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Creating Animations 209

To save an animation:

• Choose File>Save.... DrawPlus saves animation documents in the

proprietary .DPA format (Drawings are saved as .DPPs).

Working with Stopframe animation

The most important difference in Stopframe animation mode to the usual

Drawing mode is that you'll be working predominantly with the Frames tab,

ideally suited for animation because of its width and easy control of individual

frames (stopframes are spread along the tab for easier management).

Use the Frames tab exclusively to insert, delete, clone or reorder frames, and

access individual frame properties. DrawPlus's Hintline toolbar navigation

buttons let you jump to the first, previous, next, and last frames as you would for

pages in normal documents. The tab also lets you preview the animation and

enable onion skinning directly; exporting as a standalone animated GIF or video

is carried out via the File menu.

The Frames tab is designed for Stopframe animation only, and only shows while

in this mode. Don't get this tab confused with the Storyboard tab, used in the

other type of animation supported by DrawPlus, Keyframe animation (see p.

213). Each tab hosts distinctly different tools suited to the respective animation

type.

In most cases, your new Stopframe animation will have a single initial frame

(e.g., Frame 1). To create new frames, you can either clone the current frame or

insert a blank frame after the current frame. Choose to clone if you will be

reusing the current frame's contents with a transformation of some kind (the

most common way of simulating change or movement).

Try to think of your frame arrangement as a chronological sequence of static

images which, when animated, will create the illusion of movement (like a

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