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Animate the Friends screen

Animate the Friends screen - After Effects Tutorial

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Animate the Friends screen

- [Voiceover] Let's animate the friends screen. If you haven't got it open just go over to the project panel and find it in the comps, and let's have a look at what we want to do. We're gonna use an expression, and we're gonna come to that in a second, but let's first think about what we want to happen. Something quite simple like we've had before, which will obviously fit in with the other animations that we're creating, so maybe you're gonna scale up the photo and just have it drop down and fade in slightly. That effect across the whole screen will look pretty neat, I think. We're also gonna animate the back button coming in, and because that's a pre-comp it'll also animate in our steps composition as well. We can just do that once and we'll just have the add friend icon animate in too. Seeing as the friends icon and the back button are pretty simple, we'll just get those out of the way. We're going to the back button and if I go up to where we can see it I just simply want to go…

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