Animation in less than an hour using Canva: Learn how to create incredible animations easily

1. Introduction: Hey there, welcome to Animation in less than an hour using Canva. In this course, you'll learn to craft animations. Picky. I am wrikki like you need a freelance graphic designer and marketing PhDs doing it. And I'll be your guide. We will explore creating Animated Scenes, adding text music, and even using a AI-generated voiceovers all in Canva. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills to make animations that are stunning and captivating. Along the way, I will share tips and tricks to help you create truly amazing animations. Keep in mind that the video you're watching was made by me using, well, a glimpse of what you will soon be able to do. Let's start this creative journey together 2. Setting Up Canva: Hey everyone, Welcome to a new lecture on Animation. And today I'm going to introduce the software or service that we will be using for creating animations. It's called Canva's. Some of you may have heard about it. Some of you may not have. So for those who have not heard about it, I'm going to show you how you can access the service. So click on Canva and the first search result is canva.com. Click on the first search result and you can sign up for free. Click on Sign up. You can sign up using Google or you can sign up using your work e-mail or you can continue another way. So you can also download the Canvas app from the Mac App Store, from the Windows App Store, from the iOS and Google Play App stores. But for this goes for all leads and purposes, we will be using the browser version of Canva. So sign up, I'll see you in the next lecture. 3. A quick introduction to Canva: Hey everyone, Welcome to a new lecture on Animation. And today I'm going to show you around Canva. So this is what your landing page looks like after you've signed up and logged in. On the left-hand side, you have to whom? Option your projects. You can see your projects. You've templates, brand and you have the abs that Canva has, that Canva has a lot of apps. And some of the apps are meant for VoiceOver. For instance, some of the apps are meant for some other function. And we will just take a look at what we need for animation because Canva has a ton of different options. As you can see over here, it can do many things that can create dots, white boss presentation, social media, videos, print products, websites. And you can click on, create a design over here, read a new design. And as you can see down over here, you can do a ton of different things. You can create videos, then you can create Instagram, post, posters, documents, Resumes, Etc. So I'll go to the search bar over here and click on and rather search for videos. And as you can see down below, you have an option for videos. So it's gonna give you templates for videos. And Canva has recommended some templates, as you can see, a ton of different templates over yet. Since we'll be creating animation, I would suggest you start with a blank template, so I've clicked on plank and it's loading. Then as you can see, we have a blank template, which has a 16 by nine aspect ratio. That is what you need for creating videos that you can Upload to, let's say YouTube or some other place. On the left-hand side over here, you have a panel, a toolbar, where you have an option for design. So you can choose different templates. You have an option for elements. You can choose lines and shapes, graphics stickers for dose, videos, Audio, etcetera. You ever have an option for text, you're going to add a text box. You can add a heading subheading, etc. you have some brand related stuff. You're an option for Upload. So you can upload videos, audios, images, and you can drag media here to Upload. Can connect your Instagram account and stuff like that. Or you can upload your files using the purple button over here. And then you have an option for drawing. And you have different pens over here. So you can draw on the canvas like this if you want to. And you can undo this by clicking on the back arrow. And you can redo this by clicking on the front-facing curved arrow. That is what you can do. So I'm going to undo these things. And you can take a look at your projects. And you have an option for apps, you have a variety of different tabs, such as text to image. Did AI presenters, that is something that you can use to create AI presentations. You have options for jars for those boats, Audio, background, videos, translate, etcetera. And then you have text to image. All of these apps you have. That is what interface looks like, that is what the workspace looks like. And we'll be using this blank template to create presentations. And down below, as you can see, you have an option for writing notes over here about your presentation. Just need to click on the Notes button over here, which has a pencil on it. And then you can decide on the duration of your scene. And you can drag your scene outward. So select the edge of the scene and drag it out for us to increase this length. Or you can drag it leftwards to reduce this length and then you're the play head. You can move the playhead around and you play button where you can wish you can use to play your scene. And you have the Canva assistant over here, which helps you find stuff. For instance, helps you find apps are different things that you might need and your insights. And you have the total length of the scene over here, and you have the share button finally, which you can use to download your video. So that's all about the workspace. The place where you will create you animations and edit you animations. So I'll see you in the next lecture when we start on animations, we'll look at the good stuff from the next lecture onwards. Thank you so much 4. Creating Animated Characters and Backgrounds in Canva: Hey everyone, Welcome to a new lecture on Animation. And today we are going to create some animation. