Step 3: Setting the Animation Timing
At this stage your animation is almost complete. You can view it by clicking the triangular Play button in the animation window.
![Playback controls are at the bottom of the Animation window](images/animation-09.gif)
You will see that the animation plays very quickly and keeps repeating (looping). If you don't want the animation to loop, click the drop-menu in the lower left (which says "Forever" by default) and select "Once". Now when you play the animation it will play once and stop on the last frame.
![The loop drop-menu is at the lower left of the window](images/animation-10.gif)
The final step is to fine-tune the timing. Below each frame you will see a delay time in seconds. Click each of these and set the desired delay. In this way you can specify the exact time taken to display each individual frame.
Note: If you want an animation to repeat but not continuously (i.e. have a break between repeats), set the loop drop-menu to "Forever" and set a long delay on the last frame.
How it Looks
Below is the resulting animation, with the looping set to "Forever" and different times set for each frame. This isn't actually a nicely timed animation but we have done it like this so you can see the effect of the delay settings.
![Example Animation](images/animation-example-01.gif)
Next Page: Exporting the Animation