Create Your Own Animation in Procreate Dreams: Add Life to Your Illustrations

1. Introduction: Adding motion to your art can go beyond making things move. It can help you bring life to your creations and connect with your audience on a deeper emotional level. Welcome to another class. In this class, we are diving into a magical world of procreate dreams. I'm Eva, and I'm full time illustrator. As an illustrator and designer, I have worked on various projects. Often as part of team where breathing life and story into characters was a key. During this class, you will learn how you can add life to your own illustrations using Procreate dream school features. In this class, we will dive into Procreate dreams timeline functionality. I will introduce you to many excellent shortcuts, gestures, and exciting features. We'll explore the key framing and performing feature. And I will show you how to use only on skin while drawing details frame by frame. Our project will focus on bringing illustrated scene to life. And I will be sharing with you how you can infuse your illustrations with emotion. By animating semi realistic team from a hot mug, rain behind the window, and adding movements to the peds, you will create a cozy mood that captivates your viewers. I will also show you how to prepare your illustrations for animation, ensuring that every shape and part is ready for animation. By the end of this class, you will be equipped to add live to scene using various animation techniques. So you can enrich your portfolio in the future with animations that resonate with your audience on an emotional level. And if you want to take your knowledge and skills to the next level after watching this class, check out my other classes about drawing people scenes, color, and more. There is a variety from begin level to more advanced levels, and you can just visit my teacher profile to find them. So without further ado, let's start and see you in the class. 2. Class Project: So as you already know, in this class, we will be animating an illustrated scene of a cozy evening with the rain ambience. We have four characters in the living room scene with books which are here on the edges. Then we also have a hot beverage. We also have lots of plants big and small, which I think are nice addition to the home vibes. To breathe in life into this illustrated room scene with characters, we will animate elements to enhance the relaxing atmosphere. And the aim is to help the viewer to experience the artwork with more senses. You can imagine smelling, maybe the tea or hearing the dog snoring and this type of details. I can totally imagine having a chill evening like this when it's raining outside. So while creating this project, you will learn how to create a variety of animation techniques. For example, you will learn how to create semi realistic steam, which we will add to the mug and the teapot here on the table. We will also animate the rain behind the window. We will also add the movement to the cats and also to the dog character. We can create this cozy mood in your artwork. I will also show you how you can prepare parts of your illustration file for animation from your existing artwork. By the end of this class, you will finish an animating illustrated scene using variety of animation techniques. You can add animation to more of your artwork using the skills that you learned in this class. 3. Class Resources: And if you want to start animating right away, I'm here for you. I prepare the illustration as a separate procreate file, which you can download and start animating right away, following the lessons. Without the need to create a full illustration like this beforehand. To find the file, just follow the steps in the description, and you will be able to download the illustration separated into parts, ready for this class project animation. I prepare the procreate project, which you can directly import into procreate dreams. And of course, I will show you also how to import the procreate file into procreate dreams, and all the steps which you need before animating the scene in one of the following lessons too. The best way to find and download the resources is when you're on your desktop computer, not just on your iPad or your phone. So I would suggest that you will find and download the resource and everything, what do you want to download to your desktop computer and then transferring them into your iCloud drive or your iPad directly using airdrop if you are on the mac my preferred method is always using the airdrop to add files to my iPad from the computer or from the phone. And if you want to use your own illustration as a project for this class. I'm also sharing how I prepare the layers in Procreate before exporting into Procreate dreams in one of the following lessons. You know, all the separate layers of the character, I mean, the girl character, the other dog and everything in a separate lesson which you can watch and see how you can prepare your own illustration for this class project as well. Now let's move on to the next part. 4. Preparing the Artwork: Now I will show you how I prepare my artwork to animate in procreate dreams. Right now we are in procreate where I created the artworks and you can create the artwork, of course, directly in procreate dreams, or you can prepare it in procreate beforehand and also save it as a file or as separate images. And now I will show you, as I mentioned, the artwork from the Procreate file. In my gallery in Procreate, I have a variety of sketchbook spreads and more detailed artworks and we will be animated more detailed artwork in this class. Let me open one of these artworks. I will show you here in my layers panel. That I have a lot of different layers. What I will do, I will actually go back to gallery, and I will duplicate this project. I will tap on select, select the project, and I will duplicate the project. I will exit the mode, and then I will tap on the name of the project and I will rename it. I know which project I'm working with. Here I will call this project. Let me scratch this rainy for That works. You can of course use your keyboard, but sometimes this is faster. It depends what do you prefer with renaming the files. Then I just step here, and I have another project created which I can adjust without ruining the layer structure that I created here. I will go to this new project for animation, and we have a lot of elements. Here we need to think about which elements we want to animate and which will be separate. So I will go to the layers panel and I can merge all the layers of the girl illustration. Because I will not be animating the hair because she's sitting inside. Also the face, I can draw a new eye if I decide to animate the eye later on in procreate dreams, and all of these can be merged together. I will tap on the group, and I will flatten the group. We have the girl in one group. Then here as you can see, I already separated the tail and the cat, which is this dark cat here sitting on the table because I know that I want to animate the tail, so it's easier to separate these. Then if I move down here to the other layers, you can see that I have also this other cat. But here, I still have the highlight and the tail separated because I edit the highlight a little bit later after I color the whole cat and the color of the cat eyes and so on. Here I can merge this group. I can click on the group, and here I can select flatten. We have the tail of this second cat. Or actually the first t, as you can see here. This group contains more layers. This one is already flattened, which was the T and the shading. I also have a class about drawing cats. If you are more interested in details how to create the shapes and so on. I can flatten this one as well, selecting flatten we have these in separate layers, and this will be helpful when we want to animate them. Then as you can see, I have the sofa table and other layers. Here, I have a layer with glow of the lambs. This one needs to be separate because we want to animate it separately. But I have two layers, which I can keep how they are. If I move to more layers. I have the lamps, bookshelves. I'm thinking, probably will not move and animate these lamps because I try different animations which can work nicely for this image, but you can of course, add more animated elements. You can make these lamps move. But I think for the example that I will show you is not necessary in this case, so I can flatten all these layers. I will select the lamps bookshelves by swiping to the right, the frame of the window, and then I can just flatten these layers together. Because the sofa table is above the layers with glow, I can just take this group and by holding and moving it, I can move it above the sofa table, and then I can merge these layers together. By just pinching them together as you. Then I have all the plans which are outside behind the window behind the glass outside. I will keep these layers all on separate layers because we want to add movements to these plans separately. Then I have everything which is behind the glass here on separate layers, and I also recorded the process of this whole illustration. If you are interested in that. Here, I will flatten all of the environment behind the glass. I will just click on the group and I will flatten. Then also, as you can see here, the pillows are separate. But I don't think I will animate the pillows here because we would need more complexity and storytelling in this one. These floor elements are already flattened, so I can just flatten B. These are merged. I think we can also merge the sky and the floor together. Here, this doesn't have to be separate. Window frame needs to be above all the plans because the plans are covered with the window frame, so that's separate. We have the Ts in a separate layer. Then we have the pots and the details. I think