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by Galbatron
Thu Dec 29, 2022 2:08 pm
Forum: General Moho Discussion
Topic: creating a transparent zone within another shape
Replies: 2
Views: 213

Re: creating a transparent zone within another shape

Thank you Dave. That does the trick! :) When you create your shape, disable 'Auto Stroke' and 'Auto Fill', found at the top when you use most drawing tools. Draw your outer and inner shapes as you like. Then select all the points and use the 'Create Object' tool. The highlighted area will be the por...
by Galbatron
Thu Dec 29, 2022 12:24 pm
Forum: General Moho Discussion
Topic: creating a transparent zone within another shape
Replies: 2
Views: 213

creating a transparent zone within another shape

I've got a VERY basic question, but can't find the answer online until now. I'm drawing an O with a hole in the middle. The middle hole can have it's own color, but I want the part around the hole to have it's own color and the middle hole to be transparent. Just like a normal O would look. When I m...
by Galbatron
Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:14 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: Liz shadows
Replies: 5
Views: 789

sbtamu wrote:Click on her leg with the select shape tool, now look over at the style palette and you can see the leg has a shade.
Thanx!
I only thought of this effect with a gradient shadow, but reducing the blur to 0 does the trick. But no export to SWF with this effect I guess...?

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by Galbatron
Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:42 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: Liz shadows
Replies: 5
Views: 789

Liz shadows

Probably a noob question: I was looking at Liz, the startup character of ASP7. On her legs I see a typical effect that is common in cartoon images: two colour levels to simulate a simple lightning effect. However I would expect the darker part of het legs to be a separate vector part with dedicated ...
by Galbatron
Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:39 pm
Forum: Tips & Techniques
Topic: not much of a cartoonist
Replies: 12
Views: 4196

If you want to get a taste of the minimalism that is characteristic for cartoons, take a look at Miffy (www.miffy.com). Dick Bruna doesn't draw a line too much. BTW: the book that was an eye opener for me is Richard Williams - The animator's survival kit . He goes into detail about the techniques of...
by Galbatron
Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:20 pm
Forum: General Moho Discussion
Topic: About selgin's avatar
Replies: 17
Views: 3703

Quicktime to gif through Photopaint

to make the animated gifs I render a little quicktime movie, then I import it to Corel Photopaint and export it as gif. That's a great tip Selgin! I would have never though of that combination (Quicktime as a PC user). I finally did find the time to try it out and it works great. There's only one p...
by Galbatron
Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:00 am
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Animated GIF software
Replies: 10
Views: 7961

Thank you for the tips. However I've done all that (optimizing, reducing size etc.) and the gifs it produces are quite small (below 150kb). We're talking for instance about my avatar. It's very small but keeps playing more than twice as slow as it did in GIF studio, and I can't speed it up any furth...
by Galbatron
Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:59 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: unknown handles appearing
Replies: 3
Views: 664

selgin wrote:That handles are the new controls for textures and gradients.
Thanks. They're great (got it to work now with gradient and texture) and they can be animated too :D .
Should be added to the manual though...
by Galbatron
Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:17 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: unknown handles appearing
Replies: 3
Views: 664

unknown handles appearing

While drawing some shapes in AS6.1 today, two pink round control handles appeared on a shape. I haven't seen them before and I can't seem to find anything about them in the manual. What are they for? Both pink circles can be moved and they stay connected by the line in between. I tried to recreate t...
by Galbatron
Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:57 pm
Forum: How Do I...?
Topic: Cutting Holes in Layers.
Replies: 8
Views: 1553

Thanks to the both of you I've figure it out. Thanks again. Me too! I've been struggling with shapes since I'm working with AS5 (AS6 now). Also did the tutotrial several times but the fill and stroke behaviour of shapes always stayed unpredictable to me and in 50% of the cases it didn't do what I w...
by Galbatron
Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:50 am
Forum: General Moho Discussion
Topic: About selgin's avatar
Replies: 17
Views: 3703

Thanks so much for making your avatar file available! Is all the magic just in the point movement? I do not understand what the cameras are doing, nor do I understand yet how the changes of layer order make it work. Thank you too Selgin. For me it's also a great study object. Correct me if I'm wron...
by Galbatron
Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:42 am
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Animated GIF software
Replies: 10
Views: 7961

http://www.gamani.com/ GIF Movie Gear. Insanely great! Looks good, but I tried to import my png sequence made by AS6 and the graphics are downgraded to black and white during import. They should look like this http://www.epdisch.com/moving_wave0001.png with 8-bit greyscale palette but become http:/...
by Galbatron
Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:29 am
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Animated GIF software
Replies: 10
Views: 7961

If you don’t own Photoshop or any Creative Suite... but Photoshop Elements...? No creative suite here (I'm an amateur animator). Do the frames have to be imported one by one in Elements? My last project (only just an avatar design for this forum) already had more then 40 frames. The Gimp may be ano...
by Galbatron
Fri Dec 25, 2009 12:37 am
Forum: General Moho Discussion
Topic: Character Rigging
Replies: 7
Views: 1678

Re: Character Rigging

[quote="super8mm"]I thought it would be interesting to a have a thread of character rigs screen caps.

I think that's a great idea :)
by Galbatron
Fri Dec 25, 2009 12:34 am
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Animated GIF software
Replies: 10
Views: 7961

Animated GIF software

What do you guys and gals use to make animated GIF's? I use Animation Shop 3 to process AS6 seperate frame export, but I have the feeling it's somewhat limited, especially when rendering and trying to make the best possible pallette for the max 256 colours in an animated GIF.