WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.330 --> 00:00:03.466 Triggers allow you to add custom animation events 2 00:00:03.466 --> 00:00:06.050 with just a touch of the keyboard. 3 00:00:06.050 --> 00:00:09.940 Triggers are super fun, they can be really simple. 4 00:00:09.940 --> 00:00:12.788 So if I look at magnus here, he's got 5 00:00:12.788 --> 00:00:14.836 two triggers and one of them is very simple. 6 00:00:14.836 --> 00:00:17.508 If I if I just hit S, he gets the 7 00:00:17.508 --> 00:00:20.522 hard eyes and they can also be pretty complex. 8 00:00:20.522 --> 00:00:24.964 So if I hit a he does this little wave and 9 00:00:24.964 --> 00:00:28.410 I've got the motion lines there from the last tutorial. 10 00:00:28.410 --> 00:00:29.900 So how do we build? 11 00:00:29.900 --> 00:00:33.602 Let's start out with a symbol trigger. 12 00:00:33.602 --> 00:00:37.884 Okay, so I'm going to go to Project 13 00:00:37.884 --> 00:00:42.890 and go to magnus here and edit original. 14 00:00:44.190 --> 00:00:49.070 So what I'd like to do is create some emanata 15 00:00:49.070 --> 00:00:53.706 that is the sort of little expressive sort of drawings 16 00:00:53.706 --> 00:00:58.378 and maybe spirals or squiggles or exclamation points or sweat 17 00:00:58.378 --> 00:01:00.990 that comes outside of a cartoon character. 18 00:01:01.570 --> 00:01:03.412 So let's do it. 19 00:01:03.412 --> 00:01:05.528 I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to use 20 00:01:05.528 --> 00:01:08.264 the Pen tool for this and the Pen tool, if 21 00:01:08.264 --> 00:01:11.128 you're not familiar with it, I'd recommend checking out the 22 00:01:11.128 --> 00:01:14.782 design jojo and the Pen tool tutorials. 23 00:01:14.782 --> 00:01:16.296 But I'm going to just click. 24 00:01:16.296 --> 00:01:18.268 I won't even make any curved points. 25 00:01:18.268 --> 00:01:21.292 So let's say I just want to make an exclamation point. 26 00:01:21.292 --> 00:01:25.468 So I'm just going to click and right now 27 00:01:25.468 --> 00:01:30.348 I've got the stroke and fill probably reversed, so 28 00:01:30.348 --> 00:01:33.072 I might click the little swap button here and 29 00:01:33.072 --> 00:01:34.592 maybe I don't want a stroke at all. 30 00:01:34.592 --> 00:01:38.032 So I'll just say none. Okay. 31 00:01:38.032 --> 00:01:39.712 And maybe I'll zoom in a little bit 32 00:01:39.712 --> 00:01:41.740 for the little dot at the bottom here. 33 00:01:44.930 --> 00:01:47.892 And then I'll take both those shapes and 34 00:01:47.892 --> 00:01:49.882 I'll group them so I could just drag 35 00:01:49.882 --> 00:01:53.732 select for that and hit command G. All right? 36 00:01:53.732 --> 00:01:56.472 So I've got my little exclamation point that 37 00:01:56.472 --> 00:01:57.896 I want to fly out of his head 38 00:01:57.896 --> 00:02:00.580 whenever I hit, let's say, the letter D. 39 00:02:01.830 --> 00:02:02.712 All right? 40 00:02:02.712 --> 00:02:06.712 So maybe I'll just call that wow. 41 00:02:06.712 --> 00:02:11.292 Okay, so right now wow is sitting outside of his head 42 00:02:11.292 --> 00:02:13.212 and I really want it to be attached to his head. 43 00:02:13.212 --> 00:02:15.996 So I'll drag it down here and 44 00:02:15.996 --> 00:02:18.330 I'm going to make that independent. 45 00:02:18.330 --> 00:02:20.912 So I should have and will add 46 00:02:20.912 --> 00:02:23.232 a plus sign in front of it. 47 00:02:23.232 --> 00:02:29.312 Okay, so adding the plus and I can even 48 00:02:29.312 --> 00:02:32.100 start with these things turned off if we want. 49 00:02:32.100 --> 00:02:35.380 Okay, so I'll go ahead and say file and 50 00:02:35.380 --> 00:02:41.970 save back at the ranch in character animator. Okay. 51 00:02:41.970 --> 00:02:44.612 Notice that it actually moved the character down because 52 00:02:44.612 --> 00:02:48.184 there's new content that I added and even though 53 00:02:48.184 --> 00:02:50.728 it's not visible, it's trying to make room for 54 00:02:50.728 --> 00:02:52.790 that, which is actually really helpful. 55 00:02:52.790 --> 00:02:55.614 So right now I still have my wave and I've 56 00:02:55.614 --> 00:02:58.076 got my hard eyes, but I need to make that 57 00:02:58.076 --> 00:03:01.560 exclamation point show up when I hit the letter D, 58 00:03:02.090 --> 00:03:05.042 so I can actually do it in the record panel. 59 00:03:05.042 --> 00:03:08.796 I could actually add a trigger in here, but let's do it 60 00:03:08.796 --> 00:03:11.530 in the rig panel just to make it a little bit easier. 61 00:03:12.350 --> 00:03:14.448 So all I need to do is hit the 62 00:03:14.448 --> 00:03:18.190 plus sign here and say, create a new trigger. 63 00:03:18.190 --> 00:03:20.640 Now it's waiting for two things. 64 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:22.208 It's waiting for me to say, well, what 65 00:03:22.208 --> 00:03:23.760 is it you want to show up? 66 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:26.468 And then, what's the keyboard key that you 67 00:03:26.468 --> 00:03:28.340 want to press to make it show up? 68 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:30.618 So I'm going to go to wow here, and I'm 69 00:03:30.618 --> 00:03:33.550 going to drag it on top of that trigger. 70 00:03:34.210 --> 00:03:35.860 I want to rename that. 71 00:03:36.470 --> 00:03:38.808 So I'm going to hit return, and 72 00:03:38.808 --> 00:03:40.100 I'm going to call it wow. 73 00:03:41.270 --> 00:03:43.448 And then I'll say that the keyboard key I 74 00:03:43.448 --> 00:03:46.600 want to make wow pop up is D. 75 00:03:47.770 --> 00:03:52.764 Okay, back at record, if I hit the 76 00:03:52.764 --> 00:03:57.930 letter D, I now get that trigger. 77 00:03:57.930 --> 00:04:03.004 So that's a simple trigger, but we can 78 00:04:03.004 --> 00:04:04.754 make some that are far more complex. 79 00:04:04.754 --> 00:04:06.892 So in the next video, we'll talk about using the 80 00:04:06.892 --> 00:04:11.210 cycle layers behavior to make even more powerful triggers.