Well, thanks to the three of you for the replies. You all seem very understanding of this problem. I guess it's either trace over an image, or draw in AS. I'll try both of them. The only problem is that using a tablet, the lines can be shaky in terms of constantly varying and random widths. Off to d...

I like to draw most of my characters in Flash, since drawing in AS has always been a bit hectic for me. When importing a flash-drawn character, Chances are that the lines will be completely screwed up. For example, the end of a single brush stroke will look like an ink splotch, some lines will scram...

Thanks for both replies :) Sorry I checked back so late :( I'll look at both suggestions. Just to clarify the original post, here's an example: You have a wing rig, with a bone assigned in appropriate places. Say you want to move the wing from where our hand would be anatomically placed if it were i...

I'm not entirely sure what exactly this is called, but in 3d apps, you can have a rig set up, such as a rigged leg or arm. In front of the leg or arm, specifically in front of the knee or elbow, you'd have a bone which would control the direction said body part was facing, or if you move that contro...

Merci!

I'm going to attemt the layer/point bind...

Does it not look just like her (aside from the hair gleam and chest thingmajig)?! http://www.4shared.com/dir/5356210/3fa54209/sharing.html Click on both links and the follow the download instructions. The .anme is rather incomplete, but that's why I'm uploading it; I need help from the forums! Thoug...

You can count me in!

Thanks Blacksun, I must say that the book we were writing fell through at the last hurdle, the publisher just didn't couldn't give us a fair enough deal. We were going to feature a chapter on La Reine Soleil and include tutorial models and rigged animation. Its a shame that they couldn't see the po...

Thanks for the reply!

What if they don't all have the same points, like if I decide to add an extra point to a specific layer? Will it still be able to interpolate?

I watched the sample file squeaky_10sec (which is bundled w/ AS), and was going through the layers. I noticed that the animator made switch layers, and when they switched the layers, the shape tweened instead of instantly switching. For example, the eye layer; I could go to a frame, and make the oni...

I'd say, so far so good! Can you tell me how you incorporate storyboards into AS? Do you have to redraw your characters for every scene, or do you find a way to use pre-existing ones, and modify them? General stuff, like that, because me and my friend are getting into animation, and though we can ma...

Here's some screenshot to illustrate. http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/checkerpants.jpg As you see, the texture file roughly meets the bounding rectangle of the shape. I even checked the actual dimensions: the project settings are PAL 16:9, means 1024 x 576 px, and the texture file is 595 x 869 px,...

Thanks again!

I freakin' love this forum.

Okay, now that I've got that down, howzabout slicing something in half, in 3/4 view?

Just tried it... It worked surprisingly well. Masking is my new friend!