NAME

       Pencil - An animation/drawing software

SYNOPSIS

       Pencil

DESCRIPTION

       Pencil  is  an  application for easily creating animated cartoons, and can export the animations to flash
       files.

       A Pencil document is organised in layers. There are currently four types of layers: bitmap image,  vector
       image,  sound  and camera. The Time Line window at the bottom of the screen shows the existing layers. By
       default, a new document contains a bitmap layer and a vector layer on top of it,  but  you  can  add  and
       delete  layers  as  you  wish  (using either the "plus" and "minus" buttons next to "Layers", or the menu
       Layer).

       Each layer has a track which enables you to change it as a function of time. This is  done  by  inserting
       keys  (the  little  grey  rectangles) at certain frames in the track. Each key contains information about
       what the layer should show or produce at the frame where the key is located. To add or delete keys  at  a
       particular  frame  in  a  layer  track,  use the "plus" or "minus" buttons next to "Keys" (shortcut: type
       "return" to create a new frame). For image layers (ie bitmap and  vector),  each  key  corresponds  to  a
       different  image.  The  sequence of these images creates an animation.  The current frame is indicated by
       the red bar and can be changed by moving the red bar to scrub through your animation (or use the left and
       right  arrows).  To  play  the  animation,  use the controls in the time line. Note that you can loop the
       animation, as well as set the number of frames per seconds.

AUTHOR

       Pencil was written by Pascal Naidon.

       This manual page was copied from http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=UserManual and  is
       written by Pascal Naidon and Patrick Corrieri.

                                                January 23, 2009                                       Pencil(1)