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Distort tool

Distort tool

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Distort tool

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- [Presenter] So let's add a distortion tool to the exploding building. So, what I want to do first is to speed up the process of rendering, or previewing, rather, is go to the dropdown here, and switch the quality to a quarter and that'll speed up the animation previewing. But I also want to get rid of all the stuff we don't need. All these flying saucers are completely irrelevant to the operation we're going to do now, so hide everything on the stage except for the lightning zap and the exploding building. Everything else can be hidden. Not just that, we can also shy them out. So any layer that isn't those two, we'll just shy them out and we just pop this little guy down here, and select the Hide All Layers, and now we can just focus all our attention on these two. Great! So what I want to do now is to find the frame of the building that zaps, right there. Page up and page down are really good shortcuts, as well, on your keyboard, and that'll find it. So, select the layer and then…

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