Follow Pulse

How this one is built

Follow Pulse is built from 8 sparkles, 4 press rings, 2 text layers and 1 shape, using a violet-to-blue gradient and a shadow 56 pixels deep. Its colours are violet, blue, white and pale amber. Type is set in Inter.

The follow and follow label scale up at 0.3s, the handle rises into place at 0.7s, the pulse ring 1 scales up at 1.1s, the pulse ring 2 scales up at 2.2s, and 4 further beats follow before the end. The whole run is 6s at 60 frames a second.

It sits through the middle of the frame of a 16:9 composition, spanning about 22% of the width at 420×203 pixels.

What to do with it

• Make it yoursChange the words, the colours and the timing without breaking the animation that was built for the shape.
• Export it with transparencyWhich format your editor actually reads, and why a black rectangle behind your graphic means the wrong one was chosen.
• Place it where it readsA handle is only useful if it stays legible on a phone, which is where most of it is watched.
• What exporting costsOpening this template, changing it and watching it back are free. Getting the finished file out is $5 once for this project, or a plan if you make them often.