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November 9, 2016
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Are These... Groups and Layers?

  • November 9, 2016
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I'm starting working with Ch... making basic Face in Ps. Only creating Head an Eyes at the moment, so I can see how the intergration between Ps and Ch works and how Ch works with just the eyes.. Hopefully I'll get a better understanding of how Ch works this way and before I add further parts of the face.

I have a question;

In one of Dave's tutorials he mentions using the Tags in Ch as a cheat sheet for the Ps Layer and Group Names.. Good Idea!

I checked this out, but I noticed that they were different colours... I think this denotes Groups and Layers, but not sure.... I thought the Green could be Groups and the Blue Layers.... but then I saw... Mouth Group!? So can someone tell me what the colours refer too?

If they are Groups and Layers... a future idea could be having them as nested Groups and Layers to mimic the actual Layers Panel in Ch? This would help with forming a connection between the two? If that makes sense!?

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    oksamurai
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    November 9, 2016

    See "applying tags to a handle" at the bottom here:

    Adobe Character Animator Help | Editing Puppet Structure

    The difference is layers (artwork/groups/etc) and handles (data/information). Not something you really need to worry about that much to be honest!

    November 9, 2016

    I've stopped worrying already!

    Printed off, Editing Puppet Structure... should help me sleep!

    Cheers Dave