Simple Animation

Open a new document 350 X 350.

Draw out a star on layer one by selecting the polygon tool.. At the tool options dialog box select star from the drop down menu, 5 for the number of sides, and around 30 for the angle:

We want to make 4 copies of the star in order to make different frames. An easy way to do this is to hold down the Alt key and then drag out a copy of the star. Do this until you have five stars on the canvas:

Select all the star by holding down the mouse and dragging over them. All stars should be outlined with blue (like the last star shown above.

Now we want to distribute the stars to their own frames. At the frames dialog box, drop down the menu by clicking on the arrow outlined with blue below and select distribute to frames:

Your stars should now appear on their own frame as shown below:

Click on each frame and notice that only one star appears on each frame. Now we want to turn on the onion skinning feature in order to see all the stars in every frame. Click on the top and bottom frame outlined in red below to turn on the onion skin feature. Notice that you can see the other stars on their different frames lightly.

I will now move the stars on the different frames to the area I want them to move. Here is the path I want the stars to move on:

Play your animations to see if it is what you want by clicking the play button at the bottom of the document window. To slow down or speed up your animation, simply double click on the frame rate option and put in a different number. I choose the frame rate of 15 as shown below:

The last thing you will need to do is to export the graphic as an animated gif. Go to File>Export Preview and select animated gif as your format. This is my finished product: