Yes, Gray, that is what I am trying to achieve--a little animation behind a scene. Do all the steps have to be done within the animation scene? If so How do I keep it from exporting so large and distorted.

When I viewed my animation this way in my browser(Grouped in one scene) it actually had a wiggle--as though it was struggling to animate. Finally it calmed down and began to move smoothly but was still very distorted.

Here's what I did in Xara. I first applied my background in each frame, then I applied my animated steps in each frame, then I did my overlay like a gate in each frame. It looked fine and animated well in Xara but exported really bad.

If all the step do not have to be done within the animation, how do I do that?

Big Frank's window example is what I am trying to achieve. Frame--then animation--then background.
Is there a tutorial for doing this?

Any suggestion?
Thank you much.
Eferr
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