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Ray Allen Manufacturing
Participant
February 3, 2022
Question

Procreate> Photoshop > Character Animator - Coloring layer not connected to line layer in scene mode

  • February 3, 2022
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So I drew a character in procreate, exported it as a PSD, edited the layer structure in photoshop, saved it and then imported it into character animator. Most everything works fine except the color layer. In Procreate I painted in/colored my character as a separate layer so as not to draw over the outlines I made. But when I open scene mode in Ch the line art separates from the color layer and you get this sort of "peel away" look when I move the character. I tried to simply place the colored layer in Ps into the body layer group to see if it would "attach" to the lines, but it didn't work. Is there another way to merge both the line art and color layers?

I think that the workaround for this may be to just go into Ps, duplicate the color layer for each body part, then maks out the color to each body part specifically and then merge each color and line layer for each body part individually so that the color is permanently attached to each body part. This would be a lot of extra work though so I'm hoping there is an easier way. 

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alank99101739
Legend
February 3, 2022

Could you share your rigging hierarchy in CH? I am wondering if it as simple as you made the artwork fill independent. You might need to chop up the artwork though to follow the structure Ch wants (e.g. arms in a separate group). You can have the line artwork and fill artwork as separate child layers, but Ch needs to know (if you use independence) that the layers are related.

 

Merging will work, but grouping is probably sufficient - but your groups have to follow the hierarchy Ch wants.

Rainsake
Participant
February 3, 2022

This is the screen shot of the rigging hierarchy. (Used the wrong adobe account to post the initial question above, but same person lol)

alank99101739
Legend
February 3, 2022

Thx. I assume the "fill" is in the "coloring" layer? Since your arms are independent, you will have to includ the arm coloring in the arm group (under the independent Arm layer) or else it won't move with the arm. 

 

OR, don't make the arm independent (if it still looks okay afterwards).

TheOriginalGC
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 3, 2022

The quickest way to merge two layers in PS is to make sure the two layers are adjacent, select the top layer, right-click, and select "Merge Down."