Hi. I'm having to study some of your answers as this method is new to me. I did look for key frames in the pupils layer. There aren't any there. So that's not interrupting things. I like the idea of manually moving pupils, brows etc, but can't see how to keep them from being in the action. Here's my...

I went too far without figuring it out so now it's impossible to find what I did. But I think it IS something to do with cross orders from actions. So for now, I just figured out a work around that's okay. I now ran into another phenomena. I've got a face turn all worked out in an action. I put the ...

Thanks, Greenlaw. I'll be looking into those suggestions. Right now there's only one action. But I did go through a lot of trials to get to that point. So maybe there's a smart bone that has no action? Won't know till I look through everything. Thanks for the suggestions. BTW, still not getting noti...

UPDATE: I finally got it working. Still have several mysteries, though. 1. Why does the character disappear when I create the action? 2. Why does the smart dial and character change position when creating the action. Also, when creating the head looking down position, I thought I could move all the ...

Hi, I'm new to actions but I'm following several tutorials and it's not doing what it's supposed to The first problem (and that's all I'll mention for now) is that after I Make a smart dial, when I click on create an action, everything disappears. I do get a new timeline but it's maroon and not blue...

We're probably all a bit crazy.
But let's call it "dedicated."

I just got it working - with a little elbow greese. I used this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjdB0AiV I tried it yesterday but it would mask something but not all of the character. Then I tried "add to mask" on all the layers of the character and it worked! I need more understa...

Hi. I've got a flat screen TV shown from the side so that all you see of it is a thin vertical rectangle which is the side of the screen. I'm trying to get a TV anchorman to come out of the screen. So basically, he needs to be invisible in the back of the TV and appear as he comes out. I was hoping ...

For some reason I'm not getting notified when there's a response. So I'm late to respond. Anyway, I just redid it and got it to work. It's been a while since I posted this question so I'm not sure exactly what I did. But once it worked I moved on to other problems. Trying to work as fast as I can. W...

I'm doing a little more experimenting.

I'll get back here this weekend and see if I can figure it out.

Hi.

Right now there is only the one character. No animation yet. And only the one Smart Bone.
Is there a way to upload to this forum?I haven't found it yet.

Thanks.

Sometimes MP is very frustrating. I'm doing my first head turn using a smart bone. I go into the action and create the head turn. All looks fine. Then I go back to the main timeline and several of the points have moved. I go back and forth getting it perfect. Main timeline keeps going weird and not ...

Thanks for your comment. It could be. I looked at all the options and can't see a difference. I also took the Head layer out of the masking folder and put it above all other layers and it still has that border. I also tried using the blob tool and got the same border. What's weird is that even when ...

Thanks.
I'll give it a try. Haven't used liquid shapes yet.

Hi. I've got a head drawn with the freehand tool and multi-stroke selected so that the fill and stroke will stay together. The stroke is about 6. pixels wide. All looked great. Today I opened the same file, changed nothing, and when I render, the stroke looks almost an inch wide. But it's not the sa...