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Easy Figma Animations to Stand Out on Social Media

teacher avatar Aga Naplocha, Creative coder & designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro to the Classes

      1:31

    • 2.

      Class Project

      1:24

    • 3.

      Starting with Figma

      5:49

    • 4.

      Smart Animate

      7:25

    • 5.

      First Steps with Animation in Figma

      13:16

    • 6.

      Creating First Animation

      14:19

    • 7.

      Mac Users: Exporting Animation as Video with QuickTime

      4:28

    • 8.

      Windows Users: Exporing Animation as Vdeo with Loom

      2:55

    • 9.

      Creating Second Animation – part 1

      11:09

    • 10.

      Creating Second Animation – part 2

      12:51

    • 11.

      Creating Second Animation – part 3

      12:33

    • 12.

      Creating Third Animation – part 1

      14:52

    • 13.

      Creating Third Animation – part 2

      8:51

    • 14.

      Bonus – Another Type of Animation

      10:34

    • 15.

      Recap

      2:58

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Discover the exciting world of animation with Figma in just 2 hours!

⭐ No prior design experience or Figma knowledge required.

In this course, you’ll master the art of creating captivating animations tailored for social media platforms. By the end of the class, you’ll have crafted 3 different types of animations, ready to be published on your Instagram. 

Benefits of joining this course:

  • Save time with efficient animation techniques
  • Experience the fun side of Figma animations
  • Produce engaging and dynamic content effortlessly
  • Dive deep into Smart Animate in Figma
  • Get hands-on with Figma without the need for lengthy tutorials

Designed for beginners and seasoned creators alike, this class will guide you through the animation process step-by-step. Learn the essentials of Figma animation, explore strategies for crafting attention-grabbing social media content, and gain the confidence to create your own show-stopping animations.

Join me and unleash the full potential of Figma’s Smart Animate feature.
Elevate your social media game today - seize this opportunity now! :)

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Aga Naplocha

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Hello, I'm Aga! I'm a coding designer with more > 9 years of experience, based in Warsaw, Poland.

