Introduction

Smart animate adds motion to child layers with a single connection between parent frames.

It accomplishes this by:

• Looking for matching layers between connected frames.

• Identifying differences in size, position, opacity, rotation, & fill.

• Animating changes to those properties automatically during a transition.

This let's designers add complex movement to their elements with only a few clicks.

See the difference between a standard push transition and a smart animate transition in the two examples below.

😒 Push transition

Animates entire frame, with a left to right "slideshow-like" effect.

😮 Smart animate transition

Animates individual layers creating dynamic & compelling movement.

In this section

We'll introduce the concept of layer matching and walk through the steps to create an animation with smart animate.

To illustrate these steps, we'll create the design in the example above.

We've included link to the complete design file below.