Apple Motion 2 Tutorials - Manual (Page 77)

Tutorial 2 Basic Motion Behaviors 77
In the Canvas, notice that a transform control for the new boxes layer appears with no
surrounding bounding box. This is because the layer is currently empty and has no “size.”
A layer is resolution independent—it is the size of the objects contained within it.
Creating the Shapes
First, go to a frame in which the dolphin objects are visible in order to properly position
the shapes. Next, create the shapes.
To go to a frame where all objects are visible:
1 If the project is playing, click the Play button (or press the Space bar) to stop playback.
2 In the Current Frame field, type 60, then press Return.
The playhead moves to frame 60.
To draw and color the first rectangle shape:
1 In the Toolbar, select the Rectangle tool.
The pointer changes to a “+” symbol, which indicates the shape drawing mode.
Current Frame field
Rectangle tool