Motion tutorial

WE ARE MOTION EXPERTS! FACT

TOM AND LILLY

WHAT IS MOTION…..

Motion lets you create sophisticated moving images and other

visual effects on the fly and in real time. Simply drag one of

Motion’s built-in behaviours (such as Spin or Throw) or filters

(such as Glow or Strobe) onto an object in the Canvas and

watch your clip be made. We have used motion for our social

networks animation clip when our voice of god talks about how

many people use social networks. The animation is used to

support the Voice of God which is conventional for

documentaries.

PROJECT PANE

The Project pane can appear on either the left or right side of

the Canvas window and can be hidden to maximize the Canvas

working area. The Project pane contains three tabs that allowed

us to see and manipulate the contents of the current project in a

variety of ways.

We used the project Plane when creating our animation all the

time as we had to move different images around in order to get

our animation to make sense. We couldn’t have an image of

Facebook when our voice over was talking about twitter.

TOOLBAR

The Toolbar contains controls to create and edit elements

in our project, such as text, shapes, and masks. There are

also icons to apply filters and behaviours, to create particle

systems and replicators, and to show and hide the various

windows and panes of the Motion interface.

We used the toolbar all the time when we had to put a

mask over each of our images so they could be seen and

also when we put our space like background in.

CANVAS

The Canvas is the main work area of the interface,

where we can view and manipulate elements, as well

as control playback of our project. The Canvas also

contains the Status bar and the project view options.

Obviously we had to keep watching our animation

back to see if the timings were right and to see if it

worked so this is when we used the canvas.

UTILITY WINDOW

The utility window includes the Preview area, File

Browser, Library, and the Inspector. This basically

allowed us to take the images from the internet such

as the Facebook logo and put them into motion. It is

a little like exporting on final cut. This then allowed

us to put them onto our project pane to play around

with them and edit them.

TIMING PANE

The Timing pane appears at the bottom of the Canvas window

and can be hidden to maximize the Canvas working area. The

Timing pane contains three tabs that allow you to see and

manipulate different aspects of the current project with an

emphasis on how they are arranged in time.

This is a little bit like a timeline on final cut as it is where your

clips will go to be editing and it is where you can drag your play

head over to get the correct bit of clip which you want.

HERE ARE A SERIES OF STILLS OF MY

MOTION ANIMATION COMING TOGETHER