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Animating rotation

Animating rotation

In this movie, we are going to explore and animate rotation, but we are also going to do something we haven't done so far, and that is we are going to animate two properties on the same layer. The good news is that they are completely independent, and they should not be confusing, hopefully. So, let's go ahead and select the Sun layer. And I know I can hit the letter R to reveal the Rotation Property, but let's say you wanted to look at Position and Rotation of the same layer. Well, what I could do is instead of pressing R, which will actually replace Position and will only show Rotation - go back to hit P to hit Position again - I could hit Shift+R, and that will reveal both the Position and the Rotation properties. Now, actually, I don't need Rotation and Position open at the same time. I just need Rotation, so I am going to hit either R or P to get rid of those properties visually. And I will hit R to get that back. Now, here is the way Rotation works. We have two values here. We…

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