Hello Jeff

First of, I suggest you go through the tutorials, as these are explained in an easy to understand fashion and to answer your question, you go under files/project settings!

GC

Hello all The ability to tweak( point motion ) animation on top of a set of actions/switches. Meaning, you setup an animation, you use a bunch of poses, actions and layer switches, you get a pretty decent animation then you could tweak it in a non-destructive manner, as if it was only one layer and ...

Hello all It looks like you are trying to find the "holy grail" of AS... the elusive head turn. Not the head turn, but as DK put it, a way to modify a stack of switches and actions as if they we're one layer, you setup an animation with library of premade poses and actions, then tweak it o...

Hello DK Ahhh....I see! You want to be able to use grouped Switch Layers to operate eyes mouth etc but you also want to be able to tweek the character as if it were one layer. This would be brilliant if it could be done. Mee pour french personne, anglish bad, doo da best we cane to speek it :) Heheh...

Hello DK! Personally, I devellop characters based on the story I wanna tell, not the other way around. Start with a great line of story, read it a few times then let yourself feel the story in your head, then, for me at least, a character will popup. Then, draw a rough sketch of it then play the par...

Hello again! Just made another example to illustrate what I am looking for. http://ilvf2w.bay.livefilestore.com/y1przOGbFEtvXSkNdsNZMLKQhnGWSD-wPxqFIW7zDC64gq1AjqKN_gLChwgqydnqnc_THKLBqSNNXD4C_XU6TCz-w/toonhead.png Quicktime 7 68 kb Here is the file toonhead.anme 10.3 kb zip It is very mechanical, a...

Hello ericii

Dunno if you actually made that laser since your post in may, but here is my take on it.

lazer.anme 2kb zip

lazer.mov 9 kb

I only made tree lines with contour line only with a bit of softedge, animated them on 3 layers.

Fun stuff

GC

Hello all! Sorta new to ASP but one thing I see that could get improved is file handling. The ability to set a local or networked(local or internet) folder as the library forlder in the prefs, also the ability to make location bookmarks, to access them quickly, those would make larger projects ton e...

Hello DK Heheh yeah, the hand goes from back turn to front but I used a wrong pose for the hand down, just a very short anime to illustrate what I am looking for, I could fix it. The way I may go with this is making actions instead of switches, like, I import poses in actions, animate the character ...

Hello again! I have tried some of the tips you guys proposed, which I apreciate tons, I do, but, being a 30+years experienced animator animator I need some extra control over the animation I am planning to do. I tried to animate point motion on top of switch layers but cant seem to find a way to mak...

Hello Vern.

Thanks, that answers my question!

GC

Hello again! ...or have i missed your point as well? I think you got the point. Thing is, I was wondering if it was possible to make an inbetween between two switches but without messing with the switch layers themselves. Hers's a sample file of a hand changing using switches hand.zip 6kb Would it b...

Hello all!

Cool, that answers a question I had, and yes AS Pro is a great app, I do have a few things I'd love to see in it, but let"s wait and see, we might get a few good surprises!

GC

Thank you both for the replies, I will try to be more specific here. I do not want to use interpolation really, in the switch layers, what I am looking for is a way to setup switch layers for the main poses then use point motion in the camera view to teak the final result without touching the switch...

LOL Well, mostly, what I have in mind is to create a basic animation with switch and then tweak it in the main window. Say I have a character setup with side, 3/4 and front pose, I setup a switch for each at frames 10 - 15 - 20 for a partial head turn. Is it possible to use point motion to do some i...