we can also merge all of these together because they will not be animated in this case. I will just pinch the layers together, which I think can work well just in one layer. And now I can move on to the dog layers. And if you can see here also on the preview and the dog, the dog is kind of like dark because I think that worked the best for this illustration, and I will talk about it more in the recording about creating the illustrations so not in this class. So if you are interested more in how the illustration was created, you know, I will talk more about that there. But here you can see, I actually try different versions also of the dog, for example, more brown version of the dog. Of course, they need to be adjusted. This is just quick test or this a spotty dog, which is inspired by the Louisiana leopard dog pattern. Anyway, but I decided to go for this darker version of the dog and we will make the dog move as well a little bit. Let's just flatten. This one as well. Then I have the texture from my watercolor paper texture. I will have to apply that on the elements before exporting, this will be separate and steam from the mug will be also separate because we will animate that part. Now when everything is ready, I can go to the branch and then I can select share and I can save the procreate file. While you wait as it's exporting, you will save the document on your iPad, so it's easy to use in the Procreate dreams later on. So I can just save it two files and then we can start in Procreate dreams in one of the following lessons with this file, and I will show you how you can import all the elements for the animation. But if you want to create your own illustration as well, this is how I would prepare it in procreate separating all the layers into the parts that you want to animate. 5. Procreate Dreams Interface: When you open Procreate dreams, you will find yourself in a theater. Here you can create open, and share your movies. As you can see in the top left corner, there is a button, and when you type this button, you can see the side panel and view the storage locations. Here you can see the storage locations like your iPad storage, and also the iCloud drive storage, and you can choose the one which fits you the best. My favorite is storing the files on my iPad. Now I can tap the button again and I'm in the preview as before. Every project you make or import into Procreate dreams will appear as a movie with a preview image like this in the theater. If we now move to the top corner, you will find the select option and the plus sign. When you tap on the select option, you can select one or more movies and you can either delete, duplicate or create a new folder. Can tap here to exit this mode. As you can see, I already created one folder here with different animations when I was testing out animating the girl on the bike or the same character moving on the bicycle more down the hill. I can tap the arrow to go back again to the preview as we were before. Also notice the plus sign, which I already mentioned here on the top right corner. As you can see by tapping on the plus icon in the top right corner of the theater we just did opens a menu where you can create a new movie. If you're not sure what resolution you should use to animate. Procreate dreams helps you by providing a variety of standard screen formats and resolutions. Here you can just swipe through to view the different preset like social media, square, screen size, white screen, ultra white screen, and we are back to the social screen size, which as you can guess, nine 16, then we have the square format, which is one to one screen size, as you guess, it's a screen size, and white screen is 16 to nine resolution, and ultrahitScreen is 21 to nine resolution. This is a good range of popular aspect ratio commonly used in animation or social media formats, and as well as cinematic ultra wide screen formats. You can choose the best format to fit your artwork and the project. Then you can also choose your preferred resolution by tapping here on the four k icon, and here you can see four k two, HD and 720 P resolution. I usually like to work in four k resolution because this gives me flexibility of high resolution animation at the end, which I can always scale down later if I want to have a smaller file size. Then you can see here on the top right corner, we have the ellipses. When you tap on the ellipses, you can see more options and set your movie duration and frame rate. If you notice the frame rate is set to 24 frames per second, which is a nice standard frame rate for animation, providing a good cinematic quality, so we will keep this setting for our animation. But as you can see, you have a variety of options here. Then regarding the duration of our animation, I think for social media, it's nice to keep it around 30 seconds. I will also keep this setting from this selection. But don't worry, you can also change your movie resolution and frame rate later in the movie settings. When you decide on the ratio frame rates per second and duration, you have these options at the bottom. You have a draw option and empty. When you choose draw, you can dive straight into draw and paint mode animation. For our project, we will choose the empty and create a new movie and continue in the following lessons. 6. Interface and Workspace: All right. And now we are in the Procreate dreams interface, and here I will guide you through a brief overview before we import our Procreate file. Procreate dream splits into three main areas and the white box in the center is known as a stage. While the surrounding space around it is referred to a backstage. You can have elements and characters in the backstage before you move them onto the stage when they will be animated. The objects and characters while being in the backstage area usually appears at reduced opacity. Then here near the stage, there is a time code feature with various options like the onion skin, editing onion skin and background color, which you can change, but we are not going into that right now. That covers the stage area and the backstage area. Moving to the center, you will find the tool bar here. On the left side of the tool bar, there are these icons here. When you tap on those, you will go back to the theater preview. While we are here, let's rename our movie. You can tap and hold and you can tan and we can call it rainy evening. When you're happy, you can tap done. Now let's resize also our movie. Tap on the movie. While we are in this mode, you can tap here on the name of the movie. Then we will see more options for our movie, and we will go here to properties. Here you can see we have the frames per second, which we already talked about. We will leave it at 24 frames per second, and also the duration will keep at 30 seconds. But what we want to change here is the size of the artwork. Here we have certain numbers. We just need to check what is our size of the artwork in Procreate. To do that, you can just swipe up here, go back to procreate. And I will open the illustration and you can find the size of your illustration by tapping here on the range icon, tap on crap and resize settings, and here you will see the size of your artwork. My artwork is 3,500 by 2625 pixels. I just need to remember that. Here I will tap cancel and I will go back to procreate dreams I will write the numbers we just talked about, 3,500 by 2625, and then we can tap ten. Perfect. Then our artwork should match the movie setting exactly like they are. Then the other things that I want to mention here are the icons here on the right. Here is the play button, which controls the playback, and we'll be using this a lot when animating. Then here next to it, we have the circle, which is the perform button and the perform button activates performing. And we'll dive into this later. Next to it, we have these little rectangles which are representing the timeline editing button, and this will allow you to select and manage tracks like grouping or duplicating them. Then we have this drawing symbol, which is like something you would draw with a pencil. You can guess this is drawing symbol, which takes you to the drawing and painting mode. While we tap this, you can see what happens and you can see more icons here on the top, which are in procreate, including brushes, erasers, layers, and more. Now I'll just tap done. We return to the mode which we were looking at before. And here we have the plus sign. When we tap here, you can see that you can add new elements like tracks, photos, videos, text and files. Here below, we have the timeline and we'll use this area to set up and animate our animation and all our creations. Now let's import our project. So now to import our movie. You can do it in different ways. One of the ways how you can import your procreate drawing is by tapping on the plus sign and select files and you can choose the file you want to import. There is way I like to do it as well and is just by going to procreate, to do that, just swipe up here, go to procreate. This is our artwork. We need to go back to gallery, and then I can tap and take the artwork, swipe up, go to procreate dreams, and then I can just drag and drop the artwork and it's importing into my Procreate dreams movie. Now, when it was imported, it's just in one piece of content held inside of our track. Well, more on that in a moment. So now it's just in one piece, which is just single drawing track. We want to see all the layers that we had in procreate. To do that, we need to convert the layers to tracks. To do that, we need to tap and hold here on the drawing track from the context menu, we need to select convert to tracks. Now, instead of a drawing here, it says group. When you tap on the arrow here, you will see all the layers and the artwork layers basically converted into tracks of our movie. A difference between the layer and content is that the tracks contain the content used to create your movie. You can import content such as images, videos, and audio, which you can see here, which we just talked about a moment ago. So just to repeat, now you see the horizontal areas here, which are tracks, and we can feel the tracks with pieces of content. Here is some terminology for you. Now let me move on to the next part where I will show you some gestures which are useful to know when animating in procreate dreams. 7. Procreate Dreams Gestures: Now let me show you some basic gestures, so you can speed up your workflow on the stage and the timeline. You can move the stage by tapping and holding with two fingers. You can also rotate it and zoom in and out. You can do the same with the timeline. You can in and out. You can move it to the sides, and you can move on the timeline also just with one finger. When you zoom in on your artwork and you want to quickly zoom out, you can also pinch your fingers together to fit the screen. Let's do that. And to see other gestures, we didn't animate anything on this artwork yet. Let me go and open some of the other movies. I will open this one. In this movie, I already animated the rain, which is great. What I wanted to show you here is you can use the playhead toggle here to play back the movie. But you can use, of the playback button. But what is great here when you quickly move the playhead towards the left, you will get the instant playback of your animation, which is great. You can stop it by tapping here. Like in Procreate, you can tap with two fingers to go back and you can see the pop up message that you do the step with three fingers, you can redo what you just did. What is great in Procreate dreams is that it stores your undo history, which basically means that the undo history is retained even when you close the app, which I found very helpful. And then you also have the two finger tap and hold on the stage and the timeline to undo and redo with three fingers series of actions, and when you use the two fingers, it will rapidly undo the series of recent changes to stop that, you just basically lift your hand. If you want to adjust these preferences, you would just go to preferences and you will see the settings here. I have the settings here to start undo steps to 100 and rapid und delay is 0.6 seconds. That works for my animation editing and you can test out what works for you the best. It doesn't undo too many steps when you just tap and hold on the screen. Then I will click done. Then what I can do also here, let me open this group. With three fingers, I can scale up and down the timeline and I can move it from side to side as well. Again, you can go up and down and you can also go side to side, so you can adjust the timeline like this. Basically, you use the three fingers to slide horizontally to adjust how much time the timeline shows on the screen. Also, you can use the four fingertip for the full screen preview of your movie. Okay. Now I'll tap again, and I am back in this preview. And I will show you some other gestures when we are animating our illustrations. I will again tap here on the side and I will go back to our movie. 8. Animation Principles: Here, I wanted to show you one of my old animation, which is animating a jumping ball, which is a classic exercise for beginners for different reasons, basically building fundamental principles and introducing the basic principles of animation such as squash and stretch and also spacing and easing out. These are building blocks of animation and understanding them, helps you to really create believable motion, and also the ball is quite simple thing to animate, but here I made it into a orange and then a little bouncy bench. I just wanted to make it a little bit more interesting in this part, and why basically squash and stretch is important in animation. Because when you notice when the ball is going up in the top part is almost round, but then here when it's higher up, it squashes. Then when it's going down, it's more narrow. Just at the moment when it hits the bench, let me try to show you exactly the moment because it's very short It changes shape, and you can see how wide it gets when it touches the bench. The squash and stretch basically helps you create the realism and weight, and it gives your objects and characters sense of weight and volume when they move. You are enhancing the realism in their movement. And it also helps you to enhance the emotion and expression in character animation. In addition to that, it also creates visual interest because when you move the whole animation, it's not just stiff ball going up and down. But other thing, what we are going to look at is creating this in between frames because it's important when you are moving object from one side of your stage to another side, to create just enough frames for you to create the fluid motion, exactly how you want. Basically in animation, this is also called in between or tweening. It's a crucial process in animation that involves creating the immediate frames between two keyframes, which will be the starting keyframe and the ending keyframe to produce the illusion of motion. This technique is essential for several reasons. As I mentioned, the smooth animation, then also the timing and pacing and detailing and complexity. If we talk about the smooth motion, it ensures that the animation transitions will be smooth in one post to another, and then you are eliminating any strange jumps in animation, when you just go from one frame to another key frame and it will have a strain jump. And then when you have a timing and pacing, in between allows the animators to control the timing and pacing of the animation precisely by adjusting the number of in between frames, you can make the animation appear faster or slower, depending what do you want to animate. Here you notice that in some parts of animation, the ball or orange is jumping faster and in other parts, it's slower. And also the in between helps the animation to maintain the consistency by carefully crafting the frames that link to key poses. Our key poses in this animation are when the orange is on top and also when it hits the bench. Let me stop this So basically, when we will be creating our animation, we will be focusing on the main keyframes and then also the amount of in between keyframes, and we will be using a little bit of the squash and stretch in our animations, but not as much as it was important for this animation here. But I just wanted to share this with you. So you know what would help you create more fluid and lifelike animations when you want to go deeper into animation process and create more animations in the future by yourself. All right. And now let's move on to the next part. 9. The Sleeping Dog: All right. So let's start animating. And I thought we will start with something more simple, which I think it's a great way to start to help us to get into the flow of animating this whole scene. The first thing to animate will be the dog. Let me oom in so you can see it better. Here, let's open the group. And let's find the track with the dog, which is here and we name the layers in procreate before. Now we have it nicely organized. Now I can just tap here on the track. The playhead will appear on the spot that I want to see it. If you want to zoom in, you can double tap on the track, you are in the preview, which is even more detailed and zoomed in, as you can see. To get out of this mode, you can just zoom out. So here, I will make sure that the playhead is at the beginning of the timeline. Now, for this part of animation, we will be using the performing feature because we want to make the dog look like it's breathing, so we will make his back move up and down. We don't have to redraw everything frame by frame because this feature will help us to add keyframes and we can easily record our movement, so it will look natural. Let's do that. We have our playhead at the beginning, just to make sure we are on track that we want to be Now, I will tap on the playhead from the selection, I will click on the move, and then I will select warp. Here you can see there is this grid around the dog or the mesh. Here you can also adjust the amount of the controls. I'd like to add a little bit more so we can adjust the movements more naturally. I think six should work nicely in this case. Now I can just tap on the performing feature, and here you will see it's ready and I can change from circle to square. And now I can just move one of these toggles to imitate the movement of the dog breathing. Let's just do that. I will move it up and down, and you can see that the playhead is moving here on the timeline. I will continue moving this up and down until the playhead finishes in the timeline. You can also see here in the top left corner that the action is recording, and now it's stopped, so I can stop my movements, and I can move the playhead again to the beginning and you can play it back if you like how the dog is moving. I think this looks pretty natural. I'm happy how this turned out, so I can stop and I can zoom in. I can show you how these keyframes were created so you can see it here. You have these keyframes under the track and you can tap and hold on the keyframe to delete the keyframe if you want to adjust the movement, or you can also move the keyframe. But I think it's great how it is now. I will leave it as it is. Then one more thing I want to show you here is the modify button. Here you can modify the motion filtering, which means smoothening the animation. I think in this case, 30% works great. I will also leave it that and I will tap here and tap done because I think the movement looks very natural and it was very quick to do as you can see. Now let's move on to the next part. 10. The Plants: The next thing to animate is the movement behind the window. Now we will