Animate a Portrait in Procreate Dreams

1. Intro: Hey there, and welcome to another class. In this class, we'll explore Procreate dreams. As someone who has spent quite a bit of time working with procreate, I think this app could be revolutionary for both digital art and animation. Hi, I'm Era and I'm full time Illustrator based in Central Europe. While working on a variety of client projects, animation was often a part of projects, so knowing how to bring life to visuals using animation will give you a lot of bonus points and opportunities while working on variety of projects. During this class, we'll start off with simple shapes, meaning I will also show you how to prepare shapes and parts of the illustration file for animation from the existing portrait artwork. By the end of this class, you will add life to a lush colorful portrait using variety of animation techniques. You can use the portrait illustration from my previous class for this animation or you can use your own portrait illustration. Also, I will show you how you can use keyframes and easing to add fun bounds to your animation. During this class, we'll talk about variety of the cool procreate dreams features and its time line functionality. Which will allow you to separate components into parts and animate them dynamically. Giving you a very hands on approach to animation. I will also show you a lot of cool shortcuts, gestures, and exciting features. We will also look at how you can use layers, which will allow you to work a lot with the details of each animation track. In addition to that, I will show you how you can use key framing and perform feature and the keyframing will help you to create smooth and seamless animations without needing to redraw scenes constantly. Moreover, I will share with you how you can use onion skin while drawing animation frame by frame. And we will go through all these steps while creating a fun portrait animation project. So I hope when you finish this class and this project, you will feel like, oh, I can't wait to share my project with others. And when you're sharing it on Instagram, please make sure that you take me in the image, not only in the description, because that way I can see your illustration and maybe you will see it in one of the next videos. If you don't know yet, you can find even more drawing tutorials and classes they are procreate and other tutorials. I have more than 30 classes there, there is a variety from begin level to more advanced levels. You can also find different topics without further ado. Let's start and see you in the class. 2. Prepping the Objects - Pt. 1: All right, let's start with preparing the artwork for the animation. I thought we can use one of the artworks from previous classes. If you watch that class, you have already created illustration. Maybe like this or something similar. You would have a different portrait. But this illustration wasn't created for animation. Specifically, we need to adjust and prepare the layers for the animation in procreate dreams. But you can adjust your illustration in other software, it doesn't have to be procreate. I will show you also how you can import images in procreate dreams. But one of the great things about procreate dreams is that you can actually import the whole procreate file and use the layers how you have them set up in the procreate file right away. That's what we are going to do. Let's start preparing this file or other portrait file that you have. What I want to do in this one is to animate these florals separately. Then we will have a little bit of animation with the eyes we need the pupils to have separate. Then we also need to have the eyelid separate. Maybe we can add some animation to the hair and the earrings. Let's prepare the layers for animation. As you can see in this file, we separated the layers into foreground, character, and the background. For our animation, we need to separate these flowers into clusters. If you have a different illustration, you would separate some of the greenery into clusters. Because I imagine that these type of clusters of flowers would go from small to big. We can merge all of these together and we need to merge them into like flatten groups, which will help us basically in animation, and it will make our life easier. Another thing is to rename the layers, because these layers will keep the same name. Also in procreate dreams, let's first merge and prepare the flower layers. Here I have all these layers separated by color. The flowers are created on separate layers like that. What I can do here is just to click on the layer and flatten here. I will just rename it, let me scratch that. We will rename it. After we select these flowers, go to the selection tool and I will select them one by one. We have this one here, swipe with three fingers cut and paste. Let's see. All right, this can be one group, we don't need to separate these. I think that's fine. Then let's go to this layer. Go to selection tool, again, draw around the flower. You can separate these three together. I think this is enough. Let's do that. Let's see, maybe I can group these together. We want to have the same amount of flowers. We have 1234. And this is 1234, okay. I think that can work. It's even. Let's wipe down, cut and paste. This will be to rename Scratch and he doesn't want to do it. Okay, so left, okay, this one rename left. Then let's go here. Cut and paste. Okay, so you get the idea. So let's separate all of them. So this one, cut and paste. Cut and paste again, Rename bottom. Oops. Oh, okay, that's helpful. It created the name by itself. Nice. Okay, and then we have this pink one, cut and paste. Okay, and then what we have left. So here we have two. So this will be, of course, you can decide how many clusters of flowers you want to have, basically how many small animations you want to create. Now, the next one. Did we rename this one? We didn't rename this one. This is F. Okay, let's that. Okay. I think now we are. Okay. This one already are quite long, so I think that's fine. Okay, now let's go to the character. We have this loose hair, we can call it strands as well. Here maybe. Okay, then we have face. Let's look at this one. We need the pupils separately. Name this one. I would like to have the pupils moving maybe from side to side. We need the white of the eye separately as well. These parts can be together, but basically the mouth needs to go lower. We can merge the mouth with the rest of the face. We don't need a sketch. I will delete this one. Don't forget to copy the whole canvas if you want to use the same illustration later on. Okay, this is the whole phase. We can merge, okay, the accessories. I will keep separate, but this part here and blue highlights, I can merge as well. From here, what I need to do is to check the pupils, and as you can see, it's not very clean because of the lines on top. Let's go to brushes that you can take. Any brush you used before, I will just use a pencil brush and I will fill in the pupils. We have like full circles, we can move them around. Make the brush a little bit smaller. Try to make sure that the pupils end up with the same size, so we don't have one eye bigger than the other. The pupil she's quite like. Even of course, you can use the symmetry tool for this one, but I think in this case maybe is not necessary here. I need to delete some leftover color here. Maybe make it clean here. I think they're fine. All right, we have pupils, we have face. I need to rename this. So face. Okay, then we have the, there is some leftover here, Maybe it's from this one. So we need to remove the alphalog and delete the leftover. All right, so let's zoom out and see what else do we need to adjust. 