Anime Studio Pro 9 Tutorials
Anime Studio Tools / Layer Tools pt. 1
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The Layer Tools in Anime Studio really make our lives a whole lot easier. And these tools allow us to manipulate the layers as well as adjust the layers in different ways. So to get started I will first select the Transform Layer Tool. Now it's important to note that in order to edit a layer you have to have that particular layer selected on the Layers Panel. You won't be able to adjust any other layer until you of course select the desired layer you want to edit. So with the hammer selected and the Transform Layer Tool now selected I can bring my cursor over here and there are a few different things we can do with this tool. First you can move the layer around and to do this simply place your cursor inside of the layer and just click and drag to move it around. And you'll know you can do this when you have a crosshair underneath your cursor similar to the Translate Points Tool on your toolbar. Next we can resize the layer. So if we come over here to the outside point, one of the outside points that is. These middle points allow us to resize horizontally. The up and down points allow us to resize vertically and the corner points allow us to resize all the dimensions of the object. And finally if you bring your cursor outside of the transform rectangle you'll see that we have a half circle icon appear under our cursor. Click and drag to rotate the layer using the Transform Layer Tool. Now the Set Origin Tool allows us to set the origin of the object and this is useful because right now the origin is in the center of the layer or at least close to it. And this dictates how everything gets resized and rotated and so on. Notice how everything is being rotated from the center. If we were to select the Set Origin Tool and set it underneath or at the bottom here of the layer I should say and then take the Transform Layer Tool and rotate you can see now that the origin makes it so that it rotates at the bottom. Which gives us a completely different feel and effect to the rotation. And the same applies when we are resizing, it goes to the bottom when we resize. The Defined Path Tool or Follow Path Tool I should say, allows us to set our layer to a certain outline or path that happens to be on another layer. You'll notice on my timeline or my Layers Panel I should say I have three different layers. I have a path, the hammer and the money. The path is again simply an outline I created. If I click that I can see that clearly. So if I click the money bag and then come over here using the Follow Path Tool and click on the bottom of this path, you'll see that it snaps to the bottom of the path, the money bag does. Now we'll be getting into timeline motions in a later tutorial here but if I come down here and click on frame 24 and then with the Follow Path Tool click on this portion of the path, you can see now that the money bag moved. But also we have a keyframe on frame 24. And if we hold down our mouse button and scrub you can see the money bag is following that path. Coming back here now to the hammer, I can select the Rotate XY Tool. And hold down my mouse button and move it around and you can see we are manipulating the object in 3D space. And this is in fact in 3D space. We'll find out as we manipulate this object and if we move the camera around we can clearly see that the object is being manipulated in true 3D space. And we can also sheer the layer which kind of gives us another 3D effect. And there is something called the Vector Shape Selector which basically allows us to select a layer without having to go to the Layers Panel. So if I take the Vector Shape Selector or the Layer Selector as it sometimes is called and then I come over here, let's say to the money bag. Because right now the hammer is selected. If I click that you can see I could automatically select the money. I come back here to the hammer, you can see now that my hammer layer is selected and vice versa. And again before you would never be able to interact with different layers unless you of course went to the Layers Panel and selected that layer. So if you're more visual and you just really quickly want to select something on screen, that is layer you can do so by using the Layer Selector.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Anime Studio Pro 9 |
| Author: | Chad Troftgruben |
| SKU: | 34402 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-088-6 |
| Release Date: | 2013-01-24 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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