I'm no expert, but I read a lot, and I remember from my reading that soundtracks are usually completed first, and then the animators work to the soundtrack. It might not be completely final [I suppose the word "final" means different things to different productions], but the idea generally...

Heck, Vern, I'd love to debate and discuss this with you, but I think we should probably not do it here on the forum. Looks like we've thought along similar lines in lots of ways. It definitely gets my attention when people put a % chance of something in their estimates or theories, because I find, ...

Wow, selgin, that's very cool!

Vern: is there a way to superimpose your texture, boned and ready to be distorted, with the outline, so that you get the same effect you're looking for? Pardon me if you've already thought of that -- just an idea in case you hadn't.

... did you hear the latest? There is a 20% chance we are all inside a sophisticated computer simulation like the matrix. That would explain a lot. I don't know what's funnier, the notion itself, or the spurious "probability". I've got my own algorithm for that, and I come up with a diffe...

Thanks. Good stuff, good stuff.

Ah, an extra bone. Thanks! I had tried the separate layer thing, btw, darkmatter. Nope, it was definitely affected. A group bound to the bone seems to work, but there's a bug where binding a Switch layer doesn't seem to work... until I save, and re-open, the file. The extra bone tip might be essenti...

Believe me, I've searched various ways for almost an hour. I can't see how to put a walkie talkie, or a phone, in the hand of a character that has an arm and hand with bones in it.... and yet prevent the phone or radio from being deformed. I am betting this is a frequently asked question, but I can'...

Ideas, based an Audacity Version 1.3.2 beta that I'm using: Use Audacity's Generate Silence feature, on the Generate menu, where it lets you type in the time you need. You can even set it to hh:mm:ss before you type in your numbers, using the pull-down .... or just find some silence in your audio fi...

I can also be a bit disorganised, but what I always do is save my registration details and code in two ways --- once in a document used for storing all such information (reprinted after every update to insure against a crash) and also as a small text file which I keep in a backup folder where the i...

Samb wrote:question at mike:
can we finally copy the keys from one layer to another?
like you got one switch and want the keyframes also on another switch. so just copy them from the first switch and paste them into the other.

that would be REALLY usefull.
also for bones etc.

Yes, very useful.

As usual, we're getting great advice from Genete and Vern. I am doing a long project now, and I'm doing it more or less Genete's way: Make the soundtrack, including voices and sound effects, with the script and storyboard as my guide. In a sound editor, make the finished soundtrack's first draft. Tr...

Bupaje, I see that you are a hero among us, like Genete and Heyvern. Thank you so much. For now, I have captured all those pages to PDF. Later, I will combine them, but I probably won't take time to edit the content. If anyone would like this combined, huge PDF, send me a PM. If enough requests come...

That may be what was happening. Thanks for that! I also re-learned something I forgot since, oh, 2 years ago: masking doesn't show up properly while one of the layers being masked, or the mask layer, is selected. I must select the masking group layer, or a layer outside of that.

Oh, I use 'em .... when I must. After over an hour of messing with the masking example Genete showed me [in a thread with a subject line called only, "masking"], I still couldn't make it work as described. I wasn't sure if that was because I was masking an image, or because there's a bug, ...