I want to thank you all for replying. It has been a while since I have been here. http://youtu.be/OP0xmR9iBkE I did make an animation.. but not with complete use of AS or a complete anime- it's just more ah.. "Motion stills" kinda like a manga. HOwever, I want to do it the Japanimation sty...

wow that's amazing stufff.
I guess Im off to work to try all this.
thanks.

ah.. so the switch layers will connect the arms/legs and make them look good without the outlines overlapping I saw a tutorial on that. Right? Awesome. yeah gotta keep playing with the program, I wish I could learn the exact method but there's many different methods to pull out animation as I have s...

wow. your work looks good. Thank you for sharing it. Hmm.. I wonder if I could draw traditionally by hand, many action sequences and then ah.. use AE for some other parts.. to get that hand-drawn animatoin look with the help of AE.. For example, I could draw the action poses and the limbs while usin...

are you talking about the Draw>TraceImage function of AE? Do i do that separately for each layer and I assume so you say it's all about layers. That's a fine idea. I'm trying to do Japanime style with AE, but it's hard I think..lol. but I thought a "Panty and Stockings" style of cartoon wi...

ah.. so an entire image that is Vector Traced will be easily animated..

Tracing an image with the computer is a good idea- FLash is well used in anime/manga purposes and they trace the drawing with flash and the lines can be animated.

i guess what this means I have to draw an image layer per animated bone-

head
body
breasts
upper arm
lower arm
hands
sword
upper leg
lower leg
feet
an image for each layer of these things to have a bone for them to animate them. right?

hmm. but so far I can only bind one bone per layer.
If a leg has 2 bones, for upper/lower leg, only one bone can be bind per layer.

Is that the way it goes? Because that's the situation I have.

thanks.

thank you for the video I just watched it.

However, this is what I Got.

I cant hear the youtube tutorial but I looked at it but somehowe I am missing something because of the image layers are so warped

lol

thanks for your help dudes

Slowtiger, Now I do have 5 separate png. Image layers. They are all in one group. They have bones, but I am unable to link the bones of separate image layers together right now I have been through most of the tutorials but I haven't read the whole manual LOL. I can't hear the You Tube Tutorials as t...

ah, well I figured out that one has to import the pgn. files from the layer window, not from the file>import, a big difference, since the bones are automatically binded to the image if they are imported in the layer window/menu. However, I did have separate arms, legs, just like the characters you'd...

are you animating a character that you drew by hand and imported as a png. file? If so, tell me how you animated it because I am having trouble binding the bones to the separate layers to animate a whole character

i thought one of the most important things to do with this software was to animate a character I drew with my bare hands using a pencil

I was referring to this tutorial when I was trying to do what I was doing- but see, that's the point..

I can only Bind one bone per layer- I can't bind all the bones therefore I can't make animate a drawing of a figure I just did.

if I may ask, as this relates to my project, can I, with a .pgn file, apply bones to different pgn. layers and animate them, like, making sure an arm moves with the body, because I can't seem to bind more than one bone to a layer to make them move correctly..