animate the plants behind the window using similar technique as we did for the dog. Let's find the plans behind the window and I can already visually see them here, and I also named each plant. When you o in on the track, you can see here the small toggle with the check mark and when you tap on it. The visibility of the track changes. You can see the plan here disappeared, so you can always double check which track is where on your stage. We will first start with this plan on the left. We keep the flow. We will first animate this one and then we will move on to the right. I will tap on the track, we can see the playhead. I will move the playhead to the beginning of the track. Then I will tap on the playhead as we did before. Now we need too out so we see the boundary box. If you don't see the boundary box, you can always step on the track so you will see it again. Or you can tap here on the stage to hide and see the boundary box. Then here we have the corner toggles. When you tap on those, you will see this small icon where it disappeared now. When you tap again, you can see here this small corner thing. If I zoom out, maybe you can see it a little bit better because it will be on the dark background. Here, you can see it. And then let's tap on it again. Then we have the three small dots and we can edit the anchor. That's what I want to do here because if I just move the plant from side to side, it will just rotate around the anchor point, which is in the middle. And we don't need that. I will tap and I will click on those three dots, edit anchor point, and I will move the anchor point to the side because we want the plan to move just slightly from side to side, and we can imagine that the plan is attached here on the side. While doing that, we can edit the anchor point on all these plans behind the window. I can just step on this one, zoom in, dit the anchor point so you can see it it appeared right away. Here I have these two plans together, so I'll just move it here to the top. Then I can move to the plan number three, move the anchor point. Then move again, oops. Now I move the anchor point, so I need to undo. Then I can tap on the plan number four. You can see it it's this one. I can move the anchor point to the bottom. Go to plant five, move the anchor point and zoom out and we are missing the plant six. I can just move the anchor point here to the side. We can go back to the plant number one. It was here. We will use a combination of two different tools to animate the movements of the plant. We will be using again, the performing feature together with two options which are hidden here. Let's start animating the plant here on the side. So make sure that your playhead is on the left side on the track, at the beginning. Then you can tap here to start the performing mode. First, we will start by tapping on the playhead and you will go to move and we will select again the warp. In this case, I think I will adjust the controls to eight because I want to add movements only to the edges, so to have as many controls as I can have. Then I can start moving one side of the plant. Just slightly. We will add these subtle movements like the plant is moving or wrestling in the wind, but we don't want to move too fast, so it will start to look like hurricane is outside. We want to create this relaxing atmosphere of the plans gently moving in the wind. You can see here the timeline, so it's almost 30 seconds. We finished the first movement and to look more natural, we will use the other tool. I will tap here again. We will select move and scale. Now, we already adjusted the anchor point. Now I can tap on the performing feature. And I will move this corner of the plant, so I will just step here, and I will just start gently moving the plant from side to side. Because I didn't draw the corner of the plant. I don't want to move it too far out here because then it will look strange. I need to tap again and go back. But if you create your own illustration and you feel in the whole shape, you can move the plant even more. But again, that would look too wild like a big storm. I need to move the playhead to the beginning again. Here, I can delete the move and scale by tapping and holding, so I can start again. Let's tap on the performing feature, tap on the playhead. Move and scale. I can zoom in so I can see it better. Then I can just move the plant from side to side in the circling movements to create this more natural look to add to the warp and the other movement that we just created. I will just continue moving the pencil in the circular movement until the timeline stops. Now we have these two movements on the plant. Perfect. Now we can move on to add movements to the other plants the same way. I will stop this part, and then I will just move to this plant. I will tap on the track. First, I will add the warp. Here, I will move it to five, and then I can press the performing feature, and then I will move the bottom part of the plant. All right. And now I will zoom back in. And I will repeat the same but with the right side of the plan, so we have more movement there. I'm trying to move the pencil a little bit differently than I did it here. If it's moving more to the right, I will move it more to the left or go slower or faster, and I will continue these movements until the 30 seconds finishes. Now I will zoom back in and I will move the plant using the move and scale like we did before. Here I just need to zoom out a little bit. We can see the movements better. I will take this lower hand corner and we can start now we can't start because I forgot to move the playhead. Let's do that. Now tap again and now I can move the plant. All right. And now I can see that the plant is moving too much out of the corner of the stage. So I will exit the performing mode and I will move the plant little bit higher. So tap on it. And this movement is not recorded because I'm not in the performing mode. Now we can check how it looks. Okay. And the same like on the stage, you can just singe to zoom out to see the whole timeline. Here I will just zoom out a little bit so we can see the plans moving. Okay. I think they're moving pretty nicely. As we move them, I mean, this one, a little bit higher up. Maybe I can move this one a little bit to the left. Let me do that. Find the track and out of the performing mode, I can just move it slightly to the left. I think that works great. Now I will continue animating the rest of the plans with the same method and I will speed up this process because it's the same how I did it here, and then I talk to you in a moment. All right, so let's check our animation. I can pinch out and out and see all the parts of our animation that we did hit play and actually before that because now we will see only this part, but the animation so far is the same. I'll just zoom out so we can see the full time line. When I tap on play, we can see we already have quite a lot of movement just using the performing feature. These are all subtle movements, which will add to this cozy scene that we are creating the dog is breathing and we can see the back moving up and down. Then we added movement to all of these plans behind the glass, and here I was super careful not to move these plans too much. They don't move too rapidly and too fast because they are next to the characters. We don't distract the viewer from our characters with very fast movements of these plans. Here I can see I will need to adjust these raindrops, but we'll be animating rain in later lessons. And just to recap. When I tap on the track, we see the boundary box. Let me tap on it again. Then with these three dots, we adjusted the anchor point and then with the playhead at the beginning of the track, we use the move action and we use combination of warp and move using the perform feature. I think everything looks great so far. If I preview it again and now we can move on to the next part. 11. The Lamps: All right. And now let's add some animation and movement to the lights that we have on the scene. So I will zoom in. All right. So we have three kind of groupings of light or I mean, we have two lamps, one on the left side, one on the right side, as you can see, and then we have these four lamps on the top. I was thinking that it would be nice to animate them as one light source. First, but now I thought that might not look that great. Basically, what I'm thinking now is to separate these light sources into three different groups, and then we can add movement to these groups basically. But if we look at our layers, so we have a group with two layers, so you can expand and collapse the group by tapping on the arrow as we did before, and then you see these two tracks on each of these tracks, we have all the lights together. What we need to do is to separate them on three different tracks, so we are able to animate them separately. There are different ways how you can do that. One way how I do it sometimes is to go back to procreate and separate these light sources there. I can show you how I would do it in procreate. I need to turn the artwork. As you saw before, We have different layers for everything. Here is the group that we prepared in the previous lessons where I was separating the layers. What you can do is to separate these using the selection tool. You can merge these layers. I would have one layer with this blurry. Visual. Basically, this one is also blurry, but this one has less opacity because I'm using the blending modes, which I will show you in a second in procreate dreams. I would select this layer, put it out of the group. This is the main one and this one is very faint, so you don't see that much. But what you can do is to select swipe down with three fingers, then you can cut and paste, and then you do it also for this one. Then the third one is just the glow here on the right side, if you see it, if you hide