3. Prepping the Objects - Pt. 2: Okay, so now we have the facial features and pupils separately. The pupils work fine. Now we have the white of the eye. So we can move the pupils behind the eyelids, which are here. Maybe we can call it actually the eyelids or eyelashes. So we know what is what. Okay. Maybe I'll just do it like this. Okay? So we have eyelashes and face. Okay, so that's fine. But what we need to do, we need to create like eyelids or basically like a mask where the pupils would move. Because now if I just move the pupils lower, they are on top of the skin, which looks strange, so they kind of go out of your eye. We have to go here with the full face and shirt. We need to rename this. This is face hoops. Okay? Like this, Perfect. I will disable the alphaog. Now I can zoom in and create a selection somewhere around eye. We have enough of the skin color here. This should be enough. Now I will, first of all, maybe I can create a feather selection. Just a little bit. Two, I think it's good. Here is the feather and amount 2% Now I will slide, swipe down and duplicate. Now we have this mask. We can move it. We need to have it under the eyelashes and above the pupils. But right now we don't see the pupils. You can either just erase it like this, but just to make our life easier, you can click on the layer with the white of the eye. Click on the icon and go to Select. Now you can cut. First of all, you need to be on a correct layer. Let's go to this layer. Let's load our selection by holding the selection tool. And you can see it's the selection that we wanted, but it deleted our white from the eye. Actually, let's go back. Let's double check. Okay, it's still not there. Okay, now it's there. Let's do it again. Select now go to the correct layer, which is this one, the Batman mask. Now, what we can do is swipe down and cut. Now we can use the pupils, the movement easier. As you can see, they're moving behind the skin, which is great. I can see there is some leftover here. Let's zoom in, and I will delete this leftover. Okay, I think this works. This is nice. Perfect. The eyes are ready. This is the mask, we can call it eyelids, pupils, face, shirt. I can move maybe these elements together. Okay, now they are in the same group from the accessories. Let's separate the hair band, cut and paste. We can call it just bow. Okay, and from these, let's separate the earrings, cut and paste. Okay, you name, okay, we have earing, left earring right now, the background we have the light green, dark green, and purple. These leaves I think work separately like this. But what I found out is that you need a separate layer. If you want to keep the same color, I will just create new layer. I will move it from the colors. This is the color palette that I had for this. I'll just select this color. I'll just drop it to the layer and you can see it just appears here. All right, if you're not using procreate, you can separate each layer as an image. In procreate you can just tap and hold on the thick icon to separate one of the layers. And then you will disable the background and you will save it as PNG. Now if we have all our layers here, let's just go back and unhide all the layers by holding onto the thick button. Go to the ranch icon and go to Share, Procreate, and save procreate file into your files. Here, I will just save it to files. As you can see, I already recently used procreate folder. I can save this as a floral portrait for animation. This will be my version four. That's it. We have the file ready. 4. Animation File in Procreate Dreams: Okay, now let's open the Procreate Dreams app. When you open the app, you will see the files and animations that come with the app already. I have these three in the app preview. Maybe with the future updates, you will see some other animations when you here in this area. You can in on the files so you can see them better. You can also select some of these and create the group. Maybe I can create a group with these two that I was trying out, the parallax animation when the girl goes on the path down the hill. This can be maybe a next class, but what I wanted to show you here is that you can create a folder. You can call the folder something, maybe bike. All right, And then you can click down. We have the folder with those animations. You can see them here and you can go back. You can also select, as you can see, you can delete or duplicate the animation if you want to keep something and then adjust. It works similar like in procreate. If you want to create big changes to one animation, maybe you want to duplicate it beforehand. Now I will disable the selection. This was my test. As you can see, when I was preparing the animation, planning for you guys to bring the best ideas that I wanted to share with you. As you can see, as I mentioned, we have all the files here. Now what I can do is to click on the plus sign. We will create white screen canvas for us. Basically, we are creating new movie. When you swipe up, you can see the other options. Obviously this is for social media. You can create also Square, which would fit our illustration. In this case too, we have the screen size. As I mentioned, this is the one I will choose. We are not going to draw from scratch because we already have the illustration from procreate here. We can just click on empty. Now I can go here. As you can see, we have all the different icons here which we will be using. But if you want to go back, you can click on these four squares. You are back into your preview of all the movies. Now I will click here, click on the plus sign. If you were working with different drawing software, not procreate, you can import all the layers into tracks one by one using the photo option. Or you can also import a different video if you want to draw on top of a video. You can also animate text or work with tracks. Here, you can add tracks. But what we will do here, we will go to files. We will go to your recent folder and choose the file that you save. The last which in my case was new floral portrait and its procreate file. Now I will select the file, then I can open it. Wait until it imports into our files. Now, tap on the group and hold. All of these options will appear for you. You can rename the group. You can change the blending mode if you work with different tracks. But in our case, because we imported the procreate file, we want to convert all the layers to tracks. We can animate them. Click on that. Now you can see the name change to group. When you click on the arrow, you can see that all our tracks are now as separate layers. You can also see this red highlight around our tracks, that means that it's selected. There is a useful shortcut with three fingers and you can scrap down or up to zoom in. Everything is like zoomed out to zoom in, You go up with two fingers, like with procreate, you can also zoom out and zoom in. Now I can click on the whole group. Just one tap. You can see we have here the totals. So we can adjust the whole group to fit and fill the canvas. We are not animating anything and we are adjusting the whole file. Now as you can see, the handles disappear. If you want to have them again, can just step and you can see the handles are back. When you click on these three dots here you have the flip horizontal and flip vertical and added anchor. Just remember here if you are looking for it now, if you click on the name of the file, you can see that there are properties staging, timeline, and sharing In properties, I will keep 24 frames per second because it works nicely for this type of animation. Duration of the animation, I will click on the time and I will set it to 10 seconds rest. I will keep the same as a screen size here. You can also rename your file. You can also upload your picture, which is fine like this for now. You can also adjust onion skins blend primary frame. I'm not going to draw with onion skins right now, this is not necessary for me. Here you can set up loop ping pong or one shot loop. It will be looping ping pong like in your phone, if you saw it, it goes from back and forth Here, I will set it to one shot. Here you can see your export options. That's it for setting up the file. When you are happy with it, you have all layers set up, but as you can see, we had 30 seconds. All our layers are much longer. What you can do here, how to select all the layers? Because here, if you tap and hold, you select just one track. And you can see these options. You have track options, you can show height, duplicate. We will look at all of these options later on. You can rename the tracks highlight Blendo Mask. But as you can see here, the layers that we named before in procreate are already named on our tracks, which is great. What I wanted to show you here is how you can adjust the length of the track. Because what you can do here, you can go to the end of the track. You can tap on the track and slide and make the track shorter, which is great. But here I will need to do it one by one. How would you go around it and adjust all of them as you just noticed? I also went back with just double tap. Tap with two fingers like in procreate. Now, let me show you how to select all the tracks. Go to this icon. Now with the pencil, I can slide through all the tracks, then I can adjust the length of them to my timeline. This is very helpful. And you can also deselect certain tracks. To get out of the mode, you just click on the timeline mode. We are all set for animating, and let's do that in the next lesson. 5. Animating the Earrings: All right, before we start animating, I notice there is one layer which doesn't have anything on basically a track. You can always double check by ticking the button on and off with the visibility. If you want to delete it, you can just and hold and you can delete the content and hold and you can delete the track. If you want to add the new track, you can just click on the plus sign and click on the track. All right, let's start animating the earrings. We can just find the earrings. Here we have the earring left. There are different options how you can animate. You can use the drawing option, which is this one. You can click on the layer if you want to draw on top of the layer. As you can see here, the earring was highlighted with this boundary box. If you want to draw on the same layer, that one, if you want to draw on a separate layer, you will create a new track. Now what I want to do here is to record the movement. What we will do here is to move the slider completely to the left. If you move it to the left, it just jumps up. Want to keep it here? And move it slightly in the middle. Now you are completely to the left. Not to the bottom left corner but in the middle. Now click on the icon and select Move. First we will select Warp option here. I will keep the controls like they are for now. Then I will click on the Record button. You can see here, it's ready to record your movements and create keyframes for you. You can always adjust the key frames later on. Basically, if you're asking what are key frames, those are the points in the animation which will be marked on your timeline where the movement goes, if it is scaling up or down, or if you are making the move from left to right and so on. You can imagine in the Warp option, I will just zoom in. I will select one of the points somewhere in the corner. I will click on one of the points. Now when it's ready to record, and this button is right, you can start moving your pencil either in circles. But what I found out, I like the movement which is infinite loop. That will create nice easing out in animation when we will be scaling. In this warp option, I will use the circular movement. If you create the circular movement on the side, you are moving the whole object. Let's go back. If you want to move only part of it, you have to tap and move the anchor point. Let's do that now. You can create this soft movement while the movement was recorded for you. When you zoom out, you can see that the sliders here. But it recorded the movement only from here. I didn't check the slider If it is on the left, if you need to redo it, you can just double tap or you can just tap and hold. You can delete Warp Control point. You can create the whole thing again by sliding to the left, making sure to select the move and warp. And now we can move our anchor point. We can zoom out here, so you can see, let's move the anchor point. And you can see the slider moving here. All right, now we have the first motion. You can preview the slide movement. All right. Now move the slider back. Now we can see all the anchor points and that the app is ready. Now I will take a different point. Maybe this one. I will move the earring again. All right, perfect. We have this subtle warpy movement. Now let's move the slider back again. This time let's select the move and scale. Click on this, we can zoom out slightly here. Click on the three dots Added anchor. Let's move the anchor here to the top of the earring so we can move it easier. Now let's click on the move. First the movie icon, then move, then move and scale. Click on the corner icon, Anchor. Now it disappeared. Let's do it again. Okay, we want to record this action again. It's ready and take the anchor. Now, in this infinite loop, I was not moving in circles. But in the infinite move loop, we can check how the animation of the earring looks like. I think it looks fine, but I'm not sure about this warp movement. You can always adjust that. You can delete that part. It's the warp. You can redo the warp again, just tapping and holding. Now you can delete the whole thing. You can double check. Now it's just moving from side to side. I will do the whole thing again. It looks more natural. Moving the slider to the left Record button, Move Warp, zoom in and make the movement smaller. All right, now let's create the move and scale again. I will just move from side to side. All right, now we can check our movement. You see only 3 seconds. That's why there is this jump. So you have to out to see the whole timeline. Now the movement is nice. Now I can repeat the same process for the second earring. Because I want the earring to look a little bit different than just copying this track. But you can copy the track with the movements, but then the both earrings will be looking the same. Let me do that and talk to you in a second. 6. Animating the Headband: All right, now I animated both. Let's stop this recording and let's check the movement. I can zoom out. I think the movement is quite nice. It's Sal, which I think works well for this illustration. You can stop the movement and you can in, you can see all the points. And if you want to collapse all the key frames, you can just step and hold and collapse, move and scale. You can set the easings, I will select the easing. I will set everything to ease and out, which means ease in is starting the animation slowly and then speeding up the movement as it comes to the hold. Ease out is starting off quickly and slowing down at the end. Ease and out is combination of these two. Here we set up the easings. You can see it here. We can do it here as well. Set all the easings and out here you can also expand. If you double check again, we can zoom out like this. It moves quite nicely if you want. You can also play longer with these because I feel like this one is not moving exactly as the other one. I think the movement was a little bit nicer here. You can adjust. And then you can also animate this top part the same way as we animated the earrings. You would go to the bow click, go to move. We will go to warp. In this case, I will set more controls. We have more options here. Now I can record. I will move some of these top points to create this subtle movement you keep moving and the app will keep recording your movements and set the key frames, which is amazing. Now I will go back and you can see you can hide and unhide the whole track. Now, click here, Move and warp. We are still recording. Now I can move another point. Perfect. Zoom in again. And let's animate the other side. Perfect. Let's create a little bit movement also here. All right, perfect. Now let's zoom out. We can play the animation of our accessories. And I think that works super nicely. All right, now let's move on to the next part. 7. Animating the Hair: All right, now let's animate some of the loose hair strands. A little bit of the hair. Let's find the correct layer we have here. The loose strands. Tap on the track. Move the slider to the beginning. Click here on the icon. Again, on the move, we will use the Warp. You can also test out the stored, but I think Warp works fine. But as you can see, this whole thing is quite big. Again, the selection of the horizontal and vertical controls. I will push to the highest limit. Then I will record the action. I will move a little bit or the end of the hair piece, or the whole selection. Let's do that. The app is ready here, I'm using the slow, circular movements. Perfect. Let's move the slider to the beginning again. Now it jumped up. I have to find the layer again. Let's zoom in, Move the slider and select the warp. And select the anchor point. Somewhere near the end of the hair. Maybe this time I can take this, move the hair a little bit. I'm moving it slightly different direction than this other one. Now let's zoom in again. Click on the track to bring the slider, and I will move this other anchor point as well. All right, let's see what happens if I move this one. Let's find our track here. Move warp and let's move this one. All right, I think that's great. Now let's animate the back part of the hair just to add a little bit of the movement there too. It's this one. You can double check, yeah. All right. Again, click at the beginning on this one. You can use the distort just to make it bigger and smaller, but I'll just use the same function and move this anchor point. All right, I think here I need to move this one hair strand as well. I will go back and find this part and do another warp. I think it should be this one. Let's move it. Yeah, I think this is great. All right, we have slide movement there, maybe. Let's move this one too. We have to move to the beginning. Zoom in, select the correct track. Let's move this part of the hair as well. I think animating the hair, it's like great practice to practice animating these parts. Let's see if we can adjust this part of the loose hair as well. I think that can be nice warp. All right, let's, I'm not sure if we move this one. It moves also this part, which is strange because it comes from the back of her head. Maybe we can try somewhere here. All right, I think this is nice and quite subtle. All right, and then we can move the other side as well. Okay, this didn't work like this. Then let's move this strand of the hair. All right, so we have that one done. Let's go to the main hair piece or hair kind of folder. So I'll click on this one and I will move this side of the back of the hair. All right? And we can try to animate also the fringe. But that one, let's see how that will look. So we can zoom in. This is quite subtle, so we can check the whole animation. I think the fringe is quite strange because it's separated with the face so it doesn't move the edge of the fringe. I will try to go back, not like this, obviously just double tap and now it should be fine. Okay, The fringe is not moving. All right? I think this is great. What I want to try out here is to animate the shoulders they are moving. Let's find our layer. I think it's this one. The face and shirt again. Go to move warp. Let's hire up the controls, we can test it out. I will move one of the anchor points up and down. All right, this doesn't work because we have these flowers here. We will leave this one as it is. I will stop the action. Go back. But you can animate the shoulders going up and down as well. If you have a different portrait animation. And you want to show that the character is like breathing in and out. All right, so we have the hair animated. And now let's move on to the next part. 8. Animating the Background Plants: All right, now let's animate the background flowers. First of all, let's animate these green ones. It's light green track here. First, let's create a keyframe. In this case, we are going to use a different way of animating this one. We are not going to record the actions and create key frames that way, but we will create our key frames manually. Click here, as we just already had that selected. Click on Move. We will select Move and Scale. We have our first keyframe selected. Now I want the movement to be quite quick, but not too quick. I was thinking around like 30 seconds or maybe 1 second, but maybe 1 second. It's already too long because our timeline is 24 frames per second. The 30 seconds is around like 13 frames. We will create a new keyframe here. You can duplicate the previous keyframe by clicking on the key frame and then tapping on the line under the track. Now the icon is gray. When you tap on it again it turns white and you duplicated the previous key frame. What I want to do now is to go back to the first key frame because now it's like full size tap on the first keyframe here. We will change the scale. Tap on the number here so we can set it to 0.0 because we want to scale up from the zero, basically, you don't see it in 30 seconds. It will be the full scale that we had in the illustration. You can also use the handles like we did with recording, scaling up and down. But I think in this case this is much faster now. You can test out the animation, you can see it just pops up. What you can do here, if you think this should last longer because it was pretty fast, I think we can move this anchor point. To move the anchor point, you tap on it, hold, then you can move it. Now let's check it out. Okay, I think that's a little bit better now. I can hold basically tap on hold to set all the easings again. We will set it to ease in and out we can check our animation. It just appears. That's great. What we can do now is create a little bounce. Go to the key frame, tap on it. Click around 1 second, click again, we duplicated the keyframe. Here in between we have 123456, maybe that can be a little bit longer. We move the key frame again to eight. This keyframe disappeared. We have eight. They're all the same. I will copy the same keyframe and move it again like 12345678. It's around here. Click copy the size. They're all the same, the full size. Now in the middle one, I will scale down the leaves a little bit. Not with the numbers, but this time I will just use the anchor points. Now just scale it down a little bit. Maybe like this, I can test out the animation. Because now we created like this little bounds. See perfect. Now let's repeat this with the second plant as well. Click, move and scale. And now I can create the same anchor points in the same spots. This one again, the same area. I can make a little bit smaller. Then the first one I will set to zero, the same as we did before. Now we can test them. As you can see, they bounce out together. If we want the first, the dark green bounce out as the first one. And then we have the dark green. The second we can move the whole to the right. I can tap and hold on the track and move it to the side. And maybe to like 30 seconds, it will start later. As you can see, the key frames stay the same. Now we can test it out. The green one comes out first, and then the light green comes second. The light green should be first. I will move it back. I can tap and hold and take the dark green and move it to 1 second. I think that will work better because it comes after the first bounce. Let's see, maybe we can move it a little bit later, maybe one frame later, somewhere here. Let's test it. We need to zoom out to see the whole thing. Okay, I think that's a little bit better. You can also adjust the key frames if you think the bounce should be a little bit faster. Let's do that. You can zoom in and find the keyframes on this green one. The green one comes out first. It's here. I can tap and hold and move it one key frame, I can do the same with these ones. The gap is shorter, we can test it out again. I think it can be even faster. Let's move it one more then these other ones, one to the left, and I think this one seems like it's not even out. Yeah, now it looks more even. We can test it out. Again, I like the movement on the dark green, but I think the light green, it's scaling up and down too much. Let's find the key frame. I will scale it up a little bit more. All right? And I will test it out because I think the difference was too big. Okay, I think that works well. Now I can zoom out. Now what I will do with this purple one, I think this one can appear later on. First, we will set up a key frame. You can go to filters, you can select opacity. We have the first key frame. I would like to have it appear a little bit later so we can move the whole track. It's hidden, I think it should appear when the other green leaf stops bouncing. Let's create a new key frame. Here the opacity is 100% Now we click on the first key frame, we reduce the opacity to zero. It should appear later on. Let's see, we move our slider to the left and then check the animation. All right, what I think we need to do is to move this back. Check where is the first key frame? The first keyframe is here. I think it can appear basically going 0-100 for a longer time. It's more smooth so we can test it out. Okay, we need to move this frame a little bit later after our last key frame. I will also move this key frame here, not completely aligned with the dark green. But starting with the light green, I will shorten this part. We have better preview like visually. Okay, let's zoom out. I think we can move it even further around 3 seconds, it appears later on. This is based on your preferences. Let's say this 20 and see how that works. Okay, I think this is better alignment that it starts appearing right after the dark green with appear. I think this is great. And now we can move on to animate the foreground flowers. 9. Animating the Foreground Plants - Pt. 1: All right, now let's animate the foreground flowers. As you can see, we finished our animation somewhere around. Let's find the key frame, Okay, 3 seconds and like eight frames. Okay, now we will find the layers with all the plants and we will start with the top left. Let's see. All right, this is our first layer. We will first create key frames. And then we will move the tracks to create the movements in the basically places on the timeline that it fits the animation. So it, they appear one by one. But as you can see what we saw in the previous animation, that basically when you move the timeline, the key frames will stay the same. That's why I want to create the key frames first. They have the same amount of, basically they have the same speed, right? It's easier for me to measure. So this one. All right, so it's this first one. I will select the move again, move and scale. So we have the first key frame. The bounce will be around one full second. We want the animation or the movement to last 1 second. I will create another key frame by tapping on it. Then the Id will be around 13 frames. Click again until it turns wide. Then I will create another key frame in the middle. Let's repeat the process for these other layers as well. Click on the layer, move the slider to the left. You are at the beginning. Select move, move, and scale. Click on the icon to copy it. And align the key frames with the other ones, here, here, and here. Let's do this one move and scale. Copy by clicking on the icon. Tap here. It's not on the timeline, it's under the timeline. On the move and scale timeline, click again again to create a new one. All right, let's move another one and scale copy by tapping on the icon, tap under the track, tap on the icon to turn white again. Again, same goes here. Move and scale, copy again. Okay, we have a few more just repeating the same process to create the key frames for all of them. Okay, we have one last thing here. Move, copy, copy. See again, it's desaturated or not white. Now it's bright and white. You make sure that you created the keyframe and now we can animate them. All right, we start with this one. As I said, we created all the key frames in full size. When we tap on this third key frame, we want to scale it down a little bit. I will also move it closer to the hair band that's perfect. Then when we go here, you set up the numbers 20 in the scale x and y. All right. Now you can test it out. I think the bounce is nice. Let's do the same. Here we have the second one which is this one, the third key frame, scale down a little bit. If the boundary box disappears or the handles just step on this icon. Again, it appears here, I'm keeping the anchor point in the middle because we are scaling from the middle, not like on the earrings. All right, like this. Then the first key frame set to zero. Now, test the animation again. I think the bounce on this first one, it's quite big. So I will scale up the third key frame a little bit. Let's see, I think the movement doesn't work that well. Here I will delete the keyframe by just holding click on this one tab to copy again. I will just scale down without moving it. Now I will test the movements. Okay, I think this is little bit better. Okay, now let's go to the next one here. The first frame set to zero, third key frame. Just scale down a little bit. I can zoom in here to see it better. In this case, I think the anchor point can be the bottom. Let's adjust that one at the anchor and drag it to the bottom. Now let's adjust the first key frame so it's zero. Okay, that works. Click on Done to get out of there. Okay, now we see the boundary box. Now we can scale it down a little bit. Perfect. We can maybe do that with the first one as well. But let's test out the animation if it works. Yeah, I think that works nicely. Let's adjust this anchor point on this one as well and see if that works better. You can set it up somewhere here and see if that helps. In this case, I'm not so sure it looks very similar to me. Anyway, maybe I'll just go back to keep the anchor point there because it doesn't work there, and here it works better. Let's move to the next one. These are the leaves. Let's set them to zero. Third key frame, we need to, again, move the anchor point because they're like growing up. Then click done, then we can scale it down. This is just the bounds. It doesn't have to go that far. All right, let's check. Okay, I think that's nice. All right, let's go to next one. First one always zero. Third one at just the anchor point by clicking on the three dots. Slide it down. Click done. I can also scale it down. We scale down this one. Let's zoom out on the artwork to see if everything works nicely. All right. 10. Animating the Foreground Plants - Pt. 2: Now this one's at 20. Third one just scale down. Oh, what happened here? Oh no. We have a mistake here with selection M. All right? This is not great, then that means this one is together. All right, if something like this happens to you, you can go back to procreate. Let's see, let's find the correct layer. Where is it here? Because we don't see it here. Okay, let's turn on the background so we can see it. All right, these are these two, we can merge them again. Turn on the background. Take the brush, I will take white color. Fix this mistake. All right, come on. Okay, good. Now I will create a PNG out of this cut and paste. So we have these two layers separately. Again, hold, okay, export PNG save. All right, now the second one, PNG save. Okay, now you can go to the file so we can replace it. We are on this track. Hide the two because I don't need them anymore. I will just delete the content on these two tracks. I will import the images again. Photos image perfect. Let's the other image which is this one, the leaves. All right, let's create the key frames on these ones which we lost. It was move and scale and then copy. Okay, we just zoomed in on the timeline. Let's do it on this one. Move and scale. Copy. Copy. Okay? I didn't want that, but all right, I hold the pen there too long. Okay. Now this one, this is the third key frame. We want to scale a little bit. Maybe this one we can move the anchor here. All right, now I can scale it. Click Done. Scale down a little bit for the bounds, the first one set to zero. Okay, let's add this one as well, which is the flower set to 00 and the third key frame. Let's make it a little bit smaller. All right, now we can zoom out and test it out. Zoom out, okay. I think everything is appearing very nicely with a little bounds. Let's see. Oh, we are missing this one we don't have yet. All of them. Let's find it. We didn't set this up. Okay, This is 00. And the third one, we have to adjust the anchor point. Click scale down a little bit, and now we can test it out again. Let's zoom out so we can see it. All right, perfect. Now let's adjust the timeline so they appear one by one. 11. Animation Timeline: All right, now let's adjust the timing of movements. Let's check where the last leaves appear. It's around here 2 seconds. Let's see, it should be okay. So they'll stop bouncing somewhere here, 2.5 The first flowers that we want to animate are these ones. Let's double check. Okay, they should appear first. So I can tap and hold on the track. Move it, Let's move it to 2.5. They will appear after the green leaves. We can check if that works. Yes, perfect. Those will appear first. Then maybe we can have these two, these leaves and these flowers. Let's find them. They were somewhere here. I will tap on the track, Move it to the side, 2 seconds. Then we can move also this one, because that's the one I want. All right, Tap and hold again. We can zoom out a little bit more. The first one appears somewhere here, probably this one can appear around 3 seconds. Let's test that out. Green one. Okay, I think this one appears too early, so we need to give this one a little bit longer in. We can maybe move it to 3.5 It's in 3-4 This one and this one. That means we have 1 second between each. Maybe we can add actually 1.5 second just to give it a little bit more time. We can always adjust the timeline so it's longer. We have these two now. Next one, maybe we can add this side, the red one, pink one, and green one. Let's double check where they are left being left bottom. This is left, these are all ones. We can move them all together. Let's select these three. Click on this one, we can group them. Tap and hold and group. Now I can move the whole group. Let's move it here. All right, We can move this one. This was one. Let's move it to 1.5 second. All right. Then we have the these two. Let's find them. These are bottom right. With this I can select it. You can select these two layers hold group. Now I can move it. Let's zoom out. We need to move it to the last one was 5 seconds. This one can be 45.5 to clean up. If we have these two, we can group them together as well. Group. Perfect. Then we can test it out. I don't see the last one. Let's go back. And somehow disappeared. Let's see if I disabled the visibility, but somehow it disappeared completely. Let's just go back. Here they are. All right, so we didn't lose them. That's good. Now I have all the layers also appearing on. We need to move this one. It's this one. All right, so let's disable this one. Okay, I know what happened. I had the other two layers selected With this one, we had two as a group. And the other ones, when I moved them, the second group moved super far away, so we didn't see it. Now let's select this one, group it, Let's double check if we don't have anything else selected. We don't. Now I can move this group. Let's move it to 5.5 seconds. Let's test our animation. Okay, I think it's moving quite nicely. If you want to have the animation faster, you can always move the key frames. I can see that here on these dark green leaves, I am missing some color from the illustration. If that happens to you, you just need to find the correct layer. This is our layer. You can disable this one and you can always draw on the layer here, it's on zero. You need to go to a key frame when it's visible, which is here. Now without the recording, you can draw on top of the layer. If you want to use the onion skin, you can see the flip book. Or you can import the image again, which I think I can do there. Or you can just draw with the same color. I would import the image again if you see something like this happening now to exit the flip book, you can click down. I think the animation is pretty nice. In the next lesson, let's animate the eyes. I will import this image again, like we did with the previous ones, if you spot a mistake in your illustration. 12. Animating the Eyes - Pt. 1: All right, we have quite nice animation that we have. Background flowers, foreground flowers appearing one by one. I also organize the layers that I move the tracks every time you want to move the track. And maybe you don't have space, you can create a new track and then tap and hold and move the track up or down. You can also create groups with all these flowers. We have all the flowers in the same group, how they are appearing. For example, we have all these background flowers in one group. When you tap and hold on the group, you will have this menu. And you can also change the color of the group. You can find it easier. Let's select green. When you zoom out, you would see the color coding easier. Now let's animate the pupils of the character. Let's select the track with the eyes. Now we will record our movement. Make sure that you are at the beginning. Click on the Record button so you see it's ready. I will zoom in a little bit. We will need to do this tries. We want the character to first look at the flowers appearing here, here, and here. Let's test that out because you don't want to go too far out with the pupils out of the eye. It's quite tricky. Let's try it out. All right. I think maybe