Re: how to animate tank treads in 2D picture?

I know it's late....

but since it's a 2D front view, i would try and make a solid layer, put a VEGAS effect on top of it, draw a mask around the tanks track, then probabely do the whole animation of the tank

wheels and track (its a mask so you can animate separate vertex points). And when the whole animation is set and done i would precompose the track solid layer and move the

mask and effects to the PRECOMPOSED layer. Now back in the original layer i would put some effects (bevel emboss?) on the precomposed track.

I think you could skip the vegas and mask effect and do the shape layer with segemented stroke animation.

But VEGAS does give nice effect in this case.

yeah i know it's late

artur