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to show you the option for creating background colors. And is the button right over here with multiple colors, as you can see, background color and you can choose a background. Let's choose light blue because we want to mimic the sky or less you, the gradient for the sky because sky is not plain light blue at kind of looks like this. So we have chosen a background. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to reduce the length of the scene two 5 s. I might increase a defined need to later on, but for the time being, I'm going to reduce the length of the scene to 5 s. And using the plus button over here, you can add another scene. So as you can see your pitch to over here and your page one over here, I'm going to delete the scene. I'm going to click on the three dots over here. And then I'm going to click on Delete page. Now that we have a background for the scene, Let's start doing some animation, click on elements, then go down to graphics. Now it's not showing graphics in the different options though it has shown graphics and click on graphics. As you can see, you have a ton of different graphics over here, and we will be using graphics for animation. You can also search for graphics using the search box. Search for graphics, and click on Enter. And when you search for graphics using the search bar, you have this option to the right of the search bar, which is basically three dots or three lines, three horizontal lines, parallel lines with three dots on them. Click on it. And what you can do is you can go down and click on Animated and click on Free as the price. Because I'm showing you this exercise or this entire process of making an animation on the free version of Canva. I have a bit version, but I thought showing you on the free version will be more convenient for you because most of you will like to try out the software before you decide to get a subscription. So we have selected Animated and price, and over here you can select color too. But I'm going to unselect color or rather let me select color for the time being, and click on graphics again. And now you're back to the menu and it's loading. What we're going to search for is urban buildings. Buildings. That is what we want. Buildings, city buildings. And we have all these options for buildings. So I'm going to select this particular option and drag it over here. Now it's abroad options, so you need Canva pro to remove watermarks over yet has a watermark. But let's not worry about watermarks for the timing. Let increase the length of this image. We have city buildings on. What we can do is we can copy this image, control-click or right-click. Whichever computer you're using. If you're using a Mac than control-click, using a Windows, right-click, copy it, and then paste it. And we have two buildings right now, two sets of buildings. Let me make this smaller. Two sets of buildings. Let me make sure that these images merge. They have merged. So like I said, I can copy this and paste this. Now we have a city with buildings and we have the sky. Now that we have the city buildings, let's search for birds. Birds flying. And we'll use this image. I'm going to copy this again using the Copy Paste menu and I'm gonna paste it two sets of birds right now. Now, what I'm going to show you is one bird which is blue, or rather purple and white in color. So I dragged and dropped it on the canvas. As you may have noticed, let me delete this. Let me bring up the copy paste delete menu. What I'm doing is I'm going to click on this, or I'm going to drag and drop this on the Canvas like I did with the other images. So I'm gonna make this bird smaller. And what I need is I need some grass, small amount of grass And the grass, I'm going to use this, this one. I'm going to drag and drop it or you can just click it. I want to make it smaller. I'm going to copy this. Is this again. These this place it where I wanted to be placed, which is right at the bottom. B. This again, I'm going to drag and police arrived at the bottom and paste this again. We have some grass. So we have a city, we have some grass over here. You have some buildings, some grass on birds flying. And now we have a scene setup. