Summary chapter three

In this chapter, you learned to:

• Create a series of animation frames
• Use the Duplicate command
• Change animation speeds
• Loop animations Next Steps Animating a sun rising in the sky is a simple linear movement.

You could enhance or add complexity to this animation in several ways:

• Color the sun orange in the first frame. In each subsequent frame make the color lighter ending with a light yellow sun in the last frame. This animation would show the sun rising and getting brighter at the same time.
• Move the rays of the sun in some way. You could make them get a bit longer in each frame. This would make the sun get brighter as it rises. Or, you could alternately shorten and lengthen the rays, which would give a glimmering effect to the sun as it rises.
• Add another object to the animation frame. You could draw a cloud in front of the sun and have the sun rise from behind the cloud.

In Chapter 4 you learn to make a more complex animation in AM. Proceed to that chapter to learn about applying other AM features to an animation.