brush strokes

[cinciem]

Has anyone found a way to import illustrator files with brush strokes as lines. They import as shapes. I am trying to animate with lines that look like they were drawn in crayon. I need them to remain lines so I can animate them. I tried to optimize the lines, but that just makes more simplified shapes.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Billy T]

what do you mean "as lines"?

have you exported an swf from illustrator and imported that into flash?

[pixelwit]

In Flash you can set the stroke to Hairline, Solid, Dotted, or even something that sort of looks like a crayon line. This is probably your best bet for achieving a crayon look with lines. Another option would be to animate your figure with standard lines and place the entire animation under a shifting speckled mask. Possibly giving it that chunky crayonesque look.

Hope this helps,

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[cinciem]

reply to Billy T: Yes I did export as SWF, but the brush strokes exported what were lines in my AI as shapes with hundreds of points .


reply to Pixelwit: Thanks for the reminder about the brush strokes in Flash- they may have to do it. I had the same idea about the spotted mask-- maybe it would work, but it would be a system hog.


reply to both: thanks for taking the time to help me out.