Re: "Bulged" or Fish-Eye Text

_keyframer · ‎Jan 05, 2023

That's cool!

_keyframer · ‎Jan 04, 2023

I'll try and do a screen recording of the process tomorrow (late here). Stay tuned.

_keyframer · ‎Jan 04, 2023

A few more questions. See attached short video. Can your text be broken apart until vectors? Are you okay with frame-by-frame animation? Another way (in the screenshot PNG) is to simply scale each letter differently to fake the "bulging". This way can be tweened with easing but merely implies Perspective.

_keyframer · ‎Jan 04, 2023

Welcome to the very unpredictable world of Shape Tweening in Animate! For decades, the shape tweening tools has been very unpredicatble and unfortunately, very ignored. It has never received an update or an improvement. It's finicky and the simpler the vectors, the better chance of success. But I've seen epic failures with just 2 point segments. In your case, you may need to simply address this animation in a different way. Hard to suggest a technique without seeing your intended animation/motion. Do you want it to simply retain the design as you have it in frame 125 of your document?

_keyframer · ‎Jan 04, 2023

I'll assume you want it animated? Timeline animation or using actionScript like Kglad mentioned?

_keyframer · ‎Jan 03, 2023

Ahhh now you are saying all instances will have the same dance (starting out). So then just duplicate the original symbol as many times as you need and then just continue the animations inside each of those symbols. Just remember that if you edit any of the individual symbols INSIDE/NESTED each duplicate symbol, they will update acros all instances.

_keyframer · ‎Jan 03, 2023

Yeah, if each character needs to dance differently - then you'll need to duplicate your original symbol then edit that duplicate symbol by removing all the keyframes across all of it's layers and animate a new dance. But at least you'll be starting on frame 1 of the duplicated symbol with a rigged character.

_keyframer · ‎Jan 03, 2023

You can create multiple Graphic symbol instances also and control them using the Frame Picker, or Properties Panel (Looping section) with keyframes on their own layers. But yes, MCs can be duplicated as well but will need code to control each instance.

_keyframer · ‎Jan 02, 2023

It sounds like all of your character's layers and body parts are all on the main timeline. Is this correct? If so, a much easier way is to nest your character in a Graphic symbol and then duplicate this symbol as many times as you like on the main timeline.

_keyframer · ‎Dec 30, 2022

I have Xencelabs tablets and the Fluid brush works great. I also have an XP-Pen display and no issues there either.

_keyframer · ‎Dec 30, 2022

Is this an HTML5 Canvas document? What's your intended output format?

_keyframer · ‎Dec 29, 2022

Also make sure you're erasing actual vectors. The eraser tool won't work if the artwork is contained in an Object Drawing or Grouped. If they are, then double-click them or select and break-apart. Otherwise, the only thing else I can think of why the eraser tool won't work is if the layer(s) is locked.

_keyframer · ‎Dec 29, 2022

I also have the XP-Pen 22R display tablet and run Animate. So, Animate doesn't work like Photoshop. The support for canvas rotation is very different and a bit clumsy in Animate. My left wheel will zoom in and out fine. As far as Rotate goes, the right button doesn't work by default because the key command is Shift+H which then requires clicking and dragging within Animate to rotate the canvas. This process is different then Photoshop. I tried opening the XP-Pen driver software and assigned this key command to the specific wheel, but it still doesn't work. You'll likely want to use that key for something else such as scrolling the timline or similar.

_keyframer · ‎Dec 27, 2022

3 ways... 1. Literally keyframe each book on its own layer and then a blank keyframe for when and where you want each book to disappear. 2. Have all books on a single layer and use an animated mask and keyframes to make them appear and disappear. 3. Convert each book to a symbol, maybe if you have repeating sequences of say 5 books in a row, you could nest them, animate them appearing and disappearing then duplicate this symbol enough times to make this path and control each symbol's nested animation with a keyframe and telling them to Play Once.

_keyframer · ‎Dec 08, 2022

And this is after you export to video format? Something is not right.

_keyframer · ‎Dec 04, 2022

Another option is to click the "share" button located in the top right corner of Animate. Current social options are Twitter and YouTube. If you want to share to an alternate platform, do what kglad suggested.

_keyframer · ‎Nov 23, 2022

I would never use Premiere Pro to animate like this. Wrong tool completely. PP is for editing footage together after it has been animated. Use Animate or After Effects or Character Animator along with Photoshop or Illustrator or draw directly in Animate to author your images and animations. Then export to video and use Premiere Pro to edit is all togther with the audio.

_keyframer · ‎Nov 17, 2022

I'm still trying to reproduce the same issue you are having on my own 22R pen display using the fluid brush. The only thing that remotely comes close is if I slide all of the Fluid brush sliders (Properties panel) to the right (100), I notice a slight drag in the lines I draw. Not nearly as slow as what you are experiencing. If you drag all sliders to 0, do you notice an increase in drawing performance?

_keyframer · ‎Nov 17, 2022

As kglad said, as long as you have an OS that supports it - I believe you need a 32bit OS specifically.

_keyframer · ‎Nov 17, 2022

I noticed when you drew on your pen display, the cursor was very far off calibration. Was that on purpose for demonstration reasons?

_keyframer · ‎Nov 16, 2022

Hmmm I'm almost all out of ideas tbh. Only Animate running, updated drivers, reinstalled, etc. What happens when you draw in any other application - say Photoshop or Illustrator? Does unchecking/checking "Zoom size with stage" change anything?

_keyframer · ‎Nov 16, 2022

And you can verify you have the latest XP-Pen driver for your device? https://www.xp-pen.com/download-430.html V3.3.10.220926

_keyframer · ‎Nov 16, 2022

Have you tried disabling Windows Ink and testing again?

_keyframer · ‎Nov 16, 2022

Also, make sure you don't have any other pen display drivers still installed (such as Wacom or others).

_keyframer · ‎Nov 16, 2022

I am on an Apple M1 using an XP-Pen 22R Pen Display and having no issues. So I started comparing your display specs against mine... Yours: https://www.storexppen.com/buy/artist-13-pro.html Mine: https://www.storexppen.com/buy/artist-22r-pro.html Notably both displays have the same response time of 14ms My driver build is Ver 3.2.3(build: 6sf1c29) I suspect this is a conflict with your CPU/OS - you on windows?

_keyframer · ‎Nov 16, 2022

It's the new minimalist UI and through the aid of Sensei and AI technology, you just wave your hands in front of your monitor and think of what you want to animate and let the magic happen 😉 Or actually better yet, do what Nick said; uninstall (inlcuding preferences ((thanks kglad) and try a fresh install).

_keyframer · ‎Nov 15, 2022

You need to encode it using H264 compression - open Adobe Media Encoder or another video-based application and export it using H264 compression and then try importing again to Animate.

_keyframer · ‎Nov 14, 2022

Can you make sure no other applications are running that may have those files opened? Try rebooting your computer completely and then launch just PP and try again. That's what would be the first thing I'd try. Report back please.

_keyframer · ‎Nov 14, 2022

Are you 32bit or 64bit? I suspect you could be 32bit and 2019 requires 64bit OS. I don't recall if 2019 requires 64bit or not tho.

_keyframer · ‎Nov 14, 2022

My M1 is patiently waiting 😛

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