Animating strokes – Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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Chapter 21

Paint

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There are two different drag modes that affect how strokes are reshaped when you
move a selected group of control points.

If Linear Drag mode is selected, all selected control points move the same amount.

If Magnet Drag mode is selected, the points nearest the pointer move the most. To
temporarily activate this mode, press and hold the Z key and drag.

Animating Strokes

There are several ways you can animate paint strokes:

You can keyframe the movement of selected points using the standard Autokey
controls to set keyframes for paint strokes in Interp mode.

You can animate the startPoint and endPoint parameters to animate the completion
of a stroke along the defined stroke path.

You can attach a tracker to a paint stroke.

Selected points

Dragging in Linear Drag mode

Selected points

Dragging in Magnet Drag mode

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