Yes I am running XP...and wow, so this isn't that bad of a video card huh? Well, I guess I'm left with the conclusion that it's either a corrupted file or a poor approach to rigging a character. Thanks again...for now, I'll just have to compare AS to toon boom as well as reconstruct a bran new chara...

A bit of an update: I found something that has helped a bit. The setting on my video card was apparantly set to the highest quality. After I adjusted a few options to change it to highest performance, it was able to animate a few extra characters before getting as bad as it used to. I have a Nvidia ...

I used to think switch layers were easier as well...however there's something to consider. You can not move a layer front to back in 3D space using the Z axis if that layer is inside a switch layer. So just be careful how you construct things that may need to overlap. For instance, if you wanted you...

My characters do have a lot of layers (just my hand switch layers take up 40 or 50) and I've had as many as 12 characters all in the same scene without anything slowing down (so figure at least 800-1000 layers there) and there were no slow down issues but, as ST says, I was using vector layers and ...

You know, that's an excellent suggestion about the lip sync. I use switch layers for eyes, eyebrows, mouth...ect. Do you think it's possible to actually keep my entire head on a seperate file, animate all facial expressions in that seperate file, and then import it to the actual scene, add it to fra...

I'm glad I got Vern. You're like a professor when it comes to these forums. lol I just want to say, I'm not complaining about moho. I also asked if it was my approach that was wrong. And I believe you if you say that it is indeed a poor approach. So how else should I be setting up a cut-out style ch...

Hello all, I finally signed up so that I can begin this discussion in greater detail than I've seen in the prior posts. We all know that AS slows down the audio to stay in sync. We also know many tips and techniques on how to improve this. But there's something I can't understand when I read everyon...