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Animation Desk Changelog

What's new in Animation Desk 1.18.2.0

Apr 23, 2022
  • Hotfix! Fixed the problems in color palettes, including:
  • Unable to scroll the color palette list
  • Unable to save the correct color after extracting colors from a photo.

New in Animation Desk 1.18.1.0 (Apr 8, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Horizontal and vertical flip added in the selection tool
  • Users can enable or disable the touch screen manually
  • Alpha lock added. Draw within an area that's fill with pixels.
  • New hotkey! While making a selection, press SHIFT to draw a rectangle shape
  • New hotkey! While resizing a selected area, press SHIFT to resize under the same aspect ratio
  • New hotkey! While making a selection, users can tap the ARROW keys to move the selection outline, press CONTROL at the same time to move 10px per tap.
  • Bug and Improvements:
  • Improving the responsive design for narrow screen view
  • Fixed the bug that disables drawing in a layer when a layer is hidden
  • Fixed the crashes when dragging, merging, or deleting a layer
  • Improve the in-app tutorial and visual hints
  • Now you can share color palettes across different projects.
  • Adding new options in the audio clip context menu

New in Animation Desk 1.17.1.0 (Dec 13, 2021)

  • Setting menu optimized:
  • Setting menu re-layout
  • Setup workplace with much flexibility.
  • Change onion skin opacity
  • New mouse action supported:
  • Alt + mouse wheel: move the canvas horizontally
  • Ctrl + mouse wheel: zoom
  • Ctrl + left-click: drag the canvas

New in Animation Desk 1.16.2.0 (Oct 11, 2021)

  • New Features :
  • The app now supports Russian!
  • Some frequently used features are included in the right-click menu (the context menu)
  • Improvements:
  • Preview the locked features before starting the free trial
  • Color palettes UX refined
  • Indicate the transparent background with transparent grids
  • Other optimization for the frames timeline and frame viewers

New in Animation Desk 1.15.3.0 (Sep 11, 2021)

  • Make animation quicker! Drag and drop different materials in the animations:
  • Drag and drop in texts
  • Drag and drop in images
  • Drag and drop in videos
  • Drag frame thumbnail to the canvas as an image
  • Drag and drop to save frames in your device folders.
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Fix the bug that causes the brush tool to disappear
  • Fix an error in onion skin display
  • Enable brush to be reset to its default value
  • Enable user to reuse the file name of a deleted sequence

New in Animation Desk 1.14.1.0 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • Shape selection supported
  • Option for copying or cutting off a full canvas added
  • Drawing grid supported
  • Decide how the work area looks like. Now you can move the layer panel and timeline to the corners

New in Animation Desk 1.11.0.0 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • Captions - Now you can add captions and dialogues to your animation.
  • Layer Merger - Merge multiple layers!
  • Brush Management - You can add/delete any customized brushes

New in Animation Desk 1.10.0.0 (Feb 3, 2021)

  • Many have been requesting more brushes- here they are! Now you can customize brushes in Animation Desk! Import brush patterns and create the brushes you need for your creative work! Moreover, you make animation on a live-action video by importing videos to a layer. Give us a thumbup if you like the new update.

New in Animation Desk 1.8.0.0 (Dec 29, 2020)

  • Hello artists! Here are some updates,
  • 1:1 aspect ratio added
  • Layer opacity added
  • Hotkey guidelines, yay!

New in Animation Desk 1.7.0.0 (Nov 26, 2020)

  • Hello,
  • We redesigned the editing interface to give out more workspace. We also improved the brush effects. Please give them a try!
  • A new color palette feature is added. Now you can save your favorite colors in different palettes. Animation Desk can analyze the color scheme of images and build color palettes for you.

New in Animation Desk 1.6.0.0 (Jul 30, 2020)

  • New brushes and ruler sets are here
  • We add the spray cane, the pattern brush, the dodge tool, and the burn tool in this new update. The ruler sets include a quadrilateral, a triangle, a protractor, and a straight line.
  • Let’s create some awesome animations together!

