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1. Intro: Hi, I'm Kelly Bren Burke. I'm a creative entrepreneur living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And this is my best friend, Murphy. He's a seven-year-old Bulldog and I love to put him in my animated GIFs. In this class, you'll learn how to create a GIF just like this one, starring your favorite pets. I'll be talking about dogs and cats in this class. But you can GIF any creature you'd have a photograph of like a fish, a guinea pig, a bird, or even a human, will create three different GIFs together, we'll use your own photos and backgrounds from free photo websites like Unsplash. After this class, you'll be able to apply what you've learned to a number of different scenarios. Your friends will love receiving texts of animation starring their pets, perfect for celebrating birthdays or just for fun. These animations are awesome for sharing and Instagram and Facebook as well. I'll also show you how to upload your GIFs to GIPHY and to apply for a brand or artists channel on GIPHY. For this class, you'll need an iPad, the Procreate app, and a stylus. I'll be using the Apple Pencil, but any stylus will do. I would consider this an Intermediate class. I'll be explaining each step as they go along, but some knowledge of Procreate is helpful. My first-class is about creating birthday GIFs. It's called Easy Animation with Procreate Five. That class is aimed that beginners at Procreate animation. So please feel free to check that one out as well. I really want to see your pet, so share your pet GIFs in the Class Project Gallery. And on Instagram. Follow me and tag me on Instagram, please use the hashtag Kelly Bren Burke also, please follow me on SkillShare. In the next lesson, I'll tell you more about our class projects. See you there!
2. Our Class Project : Today I'm going to
show you how to create these three GIFs. After you're done, please share one or more GIFs in the
Class Project Gallery. To create these GIFs, we'll insert a pet photo
into Procreate. I'll show you how to
use Procreate's tools to isolate the pet from
his photo background, will use Procreate
Selection Tool, Erasers and Smudging tools
to accomplish this. Then we'll add photo
backgrounds from Unsplash or Pixabay as a
backdrop for your GIF. I have collections of
backgrounds that you can use that are linked in the
Class Resource gallery. Or you can source your
own backgrounds using the search function and
Pixabay and Unsplash. I'll go over that in
more detail later. For now, to access the
Class Resource gallery, click on that tab just
underneath this video. You'll need to be on a desktop
to access the resource. Unfortunately,
they're not available on the Skillshare app. I also have PNG files
of my dog Murphy, and of a funny cat. In the class resources. If you'd like to
use these files for your animation,
you're welcome to. After we've created
our animations, will save the GIFs
and I'll talk you through saving and
sharing your animations. I have a Verified Artist
channel on GIPHY, so you can find
all of my GIFs by searching kellybrenburke
in GIPHY, or in the GIF search on
Instagram or Facebook. I'll show you how
to do this as well. In the next lesson, I'll do a quick overview of
animation on Procreate. See you there!
3. Procreate Animation Overview: Next we're gonna be doing a really brief
overview of animation. So I'm going to open
up a new canvas, 1500 by 1500 pixels. And we're going to
draw a little fish in the ocean that is going to
be moving back and forth. So you can use any color
palette you'd like. This is just practice. So I'm going to fill
my bottom layer up with a light blue. And I'm going to
create a new layer on top of that and grab a darker teal color and
draw some rough waves there. And, on a new layer. I'm going to draw a
little orange fish. Again, It's totally just for practice. I'm gonna give him a
little smile and eyes. And there we have our fish. So we have it set up here. Each thing is on
different layers. And what we're gonna do
is these two layers are going to be in the background holding steady while
the fish moves. So I'm going to group
these together, label them Background. And I will label my fish, Fish. And we are ready to
start animating. We're gonna go to Wrench >
Canvas > Animation Assist > on. And you'll see here already that your Canvas looks a
little bit different. And that's because we don't have the background toggled on here. So I'm going to tell
Procreate that I want the waves and the sky to be in the background while the fish is going to
be moving around. You can see here that they
have these little squares down here that mirror exactly
the Layers panel here. So what we're gonna
do is duplicate our fish and move him forward. Let's move him forward about
a half fish every time. And I'll move them forward
another half fish. And you can see here that
once he goes off the page, he gets cut off and that's
fine for our purposes here. It's just something to know about how animation
works in Procreate. I'm going to duplicate
