Animation Layers

Animation Layers

Animation layers let you create and blend multiple levels of animation in a scene .Modify animation without overwriting original curves in Animation Layers. Change specific elements of your scene without affecting others. Organize layers by parenting them to one another. Working with layers in animation and graphics software lets you composite your scenes in a way that doesn't require fitting everything together perfectly in each frame; you can use layers to give you more freedom in editing, and also to keep from merging objects together on one frame when you need them to be separate in others.

Breakdown Keys

Breakdowns are special keys that maintain proportional time relationships with adjacent keys. Use Breakdowns to adjust the timing of an animation while holding attribute values at points on the animation curve. Breakdowns are green ticks on the Time Slider and green points in the Graph Editor. Breakdowns that do not have adjacent keys are unbounded. These works like regular keys when you place, edit, and move them Breakdowns have editable tangents. When one or more Breakdowns are bounded by regular keys, the Breakdowns modify their position in time to reflect any changes to the time positions of the regular, bounding, keys. For more information, see Set Breakdowns.