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Animations

Introduction

Xara Web Designer Premium takes a traditional animator's approach to animation. You
create key frames (or "snap-shots") of your animation through time, and Xara Web
Designer Premium automatically creates all the in-between frames for you, a process
called ‘tweening’.

An example start frame

The next key frame has the star shape moved, rotated a little, reduced in size, and changed to
a different color.

Xara Web Designer Premium will create a smoothly animated movie file automatically creating
the interim frames. This process is called "tweening".

Core Principles

In your animation you are likely to have some objects that remain static between key
frames (i.e. no tweening is necessary) and other objects you will want to animate.

To tell Xara Web Designer Premium which objects you want to animate, it's
necessary to give each object a name (via the ADD NAMES button on the
SELECTORTOOL InfoBar).

For more information on naming objects, see section "Naming Objects" in the "Document
Handling (on page 64)" chapter.