them one more time. Move him a half fish forward, and then duplicate
them one last time. And I'm just going to clear this because there's
gonna be no fish. And so if we look down here, we can hit Play and we
can watch our fish move, and he's going really fast. So I'm going to
reduce the Frames Per Second to about seven. You'll want to play
with the frames per second for each animation. The Onion Skin frames. I'll show you what
that means here. Right here we have a bunch of little fishes that
are less opaque. So it's on Max
Onion Skin Frames. And that's the
default on Procreate. If we wanted to
see just one fish or two fish, I'll just do one. If we wanted to lower the
opacity to about 30%, then you can see here that there's just one
little fish showing. And he is more, less opaque than he was before. Okay, So now we have our fish that is moving forward
at a decent speed. And what we're gonna do
is we're going to bring him to the left of
the frame as well. So I'll show you
what I mean here. I'm going to continue moving
him at a consistent rate, about a half fish back
every time. Duplicate, bring the bottom fish over. About a half fish. Duplicate again. Move this guy about a half fish back one last time and then Duplicate it and
then we'll clear this off. So we will have a frame
with no fish to start. So we're gonna look at
our animation again, and our fish is indeed
moving through the ocean. We can look at different things
here within the settings. One Shot means that the fish will just move forward
once and then stop. Loop, It means that he will keep moving forward just
like he was before. And Ping-Pong means
he's going to be ping-ponging back and forth, swimming backwards and forwards, which I don't think fish do. So for this one, we would definitely want
Loop to be our setting. You can also do something here. You can do a Hold Duration. So we have more time without a fish at the beginning
and the end of it. So I'm moving the hold duration up a little bit, a few frames. And then you can just see that your fish just doesn't appear
and disappear right away. You could do that
anytime you wanted. It wouldn't really
make a whole lot of sense for this one. But let's just say
you wanted the fish to hold still for awhile, in the middle of the animation. You can do that. You could also make your
fish move a little bit. We'll see how that
goes just by toggling, him around,
we'll keep him there. Let's see what kind of
effect we get from that. It'll just be a little
bit more of a rambunctious fish. Yeah. There he's just moving
a little bit more in maybe a fish-like fashion. So that is our really quick overview
of Procreate animation. I do have another Procreate
animation class available, so you can check that
out if you'd like to learn more about
Procreate animation. Thanks, and I'll see
you in the next lesson.
4. Websites with Beautiful Free Photos: Let's check out two great
resources for free, photos and backgrounds online. We're going to start
with Unsplash, which has a huge variety
of quality photos. You can browse the homepage and see an example of the kind
of things that are on there. You can also search by
textures and patterns. And you can use any of these as a background
for your GIF. You can search specific things. I want some neon
sign backgrounds for one of my GIFs today. So you can see here, there's a huge variety
of neon signs. You can favorite
the ones that you like and save them for later. You could add them to a
collection. To favorite them, you just tap on
the little heart. I like this pink Hello,
background here. So I'm going to download
it by tapping Download. And that'll go right here. And you can click on it. And when you click the little
square with an arrow thing, you can save the image
to a number of places. I'm going to save it
to my Camera Roll. You can also say thank
you to the photographer. You can follow them
on this site or you could follow
them on Instagram. I have a free
account on Unsplash, so you can look at
my past lakes here. I've already
searched neon signs. I searched funny cat. I searched things like open road and highway
with perspective. This is one of the
photo backgrounds I'm gonna be using later
on in this class. And I saved it the same way. You can search cars
if you want to put your pet in a car and have them drive down the road,
you can do that. So the link for this site is in the class projects
and descriptions, as well as the link
for this site, Pixabay, which is another site that works very similarly to Unsplash. Here you can browse and you
can also download things. If you wanted to look
for a funny dog. You could find your funny dog. And you can again
do a free download. This site offers a variety of sizes for the JPEG download, the default size is
1920 by 1280 pixels, and that works great for a GIF, so we can just hit download. And again, it goes
to your downloads here where you can save
it to your Camera Roll. So those are two
great sites online to check out for free photos. So I encourage you to
browse around and find some great backgrounds
for your GIFs. I will see you in
the next lesson.