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to animate the black birds. Click on the black birds. And I'm going to click on animate. And I'm going to click on Create animation. You can also choose basic animation, such as the ones that have been recommended by Canva. So you can choose drifted, in which case the birds, as you can see, are drifting in. If you look at the image carefully or you can show pop and the birds are popping in. Or you can show why. I'm going to create my own animation's, I'll click on query. What we need to do is we need to click on the image and move it around to give it a path. In the sense that we have to specify to Canva which path the birth date and Canva will automatically create. An animation based on the path, will do the same with the other birds. So click on Create animation, then. This does not look good. So I'm going to click on delete path by going down to the bottom of the menu. And I'm going to click create a new path for them. Like this. Same thing for the other ones. I'm gonna go back when I click on this, click on custom animation right on top Piazza because you have customer animation. I'm going to delete the path. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to track them downwards like this. And click on Done. What you can also do is click on Custom over here, up top right over here, Custom. And you can reduce the speed of that animation is. So the birds are moving slowly. Same thing I'm gonna do for the other animation for a second set of births. And I'm going to make the movement styles to the birds are flying. Or you can select some other movements. Diet points to steady, whichever looks good. That's about it. I'm done with this. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to animate this purple white plot. But I'm going to click on animate. And I'm going to create a custom animation. And this bird, I'm going to click on the bird, the image, or rather the graphic for the bird and assign an animation by dragging it along the path I wanted to take. And as you can see, it has been Animated. The bird is moving out of the scene. I'm going to delete this path. What I'll do is take the bird over here. I'm going to delete the path again. I'm going to go, I'm going to go back to position or crop or whatever. But go back to position. Now I'm going to take the bird right to the edge of the scene, to the right edge of the scene, then click on animate, then click on Create animation. And the bird is going apply. Moral less a straight line. As you can see, the bird has been Animated. Let's assign smooth animation to the bird. You can add some other motion effects down here. You can add flicker, false. Let's add a pulse. Perfect click on Done. And let's click on play. But I'm not happy with that animation for the Bigger birds, so I'll click on Custom. What I'll do is I'll delete the path and I'll assign them another part right out of the frame. That is a path. I'll assign them. Click on Done, I'll click on the other set of birds do. I'm going to click on Custom over here, up on top. And I'm going to click, I'm gonna delete that bar. And then I'm going to assign a new pop right out of the scene. Well ticked, click on, Done. Now, click on Play. Birds are moving too quickly. We'll go back. I'm going to click on position over here. And I'm going to click on the birds. The first set of birds click on Custom again and reduce the speed. The same thing I'll do for the other birds. Will click on the bird. I'm going to increase the speed a bit. That's about it. Click on Done. Click on Play. Now I want to add some clouds. I'm going to search for Clouds. And the cloud I'm going to use is the white cloud. I'm going to place a cloud right over here and reduce the size of the cloud. Copy this, paste, paste it. And then we'll have to Clouds. We can resize the Clouds like this. Now the thing is, the Clouds are appearing over the birds. So the Clouds them is superimposed over the bus. So the way we can change this, we can click on the Trout's, either right-click or control-click and a menu comes up and you can layer it. You can leather Clouds in the sense that you can send them backwards or send them to the back, or send them forward or to the front. Same thing I can do by clicking on position. So I can align them to the top, middle, bottom, left, right, and center. So let's check out all the options I have. Align them to the top. You can align them to the bottom or the middle of the top. So I'm going to keep it at the top. Same thing I'm going to do with the other cloud. And I'm going to move it backwards. I'm going to click on backwards over here. So I'm moving the layer of clouds backwards. And if I want to move them forward, I need to click on the birds and move them backwards and the cloud is forward again. I'm going to send the Cloud. I'm gonna go to layer in this menu and send them backwards. Perfect. Like I said, if I want them to move forward, I'm going to go to the menu option over here and bring them to the front. But I need them behind the birds. So I'm going to keep them behind the words. But I missed a quick trick. I missed what? I forgot to animate this, these Clouds. I'm going to click on animate. I'm going to click on Create animation. And the Clouds are going to hover kind of like this. I want to click on the other Cloud, two or both. Then I'm going to move the second picture downwards. Click on the Cloud, click on position, or rather click on animate. And I'm going to create a custom animation. I'm going to move it like this. As you can see. I'm assigning a movement and I'm going to reduce the speed of animation to almost not want to reduce the speed up the animation on the second Clouds to almost not done any meetings. I'm going to move the birds upwards. Move the second set of birds upwards so that they are over the Clouds. And I'm going to click on Play. Perfect. Now we have a scene that is my friends how you animate using Canva? I'm going to animate the grass a bit. Let's say it's windy. So I'm gonna just add a custom animation which will be kind of like drift. And I'm going to reduce the intensity, which is again a pro option. I'm going to cancel this and you can assign the direction of animation. But what I'm gonna do is I'm going to remove that animation for, because it does not look good. I'm going to click on Create animation. And I'm going to just assign it the small but click on Done. Let's see how it looks. I'm going to remove the animation from this now. And we have a scene. We haven't animated theme. Now what we can do is we can add a second scene with the background remaining the same. So I am going to copy and paste these things to show you how to read. A second thing is I'm going to keep the background, the steam as it was. But you get the point. So I can copy and paste all of this. I can copy and paste the Clouds. Do. And again, I can add custom animation to the Clouds. And as you can see when I copied and pasted the Clouds to Animation For the Clouds has been copied to. So I'm going to delete this part and in this case I'm going to add, Add a distinct, a different animation to the Clouds like this. But I don't want the second scene because I think you'd get the point about how you can create multiple seeds. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to increase the length of the scene 2 s, and I'll leave it at data. So we have created an animated theme. In the next lecture, I'm going to show you how you can start with the VoiceOver process for your Animated Series. Thank you so much 5. Adding Text to Animation: Hey everyone, Welcome to a new lecture on Animating using Canva. And today I'm going to show you how you can add text to your animation to do that, head over to the left-hand side panel over here and click on text. You can add a text box, you can add a brand font, you can add a heading subheading. I'm going to add a heading. And as you can see, I clicked on Heading 1s. I can even click and drag it onto the canvas. But I'm not going to do that because I already had the text box. What you can do next is you can move the text box around, double-click on the text in the textbook deleted and name this Animation bird. And he mentioned simplest. And you can resize and reshaped the text box if you want to. Kind of like this, pulling the edges outward or inward. And now I have the text and non want to see how I can format the text. So I'm going to click on the Text Box and highlight the text. Then what I'm gonna do is I'm going to choose a different font. Let's choose something that can stand out less juice, Archivo black. So I've changed the text formatting, change the font to archive of black. I can increase the font size using the option right over here. You can plus twice. And the font size is known at four. And I can change the color of the next. I can make it white. I'll leave it at black. Then. What I can do it, I can change the alignment, I can change the spacing. Let's increase the lattice spacing a bit. Stretch it out. So I've increased the letter spacing and stretched out the text. I can change the alignment. I can make it right align, left align, justified, etc. as EBIT center align, I can add an effect, I'll click on effects. And as you can see of different ethics OLED yet you can add shadow, you can add lift, you're going to add hollow. As you can see, the text has become following here. You can ask splice outline. You can increase the thickness and all of that. Once you click on the different Effects, it'll ask you to increase or decrease in density, increase or decrease thickness. All of that. Want to choose the neon effect because I like it. Increase the intensity of a Neon effect to make it stand out a bit perfect. So I have changed the text, formatting. And what we can do now as we can click on the text and click on animate. And I can choose a animation or I can create an animation just as we did for the birds and stuff like that. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to try out a couple of animations and we'll click on rice. Don't like it. You can have it rise on N or an exit. I'm going to click on both. Still don't like it. I'm going to click on pan. Don't like it. So I'm going to create my own animation. I'm going to click on the text box and then drag it around so that it hovers over the picture. Perfect. And let's click on Done. Let's click on play. And the text box is hovering above. You saw. Now what I can do is I can click on the textbox. And now right now the textbox is appearing over the entire Animated. See, what I can do is I can send it to the background, click on position, and even change the position dark, middle, or bottom in the middle, and also change it to left or right. So I'm gonna click on the text box. I'm going to put a list. And let's see the different