u/Firm-Piece-9266

First proper animation I made today. A James Bond intro in Cavalry.

I used keyframes for the opacity of the trailing circles, linear duplicator and a stagger on the shape time offset. Then, I timed a moving circle from left to right to land at the same time each circle opacity would be 100%.

Ignore the value behaviour, it's for moving the shapes across the frame in the x axis without messing up the animation.

Is there a better or simpler way to do this? a more procedural way? Like having the moving circle trigger the start of the opacity animation of the duplicated circles or something different? Open to suggestions