Cool!

The car spinning around and around was funny! And technically impressive. Please finish your cartoon!

Thanks for explaining your process.

I had some weird stuff happen after I made a Smart Bone. What caused the problem was my testing the Smart Bone with the Manipulate Bones tool on Layer 0 instead of Layer 1 or higher. Evidently you need test Smart Bones on any Layer but 0, then delete the keys. Anyhow, I deleted the misbehaving Smart...

Yes, that's right, you would have to modify the lips layer and the mouth-hole layer separately. If you discover a way of doing what you want with fewer layers, please post the solution, because I'd like to know.

I'm still learning how to use masks myself, but this works for me: Mouth (Switch Layer) >> MBP (or whatever phoneme you want; Group Layer) >>>> Lips (choose "Don't Mask this Layer") >>>> Inside Mouth (choose "Mask this Layer"; teeth go here) >>>> Mask (choose "+ Add to Mask&...

The burning skull downloaded and opened for me, although ASP had to convert it to the ASP 11 file format before it would open it. Maybe the file-sharing problem has something to do with people using different versions of ASP?

I use ASP 11 and my files are saved as .anime, not .anme.

Excellent work!

I found a tutorial on Maximum IK Stretching by Victor Paredes. It's really good . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOLVMK1TAaM I like Maximum IK Stretching. It allows your character's legs (or arms or whatever) to stretch a little. Note: Victor uses the Manipulate Bones tool on a frame other than 0 w...

slowtiger wrote:That should be quite simple. Just add a small rectangle to the open side of the door. It's visible when the door points to you, and gets narrower (via point animation) when the door closes.

I can do that. Thanks, slowtiger.

Thank you. That was helpful; I'll be animating doors later.
Could you explain how to make the door look 3D as it swings open?

Do you ever use Maximum IK Stretching in your bone rigs? What are your thoughts on it?
I'd love some "tips and techniques" on this feature.

That was a great introduction to Noisy Keyframe Interpolation, something I haven't tried using yet. Thanks.

I think the Select Points tool and the Bind Points tool are intended to function in a similar way, but they don't. Deselecting points works slightly differently. When using the Select Points tool and holding down the ALT-OPTION key, you can deselect a particular point by clicking on it. This doesn't...

Problem solved! Thank you.

I learned a lot from your webinar about Smart Bones, so thanks for that as well.

I've watched all the smart bone tutorials I could find, searched the forum and read the manual. I still can't get smart bones to work. I must be doing something wrong, but I don't know what. As you can see in the screenshot, I've selected a bone, the Action Window is active, and I'm on the Bone Laye...