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Nested symbols

Nested symbols - Adobe Animate Tutorial

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Nested symbols

- [Voiceover] Now we're going to nest symbols in order to create an actual character. So let's see where we are. Let's zoom out again. Whenever I open a folder, I want to zoom out so I can get a feeling for where I am here. So we have our outside symbol. Click inside this. This is the scene zero 10 symbol. And inside that we have the alien symbol. I think it's plainer just to go to the library in this case and click on alien. The problem with doing that is we kind of lose our reference layer beneath. So let's go back up to the main stage and we'll click on here. And we have the white layer. I don't think we're gonna need it. Let's click off the white layer and we'll just double-click on the alien. Now we can zoom in. When you tunnel in it kind of fades out at the reference layer beneath as well, so you have different levels of fading. So if I set this skull to outline mode then you can see exactly where we're sitting over the reference layer. Now I'm gonna make a new layer by clicking…

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