Thanks for your reply...I want to clarify. The mouth shapes I am having a problem with have no overlapping or other shapes touching them. They are in mid-air, on top of a .mov layer which has the characters' bodies and movements in it. The layers for all the facial features are above this background...

I will look that up, but my shape is one simple shape, with no hidden edges, no multiple fills...just one basic outline and one fill, which I want to both be the same color. I have a feeling your "drawing it over again" solution may be the only one, but I'd like to figure out "the bug...

Hi! I have been having a quirky thing happen with some of the mouth shapes for my characters coming out inconsistently - some are rendering with white outlines, even when I have repeatedly changed them (even supposedly globally, at frame 0, thru a created Style). I have followed the tutorial directi...

We figured out the little trick - clicking on the main switch layer of the character's face instead of on the vector layer - now it's invisible where the pink part is on the visibility layer! Yippee!

Hi, We have really made progress here with all your help! The great suggestions as to workflow and procedures really were a godsend. One thing we can't figure out, even after searching thru other posts on the topic, is the Visibility timeline and how to get that to work with our vector layer of eye ...

Thanks to everyone for your helpful info...we are so grateful for this wonderful forum for answering questions we just couldn't find answers for elsewhere! We're giving it all a try on this end and we'll be in touch if we run up against any further roadblocks.

Thanks again!

Thanks to all these helpful hints...now we still want to know how to "manually switch" between the switch layers in AS...do you just click on them, because, in my daughter's opinion and limited experience, that does not seem to make sense in the timeline? Sorry if these sound like rudiment...

Thanks for the help. We're still a little confused about the steps needed under the #2 response. Specifically, we don't know how to go about setting up this heirarchy of switch layers you describe. Are the different groups of phonemes (i.e. sad, happy) set up as separate switch layers within another...

We have a team of 3, new to AS, that is working on an animation project. The characters' movement has been done by one via stop-motion animation in After Effects and is imported as a .mov in small chunks into AS. We are using AS to apply the eye and mouth movement and expressions. We're trying to cr...