Easy, Eye-Catching Animations in Procreate

1. Introduction: Hey there, friend with an iPad. Are you tired of making boring drawings that just sit there on your screen doing nothing? Do you want to bring your artwork to life and experience the joys and magic of creativity in a whole new way? Welcome to Easy Eye-Catching Animations in Procreate; the course that'll teach you how to make scroll-stopping animations that sparkle, spin, and a myriad of other motions and movements. Hi. I'm Lisa Bardot, and I help people find their creativity through drawing on the iPad. I've helped millions of people all around the world learn new art-making skills and discover their inner artist. I've been using Procreate for almost a decade and I love how this app lets me explore different art styles and artistic mediums, including animation. I love animation. It's one of those things that no matter how many animations I make, every time I hit the play button, it feels like magic. They are as fun to make as they are to watch, and I can't wait to share my animation knowledge with you. But wait. I hear you. I'm not very good at drawing. Well, good news. Even bad drawings make great animations. If you can draw lines, dots, and sloppy circles, then you've got what it takes to make corky captivating animation in Procreate. This course is perfect for complete beginners or even experienced artists who want to add a little playfulness and pizzazz to their art practice using movement. Don't worry if you don't have all day to learn a new skill. I've crafted 15 fun-size animations that you'll be making at your own pace. These 10-15-minute lessons are small but mighty and are packed with powerful tips, tricks, and animation know-how to supercharge your skills. From exploring different types of movements to learning animation techniques, you'll be creating eye-catching animations in no time at all. We'll also cover all the important technical stuff like animation, file formats, resolution, and how to get your animation to actually post to Instagram. People are naturally drawn to movement, which is a big reason why social media platforms have been leaning hard into video content. Even a simple animation can have a big impact on getting noticed, so I'll also be showing you lots of real-world examples of how you can use your animations. With what you learn, you'll be able to make moving graphics for your website, animate your logo, create branded Instagram stickers, make eye-catching email gifts, jazz up your headshot with animated overlays, and so much more. Best of all, making animations in Procreate is so much fun, you just might erupt into squeals of delight when you press Play. I know I do. If you're ready, let's wiggle, wobble, bounce, and blink. It's so much easier than you think to create eye-catching animations in Procreate. Let's get moving. 2. Class Project: [MUSIC] Your project for this course is to create your own animation in Procreate. I'm going to be walking you through 15 animation tutorials and by the time you get to the end, you are going to be more than equipped to start making animations on your own. Once you have finished with all of the tutorials from this class, you're going to start to think about what kind of animation you want to make on your own and there's so many possibilities for things that you can do. You can do simple shapes, you could do hearts, stars, you could do your favorite things to draw. You can do words, lettering, that sort of thing. There are a ton of possibilities. Then you're going to want to think about what type of movement you're going to want to give that thing and whether you're going to combine multiple movements into your animation. Don't worry too much about it now, but have your brain turning for what you might want to do once you reach the end of the course. For now, let's focus on learning animation in Procreate. 3. Tools & Materials: [MUSIC] To follow along in this class, you're going to need an iPad, the Procreate app and I also recommend an Apple pencil to do your drawing. Whatever iPad you have, it's probably going to be just fine for this course, whether it's a standard iPad, iPad Mini, iPad Air, or an iPad Pro like I have. You just want to make sure it's capable of running Procreate. I'm going to be using Procreate version 5.3 but if you're not up-to-date, the animation tools have been around since Procreate version 5 so you're probably just fine. If you're watching this in the future, things change and they might look a little bit different, but you should be able to follow along just fine. One other cool thing I wanted to show you because I do have the iPad Pro with the M2 processor that has the Apple pencil hover capability. I think one of the really cool things about this is you can hover over your animations in the gallery view and get a really quick little preview of the animation. If you are making a lot of animations quite frequently, that's a really handy feature to have. If your iPad doesn't have the Apple pencil hover feature, you can still quickly preview your animations in the gallery view by doing a pinch open gesture. One more important consideration when it comes to animations is the maximum layer count allowed by your iPad. Procreate has a max layer count that is determined by two things, the resolution of your canvas and the amount of RAM in your iPad. The more RAM your iPad has, the more layers you'll get to work with. A low-resolution canvas will allow more layers than a high res canvas. When you're animating, you may be working with a large number of layers so this will end up mattering quite a lot. If you want to see how many layers your iPad can get for any given canvas size, you can do that by tapping in the plus sign like you would create a new canvas and then tap this little rectangle, which is how you would create a new canvas template. Set your dimensions to pixels down here and then you can type in different sizes under width and height and see how many layers you can get at that size. For example, if I did a 5,000-pixel canvas by 5,000 pixels, I would get 71 layers to work with but if I did like 1,000 for example, I'd have 1,000 layers to work with. The reason I have so many layers to work with is because I'm working on an iPad Pro. This is the most recent, most powerful model, so you get a lot more layers to work with. I do recommend working in a high-risk Canvas while you're making your animations, which we'll talk about in the course but if you do start running out of layers, let me show you how to scale down your Canvas so you can get more layers to work with. To scale down your Canvas, you're going to go to the Actions menu, Canvas, and then tap Crop and Resize. Then you're going to tap here where it says Settings. The most important thing to do is to toggle here where it says Re-sample Canvas. Once you've toggled Re-sample Canvas, you can go up to here where you have your dimensions and you can type in a smaller resolution. If you've got your iPad loaded with procreate and your Apple pencil, you're ready to continue to the next video where I'm going to show you some examples of my animation work. 4. Lisa's Animation Examples: [MUSIC] I thought it would be fun to show you some of the animations that I've made in Procreate. When they first released the animation feature in 2019, it was really a game changer and I was able to create illustrations in a whole new way and just have a lot of fun in my art-making. Let me show you some of the pieces that I've done. This is the animation I made after I drew a portrait of a little girl and decided it would be really fun to animate her eyes going back and forth, so we actually have a lesson in this course that teaches you how to draw blinking eyes like this and then I did the additional step of moving the eyes back and forth throughout the animation, and I just think it's so cute. Here's another animation where I was moving the eyes around, this is a really simple illustration and all I added was just, again, very simple movements and I was able to create something really special. This one is probably my favorite animation that I've ever done. I drew this orange and lemon and then decided to give them little faces and make them hug, and then decided to animate it, so I have one rolling away and the lemon gets sad and then the orange comes back and it just makes me smile every time I look at it. Now this one contains two movements that we're actually going to be learning in this course. One is the wiggly text, which is our first lesson in this course so you'll learn how to do that, and then the other one are these marquee lights that go around and around and around, which we will also be able to learn how to do in this course. This is another method will be learning, I like to call simple shake and it's just taking one illustration and rocking it back and forth and it's really easy to do, and then I did the extra step of redrawing part of my cake so it looks like it's bitten off and add some little crumbs at the bottom. Here's a cute little rocket ship I did where I just moved the animation all the way up until it went off the canvas. This waving arm movement is a great way to add a little fun and playfulness to any character illustration. My little broccoli is also blinking every so often, which is something that we're going to learn in this course too. Here's another waving arm, this happy little cactus. I drew the entire cactus and all I had to redraw to animate it was the arm. Super cute. This little girl is from another one of my YouTube tutorials, you can learn how to draw this if you want and I decided to animate the leaves going across just by moving and rotating them from frame to frame. This is something that I've done quite a few times when I have to make a big announcement or you want to post something to my Instagram is I will animate a little portion of it and it makes my post just a little bit more interesting and eye-catching. This is a really simple animation that's made up of just two frames, one with the mouth closed and one with it open and then when you play them together it goes. [NOISE] You can also use the animation tools to create a cool before and after effects so cycling between two images are two versions of an image to show a before and after like I did here. Here's a little animation that I made at the end of 2020 in a hopeful attitude for the new year. We all know 2020 was a year so this helped me express what I was feeling at the time. [MUSIC] One more animation that I did to celebrate animation. We're going to be learning how to do something like this in the first lesson of this course and I just wanted to say something about all of the examples I just showed you. They are very illustration-heavy, a little bit more illustration involved than a lot of the animations we're going to be making in this course, but even those more complex pieces still use all the same movements and animation techniques that you're going to be learning in this course. Feel free to take what you learn here and apply it to your illustration work or you're more complicated pieces. 5. Ways to Use your Animations: [MUSIC] Now before we jump into our animation lessons, I wanted to talk with you about a few things that you can do with your animations and show you some examples. Now animations are just fun to do and so spending some time creating something really magical is enough reason in of itself, but there are also some really practical things that you can do with your animations. If you run a business or if you design for businesses, adding animation into your website and emails is a great way to get your viewers attention. We all know that the current algorithm of our social media favors video, so being able to take maybe one of your static pieces of art and add a little bit of movement to it will change it from an image into a video and maybe will perform better in that way. So let me show you a few ways that you can use your awesome animations. You can use your animations to create Instagram story overlays like I have done here, where I was talking in my stories about a live tutorial that I was trying to promote. I created this fun animation with a transparent background that I could just paste right over my Instagram story to give it a little bit more interest. I'll be showing you how to do something just like this in some of our lessons. You can also create animated title. Titles are graphics that have a little bit of movement that you can edit into your video content, so your Instagram Reels, TikToks, YouTube videos, that sort of thing. You can create your own custom Instagram stickers. You can take your animations, and then just paste them into your Instagram stories to create your own custom GIFs. You can also make animations that you can get published into Instagram's GIF sticker search, and I have a whole lesson where I talk about my experience getting animated GIFs to show up in Instagram search. You can create animated posts, which I think is a really useful application. As you know, social media prefers video, so being able to add a little bit of movement to some of your static posts is a great way to make them more eye-catching, get them noticed, and of course, feed the algorithm beast. You can make animated GIFs that will jazz up your website content. Here is my website, artmakersclub.com, and I've used an animated GIF to add these fun, little sparkle elements to my homepage. Here's another part of the website where I have some little animations around my headshot, and I also have this little graphic that has some animation on it as well. You can also use animation to jazz up your email newsletter. Here is one of my email newsletters for Making Art Everyday, the drawing challenge that I've been running for five years. This email uses a fun, little animated GIF to get reader's attention and also set the mood for the email that it's going to be a lot of fun. This is a fictional smoothie company, and I made this little animation out of photos actually, which is