The studio knows what it drew
Pages stop claiming to be drawing when they are waiting for you, a redraw keeps the viewpoint you picked, and every refund says which piece of work it is giving the credits back for.
What shipped. Fifteen changes, and most of them are the studio being straight with you about what it has actually done.
- A page waiting on you no longer says it is drawing. When a page is held because it needs your choice, the grid says so instead of showing the spinner it was showing before. And if you keep a page whose reference art has changed since it was drawn, the card tells you it has gone stale — including after it leaves review, which is exactly when you stopped being able to see it.
- A redraw keeps the viewpoint you picked. If you had pinned a page to a camera angle, redrawing it used to quietly start over from a different one. It now carries your angle through. A page set in two places no longer hands the reference slot to whichever place happened to sort first alphabetically, and if a page ends up with no saved angle, Inky will tell you why rather than leaving you guessing.
- Refunds say what they are for. A refund for a promo kit, an export or a style read used to appear on every series you own, because it had no idea which piece of work it belonged to. Each one now names the job it is giving credits back for, and shows up on the series it actually came from.
- Inky stops calling a missing drawing finished. If a reference sheet has artwork saved but the image will not load, Inky used to count it as drawn and move on. It now says the drawing is not loading, and offers to look for it again — free, because you already paid for it — instead of quietly suggesting you draw it a second time.
- The Export card tells you the real download window. It said "a week" no matter how long files are actually kept. It now quotes the window that is genuinely configured.
- Series pages load faster. The showcase on a series page was asking the database to work out each preview page's position one at a time. It now does it in one go.
- Inky answers sooner when the queue is busy. Inky's turns had been sharing a single worker with image generation, mail and everything else, so a busy moment meant waiting behind it. They now have their own lane.
Why it matters. Every one of these was the studio showing you something that was not quite true — a spinner for a page that was waiting, a refund with no home, a sheet counted as drawn when its picture was gone. None of them lost your work, but all of them cost you the thing that matters most while you are making something: knowing where you actually stand.
How to use it. Nothing to turn on. Open a chapter in Creator Studio and the page grid, the redraw options and the credit history all read the way they should have.