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  • Smart way to create curved block arrows with animated reveal?

    Posted by Henrik Rosén on September 2, 2022 at 3:49 pm

    I’ve started looking at how to make block arrows that animate in in a curve behind a leading edge (tried attaching a GIF of this; hope I did it right), and I believe that there should be some smart way of doing this that I haven’t thought of. Right now all it is is a static shape for each arrow, a rotating shape for the leading chevron, and a mask on top of the static arrow shapes that I’ve manually animate to reveal the static shape behind the chevron. This works, but it feels like a stupid, manual way of doing this.

    Does anybody have any ideas for smarter ways I could be doing this? I tried using an animated stroke that reveals the underlying image, but then I couldn’t get the chevron, or the stroke on the leading edge on the block arrow. Any suggestions?

    Henrik Rosén replied 4 years ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  • Henrik Rosén

    September 2, 2022 at 3:55 pm

    The GIF got deleted, so I’ll put it here instead.

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