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Spiridon Mekas
February 6, 2015 at 6:39 am in reply to: How to lower number of vertices on a mask shape?

Hi Dave,

I made a selection on a layer with the roto brush and then in the layer menu clicked the autotrace command.

Am i doing it wrong?
Spiridon Mekas
January 21, 2015 at 4:47 pm in reply to: expression for sliding feet problem

I’m sorry to make you sweat over this, man, and grateful too! Thank you for this, nevermind if it worked or not.

Seriously, thanks a lot

I’ll stick to manual labour and animate the backgrounds first next time:)

Cheers!
Spiridon Mekas
January 21, 2015 at 9:21 am in reply to: expression for sliding feet problem

what i do is manually keyframe the null following the left foot, from the first frame until it goes back, just before it lifts and starts going backwards, then i thought i could just copy the keyframes for any duration of the shot that is necessary. But the problem is that the movement is then delegated to the other leg whose position is exactly on the first keyframe.
Spiridon Mekas
January 21, 2015 at 9:03 am in reply to: expression for sliding feet problem

So far i just did one null and i did’nt know how to set the background to follow two null objects. And also the null object could just follow the foot horizontally, which is the only relevant movement for the background.
Spiridon Mekas
January 21, 2015 at 6:01 am in reply to: expression for sliding feet problem

Thank you!!

If it is any help, both feet have exact same motion. They are basically the same foot, one traced over the other just redrawn to appear as left and right foot and.

Here is one of the walks i animated if you could use the reference:

Many thanks!
Spiridon Mekas
January 21, 2015 at 5:34 am in reply to: expression for sliding feet problem

That was it, thanks for replying Fahd.

There is another problem though, related to my ignorance, of course. I didn’t take into account the fact that there is the other leg, and both legs go in cycle meaning that the foot first goes in one direction(horizontally) and then goes backwards(while the other moves forward) to complete a whole step cycle. The background goes backwards following the null of the first foot but then comes back as well.

I cannot imagine a workaround for this, guess i’ll have to do it the old pedestrian way, keyframing it all the way.

Thanks again!
Spiridon Mekas
January 21, 2015 at 3:55 am in reply to: expression for sliding feet problem

thank you Fahd!

Ae is giving me an error report in line 1 of the script though.

I’ll look into it, given that i’m a completely ignorant in anything concerning scripting it’s probably me doing something wrong..

Thanks!
Spiridon Mekas
January 21, 2015 at 3:50 am in reply to: is there a way to set up a tempo and automatically generate composition markers?

Wow!

Thank you very much Walter!!
Spiridon Mekas
January 19, 2015 at 9:23 pm in reply to: is there a way to set up a tempo and automatically generate composition markers?

Thank you Joe!

This isn’t what i’m looking for.

I would like to have a visible grid of markers while compositing(not editing) an animation film that is animated in rhythms related to duration of 12 frames, 34 frames etc.

I can do it by feeling and by looking at the time display but to have visible markers would be very convenient.

Thanks for the reply!
Spiridon Mekas
January 19, 2015 at 9:04 pm in reply to: is there a way to set up a tempo and automatically generate composition markers?

thanks Dave

Beat assistant looks like it could work. Not sure if it can lay out markers without a music source but it probably can.

I’ll look into it, thanks again!

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