Quite a small and simple animation of a conveyor belt today, but this has got me thinking a lot about animation tools and loops. I was thinking of composing a larger scene with multiple conveyors and stuff moving around, but this would require a lot of manual work to copy around the layers and frames and get everything lined up nicely. I need to dig in to my tools and see if there are nicer ways to work with this, or if I can figure out a better way to work with complex scenes with different moving parts.
I've seen the tip in the past that if you have different sections looping at coprime frame rates you can create scenes that take longer to repeat as a whole but currently if I want to do this currently it ends up being quite a lot of busy work. I'd like to figure out a better way to deal with this type of animation.