it and hide it. Here, when I cut the selection, it changed the blending mode, so I would need to put it back to screen mode. And then we have all the three layers that we need and you can select one layer by just holding on it and it will hide all the other layers. It's hard to see now because obviously we have white background. You need to hide the background, and then you can see this faint light here. You can see there is a slight difference. Then you would save it as PNG. You would say PNG and save it to your images, and then you can import it one by one into Procre dreams. If we go back to procreate dreams, you can go here. So here we don't need this track. So I would first add the track. From using the plus sign as I showed you before. We have empty track, and then you would use the plus sign again to import photos, and then you would choose the PNG that you just saved. This is one way how I do it sometimes when I forget to separate layers and then I want to import something else to animate. But I will show you another way how you can do this. We can go back. We have the glow The glow group, we don't necessarily need it. Now, let's just tap and do. We don't have that extra track. We just don't need. Here on the group. I will tap and hold, and I will group the group, which was grouped already in procreate. That's why it was grouped here. We had two tracks. But as we need to separate them, I'm not going to work with groups. We'll talk about groups in later lessons. Here, I will keep this one glow layer as it is, and I will hide this one, so you can see how it differs. Basically, on this one track, we have all the content with this soft blurr light, and then we will keep that and we'll just animate the secondary glow. Let's see. It's just like this soft glow. We are not going to turn off and on the whole lamp, but we'll just add this soft glow. I can actually tap and hold and you can click on track options and you can delete the track. Now, I will tap on the track that we are using currently, and then I will add three tracks. Track number one, so it will be one lamp and then we have two other groups, this one and this one. We need two more tracks. Okay. All right. Now we will add the glow on a separate track, as I mentioned. Double check that you are on a correct track. Now we will also use the drawing tools. We will be using more of them later. This is the starting point, so you get used to using them. Let's step on the drawing icon, and then we can go to brushes. Then tap on the brush icon again, and then we will choose one of the other brushes. For this one, I think airbrushing works great because we want this soft light. Let's select the soft brush. But here you can see we have blue color selected, which is not ideal for this type of light. What I'm going ops See, I already tab here, so watch out. That you don't do that. Tap to do so we don't need that. Now in this mode, you can activate the color picker by just tapping and holding on the canvas. This is pretty useful, and that's one of the gestures that I use quite often. I will choose something not super bright white color, but maybe a little bit orangey color. It changed here, and I think that works nicely. First, I will paint something on this lamb. Let's see maybe 6%. Then I will paint on this side of the lamb. I'm not covering the middle part of the lame because the light is mostly visible on this side. So this should work fine. Now, what I want to do is to zoom in, as you see, it's just painted one frame. I will tap and hold and I will feel the duration because we want that light on the whole track and basically happening the whole time, we are watching the animation. But here, I created the drawing too much to the right, so I can just step and hold and move the track. Here, I just want to make sure that I feel the whole track and now because I moved it, it didn't. You can just step and hold here and just drag the contents of the track to the end of the track. Then the next thing, what we want to do is to tap and hold on the track and we test out a blending mode. Because this might be too strong as a light source. If we select lighten, maybe screen, let's see, lighter color, and I think screen works great in this case. We painted the light or the idea of the light on one of the tracks and one of the lamps. While we already also changed the blending mode. Now let's just add the light before adding the animations and other fun parts to our movie. I will just step on the next track. I will make sure that the playhead is at the beginning. Then here I will paint over these lamps the same way. We have something like this. Very randomly. Now, I will zoom in, I will tap and hold to feel the duration. I will pinch here and make sure that we feel the whole canvas, pin again, go to the beginning and tap on the next one, make sure that the playhead is at the beginning of the track. Then I can go to this lamb, paint a little bit here. Do the same hold. Field the duration. Now let's change the blending modes. Tap and hold blend mode, and I think screen works great. Tap blend mode, screen. And we are set for our animating or animation of the lambs. Here, I think I didn't do it very evenly. Let me see if I'm on the correct layer. Here you can also tap and hold and you can rename your track. This is lamp left Is it? It is. All right. Here, I will just add a little bit more, the light is bit more even left and right side. And here. Let's see where we are. These are top lights. Then we have the light on the right. I can rename. To spell it right or correctly. You might notice that we have here this different color preview. That's because when you tap here, you can see we have onion skin, so you can hide onion skin. That one was showing us previous frames, but we don't have any previous frames. In this case. Now when you tap on the tracks, You see that all these light sources have the same color. What we want to do now? Let's start with this one. It's a left lamp, and I will tap on the playhead, and I will select the filter. We have selection of live filters, we have opacity, Casi and blur, sharpen noise, and HSB. In this case, we will be using opacity and gaussian blur. Let's first set the opacity. I want to have the one keyframe here at the beginning. I want to maybe reduce the opacity. I think 60%, overall, it's quite nice in this case. I don't think 100% looks very natural, I would like to keep it around 65%. This is like a reminder for myself. And now we will animate the movement or basically the opacity of this lamp. We need to swap from the drawing mode, so we disable the drawing mode, and now we will activate the performing mode because it's easy for us to move the togglehad of the opacity and we can try to create this natural of flickering lamp. Actually, I will zoom out so we see how is the effect on the whole scene. This was more like a reminder that we want to keep it to 60% and now we will animate it separately. We can delete the whole opacity because we want to recreate it now. Let's delete and I will tap on the toggle head. Now I am in the performing mode, so that's what we want. Now I will select filter opacity, and now we can start animating. Just to make sure that I am not adding 100% opacity to this animation, I will be moving the opacity around zero to 60%. Maybe not going completely to zero, but something in these rounds. You can see that you have already performing mode activated here you can try to notice how you are controlling the light, and how fast or how slow you want the flickering to be moving. Sometimes you move the togal faster, sometimes slower, and that should work fine. What you can do now is just to play it and see if you like it. Now, maybe it's turning on and off maybe too strongly. What we can do, we can blur it or we can redo the animation. But I think the blurring works better in this case, let's zoom in. We can move this keyframe completely to the left by tapping holding and just make sure that the keyframe is there. Now it starts at the beginning. Here you can double check the opacity and I will move it, wait. I didn't disable it. Let's go back. Let's just zoom in because I didn't want to record the new action. Tap and hold, move the keyframe, and we are out of the performing mode and I will set this keyframe to around 60%, and I will check how is the next key frame. It's 78, so I don't want it to be so high. These other ones are already how I was moving the toglehad. Here maybe you'll just set it to basically even lower. The other ones I think should be fine. We can check the last one. Where are we? The last one is 40%. I think that works. Now, let's add the opacity feature. Sorry, opacity we just did. The blur feature. Because we already animated the opacity, I don't think we need to animate the blur, but what I usually like to do is just to add the playhead here and then filter. Now I can add the blur. You can see that it added a keyframe for me, I can blur the lamp. I mean the lamp light. Maybe 5% works nice in this case. What I can do here, I can go to the end of the track, and I can just step and tap again and it adds the 5% automatically. Basically, I will have it blurred 5% the whole time the animation is running. I can double check how everything looks by going to the beginning and see if I like the subtle animation of the lamp. We didn't animate this one yet. This one I think works nicely. Now I will go ahead and I will animate these two lamps with the same principle. We already have the drawing done. What I just need to do is to add the opacity and the blur to both of these traps. I will speed this up and I will talk to you in a moment. S All right. I edit animation to two other lamb groups. So we have left and the top group, and you can see on each of them, we have a live filter, so we have the opacity, and then we had the Gbler. The first live filter we used with the performing