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Animate Your Drawings

Make a Motion Graphic

Animate Your Drawings

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use different actions in Keynote to animate your drawings.

Estimated time to complete this tutorial:

15 mins

Add an action.

You’ll add movement to your waves using the Pulse Action in Keynote.

Step 1

Tap your duck to bring up the menu.

Tip

When you have multiple drawings, you can merge them (or separate them) if needed.

Step 2

Tap Select Objects.

Step 3

Tap the duck to deselect it.

Step 4

Tap Done.

Step 5

When you see the new menu, tap Animate.

Step 6

Tap Add Action.

Step 7

Swipe left and tap Pulse.

Step 8

Tap Close to hide the actions.

Step 9

Tap Pulse Action.

Step 10

Touch and hold the Duration slider, then drag it to 10 seconds.

Step 11

Touch and hold the Scale slider, then drag it down to 104%.

Step 12

Decrease to two Pulses.

Step 13

Tap Play to preview your animation.

Step 14

Tap Done.

Add a motion path.

You’ll float your duck across the screen by adding a motion path to your drawing.

Step 1

Tap your duck to select it.

Tip

Drag a blue dot to resize your duck if needed.

Step 2

Pinch in to see around the edges of the slide.

Step 3

Touch and hold the duck, then drag it off the edge of the slide, just below the water line.

Step 4

Tap the duck again to open the menu.

Step 5

Tap Animate.

Step 6

Tap Add Action.

Step 7

Tap Create Path.

Step 8

Touch and hold the red dot, then drag the duck all the way across the slide. A red line will appear, indicating the motion path.

Tip

If you don’t like your path, tap Clear and try again.

Step 9

Tap Done.

Step 10

Tap Motion Path.

Step 11

Touch and hold the Duration slider, then drag it to 10 seconds so that it matches the Pulse action.

Step 12

Tap Align to Path Off to make the shape pivot along the curve of the path.

Step 13

To preview the animation, tap Play.

Step 14

Tap Done.