From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects

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Stretching elements

Stretching elements

From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects

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Stretching elements

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- [Instructor] This exercise concentrates on the feedback aspect of a micro-interaction. In this case, we're going to prototype a swipe or flick to move an image off-screen. And we've done this earlier but I'm going to show you another way of doing it which adds a little bit more feedback or a little bit more jazz to the interaction. In this case what we're going to do is we're going to shove good old Bruce Lee off the screen. So to shove Bruce, open the stretch file in your chapter download. And when it opens I want you to select both layers and press the U key so you can just see I've done a lot of the motion for you. Now, a quick note before we start. The motion here is going to be pretty slow simply because it is important to concentrate on this technique, which you could apply in shorter timeframes. So let's get started. The first thing we can do is of course apply a film technique by adding a bit of motion blur. So the first thing you want to do is click this little motion blur…

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