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Galt
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Help me draw a face!

Post by Galt »

I'm drawing a face. Did I do it right? I made a vector file for the face, another vector file for the eyes, and one for the nose, etc. And I made them all inside a big group file that holds them all.
But, when I wanna move the whole face, you know with eyes and everything at once, I can't; I can only move the nose at one time and then move the eyes and then the head. How in the world do I move all of these as one object? I thought that's what putting them in a group file would do... Can someone help me group the eyes, head, nose, and everything as one so I can move it all together?
Can someone help me?
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Post by Postality »

if they're set in a group layer use the traslate layer tool.

you're probably trying to move the points for each part.

select the group "folder" and look near the bottom of the tools to find the layer tools.

try translate layer.
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Post by heyvern »

Yeah you did it right.

That is how I do most of my faces... except for the nose... I keep the nose with the face... keep the mouth, eyes, eybrows, hair.. on a separate layer.

In the future when you add a body... and a skeleton possibly, you could assign that head group layer to a head bone... and it will rotate that group layer just like the bone.

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Galt
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Post by Galt »

Postality wrote:if they're set in a group layer use the traslate layer tool.
Great, this worked perfectly, Postality! Thank you!
heyvern wrote: In the future when you add a body... and a skeleton possibly, you could assign that head group layer to a head bone... and it will rotate that group layer just like the bone.
Okay, I'll keep that in mind! Thanks for the advice, vern!
Thank you both for your helpful replies.
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