NAME
Pencil - An animation/drawing software
SYNOPSIS
Pencil
DESCRIPTION
Pencil is an application for easily creating animated cartoons, and can
export the animations to flash files.
A Pencil document is organised in layers. There are currently four
types of layers: bitmap image, vector image, sound and camera. The Time
Line window at the bottom of the screen shows the existing layers. By
default, a new document contains a bitmap layer and a vector layer on
top of it, but you can add and delete layers as you wish (using either
the "plus" and "minus" buttons next to "Layers", or the menu Layer).
Each layer has a track which enables you to change it as a function of
time. This is done by inserting keys (the little grey rectangles) at
certain frames in the track. Each key contains information about what
the layer should show or produce at the frame where the key is located.
To add or delete keys at a particular frame in a layer track, use the
"plus" or "minus" buttons next to "Keys" (shortcut: type "return" to
create a new frame). For image layers (ie bitmap and vector), each key
corresponds to a different image. The sequence of these images creates
an animation. The current frame is indicated by the red bar and can be
changed by moving the red bar to scrub through your animation (or use
the left and right arrows). To play the animation, use the controls in
the time line. Note that you can loop the animation, as well as set the
number of frames per seconds.
AUTHOR
Pencil was written by Pascal Naidon.
This manual page was copied from http://www.les-
stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=UserManual and is written by
Pascal Naidon and Patrick Corrieri.
January 23, 2009 Pencil(1)