This white board also represents the first frame of our animation, which can be seen in the Timeline panel below. Lets start by creating a simple animation by selecting the Pencil from the Tools box and creating a circle to the white board.

(5) Uncheck the Preserve Transparency option and click OK. Now, we can move onto creating a basic animation with Pencil2D.

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