feature, and the second one, we just used with two keyframes. I will show you also other ways how to use key frames later on. Here we just used the same keyframe or same setting for the keyframe at the beginning and at the end, so the blur look of the light will stay the same. I applied it to the two a tracks and now we can preview our animation. One thing is actually, I haven't mentioned yet, if you are zoomed in on the track. For example, if you didn't animate the rest of your track, so now we can see only 0-2 seconds, you will see that the playback is showing you only those 2 seconds. If you want to see the whole animation, you need to zoom out on your full timeline. So now we will see the full timeline. This is very useful, as I mentioned, if you animate it only part of your animation, and you just want to preview it without the playhead running the whole length of your timeline. When I'm looking at these lamps, I think everything is pretty nice and you can always adjust some of these keyframes, if you think it's too much or it's taking too much attention from the other animations. But for now, I will leave it as it is, and then we can move on to the next part. 12. The Rain: Now, let's dive into animating rain. We will draw and utilize groups as well. I will draw a few shorter lines in the similar places as we already have. To access drawing mode, I will select the squiggly line. From the brushes, I will go to Calligraphy folder and I will use the water pen, which I think works quite well for this illustration. Now, I already taped on the canvas. I created a mark. If that happens to you, just tap and undo the stroke. Just to make sure that you have white color, tap and hold on the stage and you can sample the color that you want. I will sample lighter white color. Size of the brush, I will keep around 4% because I want to create thinner lines and shorter lines that we already have here. I can zoom in and I will recreate some of these lines on this frame which is already creating here. Here, you can just guess approximately where you place the lines, so it doesn't have to be perfect because we will hide the other layer and see where we are still missing some of these lines. I am not recreating the bouncy droplets because it would be very hard to animate because our plans are moving, it would be difficult to match. So when you're drawing these random lines, you can make them longer and shorter and the placement doesn't matter that much, but just make sure they are aligned. So you don't create lines angle to the left, some to the right, and some are straight. Try to keep the same angle. All right. So now we have a few lines already created, and now I can hide this track and see where our rain is distributed here. So I can zoom out and see, and I can fill in some of these areas. I'll just add some shorter ones here, maybe something longer here and really trying to keep them aligned vertically, which is a little bit difficult when you are drawing free hand, but it's a good way to practice your lines. And you don't want to go overboard with these lines. In this case, you don't want to have the areas that are too busy. Try to balance it out and you can also delete some of them. I think this is fine. Here, as you see, there is just one frame. In this case, we don't need to draw everything frame by frame. I will tap and hold here, and I will stretch this piece of content. We have three frames. Now you don't see it, but when you double tap, You can go really in the Zoom in preview, and you can see that we have three frames which are exactly the same. I tested different ways how to animate rain and the speed of rain that I really like is when you use three frames. What I will do now, I will exit the drawing mode. Now I will tap and hold and I will duplicate these three frames which are on the track. We will move this content little bit down. We will try to create this realistic look by alternating the placement of these raindrops without the need of redrawing all of them. So tap again if you don't see the boundary box. Now I will move this one a little bit to the right. But if you don't see where the previous content was, you can tap here and you can select onion skin. You can always adjust the onion skin. Because we have three frames in this content group, I adjusted the visible frames to five, so we'll see it. You can also adjust the opacity. I selected purple color so we can see it better. Here, I can reduce the opacity because our raindrops are not that opaque, they are quite subtle. This works, I think better in this case. Now you can see where your previous raindrops are. If you tap again, you can see you moved it from here down here. Now I can tap and duplicate again. And this third piece of content, I will move again, so I need to tap again and move lower. You just want to make sure that you are not placing the rain drops in the same spot as the other one. Now let's duplicate it one more time. Duplicate and this fourth one will move down again. But you can see that we have all the rain on top of the character. We don't want that, so we want to move all of this content below the character. I will group this by tapping on the squares, and I will select the content that we had so far, and then I will tap and hold and group. Then I will move the whole content down. I'll just take the content snap it from the track. With the other hand, I'll just find the right placement. I think it will work the best behind the window frame and on top of the plan. I will dragon drop it here. Now I dropped it in a wrong place. I will take it, I will undo because I want to drop it in between. Let's do it again. Take the content and find the dotted line, so you place it in between perfect now I will move it to the beginning of the track Now I will zoom out to see how it looks. On the timeline, I will zoom in, so I can have preview only of these four frames, which will be enough for our animation. Let's play. I think it already started to look pretty nice. We can adjust it. Now, tap and hold group, and I can double check how I moved the rain drops. I think they all look like that I'm moving them more towards left. This one compared to the previous one is more to the left and this is as well. I will move this one little bit more to the right, and let's see how that looks. I think that's much better. Now what we need to do because as we moved all our content with every step lower, we need to feel the top part of the window frame. Let's just do that. In this first one, we need few drops here. Let's go to the drawing mode, take the brush, and I will add few of the drops in the top part. Basically, what you need to do is to just fill some spaces, making sure that you don't have the same placement of these raindrops. That should be fine. Then let's go to the second one. You can see where the previous raindrops are. I can just add one here. Let me zoom in so you see it a little bit better. I can add one here. And still trying to keep the same alignment on these drops. Now, let's go to the third one. Again, just filling in some of the spaces. And the purple ones, if you remember, are the previous frame The fourth one. We can add one here, one here. I think there is a gap in this part and there is nothing here. Now we can preview and see if we like how it moves. I think there is something missing in this part. But other than that, I think it works pretty nicely. Let's see. I think we need to add some rain drops in this frame and this one in this part. Just one here. This is previous one. This should be already better. All right. I think this works great. Okay. So what we can do now is to group all of these like we did before. So we will tap on these two rectangles. You will select your content, tap and hold group. And I think because we dit this type of rain, I think it will look a little bit better if we actually place it behind the plans because then we can imagine that plane plans are closer to the window. So I will take the group and move it behind the plans. All right. I think this is much better. Okay. So what I will do now, I will duplicate it a few times. Then I can group it, and then I can duplicate it to fill the timeline. Okay. Let's check I feel the timeline, that's perfect. Now let's create another layer of our rain. I will tape on the plus sign, create new track, and we can use what we already animated here on this track. Here, I will ungroup this part, so we can copy only those few first frames. Now I can zoom in. We have our four frames. I just need to group these Again, I can copy them easily, copy and paste. Now I will ungroup this part. We have these four frames. Now because we want our rain in the foreground to run slower or fall slower, we want to make these pieces of content a little bit longer. We will have one more frame per each of these. I need to exit this mode. And then we are here. You can stretch one piece of content like this, but if it is here, you can stretch it with the others next to it. What you can do, you can actually use your second hand and tap on the screen, and then you can extend the content, which is great gesture to know about when you want to work with the pieces of content like this, tap on the screen and extend, tap and extend. Perfect. Now, let's group this together I will tap and hold group, I will exit the mode, and I will make the whole group bigger. These drops, they feel closer to us. I will move it slightly to the side and then we can test against the other rain if it is bigger enough. Maybe we can make it even bigger. For that, I need to zoom out. I can move the whole group a little bit lower. Maybe this placement works a little bit better. Now we can apply blur, is in the beginning blur. 1% or maybe two would be too much. Let's zoom in and see. So maybe 2% actually is fine in this case. Here, I will tap again to create second key frame. Now we can