As you watch the FLASH version of the animation look at the hair line of Kirk as it starts. Notice how his sideburn looks like somebody is pouring paint on his head. It doesn't move with the rotaion of the head as it turns. Later in the animation I caught on to the importance of pulling the vector points in the direction of the moving edge. Often it is a horizontal or vertical direction but sometimes diagonal. I've learned that if you light up a red dot or two and scrub back and forth to watch it's flow you soon realize the direction of the point flow. Also if you have a dot, say at the bottom edge of the ear, it is best to always keep that dot where it belongs, at the bottom of the ear. Or wherever you put it in your first key frame. Easier said than done.
But, it gives a smoother final animation.I was thinking a GRID background would be helpful. So, I created an AS file with one in it. It's simply a grid with small numbered squares. The size of the squares are irrelevant as they are only for a reference guide. I think it might help, and its only a 4K zip file. click here to get the Anime GRID file. When you open it ifrom inside AS it is a clean file with just a grid image.
I just wiped out my site folder with all my AS links. the zip file is there but I'll have to go back and fix ALL my other links.