she can look down first or no. Well, let's see. She's looking left and right. I think I need to start with her looking to the right or maybe to the middle at us and then to the top left. All right, let's go back, let's find the correct layer. I will start again. It's ready to record. Okay. She will look at us. Okay. I think what we need to do is actually go back with the double tap. I think it already did what I had in mind, which is tricky because I was just zooming out. You have to use the three fingers to be sure to undo some of your steps. Let's see. I think everything works fine. All right, let's find the pupils again. Again, see I need to get used to it even better because I'm so used to, from procreate to use two fingers to zoom in what we need to do before we start recording, let's move the pupils maybe to the left and that's where we will start. All right, now we will start recording again. She will look to the left, up side. Bottom bottom. Okay. We need to do it faster. Okay, Let's go back. Let's record middle side. Okay. We didn't move the slider once again. Let's go to the beginning record. We will move to the middle side and we have to be done before second two. Let's try that. Okay, I think this was better, but I think she look to it too, hectic here. Let's try that again. But I think it was much better. Let's move the slider to the beginning, find the correct layer. Maybe what we need to do in this case is not recording, but actually set the key frames based on where the flowers are appearing. Because like this, it's quite hard to match. But let's try one more time. All right, maybe this one actually worked. So let's see. I think the key frames don't work that well, so I will not use the recording. So let's go back, exit the recording, let's find the key frame where this appears. It finishes here we are at the pupils here will set the key frame. The character is looking up here. All right, now let's find another key frame. This one appears the character will look to the side. Now here let's find another key frame. Okay, so it finished bouncing. Zoom in key frame, move it to the side. Okay, another key frame. So let's zoom out here so we can see it somewhere here. All right, now we just need to move it down. Okay, Now we want the character to move to the front. We can set it to nine, Okay, it's here, nine. We'll have a forward view looking at us. Okay, let's create the key frame for the beginning because we want her to also look at us before the flowers will appear. She starts in the middle here. In the second two, she can go to the right because we have the second flower, second three, second and a half. Let's do that now. Hold set or easings, ease in and out. Let's test out the eye movement. Go to the beginning. I think she should start with looking at us so we can adjust that. You can test out also different easing, you can basically start quite slow, ease, we can test out how that looks. So let's see. 13. Animating the Eyes - Pt. 2: I think we can move the key frames a little bit later. If we are here, the flowers appeared, it can be a little bit later. We have the eye staying there for a moment. We need maybe two key frames. Few frames. It stays there because it looks weird if the eye moves all the time. Let's find the second one so we can copy it. We have a few key frames here. We have this one. Let's copy it. It stays there. We have two here. We have one here. We need to copy that one. Copy this one here as well. All right, I think this should work nicely. Let's test it out. I think we can set it up to linear because this easing in doesn't feel natural for the eyes. We can try linear here. I will set up also another key frame. It stays there for a little bit longer. The eye looks one direction for another frame or two, whatever feels more natural to you. All right? And I think the linear might work better, but you can try whatever you like more. I think the linear easing works a little bit better. Here, we need to double check the key frames because I think it didn't copy the exact key frame. I think it was copying the previous one. Okay, here it stays. Although it's moving a little bit, which I wanted that it doesn't move. We can check the numbers. This one is 5158, and this one is interesting. Let's copy this and paste it here. All right, now it's not moving. Let's test these two. Okay, this is working. These two are the same. I think the first key frame was based on the scale, as I started with these two thing, I think we need to keep them there maybe a little bit longer. These should be the same if you check the numbers. This one also slightly longer. The eyes rest on one point. All right. I think this is almost done. We can test out the easings because we tested linear ease out and ease in. Let's try ease in. I think the linear worked the best, but you can use the one that you like the most, or you can animate it by hand using the movement. All right, that's it for this part. You can also animate opening the eyes with drawing function, which I will show you in the next lesson. But if you want to keep it like this, I hope that you love your animation and you will share it with others. See you in the next lesson or in the project section. 14. Bonus: Opening the Eyes - Pt. 1: All right, now in this bonus section, let's animate the eyelids so the character will open eyes. I will create a new track. We can draw on that track, new track. You can go to drawing, we will draw on this track. You can also slide down. You have this flip book mode. Then we can draw on top of the eyelids. All right. Now when you are in the flip book mode, you can activate and deactivate the onion skin and that means that you will see the previous frame. I will keep that on. As you also see, there is no button to sample the color for the color picker like you have in procreate. But here you can sample the colors from your artworks with your finger. That's great. I will create a new color pallet to draw the eyes. Let's go to color palette. I will create the new color pallet. I will zoom in. First, I need the color of the eyelid I can add to the color palate. Then I need the skin tone color, which I have here on the left. Which is lighter. Of course, you might have a different colors for the skin tone. Then I need this darker one, which is on this side. I will use this for the second eyelid. Then I need the color for the eyelashes and pupils. I have that here, and that's it. Now we can draw in our flip book from the brushes. I think the closest is the six B pencil to the brush I used in this illustration. I will use the six B pencil brush, but as you can see, there are some other brushes you can play with. On this first frame, I will draw the eyes closed. I will draw the eye lids lower. Let's show the onion skin. By selecting this, you will see the previous frames. Now I will take the darker eyelid color and I will draw a line. We can draw closed eyelids. Then I will take the lighter color, which is on this side, and I draw the eyelid, I mean the eye lash, something like this. And I will do the same on this other side, but using this darker color now, taking the dark blue to create the eyelash. Okay, so trying to be even with the thickness of the eyelashes, I zoom out to see how that works. I think the eyelid needs to be a little bit thinner here. It shouldn't go that far out. I think this is a little bit nicer like this. It's more like a suggestion of the eyelid maybe from the top. We keep it there, but here on this side, we don't need to keep it on the other side. We need to use the darker color. Here, I will make it a little bit thicker and