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Complex animation with simulations

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Complex animation with simulations

- [Instructor] Simulation behaviors allow you to create complex animations rather quickly by simulating how things may or may not react in the real world. So to show you what I mean, we're going to animate some dots and I want these dots to actually spin around the center of our circle pattern here. So if we look in the Layers panel, notice, I already have a dots groups created. So I'll go ahead and select that. And I can close the timeline by pressing F6 on my keyboard 'cause I don't need to see that right now. To add some dots, let's go down to our shape tools and click the carrot to the right of the rectangle and I'll grab a circle. Just click and drag anywhere in the scene. Just make sure to hold down Shift after your start to drag to keep that circle an actual circle. Now, I'll go ahead and rename this Blue Dot. Let's make another. Hold down Option, click and drag on the blue dot and drag it up onto the…

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