Heya gang,
So I’m currently creating a timeline heavy animation for an AR poster that I am creating on Zapworks Studio and I was wondering if there is anything similar to Adobe after effects’ compositions to help keep my work in zapworks a bit less cluttered and easier to navigate? Or should I just work from a single timeline for all of my assets?
any suggestions will be a great help cheers!
Hi @Nythim,
Thanks for your question!
Unfortunately I’m not too familiar with Adobe After Effects, but presumably compositions are a holder to help reduce clutter and make it easier to quickly add components into a scene.
When creating an experience in Studio, we suggest to make different assets and components within sub symbols.
Subsymbols are reusable ZapWorks Studio components and can be used to define functionality that is to be used more than once. A subsymbol can also be used to separate and abstract functionality away from the main root symbol. - Subsymbol Overview.
For example - If a scene was to have multiple components, all with timelines, it can get a bit confusing.
Different assets can be grouped into sub symbols along with there animations, then drag and dropped into the main scene and referenced. A main timeline would still have to be initialised but it would reduce the confusion of having all the key frames of separate components of the scene all in one timeline.
I have added a quick breakdown below to give a visual explanation of this.
Hope this helps!
George
Perfect!
that is exactly what i’m after, thank you very much!