5. Procreate's Selection Tool: For this class, we are
going to trace around our dogs and cats so we can isolate them and
use them in the GIFs. And to start, we're going to create a new canvas
in Procreate. And I'm going to use my
Animation Square canvas. It's 1500 by 1500 pixels. And to start, I'm
gonna go to the Wrench and pull up a picture of my dog. I'm going to do Wrench >
Insert a Photo, and I have an album of
pet GIFs for this class. And I have various pets. I'll just show you my dogs. That is Gracie and Murphy. Murphy is the bulldog and
Gracie is the little girl. I'm not going to use
that for this class, so we'll just Clear
that right now and go back to my photos and choose the photo that I
want to use for this class, which is right here. This is one of my favorite
photos of Murphy. So what we're gonna do is
we're going to trace around him and we're going to remove
his body from the coach. So to do that, I
am going to grab the Selection Tool and then note it's on
Freehand and Add. It's important to have the right selections here
when you're cutting. Otherwise, you could
possibly cut him off the couch and leave just the couch and
that's not what we want. So we're going to
start tracing here. And I'm just going to start
at his cute little head. And you want to be as close to his head without getting any
of the background in there. Because this is a GIF and
it's a fast-moving animation. This really doesn't
need to be perfect, but I do like to get it
as nice as possible. We can go in and clean
up later and we will. But for now, our job is just to trace it as closely as possible. And as you can see, you can stop here
and you can use a two finger tap to
undo what you just did. You can also redo. What you don't want to
do in general is do a huge, long line without stopping because then you
could, if you had to undo it, then you'd have to
go back pretty far. Murphy is a short haired guy. So that can make him a
little bit easier to GIF. Later on we're gonna
do a fluffy cat. And I'll show you how you can deal with that
different situation. When you're choosing a picture, obviously you want
one where you can see the whole silhouette of the dog. Where he's not, umm, where he doesn't have, like say a foot cut
out of the picture unless you don't need to
see his feet for this GIF. Then what you want to
do is connect back with this first initial dot. So you are closing
the loop on this. And then I'm gonna do
a three-finger tap and I'm going to
do Cut and Paste. And then you can see
here that we have both Murphy by himself. And then we also have,
if we turn off Murphy, the outline of him on the couch, we do not need the outline
of him on the couch, so I'm going to Delete that one. I'm gonna Duplicate Murphy. So we have a backup
Murphy in case we make a mistake with this one. So you can see here that my cutout of Murphy
is not perfect, particularly on this right side. So what I'm gonna do is
go to my KBB GIF kit. And these are all brushes
that come with procreate, but I do have a link to
download them all as a set in the Projects and Resources so you
can have them together. The first thing I'm
gonna do is navigate to my Erasers and grab
the Monoline brush. And again, that comes
with procreate. I am just going to
erase some of these black bits that I don't want in there from the background when
I didn't cut close enough. Okay. So we have this
pretty cleaned up now, but there's some hard
outlines that I want to blur a little bit to make it look
a little bit more natural. So for this, I'm going
to grab my Smudge Tool and my Soft Airbrush, which again comes
with Procreate. I'm just going to smudge
some of those hard edges. This is one of those places that maybe I should have,
first I'm going to delete, first I'm going to clean
up that area here. Missed that. Okay, now I'm going back to my Smudging Tool and
my Soft Airbrush. It is set at 13%. And what I'm doing here is
just softening the edges. If you do it too long
or like kinda drag it, then you could get an effect like that that you don't want. So this really is
kind of a soft touch. And I'm just doing
it bit by bit. And if you want
instead the Eraser, you can certainly pick that up. If we zoom out, we can see
how there's just kind of a softer outline on his
left ear than in his, on his right ear. And I'm just going to keep
going in this fashion using my Smudge Tool and my Soft Airbrush to
soften the edges here. Okay, So here he is. And his edges have all
been softened and blurred. And I'm going to
name this Murphy. And I am going to Delete the
original one that was not blurred and then uplicate
this one that is blurred. So we are ready to
go with Murphy. One thing that you can do is you can add a new layer of color in here that might help you
see any issues better. It just helps you see something differently in a different
colored background, but he looks pretty cleaned
up, he looks pretty good. He is ready to go for our GIF. So I am going to go
back into my gallery. I'm going to name
this one Murphy. So, I will see you in
the next lesson. In that one, we are going
to work with a fluffy cat.
