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Yikes. I've been at this for 2 days.

I just started to find out how to use the Mesh option to animate a graphic. I've got a baby who's moving his backside to the music.
He's standing with his back to us.
So I get the left side to move left and right at the correct rhythm. Then I try to move the right side left and right to make it look like one backside is moving together left and right.

When I try to get the right side to move in the right rhythm, there's no way to see which points are left and right. So I can't get the correct motion to the right side.

Am I doing this the wrong way? Should I be not using mesh for this? I'm not sure how to make it work with bones, if that's what I should be doing.

Thanks.

One thing you could do is use Hide Points. Go back to Frame 0, select just the Right-side butt points, then Edit > Select Inverse, then Draw > Hide Selected Points. Then go back to Frame X to animate the Right-side points. Finally - Draw > Show All Points to return to normal.

or create a point group for each side?

(in the select points tool - select the (say) left Points, type the name "Left" in the box and press the Create button. Repeat for the right side. )

Ah! That sounds so much simpler.

I'll give it a try asap. Still love the idea about the mesh. Must be some good uses for it. Just gets a bit complex.

Thanks.

Just realized there are no points in an image file.

The only way to get points is to make a mesh.

you can name the warp mesh points in the same way!

Do you know of any tutorials that tell you all about Groups and Shapes?
I'm still trying to figure those out.