hey all, I have a question that might be really stupid, but I'm very new to this program and animating in general so please forgive me. mostly, I'm just looking for someone to point me in the right direction of the tools/methods I should be using for my goal. basically i'm trying to create 2D animations where I can have one base and have different colors, accessories, etc on top of it while keeping the animations. I have a hand-drawn frame by frame example of the kind of animation style I'm going for (think the Pusheen cat animations):
but I wonder if there's a way to make that with vectors/tweening? where I can just push and pull the object around easily with lines that are created with the pen tool. I tried to do that and use shape tweening, but even with the shape hints, the program would warp the ears and everything, making it not do what I want. I don't know if I'm just using shape hints wrong or if the ears need to be separate objects or something. I also plan for there to be different colors/patterns inside of the thick lines, too, which I don't know if that effects the animation method or not.
thank you for reading and I hope everyone has had a good holiday/start to the new year.
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