Same scene, this time really finished.
http://www.enigmation.de/fonpan.html
I noticed some wrongness in the colours, especially a lack of contrast, so I reworked every element, painted it new in TVPaint, and put it back into AS - no trouble at all, hadn't even touched the animation. I just imported the new bitmaps, positioned them over the old ones, and layer-bound them to the same bone again, then erased the old image layers.
The character was done frame-by-frame in TVP, then imported as 2 Quicktime videos: one just for the hands in front of the left telephone. At this point I had to shift the scene to 6.1 and noticed 2 nice features:
- I now can select multiple layers and move them all in one go
- video automatically plays once, then gets invisible. There's a checkbox for looping in the "image" layer settings tab.
One problem still persists: soft borders on bright elements don't work at all. Have a look at the clouds: they should blend seamlessly into the sky, but instead they have a dark border. AS seriously is missing a "pre-multiply alpha" option during image import.