Create a cool color-fill animation with CSS - YouTube

Channel: Kevin Powell

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recently someone asked me how the
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animations were done over at arena.net
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so I went to take a look and after
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seeing them I wondered the exact same
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thing so I dove into the code to take a
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look at what was going on and it turns
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out that they were using mask image and
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that was a bit of a coincidence because
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I've just recently put out two videos on
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mask image but they're nothing like this
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and I never would have thought of using
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mask image in that way but it turns out
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it's actually kind of easy to do with it
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so let's take a look at how we can use
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it to do this type of cool effect
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hello my front end friends thank you so
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much for coming to join me once again
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and if you're new here my name is Kevin
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and here at my channel I help you fall
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madly deeply in love with CSS and today
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we're going to be doing that by taking a
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look at another awesome use case for
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mask image so jumping over to their site
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there was one problem that definitely
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did come up that I had to figure out a
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way to do but to show you I just poked
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around in their Dev tools and I found
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they had these two images that were
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overlaying each other using position
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absolute so that makes a lot of sense to
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be able to do that type of thing where
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you use their mask to hide one of them
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and then show it to make it look like
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the colors are splashing out but then I
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was like well how did they do that and
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eventually I found this mask and let's
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open that one and this is the mask they
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had and I went oh so we basically this
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is the hard part was making all the
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frames that you want to be able to do it
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and basically each one of these things
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along the way that we see on the screen
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now if we zoom in like each one of those
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is another frame along the way and so I
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went to photoshop and I started making
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it now you don't need to use Photoshop
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there's other tools that we could use
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for the same type of thing just know
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that these white areas are are actually
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transparent on here if you want to know
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more about making image masks you can
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check out my previous video where I
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looked at sort of the basics of how they
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work
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but you need to go frame by frame to do
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this and after a few failed attempts the
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other thing I realized that they did
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that makes this look really good is sort
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of keeping some areas not painted I
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think is really nice but I really like
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this bird here as well where the bird
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wasn't there and then it comes in after
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so I definitely wanted to do something
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like that I think it adds a nice little
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bit of interest and I think it also
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helps having the white background that
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you sort of go into
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after having done three of these the
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last one I did sort of get a little bit
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quick with with certain parts of it but
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I think it definitely turned out the
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best and so it's that third one that
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we're gonna be looking at the hard work
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is definitely creating all the frames
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for your mask the easy part is actually
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getting it to work which we're going to
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be focusing on right now so moving that
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off to the side and let's go over to my
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own where we're starting with nothing I
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just have this mask container that we're
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going to need just because we need some
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position absolute things so it makes
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life a little bit easier to do it this
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way now in here we need to have the two
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images and they actually did it both
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with background images there's no reason
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that they can't just be images of the
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themselves or one div that's an image
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and one div that is with a background
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image but I actually found it easier to
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have the one of them is an actual image
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because then it sets the size for what
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you want instead of having to use any
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sort of weird sizing stuff we throw our
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image in here and for me I'm going to do
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this as my black and white image because
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I want to start with my black and white
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image we're going to show the other one
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which is going to be overlaid on top but
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completely Hidden Away by our mask and
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when the animation runs it will load it
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in so it might even be easier to do this
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with an actual like two images one for
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each of them but in this case I'm
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actually going to do this one here with
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a div instead of an image just to show
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you that if you are doing that how the
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positioning of it would work to get it
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to function properly because you might
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need things set as background images if
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you need text or something on top of
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them as well though with the absolute
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positioning anyway we'll do it with the
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div just to sort of make it a little bit
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more complex but just to show you that
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it's pretty easy to do anyway but you
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need these two images and then you need
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to have the mask that's going to
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transition between the two of them
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that's sort of the the things that we
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need to have before you can actually get
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this to work so yeah we're going to
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switch that image out for a div like
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this we'll hit save and we just have our
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black and white image to start with and
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we can get started on this and jump into
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the CSS because as far as this goes
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that's all we need you can see I did put
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a replay animation here which we're
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going to use afterward just to make like
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easier to replay the animation to make
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sure things are working and so let's
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jump on over to my CSS where there's
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nothing related to my mask in here yet I
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just have my button styled and some
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little things actually the image Max