another way that you can make animation just by putting a different photo in each frame. You can pop that into your email, and send it to all your newsletter subscribers. This is the intro to my YouTube videos, and I've been using a photo with an animated overlay on it for years. I also use animation in a lot of other places in my YouTube videos. It's a really great way to make an otherwise static graphic title or frame a little bit more interesting since it is video content. [MUSIC] Beyond all those examples, the possibilities of ways to use your animations is near endless. I like to inject a little bit of animation into my branding and digital content as often as I can. 6. Animation File Formats: One last thing we want to talk a little bit about before we start animating is animation file formats. There's two major formats that we're going to be working with in this course. One is the animated GIF format. Some people say GIF but I am a GIF person and then the other one is the MP4 format. I'm going to go over some of the differences between these two formats when you might use one versus the other and some of the pros and cons of each. The most important consideration when it comes to choosing an animation file format is what you plan to use that animation for. Are you going to use it in an Instagram post? Are you going to use it in your stories? Is it going on your website? All of that factors into what format to choose. I'll go over that for each format. Let's first talk about the GIF if you will file format. The GIF is an image file format. Even though it is moving, it's animated. It's more closely related to a photo than it is a video. You'll want to export your animation as a GIF if you plan on using it in email, like in an email newsletter. If you want to send it via text message if you want to use it as an Instagram sticker or an overlay. If you want to use it to create animated graphics for your website or if you want to share it in your Skillshare class project. GIFs are great because they loop indefinitely. Your animation will keep repeating over and over again. Another awesome thing about the GIF format is it supports a transparent background. This is great for creating animated overlays for things like your Instagram story or in video content like this course, I've been using animated GIFs to do all the animated overlays that you see in these videos. But there are quite a few disadvantages as well. If you're working with a high-res canvas to create your animation, the GIF format can be a rather large and hard to upload onto your website or other platforms. To combat this, you can scale down your animation before you export it, which is something we'll go over in Lesson 1. Similarly, if you have a very long animation that's going to result in a very large file. Another downside of using the GIF format is the quality. The GIF format uses a color palette of only 256 colors. You may notice when you export your artwork as a GIF the colors will change slightly. There's also a lot of compression that happens in this format so you might notice that the overall quality doesn't look that great when you use a GIF. You'll find the options to export your animation in the Actions menu under Share and they can be found down here. Let's take a look at animated GIF. This detailed illustration really gives you an idea of the limitations of the GIF file format. You can see just how pixelated and just not great it looks because of this particular file format. Over here, there's some different options that dithering simulates the way that the software can emulate shading. It can help improve the quality a little bit but not a ton because it's still very limited. Then there's the per-frame color palette, which handles the way that it processes color from frame to frame differently. I tend not to use that because you get this jumpiness in between the different frames. Then we have a transparent background which you'll get to know in later lessons, it does not look good for this piece but you'll get to know that later on. The other format we're going to explore in this course is the animated MP4. Mp4 is a video format. Just like a video you might take with your camera, you choose to export as an MP4 if you plan on using your animation as a part of a video. If you're going to be sharing it to your Instagram as a feed post or in reels or in TikTok video, YouTube, that sort of thing. Anywhere where you might use a video, you would choose the MP4 format. The MP4 is a much higher quality or you'll notice there isn't pixelization in weird color stuff happening with the MP4 format and the file size can also be a lot smaller. [MUSIC] I know that's a lot of technical information that might just be going over your head right now. But don't worry, as you go through the course, you're going to get more familiar with the different file formats. If you're ever confused about what format you should use, where you can always revisit this lesson. In the next video, we're going to begin our first animation lesson. I'll see you then. 7. No. 1: Wiggle Text: [MUSIC] Welcome to our first animation of this course. For this lesson, I'm going to be teaching you how to do something that I like to call wiggle text. Now, this is something that you are probably familiar with if you think back to old 2D animated frame-by-frame animations, the edges of a cartoon character wiggle a little bit as it goes through the animation and this is just a by-product of redrawing the frame over and over again. Every time you draw something and it's not exactly perfect, the line gets a little bit wiggly, and it's really characteristic of animation. I think it's a really fun effect and it is super easy to do. This lesson is going to introduce you to all the animation essentials. You're going to learn how to find Procreate's animation tools, how animation works in Procreate, we're going to set a background frame, adjust frames per second, talk about Onion skins. A lot of really good info is in this lesson. Without further ado, let's get started. Here I am in the Gallery view. We're going to go ahead and create a new canvas. We're going to start by tapping this Plus sign in the upper right-hand corner. For now, let's just go ahead and choose the screen size option. We'll begin this piece by setting our background color. To do that, we're going to go to our Layers menu, which is these two squares here, and down here at the bottom of the menu, we have background color. You're going to tap that and you can choose whatever color you want for your background. You can start by moving this circle around this disc to choose your hue. I'm going to choose a bluish-greenish color and then you can choose how saturated light or dark you want that color to be. I'm just going to choose a nice bright blue. Let's go into the Library and choose a brush. We're going to go into the Brush library here, this little paintbrush icon and I'm going to be using some of the built-in brushes that come with Procreate so you should have all the same brushes that I do and we're going to go into the Drawing set and we're going to choose the Blackburn brush. We're going to be using Blackburn for quite a few of the animations that I'm going to be teaching you in this course. It's a really fun brush. It has some really nice edge texture, but it's also really solid in the middle. Of course, you're welcome to use whatever brushes you prefer and experiment with different brushes to get the look and feel that you want. Go ahead and choose Blackburn. Then we're going to set the color of our brush. We're going to tap the color picker circle in the upper right and we're going to choose a pure white value. You can double-tap close to white and that's going to snap to a pure white value. One more time you can double-tap close to white and it will choose pure white value. For my brush size, I'll start out at about 15% and we're just going to write a word. I'm going to be writing the word hello. You can write whatever word you'd like, but pick something that's a little short because you're going to have to write it a few times. I'm going to go ahead and write hello. Since it got a little off-center, I'm going to reposition it to the center of my canvas, so I can tap the little Arrow icon, which is our Transform tool and then I can just move it into the center. Good. Now we're also going to add a little dark rectangle behind our hello to give our background a little interest. Let's go to our layers. We're going to tap the Plus sign to create a new layer and we're going to move this layer underneath the hello layer. Just tap Hold, and drag it underneath. Now I want a darker rectangle, a little bit darker than the background, so I can use my finger to invoke the Eyedropper. I just put a finger on the screen and you can select any color that's on your canvas. I'll choose the background color. Then go into my Color picker and just choose a darker, more saturated version of that color, which is going that direction in your color disk and I think that color will work nicely. I'm just going to draw a little wonky rectangle behind my word like that. Now it's time to introduce you to Procreate's animation tools. To access these tools, you're going to go to the Actions menu, which is the little wrench, Canvas, and here where it says Animation Assist, you're going to toggle that on. When you do that, you'll notice this toolbar will appear at the bottom of the screen. Now the way that animation works in Procreate is it takes every layer or every layer group and turns it into a frame of animation. If I were to hit play right now, it would cycle through my layers, which right now are just the two layers. Let's turn that off because that's a bit intense. It's just cycling between the two layers that I have here. Now, for this animation, we're going to be creating a wiggly text effect. Now for this animation, I want this background rectangle to be the same in every single frame of animation. There's a really cool feature that will let you do just that and it's called the background frame. We're going to set this layer as our background frame. To do that, you want to make sure you select the layer that has your little background rectangle. Then tap it here in the timeline and now we have a menu with some options and we're going to toggle on background. Now, this rectangle will be static throughout the entire animation, no matter how many frames we add. Now it's time to animate our word. We're going to be creating a wiggly text effect so the letters are going to shake and move a little bit. Now one thing I want you to notice down here is how to identify what your selected frame is, meaning the frame that you're currently working on. Procreate's going to show you what frame you're working on with this little blue line under here. But you're going to see right here our background frame is selected in blue, which means that's actually the selected layer. Let's tap onto our hello layer to de-select that. Now we should just have a little line under our hello frame. Now we're going to add a new frame to our animation. To do that, we're going to tap Add frame right here in the timeline and when we do that, you can see now that we have a new empty frame and you'll also notice that our word has changed color, it's now red. This is what's called an Onion skin. An Onion skin is a tool in animation and basically, it's a reduced opacity or maybe a differently colored version of the previous frame of animation which you can use as a guide to create your next frame in animation. All this is doing right now is showing us what our previous frame in the animation looks like and it made it red so that you can differentiate between the two. Now, since we have that Onion skin up, we're going to use that Onion skin as a guide to redraw our word. First of all, we need to switch back to white because we're going to be always writing this word in white. Let's go up to our colors. Double-tap close to white to choose a pure white value and now you're just going to trace over your word. When you're doing this, you want to write the word as closely as possible to the previous frame, but it's actually okay if it's not perfect. In fact, the more imperfect your frames are from one to the next, the more of that wiggly effect you're going to have. I think this looks good. We're going to go ahead and create another new frame and we're going to repeat this process. Let's tap Add frame and then write the word again. Then we're actually going to do that one more time for a total of four frames. Let's tap Add frame then right over our word one more time. Now comes the moment of truth where we can hit Play and see our animation. Go ahead and tap Play on the timeline and you have this awesome fun wiggly text effect. Congratulations, you just made your first animation. Now as I'm looking at my animation, I'm thinking that it's going a little fast, it's really wiggly-wiggly, I'm going to show you how you can slow it down. To slow down your animation, you're going to adjust what's called the frames per second. To do that, we're going to tap here where it says Settings in our timeline and now we have a lot of different options. Don't worry about them all right now, but we're going to focus on frames per second here. If I slow that down, maybe to like, I don't know what looks good to me. I'm at seven frames per second and I can tap Settings again to close that. I think that looks a little bit better, it's not as super-fast. That's how you can adjust how fast or slow your animation goes. Now I'll show you how you can export your animation from Procreate so that you can share it with the world. Let me go ahead and hit Pause. To share your animation, you're going to go up to the Actions menu, Share. Down here under the heading that says Share layers, we have some animated file format options. The two that I'm going to be focusing on in this class are animated GIF and MP4. I have a whole lesson that talks to you about what the differences between the two