I've just logged a couple of suggestions. 1) get the manual's wording sorted out (J338) 2) add an option to brushes to use opacity / whiteness differently (J339) -- opacity as is (to give transparency in the stroke); -- white (and all shades of grey) at 100% opacity in the brush to give 100% opacity...

I'd rather like someone to tell me I'm wrong (and also tell me how to get tint to work at 100% opacity) but ... do you have any parts of your brush that are NOT 100% black at 100% opacity? If so, I think that explains it because (IIRC) white and transparent are more or less equivalent and result in ...

This was the "throw it together" version: Bone group> - torso front (intention is that it will be copy by ref, but in this lash-up it's not) - this flips fill areas on and off as necessary - left arm (whole arm - actually done as just one liquid shape) - right arm (same idea as left arm) -...

take a look at this

the trick there is, although you want the ARM to be both in front and behind, if you re-think the problem and make parts of the TORSO appear and disappear ...

If / as cost is significant factor in your decision process, have you considered getting cosy with a local AmDram society? There are usually plenty of folk willing to perform "for the glory" (or a bit of quid-pro-quo publicity / support for their performances). And ... Thank you! For engag...

... As we all know (or should know), if the voice acting is good and the story is good, then non-spectacular animation isn't a big, tragic problem. The cartoon can still be successful. Right? Right. Therefore, if 2 of the 3 primary qualities of a cartoon are good (animation, voice acting, story), t...

No, that's not the process. All the TTS is done . Animation is what's happening now. The problem is that the animation could be better in places. Making a bofur could bump things up a notch. ... so, potentially, you could use an _actor_ (and maybe only one) who can read all the lines and "perf...

so you get someone to read it and give you the body language, then get a computer to speak it! well ... ok ... it's your production and your pipeline ...

Is there a term for contracting a voice actor to do a reading, but not for their vocal performance, but for the video reference of their body and facial expressions while performing so the video can be used as a reference when animating? dare I ask why. If you have a pro voice actor they'll give yo...

there have been a couple of requests for more info in this. So here's the file I created: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ehxm5ulr ... .moho/file

I think / hope it's self explanatory, but if not ...

mjnew wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:02 am ...
I'll give the sequencer a shot and follow the link to Hayasidist's bake frame script.

that will just bake the vectors, it won't move bones, so probably not what you want.

there is Animation / Copy Current Frame

It's a bit sledgehammer-y if you select the "whole document" option -- and going through and picking out the channels you want can be tedious.

if you try to animate the order of the base shape, you'll need to get the order of all the others in the right sequence too... so not actually impossible, just very tricky. Which is why I suggested doing the re-ordering "offline" and having the results in a switch layer (or just a group if...

Hi, does anyone know how to change the reference shape when using add, clip, subtract modes in liquid shape tool. ... do you mean animated change to which shape is the base ... and this is "impossible" (best option is probably a [switch] group of various copy by refs with different shape ...

IMO, the dialogue-heavy / limited shots are not issues if / as this is a 3 min segment in a 90 minute work. (I'm guessing that this was never intended as a stand-alone piece.) There's an echo of "Waiting for Godot" in the script - and that manages a couple of hours when, for all practical ...