Shorts Progress Dots
How far through, so nobody swipes off before the payoff.
A Short is watched on a phone held upright, usually without sound, and decided in the first three seconds. These are built vertical, with type heavy enough to carry the point silently and everything kept clear of the title and buttons the platform draws over its own bottom quarter.
- Resolution
- 1080 × 1920
- Duration
- 6s at 60fps
- Layers
- 11
- Animated
- 11
What you can edit
- Text:
- Label
- Shapes:
- Dot 1, Dot 1 filled, Dot 2, Dot 2 filled, Dot 3, Dot 3 filled, Dot 4, Dot 4 filled
Browsing is open to everyone. An account is needed once you take a template into the editor.
How this one is built
Shorts Progress Dots is built from 10 shapes and 1 text layer, using a shadow 22 pixels deep. Its colours are white and teal. Type is set in Inter.
The dot 1 filled, dot 2 filled and dot 3 filled fade up at 0s, the label fades up at 0.4s. The whole run is 6s at 60 frames a second.
It sits along the top of a vertical composition, spanning about 26% of the width at 277×100 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.
- Stay clear of the platform's own UIShorts draws the title, the channel and a column of buttons over its own frame. What is left is the column these are built for.
- 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.
More Shorts templates
- Shorts End CardFollow and what is next, above the platform's own furniture.
- Shorts Split AnswerA question up top, the answer landing under it a beat later.
- Shorts ComparisonThis against that, stacked the way a phone reads it.
- Shorts QuoteSomebody said it. Set large enough to read without sound.
- Shorts TimerSeconds counting down in the corner the buttons leave alone.
- Shorts Fact StackThree facts arriving in turn, one line each.
- Shorts PollTwo options with a bar under each, for the comments.
- Shorts WarningA caution bar for the thing people get wrong.