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1. Intro to the Classes: We all know that content is king. In today's word people are bombard with tons of pictures, for instance, on Instagram. So we need to grab their attention. We need something that stops the scroll and keeps them engaged. This is where animations and videos come in. How to learn it? Well, my name is Aga, and I'm a designer, and I'm going to show you that it's not that difficult as you thought. In this classes, I'm going to take you for the entire process step by step, so you will finish it with at least three ready to go animations that you can post it on your Instagram platform as Instagram story or even Instagram post that is animated. And the good news is that you don't need to struggle with after effects or other so that requires a design knowledge. With Smart animate in Figma, we can really quickly prototype interesting ideas for our animations, and then we can record it and have the file ready to publish whatever you want. So are you ready to begin your journey with animations? Let's start. 2. Class Project: What is the class project? Well, you need to submit to the class project at least one of the animations that we're going to do during the course. Of course, if you would like to experiment, if you'd like to do something differently, you're more than welcomed, please remember to submit the project to this section. And the goodness is that I prepared a special price for the first three people. These people who will submit their project as first, they will get three one and one consultations with me that will take half an hour. So if you would like to discuss about your career, about your creativity, about your ideas, about my other classes on coding, feel free to be fast and submit your project as soon as possible in the project section for those people who won't be able to get the price. I just wanted to tell that it's great to show your work. It's great to ask for feedback. Also the other members from the community. So I totally encourage you to go through the exercises and then show to the word what you've prepared. 3. Starting with Figma: All right. So let's jump into Figma into the very first exercise. But before that, let me quickly tell you about the Figma plans. The good news is that you don't need to any upgrade or you don't need to buy a subscription. It's totally fine to use the free Figma plan, the starter, a so called starter, and it will be totally sufficient for our experiments and also for exporting the file you create. So let's now switch to Figma application. I totally recommend you to use FGMA in the standalone app, not in the browser. Because there might be some problems with installing the external funds. I think that the app is more optimized, so definitely take advantage of it. You can download Figma Four Windows, you can download FMF MAC as well. You can do it from figma com. So I'm switching to the app that I've currently download. And what you can see here is the blank state, let's say, I have the team project created, but it doesn't matter. The most important thing is that you have to create the design file, not Fike JM board. But of course you can check out FikJM afterwards. It's super cool. It's the Whiteboard. You can use for workshops, for meetings with other people online. It's really cool. But today, we're going to focus on designing in FIG Map, so we need to click Design. File. And what we can see here is that we can title our files, for instance, exercise one. And we're going to start with creating the very first frame. For my purposes, I will switch to the file that I've already created, and I also ask you to duplicate it. So it will be easier for us to work on the file that already has some assets would be much more efficient to be there. So currently I'm in my Figma file. And what I will ask you to do is to duplicate this file into your workspace. So it means that you can easily edit everything you want and that changes will be visible only for you. So only for your account. Of course, if you'd like to share this file with other people invite some other co authors or collaborators, they will be able to edit as well. But I don't want to make this file open for everyone because all the projects will be here. So make sure to create your individual file by duplicating particular this file from me. So once you duplicate this, we're ready to go and we're ready to start and create our very first frame. Before we jump into the very first exercise into the first step, Let's see how the animations that we're going to work on as basic as a starter will look like. So I'm clicking play. Don't worry about, you know, anything that I'm doing here. Yes. This is the animation. So you see that some images are rotating. They're also changing their positions. So we're going to start with that. I need to close the prototype, and I'm into my design file. You can see here that I've already created all the assets for you. You can easily use it for your needs, and we're ready to go to create our first frame. So frames just like a canvas. It's something that you just use as the main element in which you're going to create other items and then export. So it's something like artboard, if you're familiar with illustrator or photoshop. So I navigate to the top left, of the interface, and I see that there is a frame. So once I click it, I will see that on my right, I have the list of all available formats that are predefined for me. And what I'm particularly interested in are social media formats, and I'm looking for Instagram story because we're going to focus on Instagram story. And once I click it, I see that my frame is created. I can change its position very easily. So once I'm inside, I can start to recreate the thing that I have already here. So I change the tab to design. And the very first thing we have to do is changing the background color from yellow, sorry, from white to yellow. So this is the color that I've already prepared for you. 4. Smart Animate: We are going to use massively in the classes is Smart animate feature in Figma. It means that maybe I'll use the definitions that I took from the website, from FigMas website, that Smart animate looks for matching layers, recognizes differences, and animate layers between frames and the prototype. Might sound a bit complicated for some of you who haven't tried it yet, but don't worry. I'll show you everything. So we take advantage of it that smart animate is smart, and it looks for some differences. So once we have two frames and connect them in the prototype mode, you'll see what will happen. So let's imagine that we have a rectangle. I'm just drawing a rectangle here. It can be red just as this one. We can, of course, center it using the aligning item feature. Okay. It's centered horizontally and it's centered. Vertically. All right. So let's copy the same element into my frame. So what I do is I click Command C on Mac. You can click Control C on on PC. This is the rectangle. I can see it in the left panel, which shows all the layers that I have. So I have my rectangle copied. I mark the frame that I want to paste this rectangle in, and I click Command V or Control V for pasting. And you'll see that it will have the same position. So let's imagine that I would like to have this rectangle smaller. So I'm changing its size just but by dragging its height. And I want to animate these two frames. So I need to click on the very first one. Change the tab from design to prototype. Just drag from the point where I see the plus icon to the frame that I want to combine. And then the piece of interface responsible for setting the animation will appear. So what I can see here is that I have the Smart animation Smart animate feature option checked. Probably instant would be the one that's default, so you need to click in and change to Smart animate. You will see the demo of this animation and timing. So if we take for instance, 1 second, so it's 1,000 milliseconds, it will be a bit longer. We have Smart animate. So I'm clicking here, I see that the new flow is created. I click on the play icon and I see my animation. Well, it's not going, it's not moving because we need to click. Once I click, I see that Smart animate kicks in. So Smart animate looks for the differences, and the differences between these two frames is the height of this rectangle, right? Because we change its height. If we have a totally different totally different rectangle, and for instance, we would like to, you know, have the animations from this rectangle to that one, you'll see that it won't work like that because this gray rectangle is a new element that doesn't appear. So this is the one called rectangle ten, and it doesn't appear in the first frame. So Smart animate looks only for the same objects within two frames. So this is why looks for matching layers, and rectangle ten is not a layer that is matched into the first frame. If we want to have it in the first frame as well, we just need to copy it and paste in the same place, we can, for instance, change its height and position, and you'll see what will happen. It looks nice. I mean, attractive at least for something that we can do within a minute. And I want to show you by this exercise that you can experiment a lot with this