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Viz Artist User Guide

Version 5.1 | Published October 31, 2023 ©

The Stage for Animation

The Stage is the interactive user interface to create animations.

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The Stage is divided in two parts:

  • Stage Tree Area (1): Shows a representation of all animated items in the current scene.

  • Stage Editor (2): Shows the animated items as bars along the time-line.

Tip: To resize the two areas, drag the vertical separator.
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Stage Elements

The Stage consists of the following elements:

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  1. Directors

  2. Actors

  3. Channels

  4. Audio/Video Channels

  5. Action Channels

  6. Keyframes

  7. Action Keyframes

  8. Events

Elements are marked with unique colors (for example, yellow for action keyframes). Currently they can not be customized.


This section provides a detailed description of the following Stage for Animation topics: