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Control Panel Animation Tutorial

Create a new animation. Copy and paste the top.jpg into the frame. In the Animation Properties dialog set the Display This Frame For: amount to 200. Check the Background check box. This makes the first image be the same for each frame and needs only to appear one time. Press Apply, then press OK.

 

Control Panel Animation Tutorial

Make a duplicate of the crescent shape used for the sky portion of the top image for reference. Using the Shape Editor Tool create a graceful arc as shown. With the Blend Tool , create a 5-step Blend of two spheres like the one shown enlarged on the top left. (Drag from the Blend Tool from the first circle to the second circle to make the blend). Make the smallest circle 80% transparent by Ctrl clicking on the first circle and then selecting the Transparency Tool and moving the Transparency slider on the Infobar to 80%. Hold down the Shift key and click on the arc (the path) and then then blend. Press the Blend Along a Curve icon on the Infobar to place the blend on the path.

 

Control Panel Animation Tutorial

Position the blend over the top bitmap. Convert the blend to editable shapes (Arrange > Convert to Editable Shapes). Ungroup the blend (Ctrl U or Arrange > Ungroup). Delete the path.

Press the Copy Frame button 6 times to create six new frames.

In each frame remove one of the spheres. For example, in frame 1, remove all but the smallest sphere. In frame 2 remove all but the second smallest sphere and so on so that the spheres progress throughout the frames.

Export the animation as top.gif. You will also need to modify the HTML script again to change top.jpg to top.gif.

 

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