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Auto-Animate for Sketch, Adobe XD and Figma

Create Automatic Transitions Between Artboards, on Sketch, XD, and Figma

Avishay Cohen avatar
Written by Avishay Cohen
Updated over 11 months ago

Anima allows designers to create high-fidelity prototypes inside Sketch, Adobe XD, and Figma and export HTML & CSS in a single click.

Introducing Auto-Animate

Anima Auto-Animate enables you to connect two similar artboards and get a fluid animation between them as if you animated it yourself.

See it live: https://wndr.animaapp.io
Try it out yourself! Download Sketch File

How Does It Work?

Step 1. Create a design and duplicate the artboard.

Select the artboard and press Command + D.

Step 2. On the duplicated artboard, resize the Machu Picchu image to fit the entire artboard.

Important: Layers must keep the same names in both artboards in order to auto- animate correctly.

Resize Machu Picchu image

Step 3. Move elements to their end position

  • Move the text box to the lower-left corner

  • Slide down the Social symbol and Slider Ovals. (Make sure they do not slide outside the artboard).

  • Slide Facts (hidden) in from the right

Move elements to their end position

Step 4. Modify the elements’ properties

  • Change the white Rectangle opacity to 0%

  • Change the text color to white

  • Change the Social symbol and Slider Ovals opacity to 0%

  • Change Facts group opacity to 100%

Anima will calculate the position, color, and opacity changes and generate a fluid transition between the two artboards.

Modify the elements’ properties

Select the Read More button in the original artboard, then go to Anima Plugin>Prototype> Flow> Links and point the purple arrow towards destination artboard and click it.

Link Artboards

Change link type to Auto-Animate

Step 7. Select animation curve and duration

Select animation curve and duration

Step 8. Click Preview in Browser

Click Preview in Browser

Violà!

See it live: https://wndr.animaapp.io
Try it out yourself! Download Sketch File

❗️Please note:

  • Due to the shift towards Figma in the UX/UI market, we have decided to remove official support for our Sketch plugin. However, users can still use the plugin as-is. We recommend using Anima with previous Sketch versions.


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