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M5_01 | How to animate a caterpillar with Motion 5

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  Hi Everyone! This is going to be a tutorial on how to animate a caterpillar movement on an Apple motion 5. Let’s get started. File > New > Open up a new canvas > Motion project. I’m using HD 720 and 30 frames per second for 10 seconds. Open up our new canvas. Let’s change the color of our background. Click on Project. Open up heads-up display and change the background to a light color. Whatever light colored at you like. Let’s draw our caterpillar using Bezier tool at the bottom of the canvas. The button that looks like a pen. When you see a pen tool on your canvas, click on Shift and click on your canvas. Let’s do that again. Click on Shift, without letting go your Shift drag horizontally. Second point. Click and drag horizontally. Click and drag horizontally. You will have a line that curves up like a small hill. Then press Enter. Now our outline is black in colour. We change it to dark green, without a fill. No fill. We want the the caterpilla...