file formats and what you would use them for. For now, let's go ahead and choose the animated GIF format. We're not going to worry too much about the settings over here for now, but just go ahead and make sure all three of these are turned off. Then you can tap Export. Let's save the image to your camera roll by tapping Save image. Now if I go ahead and open up my photos app, I can see my animation is here, and if I tap it, it will automatically play. Now, this being in the GIF file format means it's perfect for uploading to your Skillshare class project. If you want to add your animations into your Skillshare class project, use the GIF file format. Let me pop back over to Procreate really quick because I do want to mention one thing. Now when you're creating animations or creating artwork for animations, I always recommend in working in a high-resolution canvas and that's for a number of reasons, but mostly so you don't get pixelization or degradation as you're working on your artwork. However, high-resolution GIF files can be very big and they will take a long time to upload or they might not even upload at all. Let me show you really quick what you would do to shrink your animation down so it's easier to upload on the web. The first thing you want to do is duplicate your procreate file. Let's go back out to the gallery view and we're going to duplicate this file by swiping to the left and choosing duplicate. Now we're going to go ahead and open up the duplicate. To re-size this piece, we're going to go to our Actions menu, Canvas, choose Crop and resize. Then we're going to go over to Settings. The real thing that you need to make sure to check is re-sample canvas. This is going to allow you to change the pixel size of your canvas and it will shrink the whole thing down without cropping anything off, so resample canvas. When you're trying to upload a GIF to a website, you might want to check and see what the maximum file size is for that website. But I think a general rule of thumb is to keep it under 1,000 pixels. I can type 1,000 pixels into the width here. I just type in 1,000 and hit Done and it looks a little pixelated, but that's just because it's on a big iPad screen and now I can export that as a GIF. Same thing that I did before, export, save it to my camera roll and I have a much smaller version of that. If you're having trouble uploading your animations because they're too big or if you want to use them in email or on your website, you're going to need to scale them down before you export them. [MUSIC] I hope you enjoyed making your first animation in Procreate, there is a ton more to learn and I'm really excited to share with you lots of techniques, show you the different animation tools and different features of making animations in Procreate, lots and lots of tips and tricks to show you. In our next lesson, we're going to be creating an animated headshot. We're going to be taking a photo and adding some fun animated elements to make something really playful and unique. I'll see you in the next lesson. 8. No. 2: Animated Headshot: [MUSIC] Welcome to our second animation. In this lesson, we're going to be taking a photo and adding animation on top of it to create these really fun and energetic animated headshots. To follow along, you're going to need a photo of yourself. If you want to dig up a headshot, you can grab one of those and save it to your camera roll on your iPad. But if you don't have a photo of yourself and you want to follow along, I'm going to provide you with some links to some free stock photography that I think will work well for doing this type of animation. You can grab one of those using the links, download it, save it to your iPad, and then you'll be able to follow along. The motion that we're going to be creating for this are these fun bursting lines and this is a technique that you can apply in so many different ways for so many different purposes, not just for making an awesome animated headshot. You'll also be getting familiar with more of the animation tools. You're going to learn how to hold a frame so that it's longer in your animation, how to rearrange frames in your timeline and how to export in an MP4 video format, and I'm also going to teach you what to do if your animation is really short. I'll be walking you through how you can loop your animation so that's long enough to post online. Let's get started. For this piece, we're not going to create a new Canvas. We're actually going to create our Canvas just by importing a photo. Let's go ahead and tap here where it says "Photo" and I'm going to go into my headshots folder and choose my photo. There is my headshot. We're going to be creating this fun bursting line effect coming out of your head or wherever you want to on your photo. Just like with the last lesson, we're going to have one static frame for the entire animation and then we're going to be animating other stuff. Let's go up to our layers to start and we're going to create a new layer. This bottom one is going to end up being our background frame and we're going to start animating on this layer. For our brushes, I'm going to be using the Blackburn brush from the drawing sets, the same one that we used in the last lesson and then for color, I'm just going to choose a pure white. You can use whatever color you want that complements the background of your photo. Make sure you're on the second layer and we're just going to draw some lines that if you're drawing a cartoon sign some little lines coming out here. Something like this. You can draw however many lines you want. Now we're going to go into the animation tools. Let's go up to our Actions menu, the little wrench, and we're going to toggle on Animation.Assist. You can see that now procreates treating these two layers is individual frames. We need to make sure we set our photo as our background layer. Go ahead and tap on the photo frame in your timeline. Tap it so it's selected. Then tap it one more time to bring up our Frame options, and then we're going to toggle on Background. That's going to make this photo the same in every single frame of animation.Then go ahead and tap over to your first frame in your animation and as you can see, you can't really see the lines that are white because it's showing you a preview of them on white. If you have this problem, I recommend setting your background color for your artwork, it makes it a little easier to see. Go up to your Layers, go to your Background color and just choose any other color for your background. Now you can see that you can see what's going on in those frames. It just makes it a little bit easier to see what's going on. For this animation, we're going to be starting in the very center of our animation and working our way out and then we're going to work our way back in on the front end. We're starting in the middle and we're going to work our way to the end first. Let's begin by making sure we have that layer selected and then tapping "Add Frame". Now we have a new frame after our first one. Now we're going to draw these lines again but make them a little bit shorter. We're going to fill them in like about three-quarters of the way or so and just leave a little bit at the end or the part that's closest to the middle. Go ahead and draw over your lines again, leaving a little bit of space at the beginning of your lines like that. Then we're going to tap "Add Frame" and we're going to do the same thing again. We're going to probably draw about half of the line now. A little less than we did in the previous frame. Like that. Then you could tap, "Add Frame" and draw a little bit less like that. Then I like to do one more where it's just like a tiny little dot. Then we're going to add one more frame that's just completely blank, we're not going to draw anything so that the lines can actually completely disappear in our animation. We've drawn the line from the middle of the animation going out, now we're going to draw the lines coming in. Let's go ahead and tap on our background frame and then tap "Add Frame" and that will place the frame in-between your background and that original line frame that we originally drew. Now we're going to basically be doing the opposite. We're going to start with just a little dot at the end of our lines, using our onion skin as a guide, and then we're going to tap "Add Frame". You may have noticed that my onion skin on these lines is green and then for the little dots, it's red. All that means is that if it's green, it's a frame that's coming up and if it's red, it's a frame that is in the past, like that's previously. We can use both of those to guide us as we draw our next frames and animation. We're going to just make this line a little bit longer than where you can see that red is. Then we're going to tap "Add Frame" again and make it a little bit longer. We're trying to make it longer than the red, ultimately getting as long as the green. Add frame. I think that's probably good because the next frame in our animation is going to be the full length. Now, we get to go ahead and hit "Play" isn't that so fun? This looks really good but I think what would make it look even better if there was like a little bit of a pause in-between how the animation repeats. Let's go and hit "Pause". Remember we had this blank frame here at the end, I want that frame to last a little bit longer. I want more frames of the just blank nothing before it loops again and does the animation again. There's a really useful feature for doing just that. You can access it by tapping on this blank frame in the timeline and we've got our frame options here and it's called Hold duration. You could basically hold a frame for however long you want so that frame will remain for several more frames or how many you choose. Let's go ahead and drag the slider to maybe like three or four, I'll do four. Now I'll go ahead and hit "Play" and now there's a nice little pause in between the animation looping. I think that just looks a little bit nicer, it's not so wild and crazy. Another thing you might notice is that you can't zoom in and out while the animation is playing, so you just have to hit pause and then you can zoom your Canvas out like that, you'll get the full effect. Let's go ahead and export this animation. This time we're going to be exporting it in a video file format, the animated MP4 format. Let's go up to our Actions menu. We're going to go to Share, and here we have our options. This time we're going to choose "Animated MP4". This file format is what you would use if you want to share your animation to Instagram as a post or in a reel or if you wanted to edit it into like a YouTube video or TikTok or something like that. Because this is a video file format, it actually has a lot better quality than the GIF file format. If you want to do this as a GIF, you might notice some quality degradation in your photo, but let's use the MP4 format. Let's go ahead and tap" Export" and then I'll save it to my camera roll and now, if I go into my photos app, here is my video. You might have noticed that it played once and stopped. Because this is different than a GIF. A GIF will loop indefinitely. It will just play over and over again but videos, start and stop. As you can see, this is a very short video. In fact, if I go to my info here, I can see that it's only a second long. Honestly, it's probably way less than a second. That's going to actually cause us some problems when it comes to wanting to post this to Instagram. Instagram requires a video to be at least three seconds long in order for you to post it and honestly, three seconds is probably not even long enough. We want to figure out a way to make the video longer than that. The way that I like to do this is using a video editing app to duplicate the video bunch of times and then export it. Let me show you how I do that. I like to use an app called Splice. You can find this in the App Store. It's free to download. There is a subscription thing, but the free version should allow you to create a project and duplicate your animation and export it out. So let me show you how I lengthen an animation using Splice. I'm going to go ahead and open up the Splice, I'm going to tap "New Project". Here is my little animation. As you can see, it's not even a second. Let me go ahead and open that up. Next, there's some different size options, I'm just going to use the one it suggests for me Instagram post, choose "Create". If you want to subscribe, you can or you can tap "x". Now we have our little clip here in a timeline. I'm going to go ahead and tap it to select it and when I do that, I've got some options down here. There's one called duplicate, so I'm just going to tap "Duplicate" and keep tapping it a bunch of times. As I do that, there's a little tiny number right here that says how long the total video is. Right now I'm at 21 seconds, so maybe I'll keep tapping until it gets to like a minute or so. I think that's a good amount for like an Instagram post. I'm about at a minute. Now that I've done that, I can tap "Export'' and I can choose "Export Video" and it's saved to my camera roll. Let's go back there. Now I have my video and it's looping the animation and it is a whole minute long. So, you can use that to make it as long as you want. You don't have to use Splice, you can use any video editing app. You could try iMovie or another one that you like to just duplicate your animation a bunch of times so that it is your desired length. This animation technique is really cool. You can use it in a lot of different ways and you don't have to use straight lines either. Here is a headshot that I did with a zigzag lines in the same way. If I scroll through my frames, I just did it the same way except I made my lines zigzag instead of straight. Here's another using wavy lines, and I also did two lengths of lines as well. Another using curly lines, same method. Then one more using really long straight lines with even some little shorter lines in-between. I think these types of animations