Working with Color Inside Colors

Question

So, very confused with how color works in Adobe Animate. I am beginning the coloring for this character here and started with their cheeks first using the Paint Behind brush mode. The reason being because I believed that if something meant to be colored without lineart was filled first, I could just fill the rest of the shape behind it easily. The other reason being I was selecting the pink itself and using Snapping to move it around in some other frames, and that becomes harder to do if the entire layer is colored... anyways..

I know Paint Inside exists, but I've had varying results of success with it (mainly the brush coloring the lineart instead of the colors behind it). But Paint Behind is starting to fail me too, as whenever I try to fill in this character's head it overrides the pink entirely. Painting it manually achieves the effect I want, however?

So I guess what I'm asking is, what is the best way to do this? How can you draw/fill colored objects on top of an already filled drawing? What are the recommended brush modes?

n. tilcheff · Accepted Answer

Drawing Objects, Symbols and Layers provide options for separation.

With the rosy cheek, you can have your oval shape inside either a Symbol or Drawing Object, which will prevent it from intersecting with the fill, if placed on the same Layer. Both will have a matrix which you can transform to change the look of the simple oval from frame to frame, but the Symbol will provide you the extra flexibility of dealing with a single source, where if you decide to change the color of the cheek you will only need to do it in one place.

There is much more to symbols than what you expressed with "symbols are helpful for copy and paste animations".

Everything that appears more than once in a FLA is better be a symbol. For example, regardless of you doing frame by frame animation, the pupils will work great if they are actually symbols.

n. tilcheff · Answer

You should look into how to use Symbols, Drawing Objects (Unions) and Layers; and also the Paint Bucket tool.Coloring with the Brush tool will be very counter-productive, time consuming and, possibly, frustrating.

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