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Creating a Radial Transition
In this section you’ll make a radial transition between two cels. WebPainter has many built in transitions you can use to automatically create simple animation.

In this lesson you will learn:

    how to automatically create an animation using the Rotation Transition
For this lesson use the file ROTATE.WPM in the Tutorials folder.
  1. Open the file ROTATE.WPM. 
  2. On the Window menu, click Cel Layers.


  3. The Cel Layers window appears. It displays all the cels and layers in this animation. This animation has two cels and uses one layer.
  4. Make sure that the first cel is the one displayed in the WebPainter main window. 
  5. On the Cels menu, click Add Transition Cels.

  6. The Transition Cels dialog appears.
  7. On the Select Transition pop-up menu, click Radial.

  8. When you’ve finished making changes, click OK.

  9. Five new cels are created. Your animation is now seven cels.
  10. In the main window, click the Play button to view the finished animation. 


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