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Animating infographics: Simple pie charts - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Creating Animations
Animating infographics: Simple pie charts
- One of the most common, and dare I say beloved, charts has to be the pie chart. There are several different, simple animations you can apply to pie charts that will make them a lot more interesting to your audience. All the techniques we're gonna look at in this video assume that each wedge in your chart is separate. One very easy way to create pie charts with separate wedges is to create them in Illustrator using the Pie Graph Tool, then, instead of placing the pie, copy it and paste it into InDesign, then you can ungroup the pie and you'll have separate wedges for each wedge, just as we have here. That's the starting point. When it comes to animation on pie charts just about the easiest effect that you can add is a simple fade in for each wedge. Let's Preview this. Wedge one, two, three, four, five. In this case I simply selected the wedges in the order that I wanted them to animate and applied Fade In. Each wedge is named correctly, so I can easily tell in the Timing panel that…
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Applying animation to multiple objects on one page4m 15s
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Applying multiple animations to one object2m 57s
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Animating type: Old movie reel headline2m 27s
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Animating type: Typewriter effect2m 33s
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Animating type: Bounce back effect2m 51s
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Animating type: Motion blur3m 26s
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Animating type: Digital flip sign3m 59s
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Creating lines that draw5m 31s
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Drawing with objects5m 18s
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Filling jars and other containers5m 15s
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Moving the rotation center point5m 44s
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Animating infographics: Line graphs5m 28s
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Animating infographics: Bar charts3m 12s
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Animating infographics: Simple pie charts4m 34s
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Animating inforgraphics: Fancy pie charts4m 11s
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Creating a slideshow4m 3s
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Creating a moving bicycle2m 57s
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Building things that blink4m 27s
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Creating auto-scrolling text4m 37s
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Creating color transitions4m 33s
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