I can give you some advice. Check out a book called "The Animators Survival Kit" by Richard Williams. It is an awesome reference for animators of all levels - and for you to understand how Mikdogs approach uses less "mouths" in a switch layer (I am only guessing on his approach, ...

Wow that was nasty wicked. It was quite surreal in it's cruel and brutal style. The music just made it all the more evil crazy!

Hi Uolter, To clarify my examples refer to DPI (I learned a lot from old books in early days, old school 8)). PPI and DPI is typically set to 300 when you setup in your image editing software of choice. So while I know what PPI is and how it works, I've always just worked with DPI when dealing with ...

Hey Megaloceros, Like Mozbo said it's not anything to do with AS. I haven't implemented something like this myself but things like this you see on the Smith Micro site are almost exclusively done with FLASH. Right click on the little dude and you'll see it's a Flash object. The process without detai...

Hi Uolter, I'm a Graphic Designer by trade and work mostly in print. You can't technically "add" extra DPI to an image. Well you can but you wouldn't get the same quality as say producing an image digitally at 300dpi to begin with. Typically the result is a blurry image - you are FORCING p...

@ Rudiger, Thanks for the link - I am unfortunately not in a financial position to purchase (boo-hoo) Thanks to Mum (loves ya) I got ASPRO 7 for Xmas :D Ooh goody goody! I didn't realise there was a workaround (obviously haven't read as much on these forums as I thought!). Can I bake MeshInstance wi...

Sweet as! Two thumbs up. I dream one day to be as good you Selgin... Ok time to get off the forum and actually do some work!

I'm quite curious to know how many legit copies of 7.x are out there? Not that I would want to issues with 7.x piled upon the masses (well at least for folks want to use scripts to extend functionality) but if there is a larger user base maybe updates and fixes would come more promptly? It's a real ...

Have you checked out a a package for Flash called Flixel? It's made purposely for game styles that hark but to the 8-bit era. Of course you'd need a copy of Flash (pretty sure version doesn't matter much, as long as it's 8+). I can appreciate you wanting to animate in AS though, save a lot of time -...

Styles are fantastic when drawing up a character - especially for basic stuff like skin tones, also great to save them for future character setup, i.e. FRONT view, SIDE view, 3/4 view etc. I got confused with styles at first because I was trying to use it like existing programs (Illustrator) and see...

I concur with Selgin - I've had my Wacom Intuos 3 for years now and I can't go back to a mouse. It's such a worthwhile addition to any digital artist of any form. The pressure sensivity and options for it in Anime Studio take a bit of work to get used to (at least compared to options in Photoshop fo...

Hi all, Haven't really introduced myself to the forum yet, but here I am - and I'm bumping a thread that I have been following intently! Well I must say I am quite sad about the rendering issues. After much reading through the forums and playing a with a friends copy of AS 5.6 I decided to go ahead ...

Hey Mikdog, Just wanted to say a big congrats. I've been "lurking" around the forums for a while now, and I totally love your style man! You definitely deserve this. So much fun, got me thinkin' of Junior Senior, wicked :D Your music videos have given me some serious inspiration to get bac...