give a lot of energy to a photo, especially really happy photos, all these photos I showed you are happy smiling people, so it's a great way to add even more energy to your photo. [MUSIC] I really hope you enjoyed learning how to animate these fun bursting lines and you're ready to join me for our next animation where we're going to make this cool bubble burst effect. So, we're going to learn how to make something grow and expand. I'm going to introduce you to some new looping modes and also how to use transparent backgrounds so that you can apply your animation in a lot of fun different ways. I'll see you then. 9. No. 3: Bubble Burst: [MUSIC] Welcome to our third animation. In this lesson, we're going to be creating this fun, bubbly shape that grows and expands. You'll be learning how to animate by working backwards, exploring different looping modes, how to adjust and customize your onion skins, and I'm also going to walk you through getting your animation from procreate into your Instagram stories so you can use it like a gift sticker. Let's get started. For this piece, we're going to be creating our own canvas template, which is a 3,000 by 3,000 pixels square. To do that, we're going to tap the plus sign up here. To create a new canvas template, you tap this little rectangle with a little plus sign in it. Then as long as you have pixels selected down here, you can type in 3,000 by 3,000 pixels. You can type in 3,000 square or however you want to describe it. [LAUGHTER] We're going to be using this size template for quite a few of the animations that are to come. It's good to have a canvas template that's this size. Go ahead and tap "Create" and that will pop you into the interface. The animation that I'm going to be doing is going to be in white. I'm going to go ahead and start by setting a background color. Let's go to our layers panel right here. Tap "Background color" and you can choose any color you wish. Maybe I'll choose a nice orange, something like that. Then we're going to go over to our brushes and we're going to keep using the Blackburn brush. You can use any brush you want, but I really like Blackburn and that can be found in the drawing sets, one of the built-in brushes. Then for our color, we're going to choose a pure white. For this animation, we're going to start with the final shape at its biggest, and then we're going to shrink back down to a smaller shape. Let's start by drawing just a big cloud shaped burst thing. Something like that, almost like a flower. You can draw the whole shape and then you can fill it in with color drop by dragging this little color picker circle and drop it in. Then if you have any little parts where it didn't fill in all the way, you can just go ahead and fill those in. That happens sometimes with a textured brush. Go ahead and just fill all those in and there is our little bubble shape. Now we're ready to jump into animation. We're going to go over to our Actions menu, canvas and toggle on animation assist. All right, so now we're going to go ahead and just tap "Add frame" to create our next frame and animation. This burst is as big as it's going to be and we're going to start shrinking it down. All you really want to do is just draw a shape that's just a little bit smaller than the previous one. Something like that and then you can go ahead and fill that in. If you're getting a lot of lines right here, you can always adjust your color drop threshold and let me show you how to do that. I'll undo when you drag in to fill it with color, don't let go, don't pick your pencil up and you can slide back or forth to show you how much you're filling that shape in before it spills out everywhere with a texture brush, sometimes you just doesn't work. You have to go in there manually like I've been doing. But if it's really bad, you can adjust that. Let's go ahead and add another frame. We're going to get a little smaller now. As you can see, I have now you can see both frame. We've got this one that we just drew and a darker red, and then the one that previous to that is a little bit lighter of a red. That's how it shows you step-by-step what happened before. But you can also adjust how many onion skin show. You can do that by tapping settings right here. In the settings we have onion skin frames and it's set to max. It will show you as many previous or upcoming frames as possible. But that can get a little distracting, it's a little hard to see where we're going. We're trying to shrink down, so you can go ahead and lower that to one. Now we're just seeing the previous frame without the distraction of the frame before that. If the onion skins are getting in your way, try reducing them down and that might help you out. Now I can just make this smaller like that and fill it in. Tap, "Add frame." Now we're going to go even smaller and fill it in with the color, some of these little spots in. Maybe one more. You could keep going until it basically disappears if you want. But I want to keep it. I want some substance there. [LAUGHTER] I don't want it to completely disappear. Let's go ahead and tap "Play." That is a bit much. [LAUGHTER] It's like boom, boom, boom interface. I think for this piece, it would be really cool to have it grow and expand, grow and expand. Instead of starting here and then making it bigger and drawing it frame-by-frame, making it bigger, we can actually just loop our animation in a different way so that it ping-pongs back and forth. Let me show you that, you tap here where it says "Settings" and then here, these are the different looping modes so we've been using loop which just goes over and over, rotates through, goes back to the beginning. Ping-pong is the one that we're going to use for this one. Go ahead and tap "Ping-pong." That just basically goes back-and-forth, back-and-forth. Let me hit "Play" and show you. As you can see [LAUGHTER] now it looks a little smoother and we didn't have to redraw those animation frames to get back to the biggest size. That's a really cool one. Then the other one is called one-shot and that just plays the animation and stop. It's good if you're doing a really long animation that just starts and ends, but part of little animations, I never use that. We're going to choose ping-pong, and I'm also going to reduce the frames per second. Let's try seven, six. Maybe a little faster than that. There we go. You might notice that it does look a little choppy. The main reason for that is because we've only got five frames here. If you want your animation to be less choppy, you'll want it to be made up of more frame. More little incremental movements in-between. We could actually do that and make this a little bit more smooth. Let's start with our first frame here and we'll tap "Add frame." Basically want to draw a frame that's in-between these sizes. I'm going to draw something that's a little bigger than the green, not quite as big as the red, like that and fill it in. Now I'm going to tap to the next frame. I'm going to tap "Add frame" because I want to add a frame, a little incremental frame in-between the frames I've already drawn. Now I'll draw something that's in-between, that size, something like that. There, let's see if it looks good. Then I'll tap to the next frame. Tap "Add frame" so I'm going to add frames in-between and draw a shape in-between those sizes. Fill it in, and then tap over to the next frame and tap "Add frame" and go in-between. I'll just color that one in. That's it. Let's go and tap "Play." Now it is going a little bit slower because we haven't adjusted our frames per second. Let's go over to our settings and make it the speed we want. Something like that. As you can see, that is a lot less choppy, like it's a much smoother animation because we have more frames, more increments of the animation happening within the same amount of space. I think that looks really cool. Let's go ahead and pause that. I want to show you now how you can export an animation that has a transparent background. I'll show you how to do that next. Let's go over to our layers. Basically, the key here is to turn off your background. We have our background color and we just want to uncheck this little checkbox. Now we have a transparent background. You can tell there's a grid behind everything. That's how you know, it's transparent. You can also make sure that this is unchecked. Now our animation has a transparent background. There's no background. Now let's go ahead and export it. We're going to go up to the Actions menu, share and to use this with a transparent background, I recommend the GIF format. Let's choose Animated GIF. You can see now we have this option enabled transparent background. You can turn that off and it will turn your background back on, or you can just turn it on like that. Then we also have Alpha threshold. What that means is it's determining how much of the area around the edges of your piece is taken away or not. If you were to turn that down really low, you might see some of the orange or actually it would look black. Let me actually export that out so you can see what I mean. Save it. That's like a really low threshold. If I go into my photos, now you can see my animation and you can actually see that black around the edges. If you were to paste this onto something with a light background, you'd see those little black edges. If you have a low threshold, you'll see those black edges, especially if you're using a textured brush like Blackburn. Instead, we're going to go to Actions, share export as animated GIF. We're going to turn Alpha threshold up. The higher you turn it up, the more it eats into your image. You lose some of the texture sometime, but I've been using it 80% and I think that works really nicely. Now I can tap "Export" save image. Now if I go back into my photos, I can see that's the first one I made and this is actually the second one. You can barely see it because it just looks like white on white. I can tap it. You can see the edges, but it's much less apparent. If I were to tap it now we can see that it has a transparent background. Let me show you how to use this animated GIF with the transparent background as a GIF sticker in your Instagram stories. The first thing I'm going to do is get this onto my phone, so I'm going to tap out of that, tap the "Share icon" and then I'll share it via AirDrop to my phone. I just tap my phone here and then it should just pop up there it is on my phone. Now what we need to do is copy this. I'll go back. I'll tap the little "Share icon." Then down here it says copy photos. We're going to tap "Copy photo." Now it's copied to our clipboard. Now I'm going to go into Instagram and create a new story. I'll use this video. Instagram used to have a thing that popped up and said paste, but it doesn't anymore. You have to do a little bit differently. You can tap the little text tool like you're going to type in some text. Then tap on the cursor and it's going to say paste. You tap "Paste." Then it's going to paste in your animation and you can just move it around. You can re-size it by pinching and dragging and put it wherever you want to on your animation. That's a really easy way to add a little fun element of your own custom animation as an Instagram sticker. [MUSIC] You can use this method to make this pulsating growing effect with any type of shape or object. Just draw it at the full size, and then in each frame you just draw it a little bit smaller, and then you use that ping-pong setting to make it grow and shrink just like this. I hope you're excited for our next lesson. We're going to be doing more animation with words and lettering. I'm going to be showing you this fun technique that will make it look like your word is appearing in cursive as you write it and it's really fun. I'll see you then. 10. No. 4: The Written Word: [MUSIC] Welcome to lesson umber 4 of easy eye-catching animations in Procreate. Today, I'm going to teach you how to animate a word as though it's being written. This is a fun animation technique that can be used in so many different ways. Now if you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend watching Sam Smith illustrated music video for the song 'Lose You', and prepare to have your mind blown because the whole thing was animated using Procreate. Now that you've gotten a little bit of experience about what that's like, I think you'll have a whole new appreciation for the hard work that went into this. The artwork was animated by illustrator Loretta Isaac from Romania, and it is stunning. In this video, you're going to see a lot of those words that look like they're being written, and that's exactly what we're going to be learning today. In addition to getting more practice with Procreate's animation tools, I'm also going to be introducing you to a few new ones today. Let's get started. Let's begin by creating a new Canvas. Let's tap the plus sign in the upper right corner. This time we're going to use the screen size Canvas template. Choose screen size. That'll pop you right into the Procreate interface. I always like to get started by setting up some colors. Let's begin by setting our background color for this piece. We're going to go up to the layers menu, these two little squares here, and we're going to tap background color. For this piece, I want to do a reddish-orange background with some pink text. I'm going to choose a reddish-orange color, something like that, and then I'm going to go over to my brushes. For this piece I'm going to be using a brush called inka, which can be found in the inking set that's built right into Procreate. Go ahead and choose inka, and then we're going to tap over to a color picker in the upper right corner to set the color of our brush. For this one, I'm going to choose a warm light pink color, so something like that, I can test that out to see how it looks. I actually think I want to make it a little bit lighter than that, so I'll just go a little bit lighter. I think that looks great. Right now my brush size is set to 28 percent. Now it's time to