Operation Manual

148 Stopframe/Keyframe Animation
Supporting tabs
Keyframe animation mode also presents other tabs that support the
Storyboard tab. These are exclusively used within keyframe animation
(and do not show in normal or stopframe animation mode), i.e.
• The Easing tab is used for applying linear or non-linear changes
between key objects with use of editable envelopes (e.g., to change
object position, morph, scale, rotation, skew, colour, and
transparency).
• The Actions tab allows objects and keyframes to be attributed
actions which will run (e.g., go to a URL or designated marker)
when an event is triggered (e.g., MouseOver, Rollovers, etc.).
A keyframe camera, masking, and sound/movies can also be used in
keyframe animation.
See DrawPlus Help for more information.
Getting started
To learn how to create a new Keyframe animation, or convert an
existing drawing, see Getting Started With Animation on p. 142.
To view the Storyboard tab:
• Unless the tab is already displayed, click the
handle at the
bottom of your workspace to reveal the tab.
We'll assume that you've drawn objects on the first keyframe. You can
run forward these automatically throughout your animation by creation
of additional keyframes—this builds up your animation "story" quickly.
Other methods exist to run objects forward (and backwards) but let's
concentrate on the insertion of keyframes to do this.