New in Animation Desk 1.5.6110.0 (Jun 16, 2020)

  • Now you can undo/redo an action when editing soundtracks
  • We optimized the Kdan Cloud log-in process
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Animation Desk 1.5.2040.0 (Feb 6, 2020)

  • Color palette is back to work
  • F6 hotkey now works too
  • We change a way of calculating frames in Surface Dial Wheel. Now it shows the number of total frames, including the repeated ones, in a sequence
  • We fixed the annoying hide/show brush panels
  • UI improvement

New in Animation Desk 1.5.1121.0 (Nov 22, 2019)

  • Introducing the multi-soundtrack feature, which supports:
  • Multiple soundtracks in one animation clip, including in-app recording
  • Fade in and fade out settings
  • Trim and edit audio tracks
  • Drag and move to reposition audio tracks
  • Audio waveform display
  • Matching animation clip timeline display
  • Save audio settings for export later

New in Animation Desk 1.5.1025.0 (Oct 28, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish interface support.
  • Now you can set your language preference in the app settings.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed the error occurred when playing a sequence with repeated frames.
  • Fixed the layer naming error when a frame or a sequence is copied.

New in Animation Desk 1.4.1024.0 (Oct 29, 2018)

  • A couple of improvements:
  • Fixed the issue of shortcut conflict when typing description in the Storyboard.
  • Fixed the issue where some users could not move the canvas with two fingers on touchscreen.

New in Animation Desk 1.4.1017.0 (Oct 18, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • Cut and paste tool is now available.
  • Improvement: Surface Dial interface optimization.

New in Animation Desk 1.4.1009.0 (Oct 18, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Surface Dial support upgraded! Now you can put the Dial directly on the screen while you are animating.
  • Now you can export sequences and storyboards into PNG files.
  • Improvement: Fixed display problem on some of the exported videos

New in Animation Desk 1.4.0.0 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • Introducing the new animated storyboard:
  • Import multiple animated sequences (which we used to call "projects") into the new storyboard to form your animation more efficiently.
  • Manage and edit the collection of sequences that forms your animation, add comments, and make quick adjustments with ease.

New in Animation Desk 1.3.705 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • A couple of improvements:
  • We've added keyboard short cuts. For the list of short cuts, please see our FAQ.
  • Brush pattern optimization.
  • Other bug fixes and optimization.

New in Animation Desk 1.3 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Surface Dial support has come to Animation Desk!
  • Support import multiple images at once.
  • Optimization:
  • Name your project right when you create it.
  • Export your video and open it in one click. No more looking for the video.
  • Other bug fixes and optimization.

New in Animation Desk 1.2.5 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURE:
  • Add sound to your animation projects: also support fade in and fade out!

New in Animation Desk 1.2.2 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • New ways to connect to your Kdan ID.
  • Besides email and Facebook, we now support:
  • Google
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

New in Animation Desk 1.2.0 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • Now you can access to our Knowledge Base directly from the navigation bar!

New in Animation Desk 1.1.0.0 (Feb 21, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • Now you can start your project with video
  • Rotoscoping is available!
  • More layers: Yes, we now support 5 layers!
  • Color adjustment optimization: Edit colors and preview them in the color lineup

New in Animation Desk 1.0.1120 (Dec 14, 2017)

  • A couple of fixes in this update:
  • Fixed the error on background layer when export project as GIF and video
  • Fixed the issue where imported images did not show up in the correct layer when starting a new project with image
  • Fixed the issue where hidden layers still showed up in exported video
  • Online conversion and cloud syncing optimization
  • Other bug fixes and optimization

New in Animation Desk 1.0.1106 (Dec 14, 2017)

  • Optimized the way export progress is displayed. Also added the option to "Cancel" to your export in progress.
  • Optimized project size display.
  • Fixed the issue where brushes are not correctly displayed on some devices.
  • Fixed the error when sharing projects.
  • Having trouble navigate Animation Desk? Access our Knowledge Base to learn a trick or two. Go to Settings > Support > Knowledge Base