Icon animation for Mobile Application

Dear friends,

Remember the very first time you tapped and opened an app on a smartphone? Probably not – but it sure must have been exciting at the time. Now, though, this action has become so routine as to be drained of all emotion – it’s something we do without thinking. 

We animated the icons with a combination of simple modifiers and morphing. The captions stay on the tab bar with help of background morphing – but the icons jump regardless of the display content. I created the animation with Adobe After Effects without using any third-party plugins. 

Many thanks to Vladislav, who created the icons and mobile application design.

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