Animating a Girl on a Swing

Welcome to the next project. In this one, we’re going to animate parts of an image, specifically an image of a girl on a swing, and make those individual parts move with a natural motion.

To do this, we’re going to take a look at an animating technique that uses any image or vector file of a subject and then cuts that image up into various parts in order to animate them separately. We will also take a look at a new modifier called mask, which is used for setting the opacity of a view.

Let’s take a look at what we will learn in this project:

• Gathering and slicing images
• Adding animating variables
• Adding images to the scene
• Using the mask modifier