How to create a trailing cursor effect on Figma

What is a trailing cursor effect?

Trailing cursor effect is an animation in which as you move the cursor around the page, a series of patterns trail behind the cursor. Here is a step by step tutorial on how to create the design in Figma. 

Step 1

The first step is to create a frame in figma. Click F and draw a frame of your size or select desktop frame preset.

Step 2

Design your frame.

 

Step 3:

Create three circles and add colors to the circles, Next make each of the circles a frame.You can create the frames on Mac by clicking: Option + CMD + G  and Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows 

 

 

 

Step 4:

Select the first circle and reduce the opacity of the circle to 0% from the colors section as shown in the image below.

 

Step 5:

Select the second circle and click on plus next to effects, choose layer blur and set layer blur value to 66 as shown in the image below.

Step 6:

Select the third circle and click on plus next to effects, choose layer blur and set layer blur value to 44 as shown in the image below.

Step 7:

Next Step is to create each circle as a component and combine them as variants. To do this select each circle-> right click -> click on create component from the menu. Select all three components and Click on combine as variants under the components section.

 

Step 8:

Click on prototype and connect each circles and change the animation setting as given below.

Step 9:

From asset panel pull the component into your frame and arrange it like a grid as shown in the image below

Step 10:

That’s it!! now run the prototype you will have the trailing cursor effect.