Transcription: Before you start creating your animation, it's important to understand a few basic animation concepts. Props are stationary objects. If we look at our sample, you'll notice that there are three props, the background, the picture and the desk. Our one and only actor is the dollar sign. Because the dollar sign is an actor, it consists of a collection of cells. The cell sequencer displays how the actor's cells have been synchronized with the animation's frames. Actors can also move across a path. When the Path Edit tool is selected, the series of nodes that appear on the screen represent the acto ...