A question about Adobe Illustrator and saving layers....

I use illustrator to create animation art. Basically, I use each layer as create a seperate frame of art - it's a great wayto constanctly check to see if my character's movement is smooth.
However, this often to leads to files that are hundreds of layers deep. I then have to save each layer seperately - this can literally take hours. Is there any way to automatically save each layer as it's own separate file?

Thank you for the info. After a bit of experimenting, I believe that I've
actually found a use for Fireworks, That software converters the layers
into bitmaps, and PNG looks terrific if I don't change the size. Until I
learn how to convert vectors, I may use Fireworks for long, frame by frame
animation, and bite the bullet when I want to resize or tween artwork.
In a message dated 4/18/2010 8:17:14 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Try bring the whole file into Photoshop Extended and use the time line
there to create your animation you can choose Frame by Frame or a real time
with keyframing and you can preview it. If you have after effects you can
bring all the layers into AE and then place them on the time line at will you
might like this workflow and might find that it is not necessary to draw
every frame once you get use to AE.
AE is used world wide for professional animation and special effects so is
Flash these days.
You can probably write a script or have one written for you and attach it
to a folder and then you can probably just drop the file into the folder
and the script could probably be design to do this autmatically.
Or you can export the file to Flash in anyone of these ways including
layers to flash files. And flash is being used for professional animations for
the big screen as well as for the web.

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