Acetate!

Ok so I’m not huge on reviewing things, but as an animator who is constantly trying to use new tools to help speed up and make my animation better I had to give news to you Mac OSX users. I have started using it as of last week because I finally updated to snow leopard, in wait of Lion coming out. So I have used other tools that made it so difficult to go back and fourth between maya and the tool or reference and the tool that I just found myself not using it that often. Well after finding this one and seeing that it came from an animator I had to try it out and boy was I happy. I love that fact that you can make the tool full screen partial screen or any shape you want. This has made it a breeze with maya or quicktime because I can put the draw over space right over where I need it to be and can click on both maya window and the acetate window to mark up. I love the dot tool and being able to follow my arcs and making them whatever color size anything I want. It has been a little buggie but nothing too bad although I hope it gets fixed and I will continue to leave feedback and email the developer… I paid for it so I can now . This software is free but I hope that people start donating to help make the software better! I wanted to try it out before donating but that wait was quickly figured out after playing with this awesome software and I hope you all (Well those Mac OSX users out there) get in and use it and give feedback to make this tool and workflow better for us animators. Check out the links below. I also saw a post of a future Windows software in the works, so hopefully that happens.

http://stripysock.com/

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Acetate.shtml