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with 100 here because I'm using an
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actual image would be important but I'm
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assuming you're already doing that
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anyway and then we can come in here and
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we're going to do my mask container and
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on that we need a position of relative
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because we will be doing absolute
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positioning on the pieces that are
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inside of it uh then we're going to come
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in let's come in first with my color
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image we called it I think
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we did call it that perfect so my color
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image let's start by coming in with this
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and making sure we can get it lined up
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properly so my color image is going to
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be a position of absolute and let me add
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my background on here so background
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image and as we saw we already have one
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ready so we'll put that on really fast
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so with my image being there we don't
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actually see it yet because this div it
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has nothing inside of it we just have a
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blank div right there and because it's a
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blank div it has no height or width but
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we are using position absolute so we can
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use an inset of zero on that to have it
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fill up the entire space the problem is
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my image is really big I probably could
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have optimized my images here a little
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bit we're just going to set a background
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size of cover on there though to
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actually have it be the right size and
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now because this div the mass container
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its size is being set by this image in
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here so the image here is defining the
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height of this div which means that this
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is sort of defining the total size we
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have this filling up the entire thing
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because of our inset zero and again
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that's top bottom left and right zero so
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this color image is taking up the entire
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space and it's the same dimensions or
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the same aspect ratio anyway of the
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original so they're just perfectly
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overlaying on top of each other so if I
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were to drop the opacity on this and I
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hit save you can see that the two of
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them are coming through we can even drop
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that a little bit lower so you can see
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the cactus is sort of fading away as we
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go into this other the other image
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that's there so they're perfectly
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overlaid on top of each other and that's
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what we really need to get started with
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this so the next thing we're going to do
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is come in here with our mask now I'm
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going to use the prefixed versions for
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now because I'm using Chrome which needs
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the prefix so I'm saying that and I'm
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not putting the prefix webkit mask image
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and actually I think the mask image you
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don't actually need the prefix for it's
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all the other ones but we're just going
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to prefix everything I'll add in the
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non-creased fixed versions after which
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work in non-chromion browsers so for
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this we need our URL which in this case
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is
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imagemask.png and I used a PNG instead
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of SVG like I recommended in the
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original video where I explained things
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because I have some transparency that's
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happening if you weren't having any
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transparency then that would be you
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could just go with an SVG be much
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lighter weight probably the better way
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to go but I was playing around with some
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different effects you can see like these
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low opacity areas here I sort of tried
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to bring that same idea into my mask
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when I was using that and you can also
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see here this is yelling at me in vs
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code because this is non-standard that
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you can see there that's just because
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it's prefixed and they're just be
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careful this isn't going to work
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everywhere but don't worry we'll fix
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that after
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uh and right away you can see
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Something's Happened which is good it's
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it's masking away my uh what we had now
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the problem is because the PNG is this
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like gigantic file that goes on and on
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and on if we go and take a look at my
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finished version of it you can see how
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he's doing a lot of uh playing around
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here uh it was mask image with my
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finished one image mask
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um so I mean it's hard to see if we zoom
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in a little bit you can see all the
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different pieces of it but it's this
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gigantic image but to actually get that
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to fit I had to change the height of it
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so it's actually a lot smaller than the
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finished one
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um just because if not the file side
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it's already 300 KB um so we could
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probably optimize that I didn't do any
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image optimization we could even run
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that through and probably make it a webp
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and make it even smaller and it would be
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fine
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um because even if it does lose quality
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it's moving so quickly it doesn't really
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matter uh if there's a little bit of
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blurriness or anything going on with it
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and because my image is so much smaller
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the first thing we're going to do is
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we're going to do a web kit uh mask size
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and we use cover on here as well and
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that might change anything it's not
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change anything that's good and then
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we're going to come in with a webkit
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mask position
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and the mass position we're going to
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start at zero percent zero percent and
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it should stay gray but if I change this
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position to like a 50 whatever it
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doesn't matter we can see that it's
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coming in and I'm actually going to
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change this to a pixel value now to
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explain a little bit more what's
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happening because it makes it easier in
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the dev tools so if we open up our Dev
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tools and we find that and you find your
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mask position and here if it's in
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percentage you can't drag but if it's in
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pixels you can actually drag things