feature because it's really cool. So you don't need to create all the states of animation, only the entry one and the final one, and everything, what is between frames will be automatically done by Figma. So remember to have the matching objects. This is important. And the other thing is that I needed to click on the on the frame here, two to start the animation. And this is how we can change it. Once you click it, on the settings of the animation, you will see that we have click option. We can change it. And there are various options. They are great for simulating the behaviors of the tapping or changing the course on the website, for instance, you have mouse enter, mouse leave, but we can also have automatic transition from frame one to another one by choosing after delay. So after some time, the frame will be transitioned to the next one automatically. We can change of course to 0 seconds, so it will be done instantly. We have the smart animate setup, the timing, and let's see what will happen. Once I play, the animation starts. So it's really, really nice, and we can take advantage of it and configure our video, our animation accordingly. All right, so this is something very, very simple. I just wanted to explain to you what Smart animate is, how it works. But let's get back to the animation that I have here. So this movement of the pictures, let me just remove the rectangles that I have, and let's begin. 5. First Steps with Animation in Figma: So I will take the items, the elements that I have, and the elements that I actually created for you. I need to click in to the group, and then I see that I have frames. So you already recognized that the sign is frame, and we have free pictures. I can mark them. I'm using shift. And with a shift, I can I can mark longer list of files. I click Common C to copy them, and then I paste it into my frame, and I have free pictures. I think that they should be bigger. So let me just click Shift. And with shift, I'm just, it doesn't work like that. Oh, because they're in frames. They're not picture itself. In every frame, we have a picture. All right, so for enlarging elements that are in frames, we need to use the scale link option. I'm going to show you how to use it. So you need to click K press K letter on your keyboard. And you will see that the arrows have changed. The double arrows. And once I click Shift and start resizing the frame, I'll see that it keeps the proportions. It's also marked here. If I change to move and start and start just using the the resizing button without shift. It will just allow me to manipulate the height and the width, but there will not be connected so they won't keep proportions that I set up. So I can make it larger with the k one cyclic it changes here, in the left. So let me just make it a bit larger and see if it's fine, maybe Maybe this size would be nice. And I need to change it with the same thing. So I can start resizing, but we want to keep the same sizes. So maybe make it more easy to do, I'll change it to hundred 9,590, so I can just change this sizing and we have the same sizes. Okay If I click click it like this, you'll see that the frame is enlarged, but the image that it's inside, not. So we'll probably need to change it as well. And we're ready almost because I see that it doesn't fill the whole frame, so we can click on the image and enlarge it a bit. Oh, yes, great. We can navigate within the frame and see how it's positioned, but I'm satisfied with this one. Okay, so let's check if you have everything the same. So we have one, two, and three pictures. Each one is in a separate frame, and we have the frame story one. So what we're going to do is we need to stack everything. I'll stack, for instance, this image here. I'll check if it's in the center. I'll stack this image in the very same place. But what you have to be aware is that usually if you place an element on the other element, that it's a frame, the frame will jump into it inside. And we don't want to have such effect. So I need to take it and bring it into another layer. So it's still a separate frame. And I have picture, number one, and it will happen the thing that will happen is actually the same. But I don't want to have the first picture on the front. So I change it. This is my entry point. Let me just remove this frame. What is easier to play with Smart animate is to create the very first frame that it's finished, and then you can quickly just copy it and paste. Command C and Comm for Mac, and I can play with both frames are actually the same. So we as I look for this cheat sheet, say, I see that the pictures are changed its position. So let me just take picture three. And change it. Let me click on the picture one and change it somewhere here, right? So we have position of these elements, and let's connect them in the prototype tab. So I'm in the prototype. I just drag it. Click Navigate two. Yes, that's true, smart animate. Let's keep it 1 second. It's fine. But we want to have it on after a delay. So after 0 seconds, start. Actually, we have to give something more than zero, but one milliseconds, like nothing. So it's still fine for us. And let's see the animation. Nice. So we have the pictures moving. So we have one picture the main on the front, and then the other one will will appear. Okay, so let's do the other step, which is changing the position of the image that are on the top and on the bottom. I do the same, so I just copy the frame. And to keep the same position, and I'll just, you know, change it, you can go like this. You have to be aware that if you drag it too far, it will step out of the original frame. So if you want to keep it inside, you just need to put it here and it will be clipped out. I will just show you one thing. If we have this clip content switched on. It won't show everything that it's outside the frame. But once we uncheck it, it will be shown like this. But for our purposes, we want to have clip content checked. All right. So we also want to rotate this pictures a bit like this, and of course, switching to prototype mode. And yeah, navigate is fine. After a delay, one millisecond fine. Smart animate. Great. And let's play Cool. What is also interesting in the animation panel is that you can change the dynamics of the animation, so it can be bouncy, for instance. Let's see how it will effect. Yes. So you can see that this picture is just bounced. Oh, let's keep it just for adding something new. Maybe this picture would be hidden like that. And the next movement is to take the pictures from the top and bottom to the center position. So once again, I copy paste. And let me bring this frame to the top. Oh, we wanted to actually keep the different one. So if you want to keep the different one, just you need to change the position of the frame, and it's on the front. So, something like that. And next, we need to prototype here. If you don't see the option, just check whether you're switched to the prototype mode. All right. So I'm dragging I'm dragging the arrow, Smart animate, maybe let's change to the gentle. It's going to happen after delay, 1 second, one millisecond, sorry. Let's see. Shoot. Yes, goes like that. Really nice. And we want to rotate it. So next thing, copying. I actually did the copy of the previous frame bar by clicking on it and also clicking Option on Mac on Windows. Option A. Dragging, and I'm copying the dire that I'm that I picked before. So we have the same frame that it's before. And now we're ready to change it a bit, so for instance, we can rotate it. And of course, we need to connect it after delay, one millisecond. And let's see. Cool. Of course, you can do more with it. I mean, you can, for instance, change its size, we're on the P three. But remember about keeping the scale if you want to change both frame and the proportions of the picture that's inside. So we can do something like this. And you can add text. For instance, Hello. Nothing original here, but yeah, I'm using the Clash grow test font, and but just give me a second. I will get into it. You need to download it and install on your system. Okay. Let's try something bigger. Hello. As you can see, the text is within the P three frame. So this is why it's masked. But once we drag it out of here and keep it in the general space of the frame seven, It will appear like that. So we have hello. We can change its color fill by using the the color P cursory. I'm clicking the color that I prepared for you, and we have hello sign. Okay, let's combine switch to prototype. After delay one sec Milk second. The next one. And let's see. Oh, I needed to click it. Yeah, probably, yeah, it should be after delay. Yeah. So it's very simple. Maybe you know, we can do more to make it even better, but I wanted to show you that, you know, within really, like, a couple of minutes, we can do something that doesn't require skills from us, advanced skills. Either in Figma in animations in general. 