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Filling jars and other containers

Filling jars and other containers - InDesign Tutorial

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Filling jars and other containers

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- One of the fun effects you can create with InDesign animation is that of filling jars and emptying containers. Let's take a look at our little chemistry lab example here. I'll show it to you in the preview panel. The beaker empties, goes through the tube and fills up the jar. Fun, huh? Let me show you how this is done. There's a fair amount of trickery involved here. I'm gonna turn to the second page of this file and I'll get out of preview mode and what I've set up here is on the left I have our three objects that I'm gonna animate, the beaker emptying, the tube filling and then emptying and the jar on the left. And then over here on the right is a little diagram of how each of these is constructed. I'm gonna start with the jar because that's the simplest one. The jar is constructed of two pieces, the fill and the empty jar on top of that. If we look at the layers panel, we'll see that here's the contents and then here's the empty jar that sits on top of it. In this case, we're…

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