If you are practising walk cycles then concentrate on that. You have that transition at the start which is quite pointless. If you had just the character, with only a ground plain for foot fall reference, then you will have more time to give attention to the walk cycle. In a walk, the most important...

The most interesting thing to me is that only one bug fix for 7 was released - and that only dealt with the cycling bug. Doesn't bode well for any upgrade. If the auto trace is like the background removal tool in ASP, then I have no hopes for it's usefulness - even the promo vids didn't show good re...

Okay, I did some experiments. You can choose do not repeat when you first create the outline and it will work as it should. But, even with do not repeat selected, if you use the handles to adjust the size of the texture [like the handles for adjusting gradients], your texture will repeat when it get...

You move the layers along the 'z' based on their position - i.e. the furthest layer gets the most z-depth etc. Then you pan the camera and it should give you parallax.

Maybe Apple are geniuses for banning Flash on ios devices then! As much as I love the idea of an animator being able to produce then sell their work over the internet, it just seems to me a very difficult prospect. Mainly my answer was referring to this particular case of a 1 minute animation from a...

You might need to provide more information on your process. I enabled the grid to plot two end points on the centre of the workspace. Drew out a half butterfly like shape [open without two end points connected]. Created a stroke from that. Using the Lost Layer Tool, Lathe the line. Added a texture t...

The gradient not displaying whilst playing the animation is an expected result as it was programmed to perform this way. The original poster's problem, however, is a bug. It should be expected that the gradients look the same on frame one as in frame zero. And especially so when rendered.

The problem is that most of the 'drawing tools' aren't drawing tools. If you are familiar with 3d apps then you will understand these tools better. For example, expanding a bezier line in Blender means extruding the end vertex out - which is equivalent to the add point tool in AS. The one drawing to...

Well, I don't know either - I don't have any statistics to prove anything. However, it just seems unlikely, given that, after crazy frog there were a slew of copy-cats, but now that has quiet down. The circumstances have changed significantly. Before, to get things like ringtones, and these animatio...

Daz3d is similar to Poser and the standard version is free. It is so similar that it can load Poser models. Blender is also free and allows you to build the models from scratch. Makehuman is free and works in a similar way to Daz3d and Poser, in that you can design your characters by moving sliders ...

The fee for selling on itunes is to join the Apple developer program - which is mandatory before selling apps. I can't imagine they would expect musicians and filmakers to have to join a coding group before they can submit. Either way, who is going to buy one minute of animation, and for how much? A...

Thought it might be a scripting limitation, but had to ask, just in case.

If you are scanning large formats, like say a painted backdrop, then go for as large format as possible. If you have firewire port on your computer, try to get a firewire scanner [or usb 3 if you have those, and can find a usb 3 scanner], for speed. a sheet feeder is a good idea if you are scanning ...

As I've stated, I'm going for an Adult Swim/Family Guy/South Park look. Speaking of which, anyone know what method they use to animate those shows? I've read that South Park uses a 3D software, I think Maya, but it had more to do with Mat and Trey being nit picky over the cut out look of the charac...

No probs. When using the bucket fill tool, you may experience difficulty in trying to fill the correct shapes if you have many overlapping shapes. One tip is, if this is happening, use the translate tool to separate the shapes, fill, then move them back in place. Because of the way the effect works,...