Hi,Bass, I'm not great with masking. As for walking you through, I actually had to use a Zimmer frame to get there myself. There are plenty of tutes around, not that anime masking will EVER make sense, stoopid frickin nonsense that it is. One thing that I always slip on is that the lower layer may m...

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Congrats on the new gig.

how about a layer shadow set to no 0 offset and the expansion and blur alternates, like this? http://charleskenway.com/anime/captaingeneric.gif http://charleskenway.com/anime/captaingenerichaze.gif you could also copy/blur layer as a mask for some particles to make that fluctuation you're after. you...

great face morphs sinclair, this really makes good use of both bones and vector tweening, lets see flash do that without boring the animator to death.

Fonts? AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!
Anime is one of the only programs I have ever used that is a complete joke when it comes to fonts.
I think Mike should incorporate traditional beziers as an option into anime , sometimes the way anime does things is a bit wacky.

Thanks everyone, I am not worthy. :) In regards to the dust, its actually just the preset sparkle particle with a blur on it and a ground mask, using add compositing method, sorry to disappoint with that. :oops: I agree with your critz funksmaname, I'm not sure why the tail has gone funny and the I ...

Hi totonka, Without contradicting Selgin who gave you perfect advice about resolution, could I suggest that if you want to have your animation viewed in other countries that might use PAL, that a higher screen rez might be an option. 720 x 576 x25 fps is standard def PAL. widescreen is 768x576. Its ...

hey Synth what's wrong with deleting points?
This is a scary one, I do it all the time and if I shouldn't then I would be seriously worried about the practicality of ASPRO.
Does it cause leaking fills? Like straight lines of fill that cut across shapes in concave areas?

Great tips super8, could you explain the shoulder trick a bit more?

The drawings and facial expressions were very good HJ, I agree with mikdog and funksmaname on the issue of keyframing the tweened motion. Try to have determined movements, at the start of the animation the characters seem to sway without purpose, if the movements of the body poses are as determined ...

HeyVern I think we need a 'Noobies questions answered' sticky. This one comes up all the time, amongst other standard issues. To extend the timeline press alt and click on the timeline to extend the play (loop) region, you may also extend the render region by pressing cntrl and left click for the st...

Those camera movements and cityscape were very impressive it is clear you know exactly what is going on there ( a rare thing these days). I would love to see this completed. Please ditch that enterprise ASAP though, it does you no favours, I myself felt profound disappointment upon its appearance. 4...

Great stuff Mikdog, this is reminding me of music poster art from that pschedellic era, I love it. Your work isn't merely some cheap revival though, goldfish must be very happy.

I made this run cycle, I thought I'd share it for your interest.

So it looks like we are all using the same 'workarounds' hmmmm. :x This sounds like a feature request now, we have probably all been biting our tongues but actually have a legitimate if reluctant gripe. This may be a substancial headache for users and probably equally problematic for Mike to change,...