<a name="1001874"> </a><font color="" >Animation and Video</font>
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<a name="1010453"> </a>An animation is a series of drawings with progressive change. When viewed in rapid succession, they create a moving image.
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<a name="1010457"> </a>Because Corel Painter has its full suite of Natural-Media tools and effects available for each image in a frame stack, it's an extraordinary program for creating original animation.
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<a name="1000918"> </a>The animation features in the Corel Painter application give you the power to work with video and create animations, including onion skinning and rotoscoping.
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<a name="998934"> </a>Onion skinning is a feature animators use to view previous and future frames while working in the current frame.
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<a name="998936"> </a>Rotoscoping is the ability to paint on and apply effects to existing movies. Corel Painter controls allow you to clone, trace, edit, and combine movies.
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<a name="998940"> </a>In this chapter, you'll learn animation and compositing techniques. You'll learn how to create, open, and modify movies, how to navigate the Frame Stacks palette, and how to export movies to QuickTime or VFW/AVI format (Windows only).