6. Erasing & Smudging Tools: Okay, welcome back. We're going to isolate a
fluffy cat for our next GIF. So, New Canvas > Animation
Square 1500 by 1500 pixels. I am going to go to the
Wrench and Insert a Photo. And for this one I
am going to be using my friend Catherine's cat. In this cat is named Lou. Lou is playing cards
in this photo. I'm going to duplicate
this just in case we mess up with one. I'm going to turn
off that one and I'm going to start isolating Lou with our Selection
Tool again, just like we did with Murphy. So Selection Tool >
Freehand and then the Add option is in blue
there. So that's what we want. So I'm going to start
with Lou's head. This is the same
process as with Murphy, but this guy has
really fluffy hair. So I am kind of going
around the outlines here. What I don't want to grab
is an area of fur that has a lot of background in it
because I'm gonna be adding fur on top of him later. Okay, So I've connected my two lines there >
three finger tap > I'm going to Cut and Paste. And there we have the
same effect as last time, just like we wanted. We have Lou by himself and we
have the table by itself. We're going to Delete the
table and we are going to Duplicate Lou and turn off one. One of them is
just in case we mess up. And I'm gonna go over a similar
process as with Murphy. I'm going to use my Monoline
to cut out anything that looks goofy with him. We're gonna be smudging
a lot of the outlines, so he's pretty good
as he is right now. We're gonna move
to the Smudge Tool. And for this one I'm going to
choose the Medium Airbrush, and that comes with
Procreate again, and go around the edges and
just kinda blur him out. And again, we're
gonna be drawing some hair on top of him. So it's okay if we have kind of a thick
blurry effect here, especially in the areas
that he's really furry. So Lou is blurred out here. And I am going to fill a
layer with color below him just to make sure
that there aren't any like white areas
that I didn't cut out. I'm going to fill that. And he looks good there. I'm also going to bring this original layer up right
below his cut-out layer. So then we can see how his
first books that we cut off. So when we're duplicating it, we're bringing him back to
his normal fluffy state. I am going to open a new layer on top of
Lou for his fur. And that way it just makes
it easier to change it. If I don't like it, I am going to grab a light
color because as you can see, his fluffy bits are in general lighter than
the rest of him. I'm going to color
drop some light area of his fur to select it. I'm going to grab
the Fine Hair brush that comes with Procreate. It is in the KBB GIF kit, but you can also find it in the Touchup section of your brushes that
come with Procreate. So, Fine Hair, it's at 12%, I have a light gray, I'm on a layer above him, And I'm just gonna kinda brush some fine hair onto Lou. One of the things I like
best about GIFs is that they really don't
have to be perfect. Because the images are moving so fast that you're not really absorbed in a lot
of the details here. But I still like to get them
as realistic as possible. So here we have Lou, if we turn them off, we
can look at just his hair. You could also go on to the
Lou photo here and grab the Fine Hair as an eraser and go into the fur here
that we blurred. And that makes it
look a little bit more realistic as well. So he's not all solid
behind these wispy pieces. We can grab a darker gray too, go back to the fur layer
and our Fine Hair brush.], and in the places
that he's darker, add a little bit more dark fur to blend in with the light fur. And you could really do
this all day if you wanted to and get a
perfectly fluffy Lou. I think this is pretty
good for our purposes. We can turn him back on
again and kinda compare our illustration to his real fur there's this area by his feet that I
don't really like. So I'm using my Fine
Hair eraser and I'm going in there to clean
that up a little bit. I think Lou will be
ready to go soon. So now we have Lou and
his fluffy hair on top. So now I'm going to merge, Lou's new hair with Lou by pinching these guys
together, these layers. So Lou at the fluffy
cat is isolated from his background and he
is ready to add into a GIF. So I will see you
in the next lessons when we begin
animating our pets. I'll see you there.
7. Neon Sign GIF : Welcome back. We are going to
return to my dog, Murphy, and we are going to
add a neon sign background. You can do any background
that you would like for yours and use
any pet you'd like. You can also use
Murphy if you'd like. I am just going to
talk you through my process the way
I'm doing it here. I'm going to add a new layer. I'm going to navigate
to the Wrench > I'm going to Insert a Photo. And it's going to be one that we downloaded earlier
from Unsplash. And it is this hello
neon sign right here. And as you can see, it's
not perfect for the size. So what we're gonna do is just
kinda stretch it out here. I'm on Magnetics and Uniform. So that will make the, adjust the size in a uniform
fashion as opposed to if we had it on Free Form here, you could do things like
stretch things out. But I don't want
that effect here. So I'm going to undo. Most of the time when you're
doing things like this, you will want it on
Uniform and Magnetics. So I'm going to want
the hello at the top. And I don't want these
things at the bottom. So what I'm gonna do is sample
this dark purple and grab my Monoline brush and simply add like a floor
type thing to hear. If I enclose that there, I can color drop it and
fill it with color. Make my Monoline big
so I can draw that in. I am going to turn
my Drawing Guide on. Wrench > Canvas > Drawing Guide on so I can have a floor
that's not crooked. So again, I'm using my
Monoline brush to erase here. That looks pretty good. I am going to take
Murphy and I'm gonna make him a little
bit smaller here. What I'm gonna be doing is
putting him on a chair. So I am going to add a new
layer underneath Murphy. I'm going to grab my Monoline
brush with a color that I selected from the sign and
just draw a chair around. Murphy. Again, this does not have to be
perfect by any means. I am going to add a new
layer and do my chair legs. So I have my chair legs. I am going to
duplicate that layer. I am going to hit my
Arrow there and Flip Horizontal and
move my chair legs over here just so they're, even. And because I'm on
Uniform and Magnetics, you can see that I have
this little blue line here that's kinda guiding me to have them match up evenly. I'm going to merge my
chair together here. So it's one thing. I'm
going to group Murphy and the chair together so I
can move them together. And it's looking a little
big for me right now. So I'm just going to make
it a little bit smaller. While I'm at it, I'm
going to give my floor a little
texture just for fun. I have my flower color sampled. I am going to go to the colors here and lighten
the color a little bit. I am going to grab texture
that I purchased from Gal Shir, and it's called
Asphalt. To texture it, I'm going to add a
layer above my floor, make that a Clipping Mask. So that way I'm only
coloring on the floor. I'm going to bring the
opacity down a little bit. And that just makes it look
a little more interesting. I feel like that's a
little light for me. So I'm going to change it. I still want it to
be a Clipping Mask > Alpha Lock > Fill Layer. The side is a little shadowed. So I'm going to pull this
dark color and just add a little darker texture in here, so it kinda blends in. So what I'm gonna
do here is group these bottom layers together and those are gonna
be the background. So I'm going to
group them together and label them the Background. And I'll label Murphy. I'm going to collapse
my background so I don't need to see it. I'm going to Navigate
over to my Wrench > turn my Animation Assist on, and we don't need
the Drawing Guide. So I'm going to turn that off. I'm going to navigate
to the background on the bottom here. And I'm going to
toggle the Background on. What we're gonna be doing for this GIF is duplicating Murphy and moving
him across the page. And actually now that
I think about it, what I'm gonna do is
duplicate Murphy, turn off that group, tuck him in the
background so we have it. And then we can just merge
Murphy and his chair together. So they're one thing is
we're moving them across. It just makes the animation
a little more simple. What we're gonna do is
we're gonna duplicate Murphy and we're going to start moving him to the right. Just to start with
Animation Assist, we want to look at the
settings. For this animation, I want the Onion Skin
Opacity at about 30%, and I want the Onion
Skin Frame just at one. So, we are moving Murphy a little bit to the right
every time for now, and it is also on
Magnetics and Uniform. So that will keep him in
a smooth row. And we'll move him back maybe about
a chair leg every time So it's a smooth animation. So we're going to
duplicate him again, grab the bottom layer, move him back about a chair leg. Duplicate them again. Moving back one chair
leg on the bottom layer, as you can see here, once he's off the page, he gets cut off. So that's why you
always want to leave a full one in the middle
here to work from, because when he's cut off,
he's not usable to go forward. So duplicate him again, move him back a chair leg. This last time that I duplicate, I'm just going to
clear that layer. And what we're gonna be doing
here is we're going to have a Hold Duration of five frames. And we'll play with that later. But that's just so when
he's off the page, he's going to be off
there for a little bit and then he's going to pop
back and come the other way. Let's test our animation and
that's going really fast. But you can see it is
the effect we want. This is gonna be a
ping-pong animation. So I'm going to
turn that on here, settings Ping-Pong
instead of Loop. So then he's going back-and-forth
as you can see here, but we're not done yet. So I'm going to pause
this and then I'm going to move
Murphy to the left, doing exactly the same
process as before, except moving to the left. So I'm going to
duplicate the top Murphy and move him over chair leg. Duplicate him
again > top Murphy > move them over by a
chair leg, and so on. So when I'm at my last layer, I'm going to clear
that off and again, do a Hold Duration
of five frames. And then we are going
to test our animation. You can see here with
the Hold Duration, what it does is it creates five grayed-out
frames behind there. So you can kinda
see that there's a hold when you're
looking down here. So let's hit Play. And there. Murphy is gliding in
and out of his animation. That is exactly the
effect I wanted. So I'm really happy with that. We make it a little
bit bigger here. I'm going to show you a few different animations that I did with this background. So you can get some
different ideas for things that you can do. Here's Lou the cat. And Lou the cat is doing
the exact same thing. Just a little bit
slower and he's on a little stool with
a green pillow. I did the same with
my friend Jacqueline's Dog. Keanu. Keanu is on a fluffier
green pillow, moving back and forth. So you can do a
number of things with these cool neon sign
backgrounds and your pet. I'm looking forward to
seeing your animation, so please share them in the
project gallery of the class. Share them on
Instagram and tag me, I would love to see your work. I will see you in
the next lesson.
