Chapter 9. Adding Animation

In this chapter, we will learn the techniques of animating 2D and 3D objects. We will introduce Cinder's features in this field, such as timeline and math functions.

The recipes in this chapter will cover the following:

• Animating with the timeline

• Creating animation sequences with the timeline

• Animating along a path

• Aligning camera motion to a path

• Animating text – text as a mask for a movie

• Animating text – scrolling text lines

• Creating a flow field with Perlin noise

• Creating an image gallery in 3D

• Creating a spherical flow field with Perlin noise