User Guide

Corel Painter 429
This example shows a blinking eye as an
animated cycle. You draw the frames once, and
then repeat them.
To create a clean cycle, the beginning
and ending images must be the same.
For example, in an animation of a
blinking eye, the eye would be open at
the beginning and the end. This way,
when the end of one cycle is “hooked
up” to the beginning of the next, the
action continues smoothly.
Scrolling a background is another
example of a cycled action.
Commonly, a subject remains in one
place while the background slides by.
Modifying a Movie
Frames can be added to, or deleted
from, a movie. You can also erase the
contents of a frame while leaving the
frame in the movie. These changes
cannot be undone, so it’s best that you
create your animation in segments
and combine them when you are
finished.
Adding Frames to a Movie
You can add frames at any time to
your movie. Frames can be added at
the end or beginning of a movie or
between any frame in the stack. You
can also repeat the last frame at the
end of the stack.
To add frames to a movie:
1 Choose Movie menu > Add
Frames.
A dialog prompts you to enter the
number of frames to add and
choose where to insert them.
2 Click Before or After and enter a
frame number as reference.
For example, to add 6 blank frames
before frame 10, enter 6 in the Add
box, click Before, and enter 10 in
the frame number box. To add
frames before frame 1, click At start
of movie. To add frames after the
last frame, click At end of movie.
3 When you’ve set the number and
selected the insertion point, click
OK.
To repeat the last frame:
1 Select the last frame in the movie.
2 Choose Movie menu > Clear
New Frames to disable this option.
The check mark beside the Clear
New Frames menu item is
removed.
3 Click the Step Forward button
on the Frame Stacks palette.
Tip
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You can add blank frames at the end of
a movie with Step Forward by enabling
Movie menu > Clear New Frames.