Huarachon Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 I've been planning to purchase both Affinity Designer & Affinity Photo as I move away from Adobe, but have had a few other spending priorities before doing so. I just purchased Reallusion's CrazyTalk Animator 2 Pipeline (Mac Version) today, and see they have a white sheet on using Serif's DrawPlus for custom character creation (http://manual.reallusion.com/CrazyTalk_Animator_2/ENU/Whitepaper_Drawplus/default.asp). I'm wondering if I will be able to use Affinity Designer to accomplish the same tasks. If not, my only other option is apparently Flash. I have CS4, but am trying to transition away from Adobe Products. I'd hate to implement a workflow with a product I want to abandon if I can use Affinity! I'd greatly appreciate the feedback, especially since it will help me prioritize purchases. If I can use Affinity Designer to create CrazyTalk characters, I will end up buying Affinity much sooner than anticipated. PS. I see you are working on an Affinity Publish (a great replacement for InDesign)...looking forward to that too!! I noticed Serif does have some video related apps. Do you plan on developing Affinity video apps? It seems Apple is deprioritizing Final Cut and Motion since they removed them from the menu system on the Apple site and haven't updated recently. If you make apps that can replace Premiere/FinalCut, AfterEffects/Motion, you've got my money!!! ANouaaman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted December 29, 2015 Staff Share Posted December 29, 2015 Hi Huarachon, Welcome to the Forums :) It wouldn't be possible to use the instructions you provided with Affinity I'm afraid. They have a lot of steps that requires features specific to DrawPlus only you also wouldn't be able to open the file they provide you with at the start of the tutorial. We don't have any plans to make a video editing app at the moment but it certainly is something we might consider in the future :) C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huarachon Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 Callum, I have a follow-up question to the above. After your initial response, I had been resigned to using Flash CS4 that I already have. However, after a failing hard drive on my MacBook Pro, I bought a Mac Mini. I'll replace the laptop hard drive and do a clean OS X install. Problem is I've now discovered El Capitan won't allow me to install my old CS4 suite due to handling of permissions, etc. and many report older CS version apps not working under El Capitan. I refuse to buy a CC subscription, so now my only solution for creating CrazyTalk Animator assets is to run them through DrawPlus on a BootCamp partition (which I have yet to purchase). However, I see myself using Affinity as my primary toolset. How well would an Affinity to DrawPlus workflow work for this situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 I'm also looking at buying Designer and would love to see the template for Crazy Talk Animator pipeline. Who could we bug to get that implemented? I think it would be great to see you smaller companies working together and long term it could steal some serious market share from Adobe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityAppMan Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Affinity Designer and CrazyTalk Mary-Tools 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANouaaman Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 On 12/25/2015 at 3:20 AM, Huarachon said: I've been planning to purchase both Affinity Designer & Affinity Photo as I move away from Adobe, but have had a few other spending priorities before doing so. I just purchased Reallusion's CrazyTalk Animator 2 Pipeline (Mac Version) today, and see they have a white sheet on using Serif's DrawPlus for custom character creation (http://manual.reallusion.com/CrazyTalk_Animator_2/ENU/Whitepaper_Drawplus/default.asp). I'm wondering if I will be able to use Affinity Designer to accomplish the same tasks. If not, my only other option is apparently Flash. I have CS4, but am trying to transition away from Adobe Products. I'd hate to implement a workflow with a product I want to abandon if I can use Affinity! I'd greatly appreciate the feedback, especially since it will help me prioritize purchases. If I can use Affinity Designer to create CrazyTalk characters, I will end up buying Affinity much sooner than anticipated. PS. I see you are working on an Affinity Publish (a great replacement for InDesign)...looking forward to that too!! I noticed Serif does have some video related apps. Do you plan on developing Affinity video apps? It seems Apple is deprioritizing Final Cut and Motion since they removed them from the menu system on the Apple site and haven't updated recently. If you make apps that can replace Premiere/FinalCut, AfterEffects/Motion, you've got my money!!! If i were you i will still use Adobe products, they are the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huarachon Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 20 hours ago, ANouaaman said: If i were you i will still use Adobe products, they are the best That post was years ago. I gave up on Affinity long ago. I hated the subscription model, but gave in, and stayed with Adobe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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