but you CAN animate layer order, so if you put the shapes you want to reorder in their own layers you have no problems (put the layers inside a group or bone layer and in its properties select 'enable animated layer order' (or whatever it's called) :) I'm trying to work out a similar thing, i know ...

The transform layer option doesn't seem to be working, whenever I try and transform a bone layer it does not work, instead of moving with the mouse, a channel on frame 1 appears, when I delete that channel it moves to the position I was trying to get it into. It seems to be happening with any layer ...

slowtiger wrote:Think of nested groups like this:

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group 1
- mask 1
- group 2
- - mask 2

Thank you so much, this has been a huge help, i wouldn't have thought of that

Hello :) I'm having some trouble creating a mask within a mask,I have a group layer which is masked for the whole body, but to get that to work my eye mask doesn't work any more ( the pupils go outside the eyeballs) but my eyes do disappear when they go outside the body. I'm sorry I've been quite va...