Review animation options

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Review animation options.

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After completing this video, you'll be able to

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reconfigure an animation and adjust animation settings

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in fusion 3 60. Let's get started with the supply data set animation options dot F 3D

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for this, I'm going to begin by dragging the timeline.

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So it's a little bit larger and we can see

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more of what's going on inside of the timeline.

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When we take a look at the timeline, we can see that each action that happens,

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whether it's a move or a visibility option,

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we can see that those take a different amount of time

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and they happen at different times inside of our timeline.

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These can all be moved and adjusted to reconfigure the way an animation works

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as we move the play head through the timeline,

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we can see the large gear goes back into the housing,

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the small gears go back into the housing, the

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front cover goes,

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the hardware starts to become visible as the back cover is moving

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and then the hardware moves at the very end.

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Now, one thing that we can do is we can take a look at the hardware itself.

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It happens to go all the way up to the five second mark,

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but we can begin its motion a bit sooner by dragging the beginning

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portion of that move so that it starts to happen at two seconds

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as we play through the animation.

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Now, you can see that the hardware is already moving before it becomes visible.

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Now, this can help us simplify and shorten an animation

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rather than waiting for everything to happen at a specific time.

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We can also determine the objects that are moving.

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We can have them overlap by beginning to

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drag out various positions of these move operations.

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So that way the smaller gears begin moving while the large gear is still moving,

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having various components move at the same

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time helps keep the animation interesting.

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If everything went until a stop and then the next object began moving,

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this would be a little bit harder for someone to follow.

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But if you even have just a slight overlap between objects moving,

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this can really help with keeping the animation interesting.

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In addition to simply manually moving things around for our animation,

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we do have a couple of options.

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One of the options that we have under the

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settings is to toggle on and off text watermarks

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in the canvas when we're using record view position.

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Now this option is a little bit tricky to see.

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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna leave it on for now,

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we're gonna toggle off the view recording

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and essentially what this allows us to do is rotate the object around

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to make selections

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and do whatever we need to do.

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And then as soon as we pause that it'll go back to its previous location,

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it's similar to dragging the play head to the scratch zone.

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However,

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any changes we make when the play head are in the scratch

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zone are going to be the starting position of our animation.

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With that said, we can also go ahead and move back into the scratch zone,

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we can zoom out and rotate the entire view. And

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then as we come back out of the scratch zone,

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you can see this is the new starting position for our animation.

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If we were to just simply rotate during the animation,

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that camera position capture would be captured inside of our animation.

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So if we play through

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as the objects are moving, you can see that everything rotates around.

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Another thing that we mentioned is that we can right click and copy a storyboard,

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then we can right click and paste it

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and we can take that pasted storyboard and reverse.

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Now,

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this means everything that happened in the

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original storyboard is gonna happen in reverse order

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components moving outward instead of inward and the rotation of the

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camera is gonna happen in the reverse order as well.

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Once again,

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this can be a great way to supplement the return to home operations that

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we have if we need to show an animation of a design coming apart.

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And we also want to repurpose that to show

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the design or the animation going back together.

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One other thing to consider when configuring animations is sometimes you might

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want to create a single animation for only a few components.

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If we start a new storyboard in this kind, we're gonna make a clean storyboard

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and we go to the scratch stone,

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we can determine which components we want visible

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if we don't want to show any hardware

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and we don't want to show the front cover, we only want to show the gears.

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Then we can do that by hiding the back cover,

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by hiding the large gear and only focusing our attention on the objects of interest.

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This allows us to begin our animation

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and begin moving only the components of interest.

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Another thing that we can do is go into our settings and

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we can make all of the recording modes happen starting at the beginning

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or having them be sequential.

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Now, this can be an important step.

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But again,

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having that half a second overlap does

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help keep the animation visually interesting.

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What we're gonna do here is simply use transform

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and we're going to begin by pulling all the gears out, holding down the shift key,

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making our selections and pulling all the gears out.

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Then we're gonna left click,

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we're gonna move the play head to about three seconds.

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We're gonna take the front cover,

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we're gonna say, OK, on transform.

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Component and we're gonna hide that front housing,

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then we're gonna move a little bit further, go back to transform components

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and then we can begin separating these gears from each other.

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So once again, if we play through this, we can see the gears come out,

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the housing disappears and the other gears begin to move

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and we can select that position in our timeline.

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We can have that housing start to change its opacity

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a bit sooner while the gears are still moving.

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And then at the very end,

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what we can do is we can focus our attention zooming into those gears.

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Everything that we do inside of our animation workspace is going to be captured.

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And anything that we want to do use or repurpose can always be copied or

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we can start a new storyboard using the end position from the previous animation.

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This can help if you're building out things like user manuals,

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you can go ahead and begin exploding out a complex animation

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and each step of the way,

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start a new storyboard isolate the components of interest and

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then continue working your way through an entire animation.

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At this point. Let's go ahead and save this design before we move on.