He's adorable! Is the background raster?

Thrashador

Thanks, Funk. I have my pupils on their own layer, so I can select the layer and then translate them wherever they need to go. If I need one to move independently of the other, I can just translate the points (hmm... maybe one of my characters needs a lazy eye!). It's good to know that I've got one ...

Thanks for the help, GCharb and slowtiger! I have linked to two images... One with a weird shadow effect from the PNG codec, and one that looks the way I want it to in MPEG-4, but compressed. I tried using the Animation codec, and it does the same thing the PNG does. Even though I selected shading, ...

So, I've been trying to experiment with some different export formats. The PNG sequence shows up weird in Final Cut Pro for me. It has all of the frames, but it doesn't play each of them as 1/24 of a second... It plays them at several seconds per frame (which is backwards). As for exporting a Quickt...

Hey guys, Thanks for the reply. I increased the strength on the head bone (which covers the pupils), and it seems to work like I wanted! I thought you might be implying that I should add bones for just the pupils, which I suppose would be one way to manipulate them... But I've been just translating ...

Hi all, I applied a nice gradient to the pupils of my character's eyes, but I noticed that when I move the pupils around in his eyes, the gradient changes and looks bad. Is there a way to "lock in" the gradient effect on this vector layer? It seems like it would be rather useless to have a...

Okay, great, thanks! I'll be sure to give it a shot.

Hey slowtiger,
Thanks so much for the advice! I've got a much better quality video now.

I've heard that if you want to import your animation into an editing program like Final Cut, it's a good idea to use a sequence of frames. What do you think about that?

Thrashador

Hi everyone, I'm somewhat of a newbie to animation and AS, but I've been working hard to rig a character and animate a quick little scene. Now that I've finally got it the way I want it, it's occurred to me that I have no idea what the optimal settings are for exporting the animation—or even which p...