In this tutorial you will learn how to create a water reflection step by step with our free animation software.
1. Open Yuzhe Cool Motion, press Ctrl + N to create a new document, "document"/ "Import" to import a picture.
2. Press F8 to open the "convert to symbol" dialog and turn the imported picture into graphic symbol, named it "house",shown as the following.
3. Double click the first layer and name the first layer "house". Insert Layer 2,and then double-click the layer,named the layer "Reflection".Select the first frame of the "house" layer, and press "CTRL + C" to copy the first frame,then select the layer "Reflection" in the first frame, press "CTRL + V" to paste. You will find now there is a new symbol in the layer "Reflection"as same as the symbol"house", we named it "house2".
4. Vertical flip the graphic symbol "house2", and then carefully adjust the position as the following shown.
5. Double click the first layer and name the first layer "house". Insert Layer 3,and then double-click the layer,named the layer "shadow".Select the first frame of the "house" layer, and press "CTRL + C" to copy the first frame,then select the layer "shadow" in the first frame, press "CTRL + V" to paste. You will find now there is a new symbol in the layer "shadow"as same as the symbol"house", we named it "house3". Vertical flip the graphic symbol "house3", and then carefully adjust the position as the following shown.
6. Click on the layer "shadow " in the scene and edit the symbol"house3". Press the arrow keys to move "house3" down for one or two pixel,select "color transform" in the transform panel, select "Advanced" to open the Advanced Options, Set the alpha value as 80%, set red, green and blue value as "40%", "43%", "100%"
7. Click on the layer "reflection " in the scene and edit the symbol"house2". Select "color transform" in the transform panel, select "Advanced" to open the Advanced Options, Set the alpha value as 100%, set red, green and blue value as "40%", "43%", "100%"
8. Insert a layer up the layer "shadow" and named it "mask".Lock and hide all the other layers except the layer "mask".
9. Select the rectangle tool, set the stroke color as none, the filling color as red, the bg color as blue. and then draw a tiny rectangle in the scene. You can set the size for the rectangle in the properties panel, set its width as 400 , height as 5, and then select the rectangle and copy it for 40 times.
10. Open the layout panel , and then click on "mask" layer of the first frame, select all the rectangles, Click the button "Align Center"
to make all the selected instances align center.
11. Press "Ctrl + G" to group all the rectangle, and then press F8 to convert it a graphic symbol and named it "Grid".Carefully adjust the position to snap to bottom of the scene.
12. Press F6 in the 40th frame , insert a keyframe, and then open the Actions Panel, in the 40th frame, type the command "gotoAndPlay (2);" . In the 40th frame at the scene, selected the symbol and press "down" arrow keys for four times, and then create motion tween between the first frame and the 40th frame. Insert a frame in the 40th frame in the other layers.
13. Right click the layer"mask" and select "mask",Right click the layer "shadow",and click "masked".Then we complete the animation.