write the word that we're going to animate. Since this is our first time learning this technique, let's choose a word that is very short and simple. The longer your word is, the longer it's going to take to animate. So just while we're learning, we're going to do a really simple word, and I'm going to show you how to animate the word. Let's write 'ok', I'm going to be writing this in cursive because I think it looks really awesome when it's animated. But this technique does work for other styles of lettering, it doesn't have to be in cursive. Let's go ahead and write 'ok'. I'm going to start by drawing my O, so that's a big circle with a loop. I'm going to come up and loop for the top of my k and come down, and then I'd like to lift my pencil off and to start the next part of the k over here. I draw it like this. That's my 'ok'. Because I want this to be a very excited 'ok', I'm going to add an exclamation point. [LAUGHTER] That's looking really good. Now, I'm just going to re-center this using the transform tool. It's right in the middle of my Canvas. I'm going to tap here on the little arrow and then I'll just put it right in the middle, like that, and now we're ready to start turning this into an animation. We're going to be using what we just wrote as a guide for our entire animation. This, what we just drew is actually not going to be a frame in the animation, it's just going to be a guide for creating the animation. Just like you would with any sketch when you're working in Procreate, we're going to reduce the opacity so we can use it as a guide, like a sketch. Go up to your layers, you're going to tap the little end on the layer that says, 'ok', and then you're going to reduce the opacity. It's just visible [inaudible] around 27 percent. Now it's time to turn on our animation tools. We're going to go up to the actions menu, the little wrench. We're going to tap Canvas and then here where it says animation assist, we're going to go ahead and toggle that on, and now we have our animation timeline down here at the bottom. This lettering right here, this is going to be my guide. I want it to be visible in every single frame of the animation as I work on creating the animation, so I need it to always be there. To do that, we're going to set it to be our background frame. You can do that by tapping on the little frame thumbnail down here in the timeline, and then toggling on where it says background. Now you can see that it's the background, it has this extra little blue bit on it, and it will be visible in every frame of your animation, which is great for us to use as we work. Now we're going to tap Add frame, and that's going to create a new blank frame, and it's time to start writing our word. I'll zoom in a little bit, and you're going to start wherever you would have naturally started writing this word and just draw a little bit of it like that. Then you're going to tap Add frame. Now you can see that your previous frame has become an onion skin, that's why it's turned red. You can use it as a guide to see where to draw your next frame. Now you're just going to draw a little bit further and then add frame, and then you keep going, go a little bit further. Tap Add frame. Now, sometimes I think that this onion skin, it shows all the previous frames stacked up on each other, so I'd like to actually reduce the number of onion skins that it's showing at any given time to just show the previous one. We can do that by going here where it says settings, and we have this slider that says onion skin frames. I'm going to slide that down until it's just one. I'm just having it set to one, so I can only see the previous layer. I'm also going to reduce the onion skin opacity, which is right here. That's just barely visible. Because I don't want to be tracing over the previous frame, I want to always make sure I'm tracing over my guide that I created this background frame, that is my guide. Always be tracing over that, that way you'll get the most consistency in your overall word. But just use that as a guide to see how far you need to go. Now I can keep going, add a little bit more, add frame. Draw a little bit more, keep going, add frame, draw a little bit more. Add frame. A little bit more. I'm going to zoom out over here. Add frame, draw a little bit more. I'm getting a lot of practice doing lettering [LAUGHTER] by doing this type of animation, lots of work with hand control. There we go, I'm going to keep going. Then one thing I want to note is that when you're naturally writing in cursive, anytime that you'd write down, you always write a little bit faster, on your ups, you're slower and then on your down, you're faster. That's just how you would naturally write. You can make your writing animation go a little bit faster on these downstrokes, like here on this K, just by increasing the amount of space you add. If you want it to go really slow, you just add a little bit every time, but if you want it to go fast, you'd add a lot. Let me show you what that is. Add a frame. We're going to keep going. So far we've been adding the same amount every time, but now I'm going to add more. I just added a nice chunk there. Now let's keep going. Now maybe I'll go even further down. It's taken me three frames to go that whole distance where other distances took me more frames. That's how you can make that seem faster. Let's keep going. Just keep adding frames and keep writing over your word. It's a little time-consuming to do this type of animation, but I think it's nice if you're like, just put on some music. Get into the flow. Right that word over and over and over again. I've done my whole word and now I'm ready to do my exclamation point, but I want just a little bit of a pause before I start writing the exclamation point, you might write, and then do that. I'm going to add a frame. I'm just going to do the 'ok', and then I'm not going to do the exclamation point because I want there to be a little bit of a pause. Now I'm going to add frame. Then this frame, I'm going to start drawing the exclamation point. I can probably do that whole thing in three frames because it's a downstroke and you can write exclamation point fast. I'll do three frames for that. Next, I'll do a little period at the bottom, the dot. [LAUGHTER] We've finished the whole thing. Now is the moment of truth where we get to hit play and see our animation. I'm going to hit "Play". [LAUGHTER] It's really fun. You can, of course, adjust the speed of your animation. If you think it's going a little bit fast, you can tap here where it says settings, and you can reduce the frames per second with this slider. So if you want it to go a little bit slower, you can, let's see, I'm at 10 frames per second and I think that looks really good. One thing that I would like is write the whole word and then very quickly erase it and start over. I want the word to hold for a minute or not a minute, but at least a couple of frames. I'm going to actually hit "Pause". I'm going to go to the end of my animation. I'm going to tap "Add frame" and I'm going to write the word again. I'm going to do that a few times so that the whole word will remain on the screen in my animation for just a little bit longer of time. Go ahead and add some more frames and write your word maybe like 3,4 or 5 more times, it's up to you. You can always hit play and see if the pause is long enough. I'll test it after this one. I'll hit "Play". Now you can see it, you can actually read the word for a little bit longer. In fact, I might add a couple more and then be good with this one. I'm just going to add a couple of more frames. This is why it was good to start with a short word. [LAUGHTER] Add frame. That looks good. Let's do it one more time. Awesome. Then one other thing that you can try if you didn't want the animation to write the word, disappear, and then write the word again, is you can go here into settings and you can try the ping-pong loop method or loop setting and this will make it go back and forth, so it'll write the word and then it'll erase the word. Let's see what that looks like. That's cool. It has more of a fluid movement because it's doing the ping-pong. I like the way that that looks. Let's go ahead and pause this because we also need to get rid of our guide that we made. Let's go into our layers and we're going to just go to the layer, the bottom-most layer, and we're just going to turn that off like that, and now we can play our animation. Now that you've finished your animation, you can go to the Actions menu, Share, and you can either export it as an animated GIF if you are going to use it on a website, in text message, or paste it into your Instagram stories. Or you can do animated MP4 if you want to edit it into a video like your Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube, things like that. I hope you had fun with this one. There are a lot of possibilities with this method. You can do, of course, all kinds of words, all kinds of lettering styles. You can apply that method of creating a guide to guide your animation and make it appear slowly over time with a lot of different things like images, graphics, other illustrations, and things like that. [MUSIC] Please join me in my next lesson of the easy eye-catching animations in Procreate course, where we're going to learn how to add some animation to some of our existing artwork by adding just a little bit of very simple animation that can take it from static to something really fun and playful. I'll see you then. [MUSIC] 11. No. 5: Simple Shake: [MUSIC] Welcome to our fifth animation lesson and what is probably the easiest animation that you're going to do for this entire course. I'm going to be teaching you how to create a simple shape that you can use to animate some of your past artwork. So you're going to want to go through your Procreate library and pick out a piece that you're interested in adding a little animation to. If you took my kickstart your creativity course, you're already going to be one step ahead. I'm going to be animating the final illustration from that course in this lesson. Let's get started. Make sure you have a piece ready. If you don't have anything already in Procreate, you could just open up a new canvas and just draw a simple shape and you can animate with that. But I encourage you to find a past piece of artwork that you can add a little bit of animation to. I'm going to be using this piece from the kickstart your creativity course. Before you animate a piece of artwork that you made, you always want to create a duplicate copy. I don't recommend animating the original version because we're going to be merging things together and it's just going to make a big mess. Always keep the original version and make a duplicate. To do that, I'm going to swipe to the left and choose "Duplicate". Now I have two copies. I'm going to go ahead and open up one. So here's my piece. It's a pretty simple piece with just some little illustrations on a plain background. If you go up to the layers, you can see all the layers that I used to create this piece. What you're going to need to animate it is all the elements of your illustration, you're going to want them to be merged together. If you have anything in your background, if there's some, I don't know, a texture back there something you have layers that are part of the background, you don't want to merge your artwork into those. You want to keep those separate. For example, I think I'm going to treat the stay creative and all the little stars. I'll treat those as background elements. I have a layer that just has the stars and the state creative on it, so I'm just going to move that down. If you have multiple background layers, you can merge them together, but they're already on one layer for me, so I'm good. Then I'm just going to merge all the other layers together. So now I have all of these little illustrated elements, all on one layer, and then I have my background layer. Let's head into our animation tools. So we're going to go to the Actions menu, Canvas, Animation Assist. We have our two frames, the one that's going to be the background and the one that's all the illustrated elements that we're going to animate. I'll set this frame as my background. I'll tap this frame to bring up the options. You'll notice, even though this is the first frame in my animation, I am missing the options to make it a background frame. That's usually those little toggles. I wanted to show you this because this trips people up sometimes. But if you go up to your layers, you can see here that I have my sketch for this piece. It's turned off, so it's not visible in the timeline, but in my layers, you can see that I have a layer below this first frame that's turned off. You cannot set a frame to be your background unless it's the very bottom layer in your layers panel. I'm just going to go ahead and delete that. Now I can tap this frame and I have the option to set it as my background. So I'll go ahead and do that. Now I have a frame that has all my little illustrated elements. I'm going to actually duplicate that frame. So I'm going to leave this one as it is and then I'm going to tap the frame down here in the timeline, and I'm going to choose "Duplicate". You'll notice there's also an option to delete. So if you ever need to delete a frame, you can do it that way. So I'm going to go ahead and tap "Duplicate". Now I have two copies. On this second one, I'm going to start moving things a little bit, so I'll zoom out. I'm going to go up to my selection tool, little S icon, and I'm going to be here on Freehand selection. Now I'm just going to select around one of these elements, like this pencil. So now I have a selection around the pencil. Then I'm going to go to the transform tool, which is a little arrow, and I'm going to grab this green node and just move it, rotate it just a little bit like that. Then I'll tap the arrow again to get out of that and then I'll pick another element. Maybe I'll do this paintbrush. So I'll draw a selection around