I finished up the instruction card that went along with the little model rocket kits and decided to make a small animation to go along with it!
Something I learned while putting this animation together was that you could reverse the sequence of movements. I started with the assembled rocket already complete and exploded it as I wanted, but it was in the wrong order. I wanted to have it open with an exploded view and then assemble itself into its proper places. I didn't know how to do this without moving each component out initially, then reassembling it in the animation workspace, which would mess with the design and cause a headache when trying to get things back in the right spots. I ended up finding that you can right-click the storyboard tab at the bottom left of the screen and hit 'reverse order,' which flips everything in your storyline front-to-back.
Once I had the animation complete, I moved over to Canva to finish it off. As it turns out, Canva has a pretty decent live image editor, and I had no problem importing the animation from Fusion. I found that in the video side of things, Canva works with pages, rather than a timeline, like most video editors.
Each page consists of one sequence in the animation, and you can import videos or images and set the duration for each page, like a slideshow. Because of this, I took still images of each area I wanted to add a note in the animation and added them as separate pages, then set how long I wanted them to show for. On top of this, I built transitions between added elements and the following video, called "animate," where you can choose from a few default settings as to how the features would appear and disappear, like fades or flips.
I'm really excited to learn these new tools in Canva and Fusion360, and it has been a nice change from the programming and machine setups!