In article <KK1Yd.8936$3A6.6793@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Luis ORTEGA" <lortega@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I need to learn to do cell animation in Painter 8 and I'm having trouble
> understanding the basics.
>
> How can I automate a few things so that I don't have to redraw
everything
> from scratch on each succeeding frame?
> I can't seem to put the background on one layer and then use another
layer
> to place and animate a moving figure.
>
> How can I make a background drawing and then have it repeat on all of
the
> frames?
> How can I add a figure into the background and then be able to copy it
from
> frame to frame and make a few changes to the motion on the following
frames?
> It seems that if I draw a shape and advance to later frames, the shape
gets
> copied as it is along with the background drawing.
>
> Can anyone please help me out or point to where I can find tutorials on
> these things. I don't seem to have a manual with Painter 8. My most
recent
> manual is from Painter 6. Painter 8 did come with a second CD, if I
recall,
> doeas that have the manual on it.
> The Painter website is now all about Painter 9 and it doesn't help me
much.
You didn't look very hard, did you? There is a wonderful tutorial about
animation on Corel's site:
<http://www.corel.com/painterix/training/courseware.html>
It is about Painter IX, but for animation, the only difference is the
new frame rate control. If you can live without it, Painter 8 will work
just as well.
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