# Animating Skewing with the Skew Tool

Use the Skew tool to control the animation of a skewing effect only. When the Skew tool is active, the peg displays square handles that you can use to skew the attached elements.

To skew a peg and its child elements, you must work in the Camera View window (you cannot skew an element in either the Top or Side View windows).

When you skew a peg at a frame that has no keyframe, a skew keyframe marker appears in the Timeline window.

| When you skew pegs, all elements attached to the pegs also skewed. The skew angle of the peg appears on the Peg tab. Any skew change you add to keyframes are based on the static skew value of the peg plus the changes you make.

To skew a peg in the Camera View window:

1. Select the peg in the Timeline window. The peg appears in the Sceneplanning View windows.

2. Select Tools > Sceneplanning Tools > Skew. This activates the Skew tool. Square handles appear on the selected peg.

3. Drag the frame slider to the frame where you want to create the skew keyframe.

4. Use the skew handles to skew the peg’s angle.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for every skew keyframe you want to create.

You can edit the skew values in the Function Editor.

See Also
Animating with the Transform Tool
Tweening Motion or Maintaining Constant Values Between Keyframes
Positioning Pivot Points on Cut-Out Characters
Editing Functions in the Function Editor
Moving Motion Points with the Motion Point Tab
Animating Elements with Pegs
Creating Motion Paths with the Motion Tool
Animating Rotation with the Rotate Tool
Copying and Pasting Keyframe Values