I Misspoke when I said Flinstones was 'cutout' I did mean 'Limited Animation'-- Flintstones would have a cell for the torso and head and separate cells for mouth elements (for example) So in a single scene with say Fred talking- part of the drawing was 'held'(not moving-using only ONE drawing)while ...

Thanks--it worked-!- I wasn't using the 'Applied Styles' pulldowns

Although there are 2 of them( menu pulldowns)-- and the first one(seems) has no effect --but when choosing the second pull-down and selecting object I can use the new style

Thanks

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I'm having difficulty too-not with filling a shape- but setting a style to reuse If I choose new style it goes to default white and black stroke-- I type a style name and change colors lets say 'apple' red fill and brown stroke Selcting this item(style menu) always correctly goes to the chosen color...

There are 2 ways to make 2D animation on a computer--if you draw a figure-lets say a talking duck-- you can split the character into sections and rig them up like a marionette-- and then you can create walk cycles, etc using rotation, scale of the sections-- then make the whole character move from l...