see how that looks. Maybe let's go back. Okay, I think this works quite nicely. Maybe it can be thicker here, it doesn't have to go so far out. I will use the darker color here just to cover it and lighter color here. All right, so we have the first frame. I will duplicate the frame by just stepping and holding. We want the frame to be maybe two frames. I think that should be enough, or three frames. Now, we will adjust the next one. I will duplicate it again. We will be adjusting this one. Let's take the dark one and we'll be moving the eyelids up, basically making them thicker and erasing the bottom part. Basically just uncovering the eye because we already have the eye so we don't have to draw it again here, I need to actually draw, erase. That's a mistake. All right. Now, in this next one, now we will erase part of this. We'll uncover a little bit of the eye. Then we can always adjust the frames if it doesn't work. Okay, We'll duplicate this frame. Du duplicate one more time. This is the fourth one. And we will erase from this one can erase more. We need to erase it also from here. Then add the darker color erase here, because as you can see, there is a little bit of the eyelash there. We'll do it like this. Then we need to add a bit here. You can see the purple from the layer below. Let's erase this part. And you can already see the pupil showing through. I can erase here, and then take the lighter color to paint over. Okay, I think this is nice here. I need to erase a little bit more, I think, and a little bit of this eyelash. Okay, Now duplicate fourth one. And on the fourth one, we can already add more of the eyelash here, trying to keep it even. When you play it, you will see if it is evened out. Okay, And then erase again. I'm trying to keep the thicker eyelash here at the end on both sides. All right, let's duplicate this 13 times and then adjust on the fourth one. We'll erase again, but I think here we can. Move the eyelash kind of higher somewhere here. So we are kind of getting there to the open eye. Okay. So this is already much thicker. How does it look? Maybe more here, this is higher, so we need to add some of it here. This actually needs this darker color here, not erase. This is the habit of drawing from procreate, because when you choose the color, you can draw it. It here, we need to delete. Now, we are already matching a little bit of the eyelash under it. This is the lighter one here. It's the darker one. All right. So we can duplicate. I think we are almost there. Duplicate. And I think now I can A and I'm not sure, but I think this should actually, we don't need this one. But let's see. So we can click done. Now we can test how does the animation look like. Yeah, I think it looks fine. 15. Bonus: Opening the Eyes - Pt. 2: Let's test it frame by frame. Here on the second frame, we see a little bit of that line which is strange. And then it gets thinner and much thinner. And then the pupils are moving already. What we need to do is to actually move the pupils a little bit later. They don't move right away. They should start moving only afterwards. All right, this should be better. Now, they're not moving. I need to adjust this fourth frame. Go back, slide down. And then in this frame, we need to add a little bit of that dark here and add some of that color. Okay, we had four frames. I need to delete this one. Then we can copy. Oops, no, copy paste, paste. And then this one was much thinner, so here I need to add a little bit of the dark, so we are missing that. Okay, so here, cut, cut, and then I can duplicate this one. Actually, no, copy paste. Then this one again is much thinner, so we need to add some of the dark there. Again, just a little bit. It's matching. There is not such a big difference. This one cut. Then we can duplicate this one. Copy, paste, paste, and then we can see how it looks. We go to the beginning. I think it looks pretty nice. But I think the first frame, the eyelids are still a little bit too thick. I mean the eyelashes. Let's adjust that one. Okay? First three. I will delete this one. As you can see, you don't have to be in the drawing mode. You can do it here. Just delete. Delete what you can do. You can also stretch the key frame. You don't have to just copy it, but this is just longer. You can delete it here, here as well. And just stretch the key frame. It holds for longer time here. You can just adjust it in one go. Here we have the blue selected. I want the darker base here. I can just make it a little bit thinner and on the other side with a lighter color. But this is up to you how you prefer the look of the eyelashes. But I think now they look pretty similar as you can see. Here we have the same three. You can see the onion skin. Now you can test out, if you like, how the eyes are opening. I think one of the eyelashes was still pretty thin, but almost it was super nice. I think these are a little bit thinner, so you can leave it as it is, or you can actually make the first one even thinner. That would be probably the easiest you can draw over them. So taking the darker one so you match the style. All right, and as a last thing, I disabled this one, the last thing you can just slide through and group the eye. We have one group with the eye opening. We will start with close eyes, then we have the full animation. Let's test it out. Perfect. I think that works great. You can also make the eye opening animation longer, or you can also make the character look only to right and left and then to. It doesn't have to be three spots. This is up to you how you choose to animate it, but I think it works great. I hope that you love your illustration and animation. 16. Exporting Your Animation: All right, we are done with our animated portrait. I really like how it turned out With all these leaves and eyes moving and other small details like with these subtle movements. I hope that you love your animation as well. And the only thing left now is to export our video so you can save it to your files or share it on social media. And I hope that you can share either your progress images in the project section or the full animation on social media and tag me so I can find your animation. Now we can rename the file either while exporting, or you can go back to the preview and tap and hold, and we can rename, let's rename the file to floral, poor floral portrait animation. We can add gaps. We can click Done here. You can also just select no. Let's go to the file when you tap and hold. You can select Shared. We can select the video file. You can also frames as images or current frame, or save the procreate Dreams file. Let's save the video file and let's wait until it loads. It's almost done. Perfect. Now you can share it directly to Instagram or share it to Google Drive, or you have other options like Pinterest or wherever you want to save it, I will save it to my files. For now, I can call it Flora portrait animation as the file is already named like that. But you can also change the name here in the export setting. Now I have a folder created for this one. I can just click Save. I am done. I hope that you really love this animation because it was a lot of fun to create. I hope that you enjoy the process. Also the class. I'm really looking forward to seeing your project. Please share it with me and others. You can inspire everyone around you as well. You can also upload your animation maybe to Instagram or Youtube or wherever you want. Take me and upload that as a project. I know where to find your animation. So thank you so much for being here and I really appreciate it and see you in the next class. Bye.