From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects

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Creating a swipe

Creating a swipe

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Creating a swipe

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- [Instructor] In the previous exercise, we blocked out a drag event. In this one, we block out a swipe, which in many respects, is a shorter drag. To get yourself started, open the swipe file found in your chapter download. The plan here is to have the cursor essentially toss the menu layer, which is this gray box, out of the Comp. I've already blocked out the menu's motions so if I scrub across, you can see, there it goes, so we can concentrate on the cursor. So what we're going to do is select the cursor layer and then open the cursor's position property, and we're going to come out five frames, and we're going to add a position keyframe. And we're just going to swipe across, or scrub across, the Y value for the cursor. Just to put it there. So now what we've got is a swipe. Now what we're going to do is add the opacity to this. So you hold down the Shift key, press the T key, and we're going to come out one frame beyond this one. So hold down Command, one tap, and we add an…

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