Animation of an Atom

[Mr. V.]

I'm trying to do a lesson on students creating an animation of an Atom of their choice.  Can someone help me get started?  I have a lesson coming up on this.  Thanks in advance!!

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Mr. V.

Since the Affinity applications have:

• no animation functionalities (each individual frame image will have to be created and exported manually), and;
• no 3D capabilities (if you need that sort of thing), and;
• no way to ‘join’ layers via ‘skeletons’ (if you need things to ‘move together’);

...I would recommend using different software.

Otherwise you will probably have a very hard time doing something like that manually.

[David in Яuislip]

You can do this with an animated svg, teach 'em SMIL. Draw the components first in Affinity, save as an svg then modify it with a text editor, instructions are in the svg

Atom.svg