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212 Creating Animations

To preview in a web browser:

• For stopframe animation, select Preview in Browser from the File

menu. The animation loads your default web browser and begins

playing.

This actually exports a temporary copy of the animation, using the

current export settings and displays it in your web browser. You can

leave the browser open and DrawPlus will find it again next time you

issue the command.

Using background and overlay frames

DrawPlus supports two methods of reusing elements across multiple frames:

Background frames and Overlay frames.

Background frames

You can designate any frame as a Background frame, which remains visible

while the following frames animate "over" it.

To create a Background frame:

• In the Frames tab, click on the icon at the bottom of your chosen

frame. You'll see the objects on the background frame carried forward

either to the end of the animation or to the next background frame.

Click again to revert back to a normal frame.

Overlay frames

The main advantage of frame overlaying is to save you the time of having to

copy or redraw objects in a series where each frame builds cumulatively on

previous frames. The white portions of Overlay frames become "transparent," so

the contents of the preceding frame show through. The effect is cumulative, so

overlays are most useful in a series where each frame builds on the contents of all

the previous overlay frames.

The Overlay effect resembles that of onion skinning (see Working

with Stopframe animation on p. 209), but it's actually a frame

property that becomes part of the final animation.

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