You do not need to move the timeline slider to set keyframes throughout an animation
if you are manually setting keyframes. However, moving it helps keep you organized
and aware of the current animation frame.
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The tutorials in this motion chapter are really basic, and probably the simplest things to
do in this book, but it??™s important for you to get the hang of keyframing. You told the cup
to be at a certain position at frame 0, the beginning of the animation. Then, you moved
the object to its resting position at the end of the animation at frame 200. You then told
LightWave to copy that position of the cup at frame 10, and then again at frame 30.You also
changed its position and rotation at frame 20. It will then sit there until frame 200, unless
you make another keyframe change. LightWave interpolates the frames between 0 and 200,
even if there is no movement from 30 to 200. Sort of like magic, you made an animation.
Automagically, the motion curve that the computer created is the in-betweening that traditional
animators would have to draw by hand. (Automagically is a technical term.
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