this very moment.
there's a real market out there for teenaged and young adult animators. Since Designer can already do 60% of what a computer
animation program needs to do, I thought you might want to look into it.       

[Alfred]

10 hours ago, Gochris said:

currently there is not a vector based starter product out there

Take a look at Moho Debut.

Disclaimer: I have no connection with the company. I’m just a light user of an older version of the product (Anime Studio).

[Gochris]

I have been using Moho and Anime Studio since Moho 1.1. Moho may be a vector product, but it has never been a program dedicated to drawing animation frame by frame. Yes, you can draw with Moho, and you can animate with Moho, but it is a convoluted process. Now that Moho's ownership has reverted back to the original developer, the company will have a hard time staying afloat.   

Krita, Clip Studio. Photoshop, TVPaint, what have you - all of them are raster based. Synfig, Flash and Toon Boom
Harmony are vector based. but Flash is an Adobe Product that has not been updated for years and 
Harmony is too expensive for the teenage and young adult market. Synfig is ancient, and has never been a quality product. 

As I wrote, there's an opportunity there for a company that already makes a vector based drawing program.    

Edited July 23, 2021 by Gochris