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Oh, that helped a lot, thank you! I'm gonna go do a few of the tutorials now, heh.

Ok, here is my next question. It may be answered in one of the tutorials, but I'd rather not go looking around for the answer if someone can answer it here, hehe. So, my question is, I've been making my things (for example, just made a bowling pin, and to put the stripes on it, I made seperate parts, so I could color some white and some red and then I put it together). I'm sure theres got to be some easier way to do that, but I'm not sure how.

Oh boy, do I feel stupid. I thought manual was like.. a setting on the program. Hah. Well, I've done a few of the tutorials on the website-- I work much better when I see what i'm doing. But I've only done a few, such as the 'flower power' one, because that seemed like it would help me learn to do what I wanted to. But i'll take a look at the other ones. I'm sure they'll help me out more. Thank you so much.

Oh my god. I'm just shocked at how just pressing page up made it all smooth. It was way to simple for me to figure out I always think things are harder than they are... well anyways. What exatly do you mean my manual? I watched the demo, and i've been trying to make vases and such, and I'm actually capable of making a flower (yes, I know, amazing ) But anything beyond that simplicity, I dont think I can do. "You're probably lathing the square. That will always produce a cylindrical shape. You probably need to extrude your square to make a cube." Terribly sorry to sound stupid again, but what does it mean to extrude, exactly?

Well, first off, I'm completely clueless when it comes to just about everything on animation master. I know very simple things, such as the mirror button... which is the only way i know of to make my work 3-D. One of my problems. Question #1: How can you make images that arent the same all the way around-- I ask this stupid question because when you use mirror say you drew half a square, it turns it into a cylinder shaped figure. I know if you mess around with it, you could get it back to say, a cube shape, but I'm sure theres some easier way. Question #2: This may be normal, or not able to be changed, but when i go into shaded mode, my picture is not smooth at all, nor is it shaded very nicely. I've looked at pictures from others, and it looks like this in some of the less advanced, but nearly all of the advanced images are smooth and... shiny. I probably will think of more questions, but thats all for now. I hope you understand what I'm asking, I'd really appriciate any help. Thanks!