converting drawing to symbol in animate changes the drawing

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When I try to convert a drawing to symbol in animate, it drastically changes the drawing (filled part of it with red, instead of white with drawing red strokes over it). I then discovered that if, before converting it to a symbol, I cut and paste it, it does the same thing. Screenshots below.  I have had nothing but trouble with Paintbucket in Animate, and had used it in making the drawing. I have no idea if this figures into the problem here.

Mario_CR · Answer

This tends to happen whenever there are too many anchor points on a shape. You can see the anchor points with the Subselection tool (A).

Select parts of the shape with the Lasso tool (L) and press the Smoothen function a couple times in the Properties panel to shift the anchor points a little bit, then try converting to symbol again.

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