A little background information might help any other readers of this link. Now in my sixties, I am returning to animation after a break of about 30 years. I began making my own 3 -8 minute cine films back in 1972 using hand-drawn and cut-out images on a home-made peg-bar lightbox. I even made my own...

The current tutorials aren't meant for reference, but rather for doing what is mentioned in the tutorial, to get a feel for the program. The tutorial doesn't learn you how to animate (nor should it) or how to produce an animation. I think most of us learn to master the program by just using it for ...

Please don't take this as a criticism of AS Pro - it clearly is a great tool for vector animation - with enormous commercial potential. But the manual is - well - infuriating and frustrating. I don't doubt that almost everything there is to know about AS is in there somewhere - but locating specific...

Hi, I am a new AS user (1 week) and came across the same difficulty. I was using PhotoShop 7 which doesn't seem to have a 'Scripts' folder (at least my version didn't). When I upgraded to PhotoShop CS2 it worked perfectly and exported the PS layers into a Anime file ready to use. Brilliant. I don't ...

Have just located the answer to my question in the 'Tips & Techniques' Forum.

So it's back to the old techniques of splicing scenes together (digitally of course) using video editing software.

Sorry to have wasted your time.

Ray

I have returned to animation after a break of 25 years by purchasing Anime Studio Pro. For many years my hobby was peg bar animation, I even constructed my own cine rostrum and light table. I have settled into digital cut out animation quite naturally and have now worked my way through the basics of...