It??™s often convenient when animating to assemble all the objects or characters in a
scene exactly as you want them to end up, then work backward to specify how they
got there. Let??™s do that with our teacup and saucer.We want them to be arranged
as they are in the current scene at the end of our animation, so we??™ll place the current
scene in the final frame and then keyframe backward.
4. Select the teacup object itself. It will highlight yellow. You can do this by clicking
the Objects button at the bottom of Layout, then choosing the Teacup_Surfaced:
Cup listing from the Item drop-down list. This animation is 200 frames long, so
create a keyframe for the teacup at frame 200, the last frame. Since it??™s already in
its ???final??? position, you can simply lock it in place now. Click the Create Key button
beneath the timeline. It will have a 0 for the Create Key At entry because your
timeline is at frame 0. Enter 200 in the requester, and make sure that Selected
Items is chosen and that all of the channels are clicked, as in Figure 6.10.
Figure 6.10 Create a keyframe at 200 for the cup.
5. Click OK to close the Create Motion Key panel.
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