the paintbrush. I don't have to worry about going over the stars or the letters because that's on a separate layer. Then I'll go to the transform tool and maybe I'll rotate this the other way. If it's like getting choppy, when you try to rotate, it's like snapping, you want to make sure you go under here where it says snapping and turn off magnetics and snapping so you can be a little more precise with your movements. You don't need to move at a ton. If you move at a ton, it's going to be a wild and crazy animation, so I just recommend just moving it a little bit like that. Let's do this crayon next. I'm going to draw a selection around that. I'm moving them in different directions, not all the same direction, so some are going one way and some are going the other way. This one I think will go that way. I don't know if I want to animate all of them. At this point, I'm going to go ahead and test it out and see if that's what I want or not. So let me go ahead and tap "Play". That's really cute. Really fast though. Let me go into the settings and reduce the frames per second. I like this to be really slow, otherwise, it can get really distracting and hard for the viewer to see. But if it's really slow, like I set it to three frames per second, I think that's nice. It still seems like a static piece of art with just a little bit of movement and not like this crazy thing. I think that's looking pretty good. I'm going to go ahead and try animating the other things and just see how that looks. I'm still here on the second frame. Go ahead and get into my selection tool. I'll do this paint thing next, paint tube, and maybe I'll rotate that that way just a little bit. Then I have this paintbrush down here. Kind of want to do this different than I did the pencils, so this way. The pencil is going up on this side, so I want this side to go down on the paintbrush. Now I'm going to hit "Play" and see how that looks. That's actually really cute. I like it with all the different things shaking a little bit. So this is a really simple way to add some fun, playful movement to some of your existing artwork. As you can see, it just took two frames, just moving it back and forth just a little bit just adds something really special. Let me show you how I've used this technique with some of my other artwork. So these are some fun digital stickers that I made. I actually have a video tutorial about how to do this on my YouTube channel, but I'll show you how I animated them. Let me hit "Play". It's just so cute like seeing them wiggle and dance back and forth. I really love the way that that turned out. You can see here in my timeline, I have this texture as my background. It's the blue paper texture as my background layer or my background frame, and then I have the two frames of animation. It's just like we just did. So fun. Here's a piece that I did in digital paper cut. I actually have another class on Skillshare where you can learn how to do this. But let me go ahead and hit "Play". I only animated a couple of the flowers. You don't have to animate everything like we were talking about. Just a little bit of movement can elevate a piece and make it a little extra special. Let me show you one more. So here's a piece that I illustrated in anticipation of a trip to Palm Springs for a really fun conference called Alt Summit. I was really excited to draw lots of little Palm Springs things, and so that's what I did for this piece. I almost posted it like this, but then I was like, I think I could add a little bit of animation to this. So let me show you that. Let me zoom out and hit "Play". How fun is that? I love seeing the little elements of this scene moving and shaking. Let me show you how I did this piece because I did it a little bit differently. You can see that I only have two frames here in my animation. I didn't actually use a background frame. Everything, all these little elements, I just didn't animate them. The title and all the little sparkles, I just didn't animate them from frame to frame. My layers actually look a little bit different than what you probably are used to. This is what my layers look like. We're used to every frame becoming a frame of animation, but what I've actually got here is two layer groups. Let me close these groups. So the cool thing about Procreate is you can keep all of your elements in separate layers, which is great for making edits and things like that from frame to frame. Procreate will treat it as a frame and animation as long as it's together in a group. We're going to be doing a little bit with that in some of the upcoming lessons. [MUSIC] I hope you're excited to try this easy animation method on some of your existing artwork. Be sure to share when you do. I can't wait to see what you create. In our next lesson, I'm going to teach you how to make some animated waving lines. I've got more tips and tricks for you, including a new method of creating your frame-by-frame animation using the transform tool. I'll see you then. 12. No. 6: Waving Lines: [MUSIC] Welcome to animation Number 6. In this lesson, I'm going to be teaching you how to create some wiggling waving lines. This is a pretty simple animation that utilizes, Procreate's transform tool to make things a little bit easier for us. I'm also going to do a demo of exporting your animation and adding it into your Instagram stories. Let's get started. Let's start by making a new canvas. We're going to tap the ''Plus'' sign in the upper right. This time we're going to use that same 3,000 by 3,000 pixel canvas that we created when we made the bubble burst animation. So let's go ahead and choose that canvas template. For this animation, we're going to be drawing three waving lines, and each line is going to be a different color. If you need to switch between multiple colors when you're doing animation, it's helpful to save those colors in a color palette. So let's start by doing that. Let's go into our color picker here, and let's create a brand new color palette. We're going to tap ''Palettes'' down here, and then we're going to tap the ''Plus'' sign in the upper right, and then tap ''Create New Palette''. Then let's tap back over to ''Disc'' and we can choose our first color. For this piece, I'm going to do like a teal blue, a pink, and a yellow. So I'll start with the blue. So something like that. Then all I have to do is tap in any of these squares down here and it will save my color. Then I'll choose a nice pink. So I'm somewhere in-between red and magenta. Choose a nice bright pink and then a nice bright yellow. Then tap to save it. So we've got our three colors. Let's go over to our brushes. We're going to be using that same Blackburn brush that we've been using, which is found in the drawing set. Of course, you're welcome to experiment with other brushes if you'd like. Then let's pop back to our color and I'm going to start with the blue. I'm going to cycle between blue, pink, yellow. So I'll start with the blue. My brush size is 17%. So I'm going to draw a line all the way across like this, waving all the way across. Then I'm going to go back to my colors and then choose the pink. Then I'll do my next line, just right underneath like that. Then I'll grab my yellow and do one more. I've got my three lines. Now I'm going to go ahead and just reposition these with the transform tool just to put them in the middle there and now we're ready to animate. So let's go to the ''Actions'' menu, ''Canvas'' and toggle on ''Animation Assist''. This is going to be our first frame. So let's go ahead and tap ''Add Frame'' to make our next frame. Now we're going to just trace over the lines that we just made. So I've already got yellow selected, so I'll go ahead and trace over the yellow like that, and then I'll switch to the pink and do the middle line and then finally the blue. Now we're going to use the transform tool to move this forward a little bit. To make a waving line effect, you need to have the same wave, but you got to move it forward. So let's go to the transform tool. We want to go here under ''Snapping'' and make sure that magnetics is turned on. That's really going to help us out here. So make sure magnetics is turned on under ''Snapping'' and then we're going to move it a little bit forward, just horizontally across. So just moving on a little bit forward. Now we're going to add our next frame. Don't worry that that little bit is cut off. It's going to be fine, I promise. Let's go ahead and add our next frame. When we do that, you can see that it's getting a little hard to see what's going on. So we're going to reduce our onion skin frames by going to ''Settings'' and then turning our onion skin frames to one. So we can just see the previous frame. Now we're going to repeat the process. So we're going to trace over our wavy lines. When we get here, we're going to keep going. So just keep going as if the line was there. Switch to the pink and do the next line, wavy, and just keep going. Now we're going to grab our yellow and do that one more time. Just like that. Now we're going to use the transform tool to move it forward. So we're going to tap the arrow and then move it forward, and you'll know it's about the same amount because it'll line up with the edge of your previous frame. So that's moving about the same distance forward. Let's repeat. Tap, ''Add Frame'' and since I already have my yellow selected, I'm just going to draw over the yellow line. Make sure you need to continue the wave after you get to the end. I'll do pink and then blue. Then we're going to go to the transform tool and move it forward, like that. Now we're going to tap ''Add Frame'' and repeat. So we'll start with blue, pink, and yellow. I'm going to move that forward as well, like that. Just land it up there. Now, let's go ahead and play our animation and see if we have enough frames to make the loop look convincing, I guess. So go ahead and hit ''Play''. You can see this fine little wave happening. So I know this looks weird, but overall, there seems to be a jump in my loop. Maybe I still need to make one more frame to make it look smooth. So let's go ahead and tap ''Pause''. I'm going to go to my last frame and I'm going to repeat the process one more time. So tap ''Add Frame'', and I'm already on yellow, so I'll do that one first. Then I'll do pink, and finally blue. And then of course we need to move that frame forward. So use your transform tool to move it forward and let's try it now. So ignoring that part, it looks pretty good. It looks like it's looping pretty well. There's no any crazy jumps. We can also scroll through. I just want to make sure it looks like it's moving forward. If you want to see if it's actually meeting up with the very first frame, like on the repeat, you can always move this first frame, just tap ''Hold'' and drag it in your timeline and move it to the beginning, and then you can scroll through again and see if it's too much of a jump. Almost maybe, I think we might need one more frame because it goes to that one. So I'm going to tap on this frame, not the last one, because remember that's technically the first frame. [LAUGHTER] So the one right before that, tap ''Add Frame'', and we're going to be going off of the red lines, so just keep that in mind. Tracing over the red lines like that. Let's do our yellow. Of course, I have pink in the middle, and yellow down at the bottom. Then we're going to move it forward. So let's tap the ''Transform'' tool and just move forward a little bit. What you want to look for is it shouldn't quite be overlapping with the green, which is the next frame in the animation. I think this is going to work. So let's go ahead and tap ''Play''. That looks awesome. So ignoring that side again, we can look at the animation and it looks like it's working really well. So we ended up doing this in 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, frames of animation and we have a nice smooth animation. So now let's deal with what's going on over here. Probably the easiest way to get rid of this situation is just to crop in your canvas. So let's go up to the ''Actions'' menu, ''Canvas'' and tap on ''Crop and Resize''. Then we're just going to scooch over this side until it overlaps the edge of our animation frames there, maybe a little bit just to be sure. Then we can tap ''Done''. Now we have an edge to edge animation of these fun waving lines. So you could use this technique to do a lot of things like a flag waving in the wind, a worm crawling across the ground, there's a lot of possibilities with this. I'll show you a fun way I use this animation in my Instagram stories. So let's go ahead and export this. I'm going to go up to my ''Actions'' menu, ''Share''. I'm going to choose ''Animated GIF'' so that I can paste it into my stories. Then I didn't turn off the background before I exported, you can actually do it here. So I'll just tap ''Transparent Background''. My threshold is set to 80 and I'm going to tap ''Export''. I'm actually going to AirDrop this straight to my phone. So I'll tap ''AirDrop'', choose my phone and it should pop up there. There we go. There's my animation. So I'm going to go ahead and tap the ''Share'' icon, and then I'm going to choose ''Copy Photo''. Then I'm going to swipe up and go to Instagram, create a new story and I'm going to tap the ''Text'' tool and then tap little cursor and choose ''Paste''. There's my little animation. I'm going to ahead and make that a little bit bigger. There we go. The animation may look a little choppy when you're in this preview screen, but when you actually post it to your stories, it's going to look okay. So don't worry. Super cute. [MUSIC] I hope you had fun wiggling and waving on this one. In our next lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create a really cool mark key light effect where we have little blinking lights that seem to travel around. I'm also going to show you how to set up a file that is specifically designed for the vertical format so you can use it in your Instagram stories and how to