Congratulations on finishing the Garfield title. Also, I'll check out the tool and send some feedback your way. Good to see your still at it.

Thanks! It was a fun title to work on. Hope you find the tool interesting, I'm really looking forward to getting feedback to improve it.

Yep, still at it, just a little less public :)

The tool is a pretty good start. To be honest it wasn't extremely intuitive to use as for some reason my first idea was to be able to setup the image first and then create a frame from that, instead of setting up the frame and then adding an image, perhaps having either approach be acceptable maybe better, or maybe I just think weird.

Another thing was the scaling of the form as well as the buttons and image areas,
they were simply too big for my 1280X1024 display and I couldn't really resize the app where I felt comfortable with it, not really a big issue, but for a tool such as this I would probably want to be able to make it take up only a portion of the screen. You're probably aware of that one though, but it simply made it a little awkward to use.

Also along the same lines, I noticed that the edit boxes for the x and y translation don't reflect the actual location of the images, it's probably that you just haven't added that functionality yet, but once you do that will be a great benefit.

I'd also like to see a layers type of control where you can select which image you want to be active and have the focus in the animation area, this way you don't have to worry about accidentally clicking on the screen and making duplicate images. Being able to remove images from the frame would help with this as well.

Access to more variables such as transparency and render color in the editor interface would also be great. A play feature for instant viewing of the animations would really help bring this tool together.

You've got a great start, this is pretty similar to the animation tools I'm designing as well, you actually made more progress on your implementation though, and it really looks great so far.

Interesting also to see that you did make the switch from MFC to C# for your tools. How was the transition for you?