Thanks a lot! You're a life saver.
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> "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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