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Creating a moving bicycle

Creating a moving bicycle - InDesign Tutorial

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Creating a moving bicycle

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- For some reason, one of the everyday items that first comes to people's minds to animate, is a bicycle. Don't ask me why, but I often get asked whether or not you can have a bicycle move while the wheels spin, using InDesign's animations. The answer is yes, and it's not very hard at all. Let's take a look. I'll show you this animation in the "Preview" panel. There goes our bicycle, moving while the wheels spin. Let me show you how that's set up. I'm gonna turn to page two of this file, which doesn't have any animations. First, let's look at the parts of the bicycle. I'll open the "Layers" panel here, and we have three parts. We have the "Frame", with no wheels, and we have each wheel, the front and back wheel. We're gonna start with the rotation of the wheels. I'll select the rear wheel, and then the front wheel, and I'm gonna set them to rotate several times. Set them to a rotation degree of 1800. Remember, you can put up to 7200 degrees of rotation, The higher the degree of…

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