layers over here. So we have different layers as you can feel yet. We have the background, we have the different images that we have selected, the different graphics rather which we Animated. And we have the different layers. What I'm gonna do for text boxes, I want to send it the Clouds, right? I wanted to appear on top and I wanted to send it behind the clouds and the birds. I'm going to click on text box, click on position again. Then I'm going to go to Arrange, and I'm going to move it backwards. We click on moving backwards off to the back. So let's see what it has done. As you can see right now that text box has been moved to the back. Let's now move into the front again. So you can work with layers like this. You can move images to the back, to the front, etcetera, etcetera. You can move less back forward and do all of that. I'm going to on the textbox again, Xboxes right at the back right now. I'm going to go to position again. Moving forward. Let's move to Cloud back to where it was. A smooth refers back to regular. Still not not right to the front. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take on the textbox control-click or right-click. Bring this menu up. And I'm going to bring it through the front. As you can see right now, it gets boxes appearing over the animation, over the picture, over the graphic for the flock of birds and all other Cloud graphics. And I'm going to move it back to where it was. So that is how you add X to Animated. See, you have different less. You can send the leg backwards off the back. Send the leg forward out to the front, just like I did with the textbox and the Clouds and the flock of birds. So that's all for this lecture. I'll see you in another lecture. Thank you so much 6. Adding Audio and Music to Animation: Hey everyone, Welcome to New Left john, how to use Canva for Animation. And today we're going to take a look at how we can add music to assay. For that, go to the left-hand panel over here. Now what you can do is you can click on Upload right away. And you can upload a music file that you have already made in some other software. But if you don't want to do that and if you want to use Canva's library, then what you need to do is go to elements. And the elements menu has appeared and there are bunch of elements over here. For instance, lines, GIFs, stickers, videos, etcetera, etcetera. What we need is music and it's not displaying music at the moment. So I'm going to search for music. And I'm going to click on music background. I'm going to click on Audio and the list of options over here, right over here, audio. And as you can see, Canva's proposing some music and some of them are free, some of them are pro ROAS and you need a subscription to use them. So what I'm going to use it, I'm going to use the magical background crack that I can click and then drag and drop it below the scene. Or I can just click on it once and it'll be added to the scene. And now we have added Music to the scene. Let's hear the music. You need to be certain that you're using music that suits the particular animation that you've created. So it should match the team. Female bad animation, maybe sad, happy, exciting. Or maybe someone getting angry to the music should match. The scene should reflect what is being shown on the scene. So you happy you knew discretion. But for the time being, let's just add this music track and it sounds kind of compatible with the scene because you're just the scene is all about the book flying across the sky. That's about it. So let's listen to it again. Sounds kind of haunting and kind of kind of new music track that you would probably hear when you are doing some guided meditation or something of that. So the scene is kind of placid. So this sort of attract kind of suits this here. But I wanted to reduce the volume of the track, so I'll go to the edge of the track over again, there are three buttons, as you can see, 3-white buttons. I'm going to click on it. And I can add audio effects, I can adjust, I can reduce volumes. So I'm going to reduce volume of it and make it a bit softer. So I'm done with volume now. And you can use the Mu symbol to mute. Want to make it a bit softer? Perfect. Then I'm going to click on the three red dots again and go to audio effects. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to make the music feeding. So it's going to take 3 s to paid-in and it's going to fade out near the end of the track. So 3 s from the end is going to start fading out. Less. Listen to the music again. Let's start from the beginning. Perfect. So now we're done with the music track for the scene. So you have now learned how to add music your Animated scene. So that's all for this lecture. Thank you so much 7. Writing a Script for a VoiceOver and Connecting Murf AI: Hey everyone, Welcome to a new lecture on how to use Canva, creating awesome animations. And today we're going to see how we can do a VoiceOver. Now, instead of doing a VoiceOver where I am speaking or I am recording something or someone else's regarding non-human this recording, we're going to do a VoiceOver that will have artificial intelligence narrating something. Now what will artificial intelligence narrative? That's the most important question. So you should have a Script that suits the team. For instance, let's say in this particular scene, we have the bird flying across the sky, but birds can be unless of course, they are part of an Animated see. What I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna click on notes down below over here. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to write a script. So I had written as prayed before I deleted it. So I'm going to write new Script. So the bird is saying, I am happy bird, but I am not real bird. I am. You degenerate. It. Can be the cause of the power of due diligence. Because I appear almost human. This is the Script for the narration. This is the Script or artificial intelligence generated. Narrator is gonna narrate, how do we do that? How do we access an artificial intelligence generated VoiceOver? Thing we have to do is we have to go to apps. First. Asked you to search for Murphy I mu RF, which is an external app or plugin. So I'll click on Murf AI. And what Murf AI is asking me to do is connect Murf AI to my Canva account. So you have to open a Murf AI account. It's free of cost, so open that accounted connected. So I'll click on Connect. As you can see, you can sign up using Google. You can sign up using e-mail, sign-up using Microsoft, etc. etc. so sign up and connect Murphy, I do Canva. And then the next lecture I'll show you how to add a VoiceOver that is generated by artificial intelligence. Thank you so much 8. Adding AI generated voiceovers to Animation using Murf AI: Hey everyone, Welcome to a new lecture on Animating using Canva. And today we're going to see how we can create an artificial intelligence generated VoiceOver. So I'm in the Murf AI workspace over here. And you have a few options over here. So the first thing you can do is you can select the language. So you can select if you want English, UK, Australia, India, fringe, etc. German, all of that. Let's take to English, USA and Canada. You can select a voice. So there are a few voices over here. Some are free, some are not free, and you need paid subscriptions for them. So I'm gonna select, I'm going to sample the voices first. At some point in life, we have all want, Hi, I'm late. I'm one of the friendly and relate to I liked this voice. I like neat. So I'm going to click on neat. And then we have to enter the text over here, the text that the narrator is going to narrate. So let's click on notes over here and let's copy this text. And let's paste in Murf AI. I'm going to be is the text and Murphy. And then you can even choose a conversational style. So let's choose narration, and you can choose the speed. Let's make it a bit slow. Let's generated VoiceOver. I am a happy bird, but I am not a real bird in or does not sound good. So I'm going to increase the speed back to where it was. I am a happy bird, but I am not a real bird in computer generated and can speak. Let's change the style to conversational instead of narration. I am unhappy bird, but I am not. Let's add a hey. Okay folks. Let's generate the VoiceOver ligand. Hey folks, I am a happy birthday, but I am not a real bird. I am computer-generated and can speak because of the power of artificial intelligence, because of AI appear almost human. So now I can add this VoiceOver to the design down below, as you can see, you get 9 min of wise generation for free. And beyond that you have to pee. You have to be for the service. And I'll let you decide if you wanted to pay for the syllabus. But this is one of the best artificial intelligence to speak generators out there, especially for animation. And I'm going to click on Add to design now. And it has added innovation to my animated clips. So I'm going to move on this particular narration around a bit. I don't want the narration to start right from the beginning. I wanted to start after two or 3 s. We want to move it a bit to the right. Then I'm going to increase the volume of the narration. And I'm gonna do that by clicking on this particular button over here, which has three dots. Display it on it. And I'm going to increase the volume a little bit, make it 120 per cent. Perfect. Now let's listen to our animated clip, or rather watch and I am a happy birthday. Real burden. I am computer-generated. Speed because of the power of artificial intelligence, because of AI appear almost perfect. So we now have an and immediate scene and what do we do with this? Well, we go to Share, click on Download, and download it as an mp4 video. Thank you so much. That's all. In the next lecture I'll talk about the final project. Thank you so much 9. Final Project Instructions: Hey everyone, Welcome to the final lecture in this course. And today I'm going to talk about the final project. For the final project, you have to create an animation scene which will have the following. A field with grass on it, Clouds in the blue sky, a cat moving around in the field. And appropriate background music track and AI-generated VoiceOver with the following text. This is my final project. And once you're done with the scene, you have to Download the scene as a mp4 video, and then you need to Upload the video to this platform. So that is the final Project. Best of luck, I hope you learned a lot and enjoyed learning. Thank you so much.