Symbols

Animation Clips

Animation clips are used to add and reuse separate parts of your animation in a ToonSquid project.

They provide a timeline, in which you create your animation using layers. Every animation clip has a resolution and a frame rate and is part of a project.

Symbol#

Animation clips in your project's asset library can be inserted into other animation clips and scenes using symbol layers. This allows you to reuse entire animations and therefore organize your projects more efficiently.

For example, you can animate a tree once in a separate animation clip and insert it multiple times in your main scene at different positions and scales to create a forest quickly without having to draw and animate every tree in the forest separately.

You can create animation clips in the library.

Scenes#

At this point, you are probably already familiar with scenes since this is where the majority of your animation takes place.

Scenes generally behave in the same way as animation clips as far as their timeline is concerned but are more limited in some aspects.

They are not shown in the asset library, they all have the same resolution and fps settings as the project, and they cannot be used as symbols.