Apple Motion 2 - Manual (Page 196)

196 Chapter 2 Creating and Managing Projects
Moving the selection in the Canvas moves all three objects simultaneously.
Regardless of how they’re nested, individual objects can always be animated
independently. Subordinate layers can also be animated independently, although such
animation and effects also affect all objects or layers that are nested underneath.
The following example shows how you might create a hierarchy of layers and objects
to prepare for the animation of a human figure. Each component of the figure is a
separate graphics object. For example, the arm is made up of hand, forearm, and upper
arm objects. Each object that is connected to another object is placed in a layer that’s
nested inside that object’s layer. For the arm, the hand is nested inside the forearm’s
layer, which is nested inside the upper arm’s layer.
Before moving layer After moving layer
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