Animating the menu screen

Let us now discuss what we are actually going to animate in the menu screen. Basically, the first two bits of our animated menu involve the gold coins and the large bunny head.

Take a look at the following screenshot:

Animating the menu screen

In this screenshot you can see a rough sketch of the final animation divided in to four essential steps. The following lists the actions that need to be taken for the shown steps:

  1. The gold coins and bunny head are invisible at the beginning.
  2. The gold coins fade in and scale up from 0 percent to 100 percent from the center screen as if they are jumping out of the water.
  3. After a short pause, the bunny head appears ...

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