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Creating lines that draw - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Creating Animations
Creating lines that draw
- One of the basic animation effects that I find I use frequently, is to simply have a line that draws in some way. It's an effect that's easy to do, but it does involve a bit of trickery. Let's take a look at some examples here. I'll show them to you in the preview panel. We have a horizontal line, a diagonal, a line with an arrow, and a curved line. Let's take a look at how these are done. I'm going to turn to the second page of my file, where the objects are not animated. Let's start with the horizontal line. For this, as I've shown in other videos, we're going to use a scaling trick. We're going to set the width of the line to 0, leave the height at 100. We're going to animate it to its current appearance. We want it to go from 0% width to its current width, and we're going to change the orientation proxy to the left. Let's take a look, there we go! The line draws, it's that simple. I'm going to delete this line, and let's focus on our diagonal line here. We're basically going to…
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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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