Here are some guidelines to make your animation construction more successful.

• At this point the only elements that are animated are brushes.
• Future enhancements may include filter effects, tool usage and layer fades across multiple pages.
• Make use of the Page Up and Page Down keys to quickly switch frames. They auto repeat as well.
• It is recommended that you start an animation in a new book at page 1.
• Make use of the Page Explorer to help manage your frames for your animation.
• It is recommended that page width be set to multiples of 8 since that is required for many codecs when saving to AVI. GIFs don't have that restriction.
• The animated GIF saving is not optimized and will record each frame completely. The can result in large file sizes.
• Current limit on the length of an animation is 1000 frames.
• If planning to record to GIF it is recommended to stay at 10 frames per second or less.
• When using particle brushes such as those found in the Pro Smoke and Gases ArtSet setting the flow rate to match your frames per seconds will give more controlled results.