Smartwatch Design Motion Assets: Watch Face Animation

Abstract

In this fifth chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at making your watch face design animated, using motion assets. These are usually implemented as a series of numbered PNG graphic elements, so we will be able to continue to build upon your knowledge of digital imaging concepts, covered in Chapters 2 through 4, when we add in the fourth dimension of time to create motion using a series of images which will be played over time much like an old-school “flip-book.” This will involve using a specialized area of the Galaxy Watch Designer software called the Animation Component, which is located right above the Complications Component.