Introduction to Animating in Motion
by Megan Cunningham
Free
sample from this lesson:
In this exclusive “first look”
at Motion --Apple’s new real-time interactive motion
graphics application –– Megan Cunningham provides
an introduction to basic animating techniques. She’ll
introduce you to the Motion interface and demonstrate
how to use Behaviors, Motion’s revolutionary new
tool for animators. Then she’ll show you how Behaviors
work in conjunction with keyframes, and review when to
use one versus the other. Project files included on DVD
(provided by Thinkstock).
Inside the full tutorial:
1. Setting Up a Motion Project
a. Introduction
b. The File Browser
c. The Canvas
d. The Timeline
e. Creating Titles
2. Building Layers for a Composite
a. Adding Photos to the Project
b. Timing Objects to Marker Points
c. Adding Filters
3. Behaviors
a. Introduction to Behaviors
b. Adding Text Behaviors
c. Adding Basic Motion Behaviors
4. Keyframing
a. Adding Keyframes to the Inspector
b. Intro to the Keyframe Editor
c. Adding Keyframes with AutoKey
d. The Relationship Between Keyframes and Behaviors