8. Doggy Road Trip GIF: Okay, Let's do our
next animation. Let's call this one Driving Dog. Let's open our
Animation Square. Navigate to the Wrench and
insert a photo from Unsplash. So Wrench >Add > Insert a Photo. And I'm going to
choose this tunnel and a road from Unsplash. And as you can see, it doesn't fit on
the screen here. So what we're going to
do is change our canvas. So we are going to navigate to Wrench >
Canvas > Crop and Resize. And we're just going to have a rectangular GIF,
which is fine. This is the background. And I'm going to label
that Background. I'm going to do a new layer, and I'm going to add a
car into this layer. And I'm gonna do that
by going Wrench > Add > Insert a Photo, and I have a little pink
car that I isolated before using the same techniques that we did with the dogs. So obviously that's way too big. So we're going to use
the Selection Tool to make that smaller. And I'm going to use
this little smile at the bottom to center. Next, we're going to
create a new layer, and I'm going to grab Keanu, which is one of
my friend's dogs. I'm going to navigate to another GIF where I
already put her in a GIF. And so I'm going to pause this. I'm going to find her, I'm going to drag
three fingers down on the screen to get
the Copy Paste menu. And I'm going to Copy her. And then I'm going to navigate back to my current animation. And I'm on the layer that I want her > three fingers down and
Paste, and there she is. So I am going to
make her a little bit smaller so she
fits in the car. And I'm going to be erasing
her cute little legs here. To do that. I am going to
bring the opacity down so I can see what is the
car and what is her. If you look at the cart,
has this little knob here that must be the
navigation for this car. So we need to make sure
that we erase around that. I'm going to grab
my Monoline brush, bring it up big so I can
just start erasing and then make it a little bit smaller as we do
the detail work. Okay, so that looks pretty good. I am going to group her with the car and then I'm
going to rename that. And we are ready to turn
on Animation Assist. So, Wrench > Canvas >
Animation Assist on > toggle the Background on. And there we have our pup at
the end of the road here. So we have Keanu in the
car and what I'm gonna do is just merge
her with the car. For this, we could
keep it in a group, but this will just simplify
it just a little bit. So we have her in the car and I'm gonna
duplicate her one more time, choose the bottom one. Use the Selection Tool here and make it just a
little bit smaller. I'm going to move it down. And I'm going to use these
eyes as a guideline. I'll move it back about
as far as the eyes here. And I'm going to use the
smile to guide me here. So you can see here
in our Settings, I'm going to turn the Onion
Skin Frames on to one. And I'm going to bring
the Opacity down to about 30% because
we only need to see one other one to
keep us on track. So I'm going to duplicate
the bottom one. Choose the new bottom one, make it a little bit smaller. And we want to keep in mind that we have this tunnel coming up. So she's going to need to be small enough to fit
underneath the tunnel here. So we keep duplicating, choosing the bottom one, making it smaller, centering it. It can be easy to accidentally
start levitating our car, which would be cool if
that's what you wanted, but that's not the effect I am going for here. There's a little curve here to the right before the tunnel. So I am going to move her
a little bit to the right. So in this one she's going
to be behind this thing. So I'm just going to erase
part of her and duplicate one more time and then
clear that layer. So we're going to have a moment without her in the animation. So here she is. That
looks pretty good. We're going to adjust a couple of things here to
make it even better. So I'm going to pause
here and I'm going to navigate to this first
screen that's empty. And I'm gonna do a Hold
Duration of, let's try four. So there'll be four frames before she comes in the screen. Once there is that
Hold Duration, you can see these
little grayed out guys. And then in this last one, I'm going to do a Hold
Duration of about nine frames, so we can enjoy the animation
at the end when she's done. So let's see how that looks. It's a little fast. I'm going to bring it down
to 11 Frames Per Second. I like that better. I have done this animation
with a number of dogs, including my friend's dog Lucy, and a different highway. My dog nephew Hank
and the highway. This is Hank is a baby
puppy in a pink car. So these are really fun to do and they are fun to
share with your friends. And you can do all sorts of different things using
these techniques. I will see you in
the next lesson.
