how about checking the "allow animated layer effect"in the layers submenu?
also check all of the shading/shadows settings in the affected layers.maybe something got changed when you were setting up.

your welcome. check-out the tips and tech. section of the forum. you will find alot of links to good tutorials

in the layers pallet,left click-hold on the vector layer you want to rigg with bones and drag into the bone layer. the bone layer in the layer pallet should highlight to red when you drag the layer into it so you know its there. bone binding by default is automatic.double click on the bone layer in ...

goto the manual in the help sub-menu,page 59-65 it should answer your question. I suggest you do the tutorials because this is a very basic skill to know'

this sounds like a "bone hierarchy"problem. The order in which you create your bones is important. If you created the head bone first then the chest and torso bones in that order, then the head bone would be parent of the chest bone. You should be able to use the re-parent tool to fix the ...

I believe the sequencer only works on layers( group, particle, bone....) so to move the keyframes you could use the rescale keyframes option in the animation submenu if you have a lot of camera movements you want to move. If you only have a few left click drag on the individual keyframes to their ne...

THAT WAS AWESOME.I don't think I've seen a "first anime"that used so many of the features AS has. Great flow and loved the music.Cute kids.All in all a solid first time.Can't wait to see more.

setting the FPS in project settings(ctr+shift+p) should rescale the animation. Alternately you could use the rescale keyframe option in the animation drop-down menu. This is probably the better way of doing it

The only thing I see that I would change is maybe something to distinguish better between the Zeus character and Poseidon. Unless you're going to have Poseidon always pictured in water, visually he looks too similar to Zeus. I don't think the beard and the Trident are enough. This also could get kin...

Thanks for the tip. That was one of the books I was looking at getting, but wasn't sure if it would be any use to me.

Having just got the Animators Survival Kit, I found it to be very useful. Are there any other books you would suggest for the budding animator?

Here are some simple tests that I did using the Poser import feature. It's not much and I hope to have my 2-D short ready soon. http://www.youtube.com/user/MrJonbo64

I think that in this day and age, the old Latin phrase ''caveat emptor''is appropriate. If you don't do your homework i.e., search forms, compare prices and features etc.; before buying anything, then shame on you.

how about you use the fade script on a group layer?

you're welcome,tempemonkey . I'm glad we finally figured it out. Hey everybody, I want you to know that tempemonkey made good on his promise. He's a standup guy.