also reduce the opacity. Go to fiilter opacity and here we can set the opacity to, let's see, so you can still see around 85 86%. Then let's create a new key frame. We can zoom out and play it on a bigger scale. I think this works great. I set up the blur to 2% opacity to 86%. I think it's always good to test it out if you like it. Now when we duplicate this group, also, our opacity and goes in blur is duplicated, which is great. We can just duplicate this group multiple times. Then I can group more groups, and then we can duplicate it Then I can group more of them together, so we can duplicate them faster. Now duplicate duplicate. And see where we finished on the timeline. And I think now we filled the whole timeline. Perfect. Now I can exit this mode and we can preview how everything looks. All right. I think it looks great. Now we can move on to the next part. 13. The Cat Tail: And now, let's add some movement to the cat. We will be animating the T tail, as you already know, and you have a variety of options here. For example, you can use the move and scale option, but I think in this case, the tail would look too stiff. I would like to have it a little bit more natural looking. I mean the movement. The other option is that you can draw it frame by frame, but as you can see, we already have some texture and some shading on the tail. Without the need of redrawing everything, we can animate the tail movement using the war in a little bit different way, how we animated the plans. Let me show you what I mean. First of all, let's adjust the trek. I need to make the track shorter. I will grab the end of the track and I will just move on the timeline until I am at the beginning. Now I can zoom in and see how many frames I have here. I think it's still quite a lot of frames, so we can make it even shorter. Let's see. We have four frames. I think three frames are plenty in this case. Now I will zoom out a little bit, and I will duplicate these three frames because I want to finish basically with the same tail position, and then we can delete this last part, so we will have a nice loop. What we can do now is to duplicate this again, and then we will adjust this middle part of the frames. I think for the middle parts, I think two frames are enough. So what we can do now, not using the performing feature, we will just add keyframes, and we will be using the warp tool. I will zoom in, so we can see how many controls we need. Select the move and warp. Then I will select, let's say, maybe actually eight controls. We have more control adjusting the tail. Now we can adjust the shape of the tail. I will adjust it only slightly. That should be enough for this first one, tap on the keyframe. Tap again to copy. Now you can see we have this slide movement. Now I will duplicate this whole thing. We have the same movements. It's always moving back. These two are the same and these two. I can always duplicate the middle part and adjust it and we will create this nice loop. With this duplicated one, I will delete this keyframe and I will adjust this one. Let's just move the tail slightly, trying to keep similar shape. Tap paste. Now duplicate this whole thing. Duplicate, delete. Now we can adjust it again and we can create this subtle movement without the need of redrawing everything. Of course, if you are drawing it frame by frame, you will have more natural movement. But like this, you save a lot of time and you don't need to recreate all these textures right now. Let's duplicate this whole thing again. Now I will delete the middle keyframe and age this one copy paste duplicate the whole thing, one more time, then delete this keyframe. Now I can copy this one and paste. We can test it out how it looks so far if we need more frames zooming on the timeline, so we see all of our frames. Then zooming out on the whole scene. I think the movement is pretty nice, so you can decide if you want to add more that the tail is moving even more there to the left. I think we can add some of them. Now you just have to see that these two are the same and this one, you have to double check. This is the middle part. Now, we need to copy this keyframe and then duplicate the whole part, duplicate again, delete this keyframe, and then we can adjust. Of course, you can play around with this shape as much as you want, but trying to keep similar shape of the tail like we had until now, it doesn't look maybe too different. Now we can adjust it again. Now I can copy this one and paste. I will duplicate the whole thing again, delete this frame and then adjust. I will speed up this part and I will talk to you in a moment. Let's test it out. You can zoom out to see the whole movement better. I think on the big scale, actually, it looks quite nice. Maybe the side frames are too stretched. I will stop this and I will delete these edges, and I will stretch these ones and move the key frame and test it out again. Okay. And I think the movement is much nicer now and you can add the movement to the tail of the second cat the same way. All right. And now let's move on to the next start. 14. Coffee Mug Steam: All right. So let's test out our animation, what we have so far. So we have the lights, we have the rain. We dit some movement on the tail of the cat. As you can see, I added this secondary subtle movement. This one is a little bit faster. So it's up to you how many frames you would create for these movements. Then the dog is here moving as well. Now, let's add some nice moving steam from the mug and the kettle. I will stop the animation, and now we will be creating the movement frame by frame. Let's find the layer where we have the steam. The steam is here on a separate track. But because we need to draw it frame by frame, I can just hide this one and I will just step here and create new track. We have a new track here. And now we will be creating different frames, which will be hand drawn. When I was testing how many frames or different shapes for the steam you need to create this semi realistic steam animation. I thought around six or seven frames are good enough, and then we can repeat them. The main point is that you start with one shape and then you end up with the shape which is similar. It looks like it's morphing into the you know, same shape which we started with. First, you'll create a rougher version of the design to ensure that the shapes flow well together. Once you're happy with that, we'll redefine it further. Let's do that. Let's go to the drawing mode. In this case, I think the water pen will still work fine. Now what we can do is to swipe down, and then we are in a flip book preview. Here we can also show the onion skin, and we can set the color. I think leave it on purple Now let's sketch first idea shape. I think something like this would work great for the first shape. We can adjust it of course. Then the next shape can move a little bit higher. You will follow exact shape that you created here, but it's just moving up. Maybe here, we can create something more rounded. Maybe here we can add a little bit of volume, but it's not that far out from the first one. Now we can go to the next one. Then in this one, we can maybe create more volume here on the top. Then here it will be thinner. Let me move it so we can see it better. Then this one is moving even higher. Maybe we can add something here maybe a little bit. You can test it out later on. Now if we move to the next one. In this one, I think we can start breaking off the shape. Here we still have that volume. Here it's starting to get very thin, so I can add this little bump here. We are changing the shape as well. We have the volume in this part. Then here it can start to break. We separate these two shapes. Now, if we go to next one, in this one, we can still keep the volume here. Basically what we are doing all the time, we are moving higher and higher because the steam is leaving the mug here because we created that bump, maybe that bump starts to go higher as well. Okay. So something like this. And this one, we can push a little bit lower and then this one is as well separated, but a little bit higher than previous frame. We can add a little bit of a bubble here, and this one is higher. You can clean up the shape if you are happy, how it's moving later on. Now we should start moving back to the original shape. What we need to do. The first shape was just something like that, that was more simple than this one. What we can do is basically this top part disappeared because it vaporizes then here we can make it th Okay. And yeah, let's see. Maybe we can delete this top part. And just have it wider here, and then we can always test it out. Now to exit the flip book mode, we can tap done. Now if we zoom in, we can slide through our frames if it makes sense. I think it can work. We will create more subtle visual, don't worry about that. Let's play it. I think they look pretty nice. But I think the first one needs to be chunk here. I will just zoom in and stay in this preview, go to the drawing mode, and I will make it a little bit more round here on the top because we are just creating illusion and it's semi realistic inspired by animation, so it's not realistic team because that one is a little bit more detailed. Here, I will switch to eraser and just make the bottom part a little bit thinner and you can come up with your own shapes, of course, but make sure that you are moving the volume higher and higher with every frame. You can see you start here a little bit higher, higher and basically want to move to the last frame, which vaporizes and it's similar to the first one, the transition will be quite smooth. Now, the second visual, let's go to brush. Let's clean up the edges. We have nicer shape. Here, I think I can still add more volume. The top part can be more round. Then I can add a little bit like a dot or a spot here. It's separating from this