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Keyframe animation and the curve editor – Apple Shake 4 Tutorials User Manual

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Tutorial 2

Intermediate Skills

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In the Parameters tab, use the Reposition controls to drag the wawa2 and wawa3 layers
below the grass layer.

13

Click the Save button at the top of the Node View, and save the script as
field_wawas.shk.

Keyframe Animation and the Curve Editor

This section continues with the script you created in the previous section. You’ll add
animation to create motion that doesn’t exist in the original image sequences. Then,
you’ll use the Curve Editor to adjust the animation keyframes.

To animate the “wawa” characters:

1

In the Globals tab, enter 1-30 as the timeRange, then click the Home button in the
Viewer playback controls to match the Time Bar to the global time range.

2

Select the wawa2 node and insert a Transform–Move2D node.

Before completing the next step, make sure the playhead is set to frame 1.