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Logo animation software

Animate a logo from its SVG

Most logo animation is four moves: draw the outline on, bring the parts in with a stagger, settle with an overshoot, and hold. Premation imports the logo's SVG as shape layers, so every path is animatable without redrawing anything.

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Free · AGPL-3.0-only · macOS & Windows

The panel that does it

Graph Editor
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The editor’s own panel, rebuilt on its chrome. It works: drag, toggle, queue.

How to do it

  1. 01

    Import the SVG

    File ▸ Import. Each path becomes a shape layer with its fill and stroke, grouped as the file was.

  2. 02

    Draw it on

    Add ▸ Trim Paths on the outline layers and keyframe End from 0 to 100%. Taper the stroke for a pen feel.

  3. 03

    Stagger the parts in

    Select the layers and use Animate In: one press, varied entrances on an uneven stagger, under the project's Motion Feel. Or keyframe by hand and use the graph editor's Stagger modifier.

  4. 04

    Settle, then export

    The Overshoot preset in the graph editor gives the landing weight. Export with alpha for video, or as Lottie for the web if the logo stayed vector.

Questions

My logo is a PNG, not an SVG. Can I still animate it?
Yes, as an image layer: position, scale, rotation, opacity, masks and effects all work. Trim Paths needs a vector path, so a draw-on needs the SVG or a traced version.
Can two versions of the logo morph into each other?
Smart Animate matches layers by name across two boards and writes the transition as keyframes. Path morphing between shapes with the same vertex count is supported too.