Cut-out Animation
Animate provides you with some great tools to animate your puppets. You can create simple animation using the Transform tool and you can make advanced animation using both forward and inverse kinematics. Animate has advanced onion skinning and image swapping features to help you animate efficiently and quickly. To give you animation freedom you are able to mix several different techniques of animation such as simple rigging, hierarchy and symbol animation.
Topics Covered
| • | Getting the Character |
| • | Keyframes and Drawing Blocks |
| • | Creating a Simple Cut-out Animation |
| • | Selecting Layers to Animate or Position |
| • | Navigating the Hierarchy |
| • | Animating Using the Transform Tool |
| • | Animating using Inverse Kinematics |
| • | Animating in Stop-motion |
| • | Animating Using Computer-generated Interpolation |
| • | Flipping through Poses |
| • | Using the Onion Skin in Cut-out Animation |
| • | Flipping Parts |
| • | Reusing Extra Drawings, Poses and Facial Expressions on page 1 |
| • | Swapping Images |
| • | Adding a New Drawing |
| • | Ordering Layers Over Time |
| • | Resetting a Transformation |
| • | Creating Cycles |
| • | Adding Pegs |
| • | Offsetting Part of an Animation on page 1 |
| • | Preferences on page 1 |