![]() ![]() I found this to be the best way to create an even hover area as sometimes a hover event can be triggered multiple times as your mouse rolls over the various moving shapes. Then inside that symbol create a new layer (I’ve called this layer ‘Trigger’) with a transparent rectangle shape that covers the entire canvas. Move the entire animation into it’s own Movie Clip symbol (you can do this by creating a new Movie Clip symbol and then pasting in the frames from the scene). The Snap.svg plugin actually allows scripting within Animate CC, you can see the available commands here. The animation is ready to use at this point, however I want to add some additional interaction so that the animation is only activated when hovered over. To preview your animation save your document and select Test from the Control menu, this will open up a browser window with your animation. In the sample below you can see the dots stagger in on the timeline however as the bouncing dot animation happens inside the individual dot Movie Clip symbol so you will only see this when you preview the animation. To animate these parts I converted each separate moving shape to a symbol and used a simple motion tween on each element to animate. The animation in this example has 3 different moving parts - the question bubble, the reply bubble and the reply dots. If you had any grouped elements in your illustrator document these will remain grouped. The first thing you will find is that all your separate layers have been pasted into the one frame in the timeline, however each shape is still selectable individually. Import your vector assets to your Animate scene (I selected the illustration directly in Illustrator and then used copy and paste into Animate). Install the Snap.svg Animator plugin from the Adobe website and create a new SnapSVGAnimator canvas inside Adobe Animate to start animating. ![]() I’ve chosen the message bubble element of our homepage illustration as an example.Įnsure you simplify your shapes as much as possible by combining shape paths and outlining any text elements (Snap.svg does not support embedded text) as this will make them easier to manipulate in Animate when you import them. Because we’re using Adobe Animate we can easily import layered vector AI illustrations and have individual shape elements available to be animated. Prep your assets in Illustrator or your preferred vector illustration tool. Creating a simple vector animation with Adobe Animate and Snap SVG in 4 easy steps Step 1: prep your assets in Illustrator We chose the combination of Adobe Animate + Snap.svg Animator due to the easy integration with Illustrator and our familiarity with the previous Flash animation setup. If Adobe Animate looks familiar you’re not mistaken, it’s the design tool formerly known as Adobe Flash Professional. The two options we found that were most useful were: The best design tools for creating SVG animations Thankfully there are some great plugins that build on top of these libraries and allow designers and animators to use tools they’re familiar with and export the results to an SVG/JS snippet that you can copy and paste into your website. These are great tools but they’re so low-level that to animate anything mildly complex would be difficult for a designer/animator, you’d need to do lots of programming. If you start googling for “animating SVG” you’re going to find a bunch of links to various javascript libraries. Using SVG for animations but getting lost in Javascript Sarah Drasner did more in depth comparison of animation technologies at CSS Tricks. Pros: Interactive, responsive, resolution independent (vector based), supported on all modern browsers, can be styled with css.Ĭons: As only simple animation can be achieved using css to animate svg, a javascript library will be required for complex animation.Įxamples: Cuberto (Snap.svg), Timber (Bodymovin), On the Grid Pros: Good performance, supports 3D shapes.Ĭons: Limited bezier easings, motion path not (yet) supported.Ĭons: Not resolution independent (raster based). Pros: Animation can be as complex as your animation software allows.Ĭons: Requires the user to trigger playing the video on mobile, limited interaction, not resolution independent. ![]() What are the options for animation on the web in 2017? SVG combined with Javascript offers a responsive and resolution independent platform to create interactive animations for the web.ĭespite the hoard of horrible Flash websites in the 2000s, Adobe Flash, the program, was a great authoring tool for animation - I don’t think anyone is complaining about Flash being dead (remember splash screens?) but one thing we miss a little bit is being able to easily create small, resolution independent animations for the web. ![]()
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