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I picked my image...now what?

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:04 pm
by blf
OK, I picked the image, created the next layer and tried to trace it....What am I doing wrong? It doesn't look rite. I even did what the tutorial said and tried to use shapes, but then I couldn't manipulate them correctly.....

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:13 pm
by sbtamu

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:17 pm
by blf
Cool...but I couldn't "draw" what I wanted....the points got all funky.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:30 pm
by sbtamu
U have to keep moving points around. It took me 2 hrs to outline Bush's head and only 10 min to animate the head and eyes. AS isnt going to draw anything for u, it just lets u animate (imo) very easly

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:36 pm
by joetraff
I think what you should do is take your time ,you'll be right there.

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:51 pm
by dueyftw
For tracing I use the point add tool. Make the shape, then adjust the line widths. So as I trace I think about how many points and where they are. I have avoid using the drawing tools, I just seem to end up fixing too much.

If you have a tablet with assignable buttons:

add point (a)

translate point (t)

peek

smooth

select points (g)

Dale

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:45 am
by dreww
just use teh freehand tool to make a basic out line and the move the pints around and add and delete them as needed. it took me forever to get use to it even with a pen tool