
I use Macs but I have an older Mac Mini that I could run Animate Pro 3 on even though it did not meet the minimum requirements. When you eventually replace this system, sooner than later, you will not have wasted time. You can learn a lot just doing small tests, experiments and having the User Guide and software in front of you. If you can get beyond this strange drawing problem and the black scenes you might have the opportunity to do a lot more experimenting and learning on that system even though it is under-powered.

It is probably enough to start learning with but you will eventually run into problems if you have not already. The 1647MB probably represents how much the card can draw from the 3.47GB of shared system RAM so you are not meeting the minimum requirements. The amount of RAM is a potential problem. That is a panel that sits like a backdrop to your drawings. Something to help gather knowledge to figure out what is going on with your situation: Try adding a Colour Card to a scene and rendering it. If you never upgraded the graphics card or added RAM, 5 years in a home computer is old because they generally are not that robust and newer software is increasingly more demanding on resources. In drawing view it displays the first frame only when play is pushed, though I believe this is to be expected. The work screen also goes black when play is pushed, rather than displaying the animation of the frames when in camera view. Any kind of change is only visible once the mouse button is released. I’m using Windows 7, 64-bit, with an Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset.Įdit: This seems to be happening with most tools, not just the pencil and brush.

Other drawing and editing programs on this computer such as Adobe Photoshop work fine. Searching up the issue hasn’t been helpful as most posts are from years ago and their fixes refer to menus and options which I can’t find: possibly which have been moved or renamed since.

The lines I draw are invisible until I release the mouse button or lift the pen from the tablet, making them incredibly frustrating and almost unusable for any actual drawing. On both a mouse and graphics tablet (wacom Intuos) the pencil and brush tools aren’t working as they should. I’m a student who just recently started the trial period for Toon Boom Harmony Essentials, and am having issues with the basic tools.