9. Trampoline Animation GIF: Okay guys, I call this
animation Trampoline. I'm going to open a new canvas, 1500 by 1500 pixels. And I am going to choose my
KBB Pet GIFs color palette. I'm going to choose a
light blue and I'm going to fill the first layer
with the background color. And I'm going to add a
new layer above that. And we're going to be drawing a trampoline and a sun and
clouds and a few other things. And these are all going
to be the background. So what I'm gonna do to start is; I'm going to create
a group here. So I'm going to
choose layers 1 and 2, hit Group > click to rename. Procreate has had an update. So now you can write right on the Layers and I'm going
to write Background. Perfect. So on layer two, I am going to grab a dark
green for the grass. And I have here the Monoline brush that
comes with Procreate. And I'm going to draw
a line on the screen. I'm going to hold my
finger down so we can get a straight line here. And then I'm going to take
that same color and color drop it to fill the grass. I'm going to create a couple of new layers above that because
we're going to need them. The next thing I'm
going to draw on the next layer are clouds
in the background. So I'm going to grab my very
lightest blue and just draw some cartoon-like clouds
in the background. I'm going to color drop that. Here's a quick trick. If you hold onto the Eraser, it will automatically erase with whatever brush
you are using. So I have that Monoline brush to give me a good effect there. I'm still on the
same cloud layer. I'm going to draw a second
cloud that's filled. I'm going to grab my Eraser and just get rid of
those little lines. Okay, so we have our clouds
and I'm going to draw a sun. I'm going to have the sun
peeking from behind the clouds. So I'm going to grab a layer and pull it underneath the clouds. I am going to choose a
yellow that I used earlier. And I am going to draw a circle with the
help of Procreate. If I go to Edit Shape, it made an Ellipse, but instead I will
make it a Circle. And I color drop that. There we go. To make it have a
nice sunny glow. I'm going to duplicate that sun, And I'm gonna go to the
layer underneath it. I'm gonna go to the Magic Wand and give it a little
bit of a Gaussian Blur. So I'm going to tap
on Gaussian Blur. I'm going to choose Layer. And here you can see at the top that you can
do any percentage you want. That really high one
is obviously way too much, so I'm going to bring
it down to about 11%. That looks good, okay. The next thing we're going
to draw is a trampoline. And I am going to grab
my darkest green here. And still using the same brush we're going to use
this whole class, which is the Monoline brush. I'm gonna draw an oval. I can use Procreate again
by putting a finger on there to make
it nice and even. And I can see already that this trampoline needs to be flattened. So I'm grabbing the
Selection Arrow here. And right now it's on
Uniform to transform it. And as you can see there, it'll keep the same shape. I want my oval to be
flattened a little bit. So I'm gonna go to Free Form
and bring it back up here. And that will allow me to change how tall it is
without changing the width. I have that centered there. I wanted a little bit
less than centered. And that looks good. I am going to grab an empty layer and I'm using the same color with the Monoline brush using this
layer below the trampoline. And I'm just going to give
this trampoline some legs. And to make it nice and easy, I'm going to
duplicate those legs. Go to the arrow there. And I forgot to
flip it horizontal. So I'm gonna Flip
them Horizontal. Okay. So, I'm going to pinch my
trampoline legs together, grabbed the three layers
and pinch right there. I am going to add a new
layer and I'm going to draw a flower to the right
of this trampoline. I'm going to grab a darker
green than the grass. And just draw a
simple little flower. You can add a
flower if you want, you can add nothing, you could draw
whatever you want. Obviously, that looks good. I'm going to add a new
layer below my stem. I'm going to grab
that middle orange and just draw a rough flower. And that flower is
a little bit big. So I'm going to group the flower together
with another pinch. And I'm gonna make it
a little bit smaller. I was still on Free Form. I'm going to switch back
to Uniform because I want my flower to hold
its same shape. Okay, so this is
what we have here. We have our background layers and I'm going to collapse those just to make it
a little bit cleaner. I'm going to add a new
layer above there and we're going to add our cat onto there. And I'm going to show you how to bring him from another canvas. I'm gonna go back to my Gallery. And I'm going to
choose this cat. I got this cat on Pixabay
by searching "Funny Cat." And I've already isolated
the cat from the background. So I'm going to show
you two different ways to move your cat. I'm on the cat layer here, and I'm going to do a three-finger drag down
for Copy and Paste. I'm going to hit Copy. Then I'm going to go
back to my Gallery > back to my trampoline > back to my empty layer > do another three-finger
drag and then hit Paste. There we have the cat. I'm going to clear
this layer because I'm going to show you a second
way to get the cat in here. So we have our cat, I'm on the cat layer, I hold my finger
down and I've move this layer up to the gallery,
and this takes a second, so you have to be patient. I'm going to move him
back to my trampoline. I'm going to open the
layer I want him on and I'm going to add him onto there. So those are two different ways of moving things in Procreate. The layers trick where
you move it up top to the gallery will also work
for a group of layers. So like if I wanted to move
that background layer, I could do it the
same exact way. Okay, so now we have this really big cat on
this little trampoline. So we're going to
make him smaller using the Uniform
Transform tool. So we're all set up to go. The next thing we're gonna do is turn Animation Assist on. Wrench > Canvas >
Animation Assist on. And we want to tap into these background layers down here and toggle Background on. So those will hold steady
in the background and the cat will be the only thing
moving in the animation. Okay, so we have our background layers
on; the cat above them. Animation assist is on and we're ready to
start animating. I'm going to duplicate this
bottom cat right here. And I'm going to take the Selection tool and move
him up a little tiny bit, also rotating him about 15% and moving him a bit to the left. And I'm going to duplicate
that top cat again. Choose the new layer, tilt him 15% back, and move him up a little bit. Take my Top cat again, duplicate it, choose the top
layer, tilt them over again. I think he tilted
to the left before, so let's have them tilt to
the right and then move over a little bit to
the right this time. And right now we have four cats. Let's get about six
layers of cats. Okay, so now we have six cats. Let's hit Play and
see how that looks. We want to change the
Settings to Ping Pong. And right now the Frames
Per Second or at 15. Let's play with how that
looks as you can see, it will change as you change the Frames Per Second.
