From the course: Motion: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Precise animation with keyframes - Motion Tutorial
From the course: Motion: Principles of Motion Graphics
Precise animation with keyframes
- [Narrator] Keyframes give you the ability to control the exact time at which an object is going to move within your scene. So we're going to use keyframes to record the animation of these two lines into the background of our scene, and we'll use keyframes to pop this circle into the lower left area of Southern California. So to start, I'll go to the lines layer group here in my layers panel, and I'll select the bezier layer, which is this light blue line. With that layer selected, let's go to the inspector and in the shape section of the inspector, go down to last point offset. Notice as I scrub this parameter, I can see how it's changing. Let's start by changing last point offset to a value of 0%. Then we can move the playhead back to frame zero, because this is where I want the animation to start. To set the first keyframe, I'll come right here to the keyframe button and just click once. I know I've correctly set…
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