Almost completed a G3 dummy with my own 2D PNGs, but I've hit a wall with EYES.

Cartoon Animator General
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Hi guys! I need moveable pupils working independently withing the eye whites/eye socket (e.g. Spongebob) but I can’t work out the procedure. I’m using (deliberately) crudely drawn 2D elements, so its just a circle for the eye whites/socket and a big dot for the pupil. Loading in the complete eye as one PNG image doesn’t allow independent motion, but there’s only one bone dot for each eye - so how do I get separate eye parts working independently?

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Hi…

Please take a look at the tutorial below, and in particular from 04:17. This explains how to correctly set up the eyes. Hopefully this will help.

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Yeah, I’d been bringing all of my PNGs directly from Concepts, but it seems passing them through Inkscape first (or Adobe, or other such) beforehand, will make it easier for CTA to ‘know’ what it’s dealing with?