Look guys, I mean I appreciate the earlier constructive comments but if you're not going to add anymore more to this thread can you please go somewhere else......grrrr

good to see everyone have almost the same views as me. Here are some negatives about AS..... 1. Its such a pain to switch back and forth from my fav graphics package to AS. Please improve the drawing tools. 2. What gets me is the tutorial. When I try to find something more specific it takes me ages ...

....the drawing tools are so crap The biggest downer that AS I find, is that it's trying to be as individualistic as possible but because it's so specialistic all the conventional tools which the average joe is use to such as familiar shortcuts such as crtl c etc.... really makes this software diffi...

Yes I know that bones only work with vectors and not images but the chair is just as a background layer and is not part of the bone animation. Nevermind .... I was playing around with AS today and now all is good. I can see my chair in flash. Weird. So all I had to do is restart AS??? A bug? Thanks ...

Hi guys, I have an small animation clip and I exported it to swf. I have two layers, Lenny a premade character that comes with AS and I made a PNG pic of a chair. The animation is about Lenny sitting on the chair. However when I export the swf and playback, the chair is missing!? AVI and QUICKTIME e...

Hi myles,

Thank you for the detailed reply. Now all is clear.

I really thought that I could skip disembling a character with this program but I guess it was just too good to be true!

Still it still has good points compared to another I was looking at (toonboom).

Thanks again

Hi guys, the manual is very basic and not very descriptive and this question comes from a beginner so please be patient. It doesn't tell you the steps in importing character artwork into the program and manipulating the characters. Sure I understand about bones and how they affect the character and ...