I only had a few days to make this for Stomper in London. (a monthly animation and shorts festival) I'd love to hear your thoughts!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i7NSWWGqgs


Thanks!

Poz

here's what I mean by jaggies...

I have a character with a long sort of prehensile tail. Not sure what you mean about the "jaggies" at the shape joins but I don't have that problem. Another trick to use would be a thick stroke for the tail instead of shapes. Originally I had shapes for the tail but went with a thick stro...

Use region binding and separate the parts in frame zero, then employ the bone offset tool. It's in the bone tutorial.

Hey smart people! I've been messing around with my character's short prehensile tail all day trying different bone structures. I have some problems. First, in order that the tail be able to fold behind itself I've broken it into sections of fill. Unfortunately when my tail bends I now have weird jag...

I'm afraid that's just what the image textures do. Basically if you wanted to turn the texture within a vector shape, you'd have to rotate the whole thing by bone and then rework you points to fit what you had. You'd probably be better off masking an image layer. aww darn. I was hoping there was so...

Attach your Image to a Bone-Layer and animate the Bone. Cheers Nolan Thanks for getting back to me Nolan. That's very confusing! My head has a bone controlling it, yet the image texture (hair) moves around as my character's heat turns. I'm using the image textures you can load though the style pane...

Does anyone know how to keep image textures from sliding around the shape as it moves? Is there a menu I'm missing somewhere? Thanks for any help!!

Poz

When I bend my character's body with a "dress" fabric applied to it as an image texture, the texture slips around inside the shape as the character moves. The image seems to want to remain "upright". When I use the texture tutorial (copy a render to clipboard, make the texture in...

Hello Forum Friends! I have created a character, and written and storyboarded a first episode of a series I will launch this year. I have been working with anime studio to animate the first episode, but I will need help if I am to produce multiple episodes in time to launch, and market merchandise f...

I am only guessing at the problem. It would help to see a sample. What I think you mean is blending the "shading" of each layer so there isn't a hard edge correct? If so what I do is add shapes... carefully and strategically... to the seam areas. these shapes have a soft edge to overlap t...

I've got a character rigged with different parts on different layers and have applied a bunch of layer effects to create a sort of mock 3D look. I love the look so far, but I'm wondering if there's a way to blend the seams together better? Ideally, I'd like to change part of the opacity of the layer...

Thanks guys!

Dark. Looks like a good interpretation. I was a bit concerened at the beginning that you were going to take a very literal line, but it wasn't like that at all! If you have no experience with animatiion, I'd say it would be worth hooking up with someone. The musical "event" of the song ha...

I'd say, so far so good! Can you tell me how you incorporate storyboards into AS? Do you have to redraw your characters for every scene, or do you find a way to use pre-existing ones, and modify them? General stuff, like that, because me and my friend are getting into animation, and though we can m...