So AS 10 pro or 11pro doesn't have any built in function to do that right? nope -- but there have been a few discussions around the subject that fizzled out ... and what you're planning to do is exactly what I am doing - which is why the script! If there's enough interest I'll raise a formal enhanc...

I have a "bake" script that is "nearly" finished: http://www.kelleytown.com/forum/animato ... hichpage=2

It comes with no warranties at this stage.

enabled animated layer order in the depth sort tab on the group that has head components in it and then, in the action timeline, move the ear layer

I'm guessing that the OP asked for a "how to in AS" because they want to animate the (area of) blurring?? but, agreeing with slowtiger -- creating a blurred version of the whole image in PS then using an animated mask for selective reveal ... The issue, I think, with the soft edge mask is ...

... create a group folder, apply a soft-edged vector mask on the region to blur... what I did was the opposite of that -- the masked layer was the area NOT blurred -- and the base layer was the blurred area -- and the test result I got was very acceptable but I did first have a relatively large ima...

several ways to do this. for example -- do the duplicate and set layer blur in just one -- e.g. to show a foreground object in focus with bg blurred

group mask hide all
>imagecopy - mask this layer
>mask - add to mask (soft edge shape??)
image - layer blur > 0

yes - custom coloured brushes I think: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=27693 -- and if Bill is watching, that bug with custom coloured brushes should have been fixed in 11.1

at a guess, that would be forum member PaperWaspNest??

via http://www.kelleytown.com/forum/animato ... IC_ID=1715 ....

or (but I've not verified that this link is still active)..

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/

Thanks guys -- ASLua updated with this info.

the thing about colours is that they look different when set against different colours.. download this and pick up the colours of squares A and B: http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p196/barn26owl/checker_zpsviv8ltur.png you'll find that squares A and B are the same colour - R/G/B 107,107,107 (the a...

yeah - it's a clever rig! Note the smartbones on the right of the screen (if I got the gist of what was going on correctly!!) which are linked to actions on the leg target bones The video is essentially a trailer for his (paid) courses - the closing screens (around 5:30) describe parts 1 and 2 of hi...

Nice to know Victor!
all the best.

sorry I couldn't fix it. -- it doesn't seem to be a compressed file ... last thought and it's a very VERY long shot ... have you checked your autosave directory?
(e.g. C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Smith Micro\Anime Studio Pro\11\Autosave)

sorry - this copy is badly corrupted and the "usual" approach has not worked for me. is this the one you've opened/closed in notepad?? if so, do you have the "original"?