Re: Need Illustrator to Animator Tutorial - The Vector Basics.

Hi Serge,

I feel honored to have you reply. I just purchased and received your training DVD. It is excellent. Thank You very much.

In watching your new DVD this week...it is the first time I have definitively known what the spike problem is...and how to fix it. I have been trolling here on and off for over a year...and your DVD was the first time I understood that spikes are caused by crossed handles at a point...and I actually saw how you reversed them to make the problem go away. I was amazed to see and learn that. Seeing it and watching it for me was so much better than reading about someone else's post where they were asked to send a file over and the next thing I saw was "Hey, that fixed the problem, thanks."

Im not asking for a training DVD on this issue...just a 5-8 minute "desktop video" on-line. There is a myriad of things that real life producers are asked to implement quickly for customers...and whatever rules, steps, tips, organizations you can show us...will help us get from a customers idea to a real Zaxwerks showpiece...with no spikes, nice holes, and layers that create several levels.

I gave a pretty comprehensive laundry list in my first post for what I would like to have in my back pocket...so when someone asks me...can you do this...I can say Shure...I know just how to re-create that multi dimensional logo...No Problem!!! I can just do it in Zaxwerks.

I understand auto trace can be an issue...but sometimes real life complex graphics and quick customer demands make it a loathsome necessary tool. Id also like some..."here's how you create this... and this is how to fix this" guidance or general principles (use compound paths, use pathfinder or outlines or fills here to do this and that.) This may be stuff you know right off the top of your heads...but to us...it would be a veritable gold mine of practical seasoned assistance. The goal here is to advance the art of creating and using Zaxwerks...for newer comers. Who knows....it might even eliminate 15% of the questions here!

Jon and Serge...thanks for your feedback.

I just dont want to wait around for 9 hours hoping someone will be answering my question...when I have a customer right over my shoulder...I want to know MYSELF...how to spot those file things...so I can avoid or fix them on the spot...and then be totally freed up to be wonderfully creative with Animator...because ive seen it done once thoroughly...and now I can do it too.

Please consider sharing a small bit of your experience in this Zaxwerks input area, once...thoroughly...and in video geek language... so that we can become creative and make your product sing and not be burdened.

Thanks guys for considering this possibility.

Suzzie