6. Creating First Animation: All right. So let's check how the animation that we're aiming at looks like. I'm clicking here the play option, and this is what you see. I hope that you like it. I just wanted to show you that you can also change the size of this window because I didn't do it before. So once again, once I click Play on the flow, you'll see the animation that we're going to prepare. I hope that you are excited as well. All right, so let's recreate the effect that we have. First of all, let's think what has just happened. Maybe we can slow the animation a bit, for instance, to 20 seconds, which is a bit long and see what's happening. So the image is shrinking and the text, both on the top and the bottom change their positions. And we can see the yellow break around. So what we need to do? I'm taking a new frame and Instagram story. We have the frame ready. Let's do it on the bottom here and change the background to yellow. Fulfill, I have already yellow yellow in the document color, so I can select it. My Instagram story frame is ready. Of course, you can remain it, for instance, change it to guide to millon animation to make it more easily recognizable for you. Of course, keeping the the order and the proper names of the layers, super important. I'm not going to show everything here because it's not the topic. It's not the subject of figma, but I guess that keeping good practices, even if you're experimenting, it's worth doing. All right, so we have the frame, and we want to use the picture that we have. So let's copy the one that from the top frame. But we need to change it a bit. So I'm clicking K to scale it a bit to fulfill it to the full frame. Like this. And I want to shrink it into the next one. So with K, still, I'm changing the size of the picture. Just looking more or less on the proportions of the animation. Yeah, it can be something like that, and we want to center it. Great. So let's connect switching to prototype. Choosing Smart animate. Maybe we can keep it on click. We have 10 seconds. All right. So let's click Play and see. I'm clicking and the image is shrinking. I see some space here. Let's see what type of animation is used here gentle. I don't remember which one I used here. So let me just quickly check. You won't be having the solutions here. So yeah, gentle as well. So I guess that we needed to make it because there's a little shift between this edges. So I do it like this. So the frame would be a bit bigger. But the picture would feel it like that. All right. Great. And let's go once again. I click and the image is shrinking. Right. It's a bit slower than in the original version, but don't worry, we'll change the timing afterwards. Okay, so next step is the text. And what you have to do is please download the clash grotesque fund. It's for free. It's open source. Once you navigate to the text and click, the browser should be open and you have the option to download clash grotesque. So for instance, you can Um, test it, but we don't want to do it right now. Let me just yeah, you need to click it and check you can add all the tiles everything because I think that every style it's nice. And once we march all of them, you select all of them. I'm just checking if you have the option to select all at once. But I don't see it, unfortunately. So you need to select style by style, and then you have to download family. Once you download family, you need to install the funds. If you have Figma application already, that's great. But if you don't, please install FDMA application instead instead of playing with it in the web browser because otherwise, there might be some problems with funds. And also, what is important is to check Figma agent. Installer. So this is the app that you have to download as well and install. Yeah, you see font installers. So please install the fund installer, thanks to them. Thanks to the installer, you'll be able to use the funds that are external, not the typical system funds, but some funds that you downloaded from Google funds or any other sources. So go to either Mac OS or Windows depending on your system and install it after actually before installing our funds would be better probably. So I'm also taking this link, and I'll add this link to Figma. I can add a link here. And Oh, why it doesn't work. By Yes, like this. Yeah. And you have fun installer as well. Great. So please do it. Both installing and fun installer from Figma. All right. So once you install the fund, and we can check whether it's recognizable by FGMA from the text, you need to types. And I'm typing guide maybe two M let's stick to the text that's in our example. If you don't have clash grotesque on your list, close the application, close the Figma application. Install the font installer from Figma. Check if the clash grow task is in your system funds, and then launch the Figma once again, and the fund should be here. Usually, the problems appear if you use a web browser or maybe sometimes you think that the font is already installed, but it's not, or you haven't installed that font installer. All right, so I have my text guide to millon I want to make it larger, so I click K and just, you know, enlarge it. I also want to change its fill to red, and I can place it tax somewhere. Let's try with 160 maybe even 300. Yeah, something like that. So what is happening here is that we have, for instance, text that it's transitioned, like that. And the same text, I copied it with option with old key. And we can have guide to like this. Something like that. Okay. So we have two lines of text, and let's see what will happen. Once I change to the prototype mode and switch the animation. The text just fades in. It's a bit different from the thing that I showed you. So let's get back to the original one. So the text is appearing here. As we know from the Smart animate, we have to have the same objects. The objects have to match with each other, comparing the two frames. So as you can see, we have gym text, but we don't have it in our first frames. So let's stop here for a while. If we want to have the effect of this text that it's being transitions from left to right and from right to left, we need to copy exactly the same objects and have it in the very first frame. So to make it easier to identify these objects and frames, I will rename it. So, sorry, this is the second one, right? And this should be the first. So I'm changing the names of the layers, and I will do the same with the text. So this is text on the top, and this is on bottom, And I'm copying two of the objects clicking on that first frame. And I'm just pacing it. So I see the text. And that's great. So let's see, for instance, with shift hold, I hold the shift key so that the text can be only transitioned from left to right and the x axis. So if I hold shift, it will be easier for me just to keep the same position in terms of the vertical position, and I can scroll it horizontally with shift. So let me transition it. Okay. And I see that it stepped out from the second frame, right? This is the second frame and the text it's outside. So I need to put it right. Great. And actually, I don't know why we have two oh, sorry, I put it into the wrong wrong frame. Yes. This is the first one, so I need to put this in the top guide to the first frame. I hope that it's clear for you. So we have the text in the first frame. It's changed its position. So let's see how it will look like. Sorry, I will just maybe change it to After delay, I have 7,000 seconds. We can add two milliseconds and C. Yes. It resembles the very first exercise the very first video that I showed you, let's get back to it. This is the demonstrations. All right. Nice. So we can do the same, but we need to change the position. It should be hidden. Yeah. So we need to take it to the right. Again, it happened that it stepped out of the frame, so we need to put it to the first one, and we need to do with the bottom text. So it goes from right to left, so I need to change its position. And again, it stepped out, so I need to put it under top just to keep the same orders of the layers. Let's see. Yes. This is exactly what I wanted to achieve. So we're happy that this animation looks like the original one that I showed you, and now it's time to record this animation so later we can export this video and publish it on Instagram stories. Let's see how we can do it. 7. Mac Users: Exporting Animation as Video with QuickTime: Okay, so how to record the animation, how to export the video. I'm a Mac user, so it makes the thing a bit simple because I don't need to install any other external application. So if you use Mac, we're going to use quick Tim. And for the Windows user, I strongly recommend to use Lom Ida class project description, you'll have the link and also in Figma. It's really nice because what I like in this tool is that you can record the part of the screen. So Later, I will show you how to do it. But now let's jump into recording the screen for Mac users. So recording and Quicktime. We want to record the specific size of the Instagram stories. So let's see how we can do it with Quick Time. So I'm lounging QuickTime. And I'm doing with the right key. I'm taking new screen recording. And what I see is that I already have a certain size. So I can click record. And in the meantime, I can also click the animation. Well, let me just stop recording. Because I see that I had a different setting in my prototype. I want to so I mean, the prototype tab. And what I would like to do is that I would like to change the settings. So I don't want to have this device, but only the presentations mode, it's fine. Great. So what I'm going to do is I need to check if the Proportions of the quick time will match my graphics, will match my animation. I see that it should be bigger, I'm taking the full size of the graphics. Okay. And I can record it. But as you know, the animation already is already gone because it played only once. So what we can do is we can save the given space, so we can click record and stop and don't worry about it for now. But we need to set some sort of delay once we switch on the quick time. We need to have some sort of delay when the animation will start. So let me add here a longer longer time, for instance, 4 seconds. Okay. So taking new screen recording, record, and I'm playing the animation. I think that it should be, like this. And the animation is recorded. Let's see. This is the file that was recorded by Quicktime. Let's play. Of course, this is the piece of the interface that we were recording as well. I was changing but the position of the window, all right. We have the video ready. Nice feature in QuickTime is that we can trim the video so we can c the first part. Yes, I think it would be this one. And so I can now export the file, so file export as 1,000 ADP it's totally fine. And we can call this guide to Milan, and I'm saving it. This file, I can transfer to my mobile, and then I can publish it on Instagram. 