How do i make a mouth move...

[Sorox]

How do i transition between mouth animations? I dont have this huge thing in mind, just the mouth opening and closing. Im using the mouth animation (the real looking one) that comes with AS6.

[DK]

If you are using photographic sources for your mouths they cannot be interpolated (tweened). Only vector based objects can be interpolated smoothly from an open mouth to a closed mouth position.

To test this,
1. open AS, create a Switch layer then create two sub vector layers.
Name them OPEN and CLOSED.

2. Select the OPEN layer and draw a circle.

3. Copy paste the circle to the CLOSED layer and drag the points of the circle together to form a closed mouth position.

4. Now, make sure the timeline marker is at frame 1, right click the switch layer and select OPEN to ceate a keyframe.

5. Drag the timeline along to frame 10 and right click the Switch Layer again and select CLOSED to create another keyframe.

6. Lastly, double click the Switch Layer, select the "Switch" menu tab and tick the box marked " Interpolate-sub layers"

Playback your animation to see the smooth transition between OPEN and CLOSED positions.

Note: Interpolation only works with objects that have the exact number of points.

Cheers
D.K