smear
A one-frame blur along the direction of a very fast move, so the eye reads it as speed.
Motion and finish
Lesson 5 · 16 min · Learn it
What the video said
- 1The last layer is motion and finish: ease, overshoot, stagger, smear and glow, on a shot whose beats are already right.
- 2Name the ease for each move and say how long it takes.
- 3Say an overshoot as a number, like 1.12x, then settle to 1.0x.
- 4Put a one-frame smear on very fast moves, and keep a stagger to one gap.
- 5End with a never list, and say every earlier time stays.
Words to know
overshoot
Going slightly past the resting point, then settling back.
ease out
A move that starts fast and slows into place.
Question 1 of 4
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The prompt this lesson teaches
In Desktop, Framey builds this with you. Here it is, to read.
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Now motion and finish. Keep every time from before and give each move its character. - Cursor: still until 0.79 s. Its carry to the drop area (0.79 to 1.33 s) starts slowly, is fastest at 1.04 s, then slows to a stop with no overshoot. At the fastest point add a one-frame smear along its line of travel. From 1.71 to 2.0 s it shrinks away in place. - Cards: each shrinks to nothing about its own center in three frames, with blur rising to 10 px. - Tiles: each scales up from 0 in place, overshoots to 1.12x at 0.25 s after it starts (ease back.out) and settles at 1.0x by 0.42 s, any early blur clearing. Keep them one frame apart. - The word "Drop" in the drop area brightens at 0.54 to 0.58 s and a glint runs right through the phrase until 0.79 s. - Headline: each word arrives with a one-frame sideways smear, then is sharp. The whole line starts at 1.39x and shrinks through 1.0x at 3.21 s, and keeps shrinking with no hold. - Never: a hand cursor, a dissolve, a headline that slides in as one block, bold type, blur past 11 px. Write every tween as its own plain call: a plain number for its start time and plain numbers for its values and ease, with no helper functions, loops or arithmetic in tween calls, so the Check can read them.
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Practice it in Desktop
Motion and finish: on your own
The motion of the hook: wiped-in words, letters that leave in hard steps, a slide, a swell and a pull-back.