Very cool experience.

LAUGH.

Pretty cool.

Strangely, it doesn’t seem like JSFL has a method to reorder frames. So I implemented a quick-n-dirty fix: simply copying the frame, pasting it either before or after the current frame, and then clearing the original frame:

var doc = fl.getDocumentDOM();
var tl = doc.getTimeline();
var curFrame = tl.currentFrame;
var selFrames = tl.getSelectedFrames();
var newSelFrames = selFrames;

// move frames
for (i=0; i<selFrames.length; i+=3) {
	tl.currentLayer = selFrames[i];
	tl.copyFrames(curFrame);
	tl.pasteFrames(curFrame+1);
	tl.clearKeyframes(curFrame);
}

// select new frames
var counter = 0
for (i=0; i<newSelFrames.length; i++) {
	if (counter > 0) {
		newSelFrames[i] += 1;
	}
	if (counter==2) {
		counter = 0;
	} else {
		counter++;
	}
}
tl.setSelectedFrames(newSelFrames, true);
tl.currentFrame = curFrame+1;

Aside from a couple of niggles, the code is pretty straight forward. The reason I iterate i by +3 in line 8 is because the getSelectedFrames() method returns an array of 3n integers, where n is the number of selected regions. The first integer in the array is the layer index, which is the only number we care about for this script. The other two integers refer to the beginning and ending indices of the selection, but in this quick-n-dirty approach we’re only concerned with moving one frame at a time (although you could move that single frame on many different layers, ie, you could select frame 5 on a bunch of different layers and run this script to move them all to frame 6) This could be easily be extended upon, so that the script could move a whole block of selected frames forward or backward, but I’m feeling a bit tired at the moment and I think what we have will hit the spot for the request

And obviously, to move the frame backward just requires a few pluses turned into minuses:

var doc = fl.getDocumentDOM();
var tl = doc.getTimeline();
var curFrame = tl.currentFrame;
var selFrames = tl.getSelectedFrames();
var newSelFrames = selFrames;

// move frames
for (i=0; i<selFrames.length; i+=3) {
	tl.currentLayer = selFrames[i];
	tl.copyFrames(curFrame);
	tl.pasteFrames(curFrame-1);
	tl.clearKeyframes(curFrame);
}

// select new frames
var counter = 0
for (i=0; i<newSelFrames.length; i++) {
	if (counter > 0) {
		newSelFrames[i] -= 1;
	}
	if (counter==2) {
		counter = 0;
	} else {
		counter++;
	}
}
tl.setSelectedFrames(newSelFrames, true);
tl.currentFrame = curFrame-1;

And finally, you can download the scripts here.

Check out the first Pacific Rim trailer!! The first trailer for the first feature film I’ve worked on. Pretty cool stuff.

Well, to bring you up to speed, I am now working at ILM as an Animation Assistant! I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am for this opportunity so I don’t think I’m going to try. Just believe me when I say I look forward to going in every day.

And what am I working on during those days? Working on Guillermo Del Toro’s next movie, Pacific Rim! Checkout the teaser poster:

Pretty awesome, right?! It’s a fun project to be on.

Well, I guess that’s all. Good night.

I’m still in the process of migrating over and uploading blog posts, artwork, etc, so you might run into a rough patch here or there. Mea cupla.

Hope ya dig the new site!

I have a few shots from the class that still need a good amount of love and polish, but they should start popping up in the reel in the coming weeks.