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Using eases

Using eases

From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects

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Using eases

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- [Instructor] In the previous exercise, you may have noticed something a little odd about the motion of the ball. It was constant, or what is referred to as linear motion. Here's the thing. Nothing moves at a constant rate of speed, nothing, other than speed of light of course. You accelerate your car to the speed limit, and slow it down as you approach a stop sign. What you are doing is easing into the speed limit, and easing out of the speed as you approach the stop sign. This is the motion design principle of slow in and slow out. In After Effects, we've accomplished this through the use of eases. To see how this works, open the easing file in your chapter download. What easing does, is to make the motion, or transition between states more fluid and natural. When it comes to micro interactions, easing add a new rule to the feedback part of the microinteraction. As you can see, a key frame is a diamond. What this is telling you, is that no easing has been applied. To apply an ease,…

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