Align and Distribute Keyvalues

Learn how to align / distribute keyvalues and animations in this Sketch logo animation tutorial.

First…

Layout in Sketch.

On the Sketch page in icons.sketch, you’ll see two artboards. On the left is the start state and the right is the final state.

Create a Flow file with the start state at t0 and the end state at t1.

NOW HIT PLAY!

There’s a nifty option in flow to mask or show elements that are off of the current artboard.

The reason you want to mask is to see the animation only within the bounds of the scene, or to see everything flying around.

You can distribute keyvalues and animations in Flow! Here’s a brief intro:

We'll go over alignment in detail in another tutorial.

The main thing in this animation is to distribute and offset the animations for the shapes.

With the sketch flow file open…

Press option then tap the arrow to reveal all the timelines
Stretch the timeline view so that you can see all the timelines.
Area select the last keyvalue in every shape timeline.
Move the selected keyvalues to 0.25s
Area select all the keyvalues for shape8 then move them so that the animation ends at 1.0s
Do the same for all the other shapes layers, making sure that they start in a staggered order… DON’T BE PRECISE WITH THE TIMING
With all the keyvalues deselected…
Press SHIFT then tap the last keyvalue in each y track
Hit the distribute-left icon at the top of the properties panel
Repeat steps 8 and 9 for the x tracks
Swap the timing for shape1 and shape3
Swap the timing for shape5 and shape7
Area select all the shape keyvalues and set the entire group’s easing to Ease In

Last but not least, a little bit of style in the bg.

NOW HIT PLAY!

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