Imagine making your website more captivating by adding animations that feel alive. Think of a website that beats like a heart, drawing people in with its soothing rhythm.
Curious how it's done? This tutorial is your guide to creating that heartbeat effect using CSSVG. Whether you're newbie or a pro, get ready to learn how to add a gentle pulse to your website that'll keep visitors hooked.
We'll start off by drawing or importing a heart design. To keep this tutorial short and simple we won't dive into the process of drawing SVG paths using CSSVG, so we will skip the process of drawing the heart path.
Now that we have the heart design let's increase it's opacity and fill it with a linear gradient, now we are going to adjust the stops of the gradient and change the color on each stop, we can also add abother gradient stop.
Now let's duplicate the path and also adjust each stop color and move it behind the path we started with.
Select the group element, then select the scale animator, and set the easing to Ease-in. Now, add the starting keyframe, scale up the group element, and then add another keyframe.
Next, set the easing to Ease-out, scale down the group element to its original size, and add the last keyframe. Drag the timeline limiter very close to your last keyframe to avoid any delays when your animations are repeating.
Now, copy the composition, create another frame, and paste the composition. Select the composition and go to comp animations. Set the duration and repeat count for the composition.