add your animations right into your Instagram reels. I'll see you then. 13. No. 7: Marquee Lights: [MUSIC] Welcome to Animation Number 7. Today I'm excited to teach you how to create marquee lights in Procreate. This is a really fun effect where we have these little blinking lights that just seem to travel around and around and around. This lesson is packed with info. I'm going to be teaching you how to set up a Procreate canvas template that is the specific size for using in your vertical video content like your Reels, TikToks, Instagram stories, that thing. We're going to be using that template to make a really cute frame that you can put around your videos as an overlay and I'm going to be showing you how to add your animations into your Instagram Reels. Let's get started. Of course we need to start with a new canvas, but this time we're going to be creating a custom canvas template that's the perfect size for the vertical format so if you wanted to put it into your real, TikTok stories, that thing. Let's start by going to the plus sign we're going to be creating a new canvas template so let's tap the little rectangle with the plus right here. The vertical format is 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels. But I know that that's a little bit small to be creating animations, it's going to make your artwork look really pixelated when you move things around. It's just not a good size to work with when you're making art. I'm actually going to double that resolution for this canvas template so our size is actually going to be 2160 by 3840. Go ahead and type in 2160 by 3840 [NOISE]. Again, that size is just double the size of a vertical video. Go ahead and tap Create and for this piece, we're creating a fun frame that goes all the way around that you can use as an overlay on your Instagram stories or in your Reels and TikToks. Let's go into our colors to start and my frame, I'm going to do a break, cobalt blue. I go ahead and choose that color, something like that and for the brushes, I'm just going to stick with our trusty Blackburn, so you can choose another brush if you want, but I'm going to use Blackburn. Then for my brush size, I'm going to go up a little bit. I'm at 29%. Then I'm going to zoom out quite a bit because I'm going to need to draw lines over all the edges of my canvas. I'm going to start way up here and just draw a line all the way down but keep my pencil on the screen when I get to the end. That's going to snap to a straight line like this. You can move it into position. You can also release and tap Line up here and you can move it around. We just want it to cover up about that much. Now we're going to do the same thing on the other side so keep your pencil on the screen and then you can tap Edit line and move it around, something like that. Then same thing across the top. Keep your pencil on the screen. That looks pretty good. Then the bottom. [NOISE] Good, edit. We've got the beginnings of our frame. We can zoom back out and I think it would be cute to add just a little scallop border along the edge just to give it a little bit more interest. I'm going to make my brush size a little bit smaller, like 16% and then I'm just going to zoom in and draw little circles going all the way around like this, like a little half circle. Go all the way around and just draw on lots of little circles. Luckily, we're not animating this part, so you only have to do it once. [LAUGHTER] We're going to add our little animations on top of this frame, so this will end up being like our background. Then we're going to animate our little marquee lights on top. [NOISE] Awesome. Once you're done going all the way around, we are ready to add our little marquee lights. Let's go to our layers. We're going to tap the Plus sign to create a new layer and then we're going to choose a different color. I think I'm going to do a nice bright magenta like that. Could do whatever color you want, and I'll reduce my brush size a little bit like 8% now and then we're just going to draw little circles every so often, and you want the distance between each of the dots or circles to be about the same. It doesn't have to be perfect, but you want about the same distance. Just go all the way around. I'm not trying to line them up with my scallops, so I'm just going for it. Go all the way around. Keep adding your dots. There we go. Now we've got dots that are equally spaced all the way around and we're ready to start the animation process. Let's go up to our Actions Menu, Canvas, and turn on animation assist and then of course, we need to set that blue frame as our background so we're going to tap the layer with the blue frame. We're going to tap it and we're going to choose Background. Now that will be static in every frame of our animation. This frame with the pink dots we already drew is going to be our first frame in our animation so make sure you tap that frame and then tap Add frame so we can make sure the new frames after this frame. Then what you're going to do now is you're going to redraw the dots just a little bit forward, just a little bit forward right next to your other dots. Go around the whole thing and just draw all your dots just a little bit forward. You could also draw them on the other side and then my animation is going to go clockwise. If you wanted it to go counterclockwise, you would draw them on the other side. I'm just going to go around and do all the little dots. We've done them all. Now we're going to tap Add frame and we're going to repeat the process so we're going to draw our little dots a little more forward. We should be leaving space for one more dot there. We'll have a total of four frames in this animation. [NOISE] Little dots all the way around. Almost done. Couple more and done. One more to do so let's tap Add frame and now we're just filling in that hole. If you had more space in between your dots originally, you might need to do this one more time. But you just want like as many dots will fit in-between and be equally spaced. Almost there. Just filling in the hole that is left. I think that's it. Now we can tap Play and our fun little lights are just traveling around, it's a really cute animation. [NOISE] Now let's export this out and use it as a frame or an overlay on our vertical video in our Instagram stories. We're going to go up to the Actions menu, Share. We're going to use Animated GIF and we're going to turn on the transparent background that's going to leave a hole in the middle of our frame. Tap Export, air airdrop that to my phone so I'll choose Airdrop, choose My phone, and there it is, and I'm going to tap Share, Copy photo and I'm going to pop over to my Instagram stories, load up a video, tap the Text tool, tap the Cursor and choose Paste and now I have this really cute frame that I can make, I'll just scale it up to cover my entire Instagram story. Of course, you can post this straight to your Instagram stories. But another cool thing that you can do is actually save this video and use it to edit into a Reel, into a TikTok, or other short-form video. To do that, all you tap is these three little dots and you just choose Save and now I can go into my Camera roll and now I have a finished flattened video with my animation in it that I can upload into my Instagram Reels, into my TikTok. This is a really quick and easy way to incorporate animation into your video clips, just in case you're not able to do that in the editing part of the app itself. While we're on the topic, I want to show you how you can add your animations directly into your Reel in the Reel editor. I have this little Palm Springs title that I made using the wiggly text method from Lesson 1. I'm going to copy that and then I'm going to go back to my Instagram Reel that I'm working on. Once you're in this screen where you have these options up at the top, you just tap the text tool just like you did in stories. Tap it and choose Paste and then you can reposition it, put it wherever you want. I'll put it down here. Now I have this cool title that overlays over my Instagram Reel and of course, you can edit how long you want that to appear by tapping this little guy down here and you can have it only be part of it and then go away, however you want to do it, you can customize it. Here's another example of the marquee lights. You can draw something or write something and then just put them around the outside like this and that's what this looks like. Super cute. Here's another one that I did that's very similar to the marquee lights. Instead of dots, I use little lines and I created this fun little dashed line that travels around so you just draw little lines and you just move them forward through each frame, really cute. Then this is an example of this effect in more of a practical application. This is a Instagram feed post that I made to talk about an art retreat we're doing in Mexico coming up here in May and let me hit Play. I did the same marquee lights, but instead of actually moving them forward, I just changed the color each time, so the color is moved forward. That's another way that you can do that effect with just by using color and then I also have these fun little shake shake flowers over here, which is just like the simple shake that we did in one of our previous lessons. [MUSIC] This lesson was packed with a lot of info. We learned how to create a custom canvas template that fits a specific size for a specific purpose. We learned how to do this fun marquee key marching ants effect and we learned a lot of ways to incorporate our animations into our social media content. Up next, I have a super simple but really fun animation that doesn't actually incorporate any movement at all. I'll see you in the next lesson. 14. No. 8: Color Change Retro Stars: [MUSIC] Welcome to our eighth animation of this course. We have reached the halfway point. In this lesson, I'm going to teach you a really quick animation that doesn't require any movement or any redrawing of any frames at all. I'm going to teach you how to animate these fun color changing, retro sparkle stars. Let's get started by tapping the plus sign in the upper right corner to create a new Canvas, we're going to use the 3,000 pixel square Canvas template that we made earlier. Go ahead and choose that. Let's start by going into our brushes because we're going to choose a different brush for this piece. We're going to go into the Inking set and choose the studio pen brush. This is a really simple brush with just a clean flat edge, which I think is going to look nice for this particular piece. Then we're going to pop over to our colors. I'm going to start with a nice bright yellow like that. For this animation, we're going to be creating three little retro style sparkle stars. Here's how you draw those. Start with a vertical line with that, and then draw a horizontal line that's a little shorter than your vertical line. And then you're going to connect between those two lines using a curved line like this. You do that on all of the sides. It should look something like that. It's okay if points of your star aren't perfect. We're going to clean that up in just a little bit. But let's go ahead and draw all three of our stars. I'll draw the next one in the same way. Connect with a curved line like that. One more down here. Something like that. We're going to fill these all in with color drop using Procreate's continue filling feature where we can very quickly fill this all in together. So do color drop like normal. Then tap continue filling up here at the top. Now you can just go ahead and tap into all the spaces and really quickly fill them all in. I'm going to tap back to my brush. Like I mentioned, these are little messy. I want nice little points on my star. I'm going to use the eraser tool to clean these up. I'm going to tap and hold the eraser tool and that's going to select studio pen as my eraser. You could also go in and find it in the eraser tool. I'll zoom in on this one. All I'm going to do is just erase away this edge a little bit. When I do that on two sides now I get these nice points on my corners. You can use this to refine your stars and also get those nice points. Now, I'll do this one here. Same way, just go in and erase the side. Those nice points. There we go. Now this one. Once you're happy with the shape of your stars, you can also use the transform tool to arrange them. So I'm going to go up to the selection tool and I'll just draw a selection around one of them. Then go to the transform tool, which is little arrow, and just get them into your desired position. If you need to reposition them a little bit, you can do that. Now this animation is not going to be using any actual movement at all. We're going to create an animation simply by changing the color of our different little sparkles. First let's drop in some different colors on to the sparkles. I'm a big fan of the color palette, pink, orange, and yellow. I'm going to add some pink and orange. I'll go ahead and choose a nice warm pink, something like that. Then I'm going to drop that onto my little sparkle down here. Then I'm going to drop some orange onto this one. So go ahead and choose an orange, something like that, and drop that on. Now we're ready to hop into our animation tools. We're going to go up to the Actions menu, canvas and toggle on animation assist. Now we're going to duplicate this frame. Tap the frame in the timeline and choose duplicate now we just have to change the colors. So I'll zoom out a little bit. So basically, we're going to be cycling each star through all three colors. I'll change this pink one to orange. I already have orange selected, so that's really easy. I'll just drag and drop it onto the pink. Then I'm going to change this one to yellow so I can just sample this yellow here and use color drop to fill that. Then this one's going to be changing too pink. I'm going to tap back to the previous frame so I can sample the pink color and then tap forward again and drop pink onto that. Now I'm going to duplicate this new frame, so tap it and choose duplicate. Now we're going to change them to the remaining color. This one here, if we start here, has been pink, now it's orange, so next up it's going to be yellow. I'll sample this yellow color, drop it on. Let's see, this one's been yellow, pink, and so now it needs to be orange. So let me grab some orange from the previous frame. Drop that on. Then of course this one's going to be pink since it's still only color that's not there yet. I'll go to the previous frame, sample the pink, and drop it in. We're just cycling through those colors. Now if I hit play, let me go and slow that down just a little bit. I'm going to tap my settings and change my frames per second. Let's see, I'm at eighth. I think that looks pretty good. As you can see, this is just a really super simple way to add animation without having to redraw anything or have to move anything around or really planned much out at all other than like cycling through the different colors. Here's a fun little example of the same type of animation. I didn't have to do any drawing for this at all. Instead, I use Procreates text features to type something in that can be found under the Actions menu, add text. Then you can type something in and you can change a font. Then you go through the same process as we did with the stars, just cycling through the different colors on each letter and actually did four colors. So each letter cycles through four colors in this one. This is what it looks like. Isn't it so fun? [LAUGHTER] Again, super simple. I put this together really quickly, did not need to draw anything to do it. It looks really cute. [MUSIC] I hope you had fun with this short and sweet lesson on doing a color change animation. You're inspired to see what other things you can do with color in your animations. I'm excited for our next lesson. We're going to be animating a cute little rainbow. This is another animation that doesn't require redrawing a bunch of frames. In fact, we're going to be doing our animation using the eraser tool. I'll see you in the next lesson. 