8. Windows Users: Exporing Animation as Vdeo with Loom: Okay. All right, so I have loom installed as an application. I strongly recommend you to do it because it's easy. I just open loom and I have the interface. What I can do here is that I can record either for screen or the custom size, which is the most important for us because we need to adjust the size of the recording to our prototype. So let me the prototype first. And thanks to it, I'll be able to customize size area for the recording. Yes, like this, and I can record this part of the animation. As you can see, there are 3 seconds before the screen is going to be recorded, and this is the time. I can, of course, stop it. And here my loom will be generated. I can download this file or keep it in the cloud. But let's do it once again. Maybe I will add additional frame to make it easier to start recording, just as a starting frame so that I can give it on click, flow will start here, and after delay can start after 15 milliseconds. So let me the prototype. Once I click inside, the animation will start. So again, I'm looking for loom custom size, start recording. Okay. I'm drawing the custom size. It's fine. Start recording. It will be counting three to one, and then I can click on the prototype, and animation is ready. Yes, I switch to this account so that you can see the edit option, trim and stitch. This is something that you would like to use, and then we can trim the video. So it will start from the given animation. And then you can export the clip, save the existing one and then export it, let's say that it's finished. And I can download the video just by clicking into more actions and here download the video. Okay. 9. Creating Second Animation – part 1: All right. So let's switch to the second exercise, which is going to be exciting as well. So we need to switch to Figma. All right, so we're in Figma. And let me present you the animation that we're going to work on now. As you can see, there are lots of colors and lots of different animations. I'm super happy to show you some tricks. So as usual, you have all the assets created, and we need to download and install a new fund. This is the phone that actually can be downloaded from G Road. Yeah, from GM road. Sorry, I was thinking whether this is the right address, but, yeah. So Kina, and you need to download this phone fund from this marketplace. Of course, you can pay for it. You can also type zero. If you want to have it for free, it's free for personal and commercial use, which is super nice. I really like this type phase, so feel free to download it. Then install, and please check if it works in Figma. If not, please switch off the app, Figma app and then launch it once again. Sometimes I have such problems, so I'm just, you know, giving this tip for you. We have a set of colors, and also this icon, which we're going to use in some of the frames. All right. So let's start. You already know how to begin. We need to go to frame design and create the Instagram story. Template. For your fill, we're going to use the base background. And just checking out, we have tips for creatives. So I'm doing this text tips Yakhina. I already have chosen it on my list from the funds list. Let's make it larger with K. Tips. We'll see if it's create is. I don't remember how I divided this word. Let's see. Creatives. Yep. I think that this size is okay, and we want to group them and have the same spaces between all of them, so we can use distribute vertical spacing. Oh, I don't know. It doesn't look This is the same. So do it once again. I'll take this frame just to have it similarly. I see that the funds should be bigger, so I make it a bit larger T four creatives. Let me check which fund I used for the demonstration purposes medium. It's medium, it's fine. All right. It be something like this. Creatives and let's tidy up a bit. All right. I think that we that the tips four is a bit bigger here. So yeah, let's do something like that. So the composition is fine, more or less. And what we can do here is we can create a component. So whenever we decide that I don't know, we want to make this fun bigger, it will change in all the instances of this component. So let's create the component first, and you'll see what I mean. I select all the items that needs to be in the component, and then you can quickly do it with this concrete component. And we can name it tip section, for instance, And once I copy, you know, the frame for the next stages of the animation. But in the meantime, I'll decide that, well, actually this funds should be bigger. I can, you know, have an influence in my component, I can change something in my component, and it will reflect in all the instances of this component. So I think that this is very useful, especially if you're experimenting a lot, And in general, keeping repetitive items in components in Figma is very useful. All right, so I have tips for creatives. I can remove this frames for now. I want to copy the arrow icon and make it a little bit bigger All right. So we have tips for creatives. And as you remember from the animation, we have various color fuel stripes that will appear from various sites. So we need to create the stripes, and I do I do it with a frame, so I click frame, and I will draw it, but watch out. This is happening inside the component, so we need to drag it and take it out of the component. Let's check the height because later this stripes will cover the text. So let's make it a bit bigger, so I'll say 180. And we want to fill this frame with a color. The first color will be the yellow one, this one. You can also check it here. You can use the color picker, and we want to make it rounded. So here, we can take 100, for instance, to see that it looks nice, it's fully rounded. So we have the first stripe. But we have to replicate it for more items. So we have another one, the blue one. It should be within this frame. Let's rename it to Tips for creatives and change the color to blue. I'm clicking on it and with the old or option key, and we need to change the color to pink one, right. Again, changing adding it to the frame. We can call it pink. This one, we can call it blue and yellow. All right. And I guess it would be the last one. The green one. Yes. Okay. Oh, no. Actually, it's not the last one, sorry. It's orange, right. And the last one would be somewhere here. It will be green. So this is the stage of the animation, one stage. But actually, it's the middle. So we want to have the starter point. It will look like this. I will copy it. So all these frames would be hidden. Make sure that they'll still stay right in the frame. By the way, I didn't rename it. Sorry for that. All right. So we're doing prototype. No, this one as well. Sorry. Okay. Right? And this would be one of the further step of the animation. And let's copy. Let's copy. All right. So yellow. Yellow. I will switch to design. Yellow will appear. The next stage. Which one is the next one. Shod be four, so the blue one, right? Make sure that you're, you know, editing the appriate frame. Okay. So blue, then pink, I guess, or is pink. It's here. And The next stage is green. Orange. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. It's orange. Of course, for having more and better organized content, I strongly recommend you to rename the frames. 