part. Then if I go to next one, I think we can still have more volume here. It's still different from the previous frame, but it's like this chunky nice shape, and this one is more round. Here we have it thinner, then this spot can get smaller. It's a little bit different from the previous frame. I think this is nice. Then if I go to next one, we can add more volume I think to this part, so we are in the fourth frame. It's still different from previous frame, but then we have more volume, and then there is this small bump Then it's separating in this part. We can make this one a little bit smaller. Then maybe the bubble here, it's a little bit bigger. You can experiment with the shapes, as I mentioned, depending what you like. Let's check the next one. In this one, maybe let's clean up this part and then we can push this one out and make it more pronounced. You're still moving up with all the shapes that you are creating. Just always check the previous frame. You can see purple here. It's not the same. This one is a little bit higher. And then there is this bubble. Let's erase this little part. Here we can make it a little bit thinner. The transition looks nicer. The steam is breaking off that type of idea. You can play around really with the shape and maybe almost create a small character from the steam. That's also a fun idea. I think this is nice. Let's check the next one. All right. I think here in between, we can add one more. I will just duplicate this one and adjust it. This one needs to go a little bit higher, then we can add more volume here. Reduce the volume here on the lower part. And also here. We are still moving higher up, and then we will reduce this bubble or well, it's not a bubble, this piece of steam or how to call it. This top part basically, this looks like I don't know, kidney or bean shape, something like that. Then this goes higher up as well. It's still a little bit different than the previous one. But it's nice fluid shape, I think. Yeah. All right. Then this next one. We can compare to first one. Okay, it's not the difference, so that's nice. What we can do here, we can maybe add a little bit of volume in this part and I will delete the top part just to have a more similar shape to the first one. Okay. So here, maybe we need to add a little bit of this and maybe slide, something like that. I think they are pretty similar. That's great. Now we will adjust the look of the steam and we will do it by deleting the middle part because steam is mostly opaque on the edges and more transparent in the middle. Let's do that. For that, I will take the soft brush, which you can find in airbrushing. I will reduce the opacity of the brush and we will test it out. Erasing softly and you want to erase only middle part. You need to reduce the brush size and softly start erasing. Maybe even one. Maybe two, it's better in my case. I will also increase the opacity of the eraser. Okay. And at the end, I will go back to one. So I have more control. So something in 1-2 would be the best here based on the size of the steam that I created here. Okay. But I think this is nice. You can delete bigger part on one side and keep more on the other side, and then move on to the next one and basically do the same, deleting the middle part. I always do it after I'm happy with the overall shape, so you don't delete stuff when you still want to adjust because that will create back and forth. If you want to adjust something. Here, I'm mostly deleting the parts in the trunk here areas just to make it more translucent. The next one. Still adding the translucency here. I think that's pretty nice because of course, it's more organic. If you delete one part more than the other, I think it will still work nicely. You can really test out the look that you like. Here, we need to delete part of this top and make these transitions more translucent. Then the last, we can make the top translucent. And this part as well. I think that works well. We need to see if the speed is good for our animation. We need to play it. I think that's maybe too fast. We need to test stretching the content pieces, exit the drawing mode, zoom out, and then you can stretch each of these content pieces. All right. So let's test out how it looks if we have two frames. Yeah, I think that works well, but maybe we can add three frames. All right. I think this speed is much nicer and you can test out if you want to have it even slower so you can stretch each of these content pieces again because you can always test it out, what is the speed you want to achieve for each of your small animations in these type of scenes because sometimes you want it to feel faster or slower depending on really the atmosphere and the look and feel that you want to create. I think this one, the speed of the steam rising here, it's great. So what I can do now, I can group this part, group. Now I can also change the blending mode. It's even softer, tap and hold on the group, select blend mode, and you can test out the blend modes which you like. I think in this case, soft light or maybe even hard light works nicely, so you can test it out. I think soft light is pretty nice, but maybe you will not see it against the rain. So you can change to hard light and see if you like it. Okay. Of course, you can also add the opacity, we can reduce the opacity by adding the filter opacity and you can reduce it maybe to 80%. Then I will just add a keyframe here. We have the same opacity. Now you can duplicate the group and move it also here so you don't have to animate it again. You can tap create new track. We can copy this where are we? Copy, and I can paste it here by holding paste, and then I can just move the same group here, and we will have two different steams with the same effort. But now, when you look at it, they look the same way or the speed. What I like to do in this case, let's stop this. You can move one of the tracks, they are not starting at the same time. When you test it out, they move differently. You can move it even more. So they are even more different when you just look at it. This one, we can just duplicate. Here, this one, I can copy and I can paste here and move it. And I can shorten it and test it out again. Let's just move this one next to it. All right. I think this looks great. You created different steam from the coffee kettle and from the mug. You can play around with how the steam looks play with the different blending modes and you can zoom out and see how your full animation look like. With these two, we need to still feel the timeline. But I think so far it looks great. Now let's move on to the next part. 15. Extras and Exporting: Now we can test our animation. What we have so far, we can zoom out to see the whole timeline, and I think everything looks pretty nice. So at this stage, what I will do, I can also add sound, and then I will show you how you can export your animation. Let's just in here, I can just add new track and I already downloaded a few sounds from platform where you can find different sounds, so I can just swipe up open the folders. Here I have few sounds which I can add to my animation. And when you are looking for different sounds and music, make sure that you have a correct license depending where you want to use your animation, if it is for your client project or to use on social media or wherever. So here, I think I will just take the City in, and then I can just drop it here on the timeline and you can see it's importing. I can slide this away and let's check the sound. You can see the sound was imported here. You can make sure that it starts at the beginning, and then you can check how far it goes on your timeline. But usually the sounds are angered in 30 seconds, so it automatically fills your timeline. Now we can also test it out with the sound. I think that's pretty nice. Now when you have everything said, you can tap on the name of your movie. Then from the options, you will choose share. Here you can also select different settings. You can choose different type of audio. You can tap here to choose MOV file or MP four. And here you have even more options. But I will keep it as it is. Here you can also choose the size that you want to export to. For example, on Instagram, 720 p should be enough, but I always like to export on higher scale, so I can always scale it down if I need to. And here we have the video, or you can also select frames as images. Now when everything is set, you can tap on port, and then you can see that your video is exporting. And of course, depending on everything what you edit to your animation, the export might be longer or shorter in your case. And then when everything is said, you can choose where you want to save it and I usually either save it on my iPad or I can directly airdrop it to my computer, so I can easily share it later on or you can airdrop it to your phone. All right. That's it. With the export, I will save the video, and then we are done. 16. How Did it Go?: I hope that you enjoy bringing the illustration to life and had fun exploring the animation or animated illustration. We want to call it your movie, and I hope that you have fun while adding movements to your illustration. And please upload and share your project with others. I would love to see it. Also the work in progress, if you want in the project section. If you want to take your knowledge and skills to the next level, also check out my other classes about drawing people scenes, color, and more. There is a variety from begin level to more advanced levels, and you can just visit my teacher profile to find them. If you would like me to share your projects on Instagram, please take me in the Instagram stories in the post and post description, so I can help you and your art to be discovered by more people. Thank you for joining me in this class. Say creative. Say you and see you in the next class. Bye.