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Thanks for that dude! Will have a go 🙂 Interested in this toonificator ure making… how much will it be going for?

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yeh ta i know they use custom software, but just wondering if anyone has come up with a way of getting a similar flowy feel just using the adobe suite… im thinking maybe by putting it through some photoshop processes before tracing it in illustrator or something…? gunna keep experiementing anyhoo 🙂

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Okay.. got a little further with a new set of problems:

– didnt see the “suppress open dialog box” – so that stops the import pdf from popping up but it doesnt seem to like the ai files and comes up with “the parameters for the command Open are not currently valid”

– Ran the ai sequence back through ae to get jpegs that i could batch process through photoshop, but now the problem is the save as dialog box popping up… ???

mmm getting closer – can you tell me how to solve this problem – i’ve done batch processing a few times before and i’m sure this never came up so it must be something simple.

Also – does photohop/ bridge have the capability to batch process .ai files or am i wasting my time there?

Thanks again in advance

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sorry my mistake! youre right! i thought i was in active camera.
Thanks so much xx

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Thanks Steve,

No its definately not that… this is strange. I’ve used a lot of 3d in ae and have never had this problem before.
I can change the z ‘value’ but it doesnt move/effect the object at all. 3d is working properly in other comps, but not in any layers in this comp. I’ve tried copying the layers and pasting into a new comp but this problem is still there. Each layer is a solid with objects drawn in vector paint. I am wanting to arrange them in 3d space and move a camera through, but obviously cant get the z position to cooperate and therefore cant get the depth i need to fly the camera through.

The x and y handles are there, and when i hover the mouse over the object the small z appears, but no handles with it (no matter how zoomed in i go (its not just hiding).)

very odd.

??

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There is no handle. The little z appears but if i drag the white cross appears over the whole layer.
I can scrub the z position back and forth under transform, and change the z position value, but the layer doesnt move.

?? Thanks 🙂

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thanks heaps for the help jens… tried both those ops. The [,] options seem to only move the layer – i cant seem to apply them to just the stroke. And the cut paste just pastes it back in the same place no matter where i have the timeline marker.

Any other ideas??

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thanks heaps for the help jens… tried both those ops. The [,] options seem to only move the layer – i cant seem to apply them to just the stroke. And the cut paste just pastes it back in the same place no matter where i have the timeline marker.

Any other ideas??

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thanks for that – but sorry – dont think i explained myself properly. Im wanting to know if there is a way of moving the start point of the animation back or forward in the timeline? I have multiple strokes animating on one layer and want to move one so that it starts a couple of seconds earlier. Is there a way to do this without moving it to its own layer?

Also wondering if there is a simple expression i could use for the following:
I have an animation of a phone ringing – goes for 2 seconds – The whole animation runs for one minute and every say 10secs or so i want this phone ring animation to play again.

Thanks heaps.

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thanks for that – but sorry – dont think i explained myself properly. Im wanting to know if there is a way of moving the start point of the animation back or forward in the timeline? I have multiple strokes animating on one layer and want to move one so that it starts a couple of seconds earlier. Is there a way to do this without moving it to its own layer?

Also wondering if there is a simple expression i could use for the following:
I have an animation of a phone ringing – goes for 2 seconds – The whole animation runs for one minute and every say 10secs or so i want this phone ring animation to play again.

Thanks heaps.