15. No. 9: Rainbow Reveal: [MUSIC] Welcome to Animation Number 9. Today we're going to be animating a fun little rainbow. I'm going to be teaching you a technique that I like to call, animation by erasing. We're only going to have to draw our subject that we're animating one time and then we're going to use our Eraser tool to create the animation. That's going to result in a rainbow that appears and then disappears, and it looks really awesome. Let's get started. Let's begin by creating a new canvas. We're going to tap the plus side and the upper right. We're going to use our 3,000 by 3,000 pixel canvas template that we made earlier. So we're going to start by drawing a rainbow. Let's go into our brush library. We're going to go into the painting set and we're going to choose the flat brush. Go ahead and choose the flat brush. Then I'm going to go over to my colors and choose my first rainbow color. I'm going to start with like an orangey-red, almost like a coral. You can do your rainbow in whatever pallet you desire but I'm going to choose some of my favorite colors. Let me zoom out a little bit. When we draw this rainbow, we're going to make it like an arch, so there's some straight parts at the bottom and then we're going to chop those off at the end. That way everything lines up all perfectly. Make sure you draw it like an arch, so straight and then around and then straight. Let me do that one more time. I just take a little practice sometimes. Something like that. Here's a little tip, if you don't get things exactly perfect because drawing a perfect arch is difficult, you can always use the Liquify tool to nudge things. That can be found in the adjustments menu, Liquify. Make sure you're in the push setting. You might want to adjust the size a little bit bigger and you can push things to where they need to be like that. Now we're going to do our next color and we're actually going to do it on a separate layer so that if we need to use Liquify again, we can. Let's go up to our layers, tap the plus sign to create a new layer, and then we can choose our next color. I'm going to do a yellowish-orange. Now draw your next arch. If you don't get it perfect, you can go to your Liquify tool and just nudge it into where you want to be. I think I got lucky on that one. [LAUGHTER] Now we're going to do our next color. I'm going to skip green and go straight into the blues. I'll choose a nice blue like that and create a new layer, and do my next arch like that. I'll use my Liquify tool to push it into position. There we go. Let's do our next color. I'll just go ahead and create a new layer. I'll do one last color, maybe a nice navy blue, like that. Then use Liquify if you need to, to get it where you want it. All right, so our rainbow is looking really good. We're going to go ahead and merge all of our layers together. We're going to go into layers and we're just going to pinch to merge all these together like that. Now we need to chop off the bottom so it looks more like a rainbow and less like a big archway. We're going to actually do that using the Selection tool. Tap the Selection tool, and we usually use freehand but this time we're going to use the rectangle method. Tap on rectangle. Then I think this works best if you start at the bottom and drag up. I'm going to start down here and drag my selection up until this line meets where I want the bottom of my rainbow to be. I think that's good. Now I have this much of the rainbow selected and I'm just going to erase that. You can either use a three-finger scrubbing motion to clear it out or you can go to your layers, tap the layer and choose Clear. Now we have a cute little rainbow. I'll use the Transform tool to just center that. Now I'm ready to animate it. Let's go up to our Actions menu, canvas, turn on animation assist. This will be our first frame. It's actually going to end up being the center frame. Just like we did in some of our other animations, we're going to start in the middle, work our way out and then build our way into the middle. We're going to work our way out first. We're going to duplicate this. Tap the layer in your timeline and choose Duplicate. Make sure you're on the second copy. Now we're going to start slowly erasing parts of this away until it's all gone. I'm going to go to the Eraser tool and I'm going to go into the charcoal set and choose the 6B compressed brush. I like to do this with a brush that has some texture because it fades off a little bit as you are erasing away. Texture brushes look good but you can experiment and see what you like. All right, so we're going to start on this side and we're going to erase this way. We're just going to softly erase a little bit of a way. I have my brush size all the way up and I'm getting this nice texture. Just go ahead and erase a little bit away and then you're going to duplicate that frame. So tap it and choose duplicate. Then you're going to erase a little more away like this. This is one of those situations where having the onion skins, I think is a hindrance. Let's adjust them real quick. We're going to go into the settings and we're going to reduce the onion skin frames until it's just one, and now we can keep going. I just did that one. I'm going to duplicate this one now and erase a little bit more. There we go. The onion skin sees how much you're erasing, which is helpful. Duplicate it again and just keep going. When you're doing this really arched part of the rainbow, you're erasing, almost starts to look like pie shapes because this stays where it is and then it goes this way if that makes sense. You want these pie shapes as you erase. So I'll duplicate this one and then I'm mostly erasing from the top of the arch to make these like pie shapes like that. Duplicate and erase. Now that I'm in the middle of the rainbow, I have almost a straight line like that. Duplicate. Then more pie shapes as I go down the other side, duplicate. Erase some more. Make sure if you have any little bits here that are leftover that you erase those as well. Let's duplicate that. A little bit more pie shape. Duplicate and now things are straightening out a little bit as the rainbow straightens out. Duplicate, we're almost there. That I think it's going to be the last frame before we have just a completely blank canvas. Let's go ahead and just add a frame. This will be like a completely empty blank frame. Now we've done the whole animation from the middle to the end. We can hit "Play" and see what it's looking like so far. Now what we want to do is we want the rainbow to come in. It's almost like the rainbow is appearing. Right here it's disappearing. Now we're going to make the rainbow appear. Let's start with our first frame, the full rainbow. We want to make sure we never completely erase the full rainbow. We want to make sure we have that. We're going to go ahead and duplicate it. Tap that frame and choose "Duplicate". Now since we're working backwards, you'd need to make sure that you select the very first frame in your animation every time you duplicate. You'll see as I do that as I go. Now we're going to start from here and we're going to erase the other way. I'm just going to erase a little bit from this one. Now, of course, my onion skin is green because it's showing me the layers to come or the frames to come. Now I'll duplicate this one. I need to make sure I choose the frame right before that because we're working backwards. I'll erase a little bit more, go down here, duplicate, choose the previous frame. Whenever I'm doing it this way where I'm working backwards, I inevitably erase the wrong frame and I have to rearrange them. It always happens. Choose "Duplicate", choose the previous frame. I'm going to really try hard not to do that but it might happen. Now we're getting into those pie shapes. Duplicate, choose the previous frame. I got those pie shapes happening, get into an almost straight line in the middle of the rainbow. Looking good so far I'm going to keep going. Let's duplicate this one. Make sure I choose the previous frame, then erase a little bit more. Duplicate, choose the previous frame, keep going to those pie shapes. Duplicate, choose the previous frame. We're almost there guys. Duplicate. I now see my mistake. I knew what happened, at least once. I forgot to choose the previous frame. If that ever happens to you and they're out of order, you just need to move this frame. I need to move this one to the beginning. Now they're in the right order. Now I can duplicate that one, choose the previous frame and finally, I think this will be the last one. All right. Now we can hit "Play" and see our cute rainbow animation. I really love this one. I like the speed of it. I don t think I'm going to adjust the frames per second but I would like the rainbow to hold when it's the full rainbow before it starts to disappear and then maybe also hold when there's no rainbow. Let me pause it. I'm going to find the frame with a full rainbow, which is this one, I'm going to tap it and I'm going to choose "Hold Duration" of maybe we'll try three frames. Let me hit "Play". That looks good. Let me go to the blank frame at the end and I'll hold that one for maybe three frames as well. Cute. I think that looks really good. Let me show you how I applied this same appear, disappear rainbow animation to a more complex illustration. Here is a really cute little hillside illustration that I made and I decided I wanted to have a rainbow right here and I drew that. Let's see. That's what this is. Then, of course, decided that it needed to be animated and I was able to use that same technique and this is what it looks like. I think it is just so fun and cute and adds an extra special element to this illustration. There's one more thing I wanted to show you about this piece because in this animation, I am using a background frame, which is all the clouds and stuff and I'm also using a foreground frame, which is why the rainbow appears to be coming out of this hill or mountain thing. I'll show you what that looks like. We've got our background frame here, let me go into my layers. I'll turn everything else off. My background color is this orangey color and then I have some clouds and the sun shining through, so that's my background frame. Then way up at the top, I have another layer and this one is my foreground frame. You can set your topmost layer to be your foreground frame and that will also appear static in every frame of your animation. Let's see, this is what that frame looks like by itself. Then with everything altogether, all my layers turned on, it looks like that. This is another technique that you could apply in a lot of different ways. You can start with your finished illustration and then take little bits of it away. I'll show you a couple of more examples where I did the same technique applied in different ways. All the palm springs stuff this time. Here's a little one that I did. I wrote the whole word and then I erased parts of it away in reverse order. Going backwards like we did at the beginning of the rainbow, to make the whole words appear. It's a little bit different than the one that we did where you're writing it. This one goes way faster because all you're doing is writing it once and then erasing. If I go through, I started with this and then I worked backwards taking a letter away each time, and then when I press "Play" all the letters appear. Here is another piece that I did using the same method. I started with a full doughnut and as you can see, what happens is I took little bites away until the doughnut disappeared. Starting here and then there we go. Then I start to just erase little bite marks and I also drew little crumbs in at the same time. I just kept doing that and kept doing that until it was all gone. [MUSIC] I hope this method gives you another way that you can easily add animation to something without having to redraw it a bunch of times just by using the Eraser tool. For our next lesson, we