10. Creating Second Animation – part 2: All right. So I think that we can try to connect them in the prototype and see how the animation will go. All right. Smart animate. I would keep it short, so maybe 600 milliseconds. After delay, let's keep it very quick, 50 milliseconds, and let's do the same with the other Actually, we can make it a bulk at it. So I'm just combining, and then I will select. Mm hmm. I'll select all the arrows with shift. And then I can change sorry, not this one, but here, after delay, 50 milliseconds, right? It's correct. And let's see. Cool. I will use this one recreate the last one because I saw that there were some inconsistencies, give me a sac. We're taking the green one from number seven. Switching to design so that I can change its length. And I think it would be better to make it more dynamic. This is what I saw. But let's say it once again. Yeah. We need to wait a bit longer for the pink one. I don't know why. So, this is one for the pink one. Oh, Because it didn't change to 50 milliseconds and probably the same with this one. Sometimes this bulk edit doesn't work that good. All right. And let's see. Nice. It can be faster overall. So maybe not 600, but 400. Let's do it for the different ones. Yep. And let's see. Yeah. It's more dynamic. It's. The next frame was that the arrow turned We can also the Ron turned, but also there were some other stripes. So I would recommend doing something like this because if we change the worry, I need to go to the zone. For the full bottom, we will cover the tips world. So I would the tips text, pasted the same way. To make that smooth transition between the frames. We can not do smart animate this time, but just instant connection. So not smart animate, but instant here, and it can be pretty fast. So not on click, but after delay, one millisecond, and we copied this one because we want to do a new one. So like tips, right? I'm just checking if yeah, tips it will be in the Oh, as you can see, I didn't manage to cover for the text here as well. So hopefully hopefully we can add the component, the main component so that this letters can be a bit smaller, for instance, like this. And did it change something? And I think that in this situation, I would put it a bit, yeah, because this is the second row. So I put it a bit by two, three pixels. Four. Yeah. And now it's hidden. I need to also copy this one once again and paste it here so that their positions would be the same pasting it as well and adding the connection. So connecting. And now I can add sorry, smart animate. After a delay one millisecond see. Yes. Nice. And after this I want this arrow to show tips. Another one that I need to connect with smart animate after delay, one millisecond. But actually, it can be faster. And this as well, because it was too long. Okay. And what is happening is that we're having some words appearing, let's see. It can be done in such a way that we're covering a word, and then we're changing the size of the rectngle that it's covering the word. Now let's create the other words. So check this out. We have this frame. But we need to cover these words. So I copied the dirtungle but I need to put it up front. Also copy pink one. I need to copy this blue one and paste it once again. If you want to make it as the first layer, just select the frame and then paste it. The same with the pink one select the frame, and the text is. And orange as well. Great. In the next steps, we're going to change the height of this rectangle. So it will diminish to almost zero. The same with the pink one, the same with orange one, and we got it. Great. So now we can connect it prototype mode, Check and smart animate. Maybe make it a bit faster. Oh, I forgot to change it too. After a delay, the same with this one. After delay millisecond. And with this one. After a delay, one millisecond. Okay. I'm very curious about this animation. So let's see. Cool. But I think it's too fast, right? It should be a bit slower. Let me check this one. So maybe we will change to 600. And we'll be better. You know, Timing and animation is super important because it's all about the experience. We don't want to hurt hats of our. Okay. So there is a problem here, I see. I think it's a matter of here, we have smart animate. And in my opinion, let's see whether it's good. I will add a longer time. If you want to check something, you can add longer time. And this one is Smart Mate. And this one should be smart Mate as well. Okay. So I will check what's happening here. Let's play it once again. This looks good. This looks good as well. Okay, so we had a problem I guess after this frame. T or this one. Because I'm not sure if this frames This frame matches. We have tips here on the top. But the tips in the ten ten frames in a different spot. You have to be very careful about it. Of course, you know, it's all about looking for the mistakes or places to improve. So yeah, I think that we need to change it to instant. And also, this icon should be the same. And let's see if it works. Okay. Yes, it's better. It's definitely better. Great. So we have tips. Check this out. And the last stage of the animation, the last stage that we did. Oh, actually, it's check them out. Okay. I will correct it. We have various backgrounds, but as you can see, they'll change immediately, and there is one transition. Maybe I'll show you in a longer time 2 seconds, let's say. There is the round that stripe that goes from the top to the bottom. Let's do it. 11. Creating Second Animation – part 3: We need to copy this frame and add a new frame that would be the sorry. Let's do this frame outside would be the, the bash stripe that goes on the text. It should be around it as well. Cool. It can be longer, and we put it into the frame 14th, it looks like this, I would call the stripe So for now, we can hide it. But in the next frame, the best stripe goes all the way down. Okay. Connect. Just to show you why I added this best stripe in such a way that it's hidden on the top, and then it appears because we want to use smart animate here once again. And between these frames, because we don't want to, you know, add this bash stripe to all the frames before, because we want to have the matching layers in order to make the smart animate work smoothly. I just want to have one transition that will be instant, and it doesn't need to match the layers between two frames. All right. After delay, can be one, right, and then the next one, Smart animate. We can make it a bit longer. Let's see. Oh. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, I forgot to between the frames, add It's after a delay, so it's fine. After the delay, it's fine. I needed to click one layer, so I'm wondering. After a delay. I don't know why this flow appeared. I just removed this flow. And to me, this one should be longer, so let's add 2 seconds. L see. Okay. Okay. So I think that this is the spot where we have After delay. Everything should work here. I don't know why I need to click. Maybe it's Bog or something. Hopefully not. Here we have on click. Sorry. So we need to change after delay one millisecond. And there's one more thing I wanted to check, but let me launch it once again. Okay, this looks cool. We wanted to have the word them. So it's also a good practice to make components of this word in order to have more flexibility because as you can see, I wanted to change them, and, you know, because it's not a component, I had to change them in three places in three frames. All right. So now we're just copy this This last frame and change the color just simply change the color of the stripe. So it'd be yellow. Yeah, bash stripe, bash stripe, turns into yellow, then into blue. Whoops. Sorry. I need to mark down the bash stripe. Yeah. Make sure that you have the proper frame selected. And by the way, I see that it's because of the rounds, we need to stretch it a bit. So I will stretch it as well. The best stripe. It should go down and this as well, right? Then pink, I guess. And orange and green. Okay. Okay. So the last thing that we have to do is connecting the rest of the frames, smart animate. Actually, it doesn't matter whether it's smart animate. It can be dissolved because we just, you know, any object won't move, right? It's not about changing the place, it's position. It's only about changing the color, so it would be just, you know, fading in and out. We can leave 600 after delay. One millisecond. I'd do the same for all of them. After delay after delay. And after delay. But it should be 600. Yeah. Okay. Let's see what we have. Okay, so this one should be definitely faster because it took us some time after delay, one maybe 200. Okay, I think that there's one more place. We have to change this to them because if we hide this pink stripe. We have this and now we have DM and it should be fine. This is why it's better to have components because in such situations, all the edits will be replicated to all the other frames. All right. So let's check the animation. Okay. I think that there's still one place. This is the last frame where we have. Here we have them or maybe that one. Yes. Let for a second. On this frame 15, let's hide Bart and we have this. So we need to check it through them and hide and go once again prototype. Okay. This looks good. Yeah. This is cool, but I think that we need to wait a bit. We have 2 seconds here, so let's change to 200 and now it will be good. Oh, no, I think it's too fast. Definitely too fast. So maybe 1 second. And for this 600 600 instant 600. Okay. The final final final. Yeah, I think it should be faster, actually. Let's change to 300 and it would be perfect. Okay. And now, once again, we can create the recording. So what is important here is that the first animation start after, I don't know. Let's say 5 seconds or seven second. Okay. So we have 400 but we need to copy and change connection. It can be instant dissolve seconds and I'm adding quick time player new screen