[John-patrick Crowe]

Hey thanks for the reply. I was just copying and pasting code I was finding on the internet because I am also not a web designer.

The solution I found was to use Squarespace’s drag and drop feature. You can form three columns by dragging and dropping your images.

[John-patrick Crowe]

The span slider appears after you’ve brushed your selection.

[John-patrick Crowe]

Hey Ian! Nice running into you here as I usually only see you at Paved Arts.

Below the numbered timeline is a dark slider with even darker arrows on it. If you drag the edges of this slider to make it bigger, you can increase the span.

Unfortunately it seems that you’re still limited by how much power is in your computer, as you can only render so much at once.

[John-patrick Crowe]

For #1 on your list: The auto select feature in Photoshop is the default way that Illustrator works. When you click on an object in your artboard with the selection tool or the direct selection tool, it selects that object and layer in your layers panel. If there’s a setting hiding somewhere that you’ve changed that’s causing this to be different for you, you could return to the default by resetting your preferences.

I haven’t heard of any settings for the other things you’re looking for.

– JP Crowe (www.jpcrowe.media)

[John-patrick Crowe]

There this plugin: https://aescripts.com/quickdraw/

And then there’s this tutorial which is using the pen tool instead of a brush like the plugin (still technically using masks though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbMX20YoNTw&frags=pl%2Cwn

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[John-patrick Crowe]

You can try baking whatever object has animation keyframes on it.

In the following tutorial they bake the camera, but you could try baking the animation on the object tracker too if that doesn’t work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poc-uJPm2F0&frags=pl%2Cwn

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[John-patrick Crowe]

…not sure if it would work on the above spider as the hair is so thin. I guess it would just depend on how good the object buffers turn out. It worked well for some grass I had in my project.

[John-patrick Crowe]

If you want DOF but there is unwanted blurring on some portion of the hair, this is how you fix the hair with unwanted blurring:

1. What I wound up doing to solve this problem is to render a version with no DOF.

2. Then I went to the hair and went to “Generate” and then changed the type to square in order to render an object buffer for the hair (you must change the type to square or triangle in order to create an object buffer for the hair). I used the object buffer on the version with no DOF.

3. Then I rendered a version with DOF but with no hair, and put this underneath.

[John-patrick Crowe]

Where is this “geometry hair shader” that you say works okay?

– JP Crowe (www.jpcrowe.media)

[John-patrick Crowe]

Cineware comes with AE.
Element 3D can be purchased from aescripts.com.

– JP Crowe (www.jpcrowe.media)