Now since we've got things started for that layer, let's go ahead and set up the motion for the vine. I'll use Ctrl+- or Command+- on the Mac to zoom out a little bit so we get a little perspective on our stage and I am going to take that vine and move it over so that it's off the side of the screen, grab it, set it up on Keyframe 1. So we've got it set up so our vine can swing into the stage. I might even add a little rotation to it so that we get the vine rotating as it's moving across the screen. We'll just switch over to our Free Transform Tool and I'll just add a little, little bit of rotation there.
Now I want to give this some room to move, so let's add some frames to our animation first. I am just going to click-and-drag down at Frame 60 for all the different layers and we'll press F5 to make sure that everything is extended out to the end of our movie and then we can go and set up a second keyframe for the vine to complete the movement. I'll do that at Frame 60 as well, we'll press up 6, we'll set up the end location of the vine by dragging that graphic in the keyframe over to the other side of the screen and I'll also rotate it through the other direction. So we 're going to get a little bit of that swing as it moves.
Now we set everything up right. There's only one object in our vine layer, the Movie clip that we created and it's not a shape and we've got two keyframes. So we should be able to go to, either the first keyframe or you can just click some place in the middle. I'll go ahead and right click and if you are using a mouse that only has one button on it, you can use Ctrl+Click on the Macintosh, we'll choose Create Motion Tween and we've got our basic vine motion set up. We can see it's kind of swinging across the screen and the rotation, it kind of, gives it a little effect of that swing as it's moving through.
Now our next step would be to pick up the monkey, of course, and animate him as well. We want the monkey to be swinging along with the vine, but remember, we also want to do a little animation with his head and with his arm. Now if we set things up properly on this timeline, each element that moves is going to have to have it's own set of keyframes. Now right now, I've got a layer for the monkey, but we'd have to add a layer for the monkey's head and the monkey's arm and set up independent keyframes for all those different pieces.
Now as you can see, our simple animation has gotten a little bit more complex because we're going to have to have each one of these elements following the vine as it moves. Well actually, there is a better way to do this and it's called nesting our animations and the first idea in nesting your animation is to group together the items that move together. In our example, I want the monkey, the head and the arm to be moving right along with the vine.
So what I am going to do, is I am going to take them off of this timeline by just selecting the monkey graphics. Now my first click is on the body and we can see that that's just a group, let me switch back to my normal Selection Tool so we don't have those handles in the way and I am going to Shift+Select the head and the arm of the monkey as well. We'll cut them off this timeline, I'll just use Ctrl+X or Command+X on the Mac and what we are going to do, is we are going to put them into the vine itself, that way all of our objects that are moving will be grouped together. Now since this is a Movie clip symbol, we can just double click it and we are now inside of that vine movie clip that we created. I'll paste our monkey graphics in and now we just need to move him so that you'd place back on the vine itself.
When we go back to Scene 1, we've got all those items grouped together and of course, since we were using a symbol, we've got the same graphic out here on the second keyframe and we've got our monkey swinging across the screen now.
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