Figma Automation🤖

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I automated the creation of hundred gifs for @buildbySTL’s upcoming cohort. Here’s how we went about creating them🧵

So @pablomuralo and I were tasked with creating GIFs to welcome new members of the @BuildBySTL cohort. It was a laborious thing to do and we had to automate it. To automate, we chose Figma over Canva/other video editing tools.

3. Our first thought was to make an After Effects/Canva template and render 100 of them one by one. Our challenge was that it would’ve taken forever to customize data for 100+ users. So we created a Figma template and turned it into a component.

4. The next step was to add all the data. We imported all the names and images for each user on Figma from Google Sheets, through this amazing plugin: figma.com/community/plugin/735770583268406934/Google-Sheets-Sync It helped us quickly add all of the content to the variants.

5. Then we got to editing the designs. We had two tasks, one to remove the background and the other to make it grayscale. To remove the background we used: figma.com/community/plugin/997643096679511216/Icons8-Background-Remover

6. And to make it grayscale, we used figma.com/community/plugin/735658738614175372/Color-filters...

7. Now on to animation. We added all of the frames to this animation tool figma.com/community/plugin/796124491692147799/Bannerify-Banner-Studio where we set up the animation and rendered all 100 of them in an hour.

8. If we would have gone with some other tool, it could have taken a couple of hours to finish the project, but with Figma, we were able to wrap it up way too easily and quickly. This was my story of how Figma plugins saved me time, what tools have saved you?