Animating the title

A technique used to facilitate animation production is to start adding keyframes at the end position of all objects. In cases where you have to build something like an intro video, it will give you the freedom to create all kinds of transitions for video.

With the timing for our intro set to 5 seconds, we can leave 1 second as reading time to leave all elements appearing on screen with no animations. That means everything must get to the final position by frame 96.

As a result, we can select the title text and move the playback head in the Timeline window to frame 96. Press the I key with the mouse cursor over the 3D View window and choose Location to create a keyframe.

You can also use the Object menu and the Animation ...

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