A small help animation for an upcoming release.
I really like the animation abilities and timing editor in Cheetah 3D, so that’s what I used to build a rough version of this animation. I then traced the frames in Photoshop, so the end result could be vector shape layers, and so I could automate output of PNGs for Retina and non-Retina sizes.
Probably a long-winded way to do things, but I do like working in Cheetah 3D. I guess I should spend some time with After Effects soon — it seems like a good choice for this kind of thing.