hs anyone tried a "hybrid" technique using switch layers sometimes and "cut paper" PNG's @ other times as an animation technique?
I've heard folks warn me off of using AS as a drawn animation medium. I imagine it must get too memory heavy.
to elaborate, im drawing objects, characters, and backgrounds in Painter or Photoshop, then importing them into AS. To show geometric changes, i use switch layers, though at other times i intend to use bones to animate different "parts" of an object or character.
hope that im not biting off too much here. Im up to shot four of an approximately 5 minutes of filming and so far so good. But I am noticing that large geometric changes still require many, many, switch layers.
has anyone tried this?
any pitfalls to avoid?
advice to a beginner/intermediate AS user?
thanks for any insight/advice you may be able to provide.
-edg this is all PNG image based, hence the dilemma.
try this link for a small example. try to watch on a fast connection or it'll certainly look "choppy" and appear to have fewer frames than it does.
It's actually animated at 24pfs. and the original looks pretty darned smooth.
Please let me know any thoughts?
http://www.myspace.com/edgendron
then click on "videos"
new clip and Qs
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