Adobe fresco Animation not working with a Group of layers

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December 21, 2021
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Either I'm just poopoo brain an couldn't find an answer on google because of my, or they made it so you couldn't use the motion animation tool on a group of layers. Now at first this might not seem that big of a deal, but with things like needing to animate the color an lineart separately seems a bit confusing to me, of course in a project that has such. I thought this small animation tool would be useful for small movement in character or background art for convince of having a program that you can make fully fledged pice of artwork in, with the bonus to make it move a bit. I was originally going to use this for a project that requires animated sprites, since Fresco is my main art tool, and saw this feature as an easy way to animate the things in it right after drawing it.

Again could just be missing something here, but I tried all other options that I could think of and even ran some tests to see that it was infact the groups that was the problem.

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Chris Spiegl

Community Expert

I just started using Fresco for some animations and ran into this issue instantly! The idea to have a bike go along a path but also have the wheels spinning is something so logical, but without the ability to animate layer groups one would always have to create individual animations and then later bring them together.

I hope this is part of a future update!

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Joseph III278016330laa

Participating Frequently

Same problem here. I can only animate ungrouped layers, or layers within groups. But not the grouped layers themselves. It's a huge problem. This makes animating anything more complex than a single layer impossible. Like, let's say I want to make a pirate ship swaying in the water, and a character walking on the ship. Can't Only one or the other. This program is trash.

Sjaani

Community Expert

You can definitely use the animation tool on a group of layers. You can also use it on separate layers within a group. Either select the group then the animation tool or double tap/click on the group to open it then select the individual layers.

Keep in mind the animation features are still relatively new within the app so they won't have all the features everyone wants straight away.

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Mitchell25373419haiz

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This is false as of June 2023

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