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around and move your mask
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and there is my mask and you can see
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it's if I keep dragging it's sort of
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like there's one frame and there's the
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next frame and another frame and anyway
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you get the idea there's these different
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frames I don't know where that that's
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probably supposed to be lined up
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somewhere over here I guess I don't know
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um but we'll see how it works later but
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you can see all these different frames
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are on there and basically we want these
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frames to slide across and there's a
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trick to all of this and getting that to
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work
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um but we want to start it at zero zero
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for now we'll do it as a hover and then
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we'll actually create an animation but
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let's just see if we can get this to
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work
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um so we'll say color image hover and
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then we're going to do the mask position
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here
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and let's delete that and delete that
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and we want it to go to 100 and so this
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is always like its own percentage so
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we're going with the mask should start
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here and then move all the way across
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the other way if ever you try this and
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it's not working for some reason you
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might need to actually make that a
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negative to have it slide the other way
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so if you're following along with your
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own that you've created and it's not
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working right just try a negative number
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or go in the dev tools with pixels so
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you can drag it around and see what's
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happening and we can see that's working
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so let's do a transition on that so
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quickly adding the transition here of my
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mass position over 500 milliseconds
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let's say see how the whole thing let's
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slow that down let's make it like five
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thousand milliseconds and you can see
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those all the frames are sliding by
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shooting one after the other after the
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other and then it slowly gets into place
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and then if I go the other way it slowly
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goes the other way which isn't quite
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what we want it's an interesting effect
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maybe there's some stuff you could do
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with that but instead of that what we
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actually want to do is we want to do
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this in steps instead of having it slide
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and I know we can do this as animations
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I've never tried to doing this let's try
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24 and hit save
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ah it does work look at that so we can
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do instead of it sliding across it's
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saying that I want to take that entire
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animation and basically turn it into 24
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distinct steps and the reason I'm
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choosing 24 is because I made 24 frames
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in my animation when I created it so
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that's an important thing there but you
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can see it's going really slowly and
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it's not too fantastic but let's close
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our Dev tools because we don't need that
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anymore and let's maybe make this uh I
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don't know a thousand milliseconds or
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one second and sort of get that thing
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where it comes in really not as well
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done as theirs was they did a much nicer
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job than I have but I still think it's
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kind of cool and it looks pretty good
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and so there we have it working with
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hover now personally I wouldn't want to
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keep it with a hover effect it's kind of
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weird to do that so ideally we have an
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animation set up for it
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so to do that we can set up some
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keyframes we'll call it add color uh for
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our animation name there and then
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basically we just want to say that it's
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going to start at a you know the zero
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percent of our animation uh is going to
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be this and we'll duplicate that and say
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that we'll take off the prefix version
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there we can duplicate this
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put this at 100 and then change this one
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and change that one to 100 so now we can
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add the animation in there I've already
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done this and so then we have that now
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we just need to be able to add that
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animation in so we're going to do a mask
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animation class and it will be an
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animation and on here we want to put in
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an animation we need the name of our
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animation so that was my add color
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how long it's going to take we want the
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700 milliseconds and we want it to go to
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there and we're going to put forwards at
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the end forwards just so when the
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animation is finished it actually stays
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and it's all done let's just we can put
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these on put that on a different line
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just so you can see everything at once
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I've already set up my button to be able
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to add the class and and run the
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animation and reset it so we can see it
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goes there I'll share all this code and
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stuff in a code pen or something so if
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you want to see what the JS was it was
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very rudimentary it's not really what we
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want we can see every time we do that it
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works perfect and my animation runs so
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the only other real consideration that
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you'd want to take with this is again
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make sure that you have webkit and
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non-webkit versions so it works in
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chromium and non-non chromium browsers
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and of course you'd probably want it to
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actually happen when you scroll in
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similar to how it actually happens on
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their website here right
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when we're on the arena.net it's when
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you scroll into view to do something
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like that I think an observation
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Observer would be perfect and I just
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happen to have covered that in a
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previous video that you can watch right
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here and with that I would like to thank
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my enablers of awesome Jan Johnny
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Michael Mr Dave Patrick Simon and Tim as
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well as all my other patrons for their
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monthly support and of course until next
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time don't forget to make your record on
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the internet just a little bit more
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awesome