I have created a 3D company logo using Solidworks for use in a promotional video. I utilized the Animation Wizard and came out with a nice collapse animation with cameras and lighting to show off the company in the opening scene. After showing it to my boss, he was wondering if there was a way to vary the speed to have it collapse at a constant speed at the beginning, then at a specified point in the timeline, increase the speed so that the blocks [in this case, say two blocks of wood] "crash" together. To be more specific, in a 15 second animation, the speed for 8 seconds will be at 1x, then after the 8 seconds have elapsed, it speeds up to about 2x. Is this possible?
Yes you can, you have to change the keys positions and the animation would go faster or slower as you wish.
All you have to do is to set a key at each intermediary position.
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