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by Poptoogi
Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:32 am
Forum: Share Your Work
Topic: Ricky Gervais animation
Replies: 15
Views: 2453

Better than HBO

Awesome stuff man! I've been wanting to animate some toons of Ricky, Steve and Karl for awhile now. Personally, I think the animated shorts that people did on youtube before the official show was done are better. It's really a matter of taste. I know this will sound strange to some but the actual sh...
by Poptoogi
Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:35 am
Forum: Tips & Techniques
Topic: Quickly make an eyes fully rigged and animated!
Replies: 3
Views: 2554

Quickly make an eyes fully rigged and animated!

Here are two videos I've made for anyone wanting to make and animate eyes. It basically shows the whole process I do when making eyes for characters now. The reason I use masking and bone layers is so that I can use the same eyes and on different characters by swapping the heads contained in a switc...
by Poptoogi
Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:16 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: Is using masked layers in a switch layer possible??
Replies: 0
Views: 491

Is using masked layers in a switch layer possible??

O.K. I'm made some eye and and mouth independent of of my characters by using two layers. One layer is the masking layer, the outline of the mouth and eyes and the other layer is the pupils, teeth and tongue. This works really, really well for me because I can swap character faces and use the same a...
by Poptoogi
Sat Nov 06, 2010 5:09 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: Is it possible to move a layer...?
Replies: 6
Views: 1054

Re: Is it possible to move a layer...?

Is it possible to somehow move a layer that at the beginning of the animation was set at the bottom to then move it up to the top half way through an animation? It's needed for a walk by and then to turn around and walk round something but I have no idea how I can move layers half way through an an...
by Poptoogi
Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:40 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: Bitmap images and tracing...
Replies: 8
Views: 5720

Kinda off subject, on subject

The importing trace image is defiantly the way to as far as tracing in AS. It gets you use to the tools and just makes for really clean image to work with. I did want to just say on a side note that I've come across some great bitmap to vector tracing software that you guys might want to check out. ...
by Poptoogi
Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:23 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: Moving shapes on same layer
Replies: 4
Views: 963

Moving shapes

One of the best ways I've found for moving shapes around is to selecthem (The selection points tool/Shortcut g button) when you first create them and then name and create a group for them at the top. This way no matter how many things you pile on top of one another you can always go to select group ...
by Poptoogi
Sun Oct 10, 2010 3:46 am
Forum: Feature Request Discussions
Topic: Stop the floating! Auto keyframe duplication option.
Replies: 1
Views: 1650

Stop the floating! Auto keyframe duplication option.

I think anyone who has used AS has run into the problem of floating movements. Say you key frame a arm moving from frame 1 to and needs to be in an up position in frame 20 but you want the movement to only take 4 frames you have to place another key frame at 16 to make it look correct. It would be n...
by Poptoogi
Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:27 pm
Forum: Feature Request Discussions
Topic: PLEASE! Scroll through switch layers/Auto bone bind to shape
Replies: 0
Views: 1219

PLEASE! Scroll through switch layers/Auto bone bind to shape

One thing I find extremely time consuming is lip syncing. The auto lip sync is o.k. but I like using my own mouth switch layers when animating so they interpolate and look accurate and really match up with the words being spoken. The problem is that it's pretty time consuming. I have to scrub throug...
by Poptoogi
Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:25 am
Forum: Share Your Work
Topic: Game title animation WIP
Replies: 1
Views: 475

Game title animation WIP

I'm in the process of *trying* to make a simple iphone game. It's just going to be a breakout type of game but I think by making custom animations for characters and cutscenes with AS it will be far more appealing. I'll keep posting progress here on the forum if people are interested. It looks a lit...
by Poptoogi
Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:13 am
Forum: Tips & Techniques
Topic: Rigging a head model/using blends
Replies: 3
Views: 2030

Rigging a head model/using blends

What's up AS forum! I made a tutorial awhile ago on how I rig a character for head movements and facial expressions. The tutorials were made right after I figured out how to use the technique. I found it difficult to find tutorials on doing this so once I *sort of* figured out how to do it I made th...
by Poptoogi
Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:41 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: HALP! Problem with physics/spinning object with gravity
Replies: 0
Views: 496

HALP! Problem with physics/spinning object with gravity

Hello AS forum! I'm having a really hard time figuring out what settings to use to create an object that spins AND has gravity effecting it. I think it can be done because I heyvern had a post based on this type of thing. http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16632 Or at least I think that...
by Poptoogi
Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:38 am
Forum: Share Your Work
Topic: Anime Studio BATTLE BOTS - Physics bone battles
Replies: 7
Views: 2298

Vern! So awesome! But now my brain hurts...

Heyvern! The new physics in AS is unbelievable! I'm not much of a techy but I'm really wanting to learn the technical aspects of the program. This video gave me an idea on making a self propelled vehicle. I want to make a wheel by drawing a circle, add a curve profile to make treads and then use a m...
by Poptoogi
Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:16 am
Forum: Share Your Work
Topic: My Anime Studio reel 2010
Replies: 15
Views: 2426

Whoa...

Awesome, awesome stuff man!!! Your work is not only amazing because of the animation but also the amount of various styles you used too. A sign of a truly great artist! I love it all!
by Poptoogi
Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:17 am
Forum: Share Your Work
Topic: New to the forum and sorta new to AS! Work so far!
Replies: 5
Views: 973

Thanks for the welcome!

Thanks for the welcome DK and negroclarito! DK, I took the audio clip directly from a youtube clip but I did do all the other stuff. I created the character model and I'm really proud of the lip syncing and the costume change. Mainly because I created switch layers for all of the clothes. Even thoug...
by Poptoogi
Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:16 pm
Forum: Share Your Work
Topic: New to the forum and sorta new to AS! Work so far!
Replies: 5
Views: 973

New to the forum and sorta new to AS! Work so far!

Hi all! I'm new to the forum and started using AS in about March or Feb. I thought I posted here already but I couldn't find my post so sorry if this is a double! I LOVE AS and I love looking at other peoples projects and works and just wanted to say how amazing I think this forum is. I'm hoping to ...