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8 Aug 2024 04:12:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stupid animation question  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 4 Mar 2001 09:27:46
Message: <3AA2503D.628912DB@videotron.ca>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Francois Labreque wrote:
> >
> > What is a "keyframe" ?
> 
> It could be described as key locations for an object or objects in an
> animation. An object moves from point a to point b to point c which
> would be your keyframes while the frames between would be the motion
> frames between those points. You can set up any number of keyframes
> to decribe motion between any number of locations or actions within
> a scene.
> 
> Some animation software will allow you to specify keyframe locations
> or actions and will interpolate the movement for you. This is a handy
> feature especially in a GUI interface. All you have to do is point
> and click the locations for each oject you wish to animate then define
> movement paramaters such as speed, arcs, rotations, accelerations, etc
> between your keyframe points and it will handle all of the tedious
> math for you.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler

Thank you.

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