recording record, and I, it was pretty fast, right? So Let me stop it and check. Oh, we need to change the starting position of the flow because it started from this frame, not from that one. And let's do it once again. Record Well wait a bit and it will start animating Okay. We can now stop it and trim it and it trim in quick time. I hope that you have also, like a simple ways of cutting the video on windows. All right. Okay, let's trim, and let's export the file. And we can show this on our Instagram. Of course, you can redo this example, do something different, change the colors, change the text. This is one of your class projects, so I'll be happy to see your art. 12. Creating Third Animation – part 1: Okay. All right. So let's go to the third exercise. We're going to Figma. But before, I'll ask you to download ZT Chins font. So the link should be in the Figma I prepared for you. And there are also some videos to download which we're going to use in the exercise. You, of course, have the space to use for the experiments. And it's high time to show you what we're going to work on. So I'm starting the animation. Let's go. Okay. So as you can see, it's about masking the video, which is giving us a new opportunities and new ideas to present our work or to present the work of our clients, everything we want to do on Insygram stories. So let's deep dive into what's happening here. So we need to, as always, create a new frame, clicking frame, picking up Insygram story, and we're taking blue baby blue color. We also have the title ABC of Ceramics using Zenz font. ABC of ceramics let's try tins font. I want to have it thin and a bit bigger. So I'm going to use K for scaling. And I think that we need to change the line height to maybe this one. And I also used in the example, I used some variants of the font for the italic for O and E and I and, I guess. So let's play with it a bit. I'm going to my file, so I mark C and use light thin Italic. Maybe F, let's see if it looks nice. You know, just to play a bit with typography as well. Something like that. We can make it a bit bigger. And I guess that maybe it's not super readable, so I will turn to the light. Maybe you would be better. Maybe R, Yeah, looks nice. Okay, so we have the title, and what's happening here is that we're adding videos. I need to add the video. Let me go to the folder with the videos, and I'm adding the first one. The first one intro. All right. And for instance, I'm adding it here. If we click prototype, Nothing will happen because there's no another screen. So let's do another one just for the sake of connecting to screens. And what you will see is that we're having the sound of the video, right? And it's played in the prototype. So it's a good practice. Of course, depending what you want to do to mute the video, and you can do it by switching on this icon. All right. So the Video is muted, and we need to create the mask. So our mask is a rectangle. With the rounded corners. Let's imagine this is our mask, want to round corners. My only round the corners on the top and on the bottom will stay sample like this. This will be our mask. How to do it, we need to have a shape and then click and then click on the use as mask. Currently, it's a mask, but the video is not masked. So we need to take it, drag it and put it after the mask inside its group. Now it looks nice. Let me check how it looked like. Okay, so it was thicker. The mask was bigger so we can stretch it a bit. But we also need to stretch the video with I'm clicking shift so that it can be masks properly. Okay. So we're creating another frame, and we're changing the size of the mask. So we need to go to the rectangle. Maybe it would be better to rename it to mask. So we're trying to keep the order. The mask will change will be smaller and both. Maybe let's do this and see the prototype mode, how it looks like. Of course, smart animate. Let's see. Nice. We can make it a bit longer so you can see the difference. I click. And what I really liked about this technique is that the video is playing and the mask is animating, so it gives a really interesting effect. Okay. So now let's create the third frame. And we will change the mask. So we can make it smaller. What's more, we can also change the dynamics, how the smart animate will work, what will be the dynamic of the animation. And I suggest to changes to quick. So let's connect with the next one. It will be quick, right. And let's check. I like this effect that this mask is bouncing a bit. So we can change it to after after a delay. After 100 Meliscond Let's see. Cool. The next stage is changing it to from rectangle with rounded corners to actually to a circle. So it's really cool that having a mask doesn't mean the same shape all the time. So we can add 500 to both top and bottom. So it will become a circle. And then this mask can also change its position, so it can go to the top and be a bit smaller. Oh, actually, it became smaller in the bottom. But let's keep it that way. We'll see what's more interesting. What looks better. So prototype. We can live on click for now and change it afterwards. So let's see. Okay. Definitely here. It's quick. But maybe I would change this position. I would change position of this mask, for instance, to the top, like that. And this would be smaller, like this. And then we can play again with the shape of this mask. We can make something like this and then enlarge by both sides. Hopefully, it's in the center. Yeah. Okay, so now we have to connect it and see how it looks like. Cool. I like this when the video zooms in, and at the same time, the mask is changing. Okay, so we can switch it to after delay. For instance, this one can be after 300 milliseconds. After delay 200. And the next, we're having some text items that appear. So let's quickly create it. I'm the frame and taking, for instance, join classes. And let's change text to the font to enter maybe, maybe 50 or 50 will be fine, but I would change it to small case. And as you could see, it looked like a small button, like a round rounded element. So we can frame it by right click. Frame section selection. Okay. And we can add out a layout. So it will dynamically set the width and height of this button. If we add fill, you will see that, you know, the margin, the paddingth actually inside this frame is 100 pixels, but we want to keep it not that big, rather small. And here I would keep 15, let's say, also round it to corners. And I would switch it to 40. Join classes. I don't remember the color. Sorry. I forgot to prepare them here. So it's gray and kind of man. Join classes. Every Tuesday, Now, I'm changing the text. I can use whatever you want. And for this one, we will change the color to this one. And this could be gray. Maybe I will tidy up. Okay. And let's see. Let's actually get back to the original one because I wanted to check what was the idea behind the text? So how it will appear. Okay, so it doesn't matter because the text was just appearing. Smart animate. We'll see what will happen. Let's check. Uh huh. 13. Creating Third Animation – part 2: If you would like to do something more fancy. We can copy the text. It's already inside the mask, so we can paste to this mask as well, and we can change its position. Of course, we need to drag again into the mask, so it's here, right? It's in this mask. And it also matches the next frame. So it has an interesting in fact. Yeah. I like it. And we also in the previous version, the original one, I added another video to show you that, you know, we can mix the videos. We can change them. So I'm adding another one. And for instance, I can drug it into the mask and we'll see what will happen. Okay. I can see this video. Probably it's not connected. Okay. So one more thing, we need to connect it, right? Smart animate. Let's it on click or maybe after a delay. Okay. Let's see. I will just quickly take it here just to see changing those two frames. Okay. It's nothing spectacular, say. If you would like to have it more interesting, I would put the same video here, change its position. But Yeah, it's something that we can leave or, or. We can copy this frame. Added here. I mean, the whole mask. It's not bad, so we can play a bit. We can also make this mask. Entering more area, so getting bigger. But pay attention that your video is cut it out here, it needs to be the position of it needs to be changed. We'll see how it looks like in the prototype. It's not connected. Forget about it. Wait a second. Nice. I like it. So I think that we can do even bigger mask can grow like this, like that. And the video can go Like here. Let's see. Cool. Like this. So by the end, we can leave like a short short tax. Waiting for you, something small that will add a nice touch the visual touch as well. We can make it is super quick. And change after delay change all the previous sections to after delay. Okay. Oh, we have many, many frames, but I think that the fact looks noise. After delay. Okay. This one is after delay, e. So we'll start the flow. I'm replacing it to the very first frame. Okay. Cool. I really like it. Hope you like it too. So of course, you can use the front videos if you want, but all the two actually videos are in the drop box folder. So now, recording it with with quick time, at least for my case. And for this one, let's start after 6 seconds. Okay. So your task now is to create the video. I can quickly help you with one thing. Please copy the first frame. So we have a margin time margin once we start recording the screen. I would say half of the second and prototype. I would, I will start here. Preview. I don't know why preview just escaped my prototype. But I added a new flow starting point. So let's try to record it. I'm clicking quick time, new screen recording. The prototype, and it's being animated. Awesome. Okay. I forgot to switch off the sound in the video in the last video. So let me correct this. Maybe you can hear it because I switch I put down the volume. But once you enter prototype and click into the video, you'll see that the sound is on. And let's check the previous previous frames as well. Yeah. Only three frames, hopefully. Not a lot of work. Okay. And we're ready. The animation should be ready. I hope you liked playing with masking and video. It's a really powerful weapon. I hope you'll have some experiments, especially with this approach with the techniques, and I want to see them all in the class project. 