Yay! I may have spent so long basically recreating the original image I couldn't be bothered to do much with it, but the Tooter Moves. At least it worked, & it's another tooter in the animation library :HumphStomp:
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@eclectech I love your tooters. Their fun, funky shapes, the simple black silhouette against the colorful background. I just *love* the aesthetic! Takes me back to... some of my favorite clipart from Corel Draw 5.0 (how very specific lol)
@raiscagamor Thank you! And hah, I probably had that version of Corel Draw back in the day 😆
@eclectech Lovely!
Are you animating the letter with node manipulation, or Sub-path and masking?
@triffen Gah, I played around with them in so many different ways (including both of the above) I had to go back in to check!
In the end it was a scene with a single Z with a transform on the opacity, size and position of it, then stacking multiple instances of them in a second scene where they had stepped visibility range, then sticking that on the bee.
@eclectech Oh, that... doesn't sound easy. I use sub-path and masking, and then curve the mask movement, so if there is something that didn't work with this approach, I can help.
@triffen OMG I'm a fool. For some reason I read your post as a reply to the bees one, with the ZZZs, which I had faffed with multiple times doing different things (I think I'd just been talking to someone else about it and failed to click through). Sorry!
This one was a sub-path and masking.
That was extremely diplomatic wording for what must have sounded absolutely ridiculous - thank you
@eclectech Oh, I just thought because N is sideways Z, maybe you used that. It still made sense in my head ;)
Sub-path and masking is the best way I know indeed, pretty easy when you know the steps.
@triffen Hehe, still... very polite 😊 Yeah, it's a nifty little feature, although I have just tidied it up a bit from this one (still working my way around it all).
