Hello! I’m trying to animate an eye closing, but I’ve run into a problem.
In my second frame, I selected the upper eyelashes and moved them down. The problem is that the middle part of the eye is now showing through the eyelashes. I’d like to erase that part, but doing it manually would take a long time, and I’m worried about accidentally changing the shape of the eyelashes.
Is there an easier way to remove the middle part of the eye that’s behind the upper eyelashes?
I’ve included some screenshots so it’s easier to understand what I mean.
These are anime-style eyes, so if you have any feedback on the design I’d really appreciate it Thank you!
Underneath the eyelash layer and above the eye layer, I’d put an animated ‘paint over’ layer where you paint over the eye (beyond the top of the eyelash outline) in a suitable colour.
You’d need to do a different ‘paint over’ keyframe for each eyelash keyframe.
For opening the eye, you can copy and paste keyframes and then select the ‘eye opening frames’ and do right-click → Mirror Frames to reverse the time order. That’s a quick and easy way of ‘reversing time’ for a frame sequence.
Well, in theory you could do large amounts of tedious, error prone and swear inducing messing around to isolate the eyelashes onto a separate layer.
However, my experience is that it’s best to start over again and remember the lessons learned.
If you have “conditionally” three layers of “eyelashes”, “eye” and “face”, then create a group for the “eye” layer, and place a fill layer inside the group below the “eyes” layer that does not extend beyond the “eyelashes”. Then, for the “eye”, activate the inheritance of the alpha channel with the “α” button in the layers panel. This way you can control the contour of the eye for everyone without destroying the original eye.
Oh no… I worked 5 hours to make this. I am still a beginner so I draw really slow. Im gonna try removing big part so i still have a shape. but thank you anyway for the tips and help!
You can use a transparency mask to hide the parts of the eyeball you don’t need. This looks like erasing to the viewer but the actual layer stays intact. You can even keyframe the mask, if I remember correctly.
Thank you!
Use as many layers as you can for separate parts/elements of the animation. They’re free!
I worked 5 hours to make this. I am still a beginner so I draw really slow. Im gonna try removing big part so i still have a shape. but thank you anyway for the tips and help!