Motion Guide

In this toturial, you're going to learn how to use "motion Guide" to guide your tweened animation.

Note: Please make sure you have already read and understood the tutorial on "Motion Tweening" as the following tutorial relies on that.

1:

• Start by clicking on the first frame of "Layer 1", just to be sure the object we are going to draw will be placed there.

Fig 1

A new layer appears on top of the existing layer? good!

2:

• ok, now click on the first frame of the new layer and use the "Pencil Tool" on your left to draw any form of lines, straight or a curved.

I used the "Line Tool", that's why it looks smooth ;)

This will be the guide that our object (yellow circle) will follow when it's on motion. Look at Fig 2 please.

Fig 2

Simple, isn't it?

A couple more steps left!

3:

• Good, now right click on the 15th frame of the "Guide" Layer and select "Insert Keyframe".

The result should be as follows:

Almost done!

4:

• Click on the first frame (A) of the motion-tweened object and drag the object to the starting point of the guide line you created.

As shown in Fig 3

Fig 3

That's it! now test your movie and enjoy the result.

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