In my last ArtRage post I wrote about being able to create the parts of your drawing out on separate layers. Each part of your drawing sits on its own piece of paper and the stack of papers show the whole drawing.
We can use the view layer function in the layers to hide parts of the drawing. This function is found in the layers panel. The layers panel is usually found on the left side of your ArtRage page but can be moved around.
The flower has all its parts when all the layers are visible but it is possible to have only some parts visible by toggling the layer visibility with the eye.
This can be a useful feature for creating animated stories. You can design all the artwork within ArtRage on different layers and then use the visibility toggle to create all the exported images you need to have a flower grow its petals one by one or an arm move up and down. You can build up a set of images that contain the parts you need for each animation by toggling the visibility of your layers in ArtRage. As you are always working in the one ArtRage drawing lining up the parts of your animation is easy.
Here is a quick sample movie with the flower growing one petal at a time.
There are special animating programs that can be used but I think that this is a good way to show students how complex animating can be. It is very similar to the old flip book that could be made from a stack of paper with a drawing in the corner that changed as you flipped through the pages.