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Multi-Frame Mouth Visemes in Illustrator?

  • May 29, 2020
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Hi. So... this is kind of a newb question, but I created my puppet from scratch in Illustrator without using a puppet template. This was because I am new to most Adobe products and couldn't figure out a way to create shapes/paths in illustrator without it becoming it's own layer.

 

Long story short, everything works great when I import it into Character Animator but I want to have multi-frame visemes for my puppet and currently the character only has single frame visemes and looks quite choppy at times.

 

How do I do this in Illustrator? For context, I created 'layers' by grouping the different parts and then dragging them into the appropriate folders. However, I can't create anymore sub layers in Illustrator because they are already grouped together.

 

ex)

+puppet

   +Head

   +Mouth

       Ah (cannot add anymore layers preventing me from making it multi-frame)

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Correct answer Monika Gause

It should work when you create sublayers with the buttonsin the layers panel.

I assume you have groups now, but you need to make them sub-layers first: ungroup them and put them inside a layer.

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 29, 2020

It should work when you create sublayers with the buttonsin the layers panel.

I assume you have groups now, but you need to make them sub-layers first: ungroup them and put them inside a layer.

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    May 29, 2020

    Thank you so much! Solved the issue right away.

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    May 29, 2020

    You're welcome!

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