Outlines, but only at certain times
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:05 am
Hey. I've been working with characters who don't have outlines, and that's just the way they like it. However without outlines, when one object of a particular colour, say for example a green arm, overlaps another object of the same colour, like a green torso, you can no longer tell the difference between the two objects. That's just the way life goes. But... I wa wondering if anybody knows how i could achieve an effect like this!

So that when one object overlaps another object of the same colour, an outline appears only where the two objects overlap, you know what I'm saying? Like my friend Jack's sleeve, chin and right thumb in this pic.

I tried this: I made a new layer group with masking set to "hide all", then put the "body" layer in this group and added it to the mask. Then I duplicated my "arm" layer, changed the duplicate so it had an outline and then put it underneath that masking group i just created a few lines ago, above the "body" layer. THIS WORKS, well for that one frame. As soon as I move the original arm around, I can't seem to make the outlined copied arm do the same movements, as I can't copy keyframes from my arm layer onto my copied arm layer.
Hope that made sense. Excuse my poor English, I'm Australian. Any ideas?

So that when one object overlaps another object of the same colour, an outline appears only where the two objects overlap, you know what I'm saying? Like my friend Jack's sleeve, chin and right thumb in this pic.

I tried this: I made a new layer group with masking set to "hide all", then put the "body" layer in this group and added it to the mask. Then I duplicated my "arm" layer, changed the duplicate so it had an outline and then put it underneath that masking group i just created a few lines ago, above the "body" layer. THIS WORKS, well for that one frame. As soon as I move the original arm around, I can't seem to make the outlined copied arm do the same movements, as I can't copy keyframes from my arm layer onto my copied arm layer.
Hope that made sense. Excuse my poor English, I'm Australian. Any ideas?