[Ktonkin]

Thanks guys! yeah I’m playing it back in quicktime and it looks like it’s stretched wide, but the resulotion is the same as in AE. I rendered it in square pixels and it worked alright. It is going played on a projector for a presentation. I’ll try messing with the settings in quicktime and see how it looks. THANKS!

[Ktonkin]

So I make one drawing in illustrator, and save it as 01 (EPS). Then I make another and save it as 02 (EPS) in the same folder. And so on…
Then I import the fist drawing into AE as an EPS sequence and all the rest will import as well?

This sounds good but then I will have a bunch of illustrator documents and when I’m drawing one frame, I won’t be able to see the previous frame because it will be in a different document. Or is there a way to make each layer in illustrator a seperate frame in the sequence?

It seems like using union skinning in Flash would be the best way… then exporting it as a png sequence for AE.

Sorry for all the questions. All comments are extremely helpful as I’m trying to get into 2D animation but I need help getting started.

[Ktonkin]

Sounds good! but how do I tell illustrator when I want to draw the next frame in the sequence? Is this possible??
If it is, that’d be awesome. Thanks a lot for your help! sorry, I’m new to animation.

[Ktonkin]

I draw every frame in illustrator… then copy and paste each drawing into a new frame in Flash. I don’t really use flash for anything except putting the frames in order. Is this wrong? This is my first time attempting 2d animation and I’ve been trying to figure out how it’s done. I’d like to do it all in AE but every frame would have a different layer… right? I didn’t think that was the correct way to go about it.

Here’s the type of work I’m trying to create
https://www.interspectacular.com/MOVIES/CC_IDS/STUMPY.htm
https://www.interspectacular.com/MOVIES/CC_IDS/COW.htm
https://www.interspectacular.com/MOVIES/CC_IDS/ROBOGIRL.htm

If anyone could point me in the right direction… that’d be a HUGE help.
THANKS!

[Ktonkin]

nevermind, I figured it out. I just saved my Illustrator file, imported the layer I wanted into AE, then checked “continuously rasterize”. Is that the best way??
THANKS!