Here this is three. I think about nine as good. So we're going to navigate
to the bottom cat. We're going to draw some
little marks that show kind of an impact when he's
landing on the trampoline. But what I'm gonna do first
so I don't get distracted, is I'm going to turn off all of these other onion
skins of the cats. So I'm gonna do that by turning the Onion Skin Frames to None. So now we can focus
on our bottom cat. I'm going to add a new layer. I am going to group
these guys together. And I'm going to grab the
color of the trampoline. And I'm just going to
draw these little lines that would show an impact. I'm going to take
those and Duplicate them and Select them, Flip Horizontal and then
bring them over using the same method as we did
with a trampoline legs. So let's see how that looks now. Okay. I like that. I like
that effect with the little bouncing things here. And here is our
bouncing cat animation. I would love to see
what you guys are creating for any of these GIFs. Please remember to
share your work in the class Project gallery and interact with
the other students. Okay, thanks. I'll see you in the next lesson.
10. Upload to GIPHY: I wanted to show you guys how to upload your work to GIPHY. The site is GIPHY.com,
G-I-P-H-Y.com, and that's the site
that you can use to upload your GIFs on
Instagram and Facebook. And I'll show you
how to do that. So this is GIPHY. It's a fun place
to browse GIFs. You can browse for
certain things at the top here. You can see what's trending, You can browse the artists by
clicking on All GIPHY Artists. And it will show you a variety
of different things here. And what you can do if you
find a GIF that you like, you can click on
it and navigate to the artist's page so
you can see all of the GIFs that this
artist has done, and you could also
follow them on Instagram or
Facebook or Twitter. GIPHY is a super fun place to search for all kinds of GIFs. Like if we wanted
to do "funny cat," you have all the funny cats. I actually haven't
searched this before, it's cute. I am not a cat person, but I, um, GIPHY is doing their
thing with funny cats. Anyway, there are
stickers on GIPHY. Stickers have the
transparent background. And there's GIFs which
have a solid background. And so here's funny cat, we could do this all
day. But instead, we are going to search my GIFs on here and I'm going to show
you how to do that. You can type in
kelleybrenburke, and you can do this on Facebook, in the Facebook GIFs
search or on Instagram. Here you will see my
GIFs and my stickers. The reason you can
search my name is that I have an artist
channel on Giphy. And if you wanted to apply
for a GIPHY artists account, you can tap on these
three dots here at the top and you can
navigate to FAQ. In the FAQs, it has GIPHY
For Brands and Artists. Here you can apply for an artist channel
or a brand channel. The process to be approved
took a couple of weeks, so just know that it does
not happen overnight. Okay, so I'm going to upload a new GIF to here to
show you how to do that. I'm gonna go to Browse my Files. I am going to go to
my Photo Library, go to my Albums, and
choose animated. And I am going to
just show you how I would upload a new animation. So, let's add Murphy
on a trampoline. I'm going to hit Add. And there he is. So for the source URL, I'm gonna do my own
website. Pull it up here. This is my website. I'm going to copy that, choose that as the source URL. And then I'm going to
add tags that will help people find it in GIPHY. So I mean, it's
first you my name. And that's one way your GIFs
can be discovered easily. I'm going to do funny dog,
bounce, and trampoline. And any other kind of phrases that people might
be typing into here. I'll say let's bounce and here with Tagging
Tips you can see on GIPHY, they will give you advice
for better tagging. So do not include the hashtag. Use spaces between words, which I do except
for with my name, I just keep that one word. You can use as many
tags as you want. And the more tags
you have in there, the more likely it
is to be discovered by somebody that is
looking for that. I'm going to upload the GIF. Okay, So now it's been uploaded. GIPHY named it a Weekend GIF, it chose one of the
words from my tags. If I go to Facebook, I can share it there. So then it would go right to my timeline or you could share it in any other number
of ways here as well. If you wanted to use any
of my GIFs or stickers, you are certainly
welcome to do that. And you can just search my name, Kelleybrenburke in GIPHY. Okay! I will see you in
the next lesson.
11. Final Thoughts: So, I hope you had fun and creating your pet GIFs. I really, really, really, really, really want to see your pets. So share your pet gifts on Instagram, tag me, @kelleybrenburke, and also share them on SkillShare in the class Project gallery. Also, please follow me on SkillShare. I'm already working on my third class and I hope to publish it in the next month. Thank you so much for taking my class. If you have a moment to help me out, please rate and review my class and I will see you next time.
Kelley Bren Burke, Artist & Educator
