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This microanimation was a lot of fun to create as I had never previously worked with masks in after effects before. The process of creating this loading animation included animating the falling fruit into the blender, closing the lid, and switching on the blender all before the loading could officially begin. In terms of potential applications, this feels like a pleasant loading screen while paging between different website sections.
The concept for this microanimation felt so simple and yet the execution required the most time out of the entire set! The egg itself required 3 separate components (the top, bottom, and egg yolk) and required my crack animations to be timed to the taps on the bowl. Overall, while this microanimation has a less direct application, it creates a small easter egg moment of joy for a user navigating a cooking website.
The toaster felt like the perfect switch having it's natural verticality when the toast it cooks is ready. The execution here was straightforward aside from the challenge of tethering the toast within to the switch for a synchronous leap. This microanimation feels like it could be used for a light/dark mode switch on a cooking website especially with toast being more associated with breakfast and daytime for a light mode experience and hiding back in the toaster for a dark mode experience.
The rolling pin was a unique challenge as it required morphing the small ball of dough into a rectangle at a much greater scale. Thankfully, the rolling pin was straightforward although matching it to the edge of the dough was a bit of a challenge as precise timing was required to perfectly hide the edge. This microanimation would serve nicely either for a cooking website's paging loader or even a loader before reaching the home page of a pizza delivery app.