14. Bonus – Another Type of Animation: I also prepared a bonus video, a bonus type of animation. So let's see what it's all about. Let me switch to the prototype and play. I can actually create the starting point. So you can see it, and it's sometimes the load. And as you see, we have the video that it's masked and also another video, and this is the screen recording from just the note on my mac. And I'm writing something, typing something. And I think that it looks really cool. And I saw some Instagram stories and this type of animations. So I think that it grab people's attention because they want to see what you're going to convey. What is your message? So how to do it. Well, It's not that difficult. Actually, we can look inside what's happening in this frame. So we have various frames like stickers, right? So desire the stickers created within another frames. So I just, you know, added some colors to it. If we go inside, you will see that we have the text, and each frame has a different fill, the different background color, and it's also rounded. So we have a certain stickers. Also another one with a smile. But I think that the most interesting would be the two elements. So the group that it's masked. So we have a rectangle with rounded corners and inside, we have some groups. Actually, it doesn't need to be a group, doesn't matter. It's just a pure video. So maybe sorry. I'll take this video out of this group, so it would be more clear. And as you see, I can manipulate with this video, I can make it smaller. I can change its position. Once you switch to the prototype mode, once you run the animation, you'll see that the video is being played. And the same happens with this note, this typing animation. We have a rectangle that is rounded, as I will show you that, you know, we can change the shape of it easily. So it's rounded, and we have the video that I recorded using QuickTime on my Mac. If you want to recreate it, you know, just switch to your favorite notes app on Mac, I'm using QuickTime. And choosing the new screen recording. Of course, we can change the size of it like this. I can switch the position, click record and go to notes, and I can start typing. My day was terrible. Let me share my story with you. Whatever. Then we just simply save the this video. Okay, I'm ready to save the video, to export it. This resolution should be fine. Let's add it to the bonus. I will name it typing. All right. So it's being saved. And I can quickly add the new frame. So In story, I can add a background, I can create rectangle. Let's try with different colors so it would be more recognizable, maybe bigger. Okay, so I'm ready to add my video. It's also trimmed already. So I've recorded only this piece of writing and notes. So I'm just dragging and dropping the video, and we want to keep it in this mask. So I'm using this feature use as mask. You can also use the shortcuts and my video is mask, which is great. I can change the size a little bit. To make it to adjust it to the size of the mask. Or I can also do a different operation. I can get rid of the mask. So I can just grab the video, remove the mask and change the color fill of the background to match the fill from the video. So we have this effect of the whole window visible. But there is one shadow from another item, I guess, and finder. So still, I think it would be better to add some sort of mask, Thanks to it, we will cut the shadow a bit. So this is mask and t cat. It looks better. So this is our whole frame. And you can add another, for instance, rounded a mask. So we need to take it from the existing masking group, and maybe I'll group it and put it under this ellipse. And to this ellipse, I can add another video presenting myself, for instance. I have already recorded it. So I'm treating this ellipse as a mask. Well, that looks strange. But, maybe. Maybe maybe maybe. And I can, of course, change the size of the video, and I can change the position of the mask as well. I can mark two of these layers group it and put some somewhere here, depending on what you want to achieve. And let's see what we have. I'll go to the prototype. Yeah, this one is actually bigger a bit. So I wanted to show you how it looks like. Yeah, it's something that is interesting, right? Because you see a person's face and see a message. So to me, it's attracting the user's attention. It's something that draws me in. And I think on Instagram stories, this type of content, this type of animation might be valuable. And of course, you can add, for instance, I use the stickers here. So I just copy and pasted them to add them like something more colorful. But the only thing that you have to be aware is that we're currently inside the masking group, so we want to take it over, take it a bath in our layer hierarchy. And again, we can see maybe let's create the low starting point. We have no interactions here. But what I wanted to show you as a bonus that you can use also the device prototype, the device frame, which looks really nice. So for instance, P, okay, and this would be something like that. And here, you can imagine how your Instagram stories would look like, also, I strongly recommend you to check this prototype settings because you can easily play with various background. I mean, the various simulations of the device, even the color of iPhone, which is super small detail. If you want to have something nice to your portfolio or present your work in the spilation of mobile. You can also use the option to record it, so I can take quick time as well, and adjusted so that I can record this whole frame with mobile like this, and I can start recording and we'll have animations like that. I hope that you enjoy these classes. I hope that you learn something new and I can't wait to see your class project. 15. Recap: So let's quickly recap what you've learned and what you've done during the classes. So first of all, you already have the basic knowledge of the FINMA interface. Maybe you don't know in depth how to deliig and where are all the features, but more or less with my exercise, you'll be able to create some Instagram stories. The second thing is that you know that Smart animate, it's a really cool Figma feature because it helps you to animate whatever happens between frames. So, for instance, if we have frame A and free B, everything that is between them will be automatically done by Figma based on comparing those two frames. So we all know that Smart animate looks for the differences and the similarities in terms of the layers. So this is why throughout the course, I was showing you that, you know, the order of the layers is important and, you know, duplicating some elements. From a given frame to another one is important. And we also know how to create component, which is super important, especially when you have more complex animations, so don't be afraid of that. And of course, I totally invite you to check other FINMA classes. And if you have some special requests for the future classes from me, Let me know in the comment section, I'd be really happy to check them all. You can also reach me out on Instagram at h5d awesome or you can check my Twitter account, which is Agana Ploha This is my name. And I hope to see you there. Thank you for joining, and I'm keeping fingers crossed for your class project. Just as a reminder, your class project is to recreate one of the animations that I was presenting to you or create something totally fresh, totally new based on the techniques that you were learning with me. Please applaud the work that you prepared in the class project section. You can either paste the link to the video or embed the video. If you have any questions, just let me know. So first, three people who will submit their work in the class project sections will have exclusive one on one session with me that will help half an hour. So if you'd like to talk about your career or maybe techniques in Figma or maybe different stuff connected with coding or designing, I'll be happy to answer your questions. So remember, first, free people, I'm waiting for you, and hopefully you'll have fun to enjoy the process creating the animations.