I'm pretty sure that now, any 2D projects would be handled by Disney Animation studios, as they have the people with expertise in that area. Right, yeah, "expertise". Why then is most popular 2D coming from Japan? If they are experts in stuff, then it is in red tape. Disney has become wha...

I didn't know that Pixar were thinking about making 2D films. Wouldn't they do that through the Disney 2D animation division? Probably not. It is their story, so they want full creative control. I believe their contract with Disney states that they have this kind of creative freedom, and iirc it wa...

I did a similar test on Sailor Moon animation, and the cheap bastards only animated every fourth frame! However, they often blend keyframes together to make it look a little less jerky. If it works, it works. Why make things more expensive if you don't need to? Especially in low-budget situations t...

About keyframing. I did some research on a small clip from Aang, The Last Airbender. http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/167/katarabk9.th.gif (click to view on ImageShack) In this clip there are keyframes on 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36. I get the idea the clip is sync...

As well as only drawing 1/3 of the required frames, they also use every trick in the book to limit the amount of animation they have to do to get the story across. They use lots of close-ups while a character is speaking so you don't have to show hand-gestures, only one mouth position of lip-syncing...

He is the author of "Anime Studio: The Official Guide", so he is certainly in a position to write an authoritative review. As to what these missing features are, check out this thread Request for top 10 Anime Studio Pro Version 6 Features However, I do agree with you that he should have me...

Don't forget that "Sailor Moon" and most other Anime is done by drawing each frame by hand, so they are able to create any turn or action they require. With a vector animation program like Anime Studio, the process is very much different, even if you want to end up with the same result. Yo...

It's been a couple of months since they gave any news of the upcomlng version of Moho/AS, and I am wondering if eFrontier has messed this release up. ...or maybe they just forgot about us... :( ...or maybe they're busy adding more features to the upcoming version... :) OK, that's probably a little ...

Thanks Heyvern and Genete. Just glad to finally contribute after benefiting from the great scripts that you guys have written. I often have characters with more than 500 shapes, and it really did get to the point where I would spend more time raising and lowering shapes than actually drawing. Now, i...

Hi folks! I've added a new script set to freeze points to prevent movements under drawing tools and even under bone influence. Please visit the link in my signature. Enjoy! -G Wow, always wanted that feature for drawing tools. Very nice! I'm even more intrigued about the masking of bone influence, ...

Yeah, I just rediscovered this tool recently and now couldn't live without it. Brian (7Feet) seems to have disappeared from these Forums so I thought I would post a little enhancement I made to it. If you paste this message handler into Brian's modified lm_select_shape.lua tool, then you can instant...

Hey Vern, It could be possible to script physics simulations that would work with AS... I think this is a long requested feature. Pity it seems harder to implement than it should be. Perhaps that's why no one has seriously tackled it til now. In this thread here someone posted a link to an awesome w...

Thanks for the tips. Everything now works perfectly. I have one more suggestion for improvement, but feel free to ignore it, as it already works great how the way it is. It would be great if ge_bones_for_shapes.lua checked for existing bones with the magic naming first and added bones only for new s...

I have updated the file (ge_bones_for_shapes.lua) and now it set the strength of the added bones to 0. Please download it and update your version. I've tested and works OK. Cool thanks. That should save some time if you've got loads of shapes. Did you find useful the bone_of_shape button tool? I wa...

So, I tried out the sort_shapes_by_bonesv2.lua script and "Yeaaaaah!" is right! It works great and you don't even need to name your shapes. It would be nice if the strength of the generated bones were automatically set to 0 though. Thanks for delivering on your promise, and so quickly. I c...