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Introduction to Animation with Hype Record
Hype has a very nice feature for the beginning animator, called the Record feature. To use this feature, just click the big red Record button. That’s what we will do in this tutorial.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art302754.asp

Metrics Inspector in Hype Pro
In the last tutorial, we created our first Hype Pro document and examined the Element Inspector. In this tutorial, we will explore the Metrics Inspector and how to manipulate an element on the screen.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art302751.asp

Start a New Hype Pro Document
The best way to learn about animating in Hype is to create a simple animation, such as moving a circle across the screen. Let’s start our first Hype document and see what happens. You will soon realize that the tools in the Hype workspace control the CSS properties in our HTML5 based animation.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art302750.asp

Hype Workspace Tools
In the past tutorial, we discussed the most common terms used in animation software. Now we will explore how these terms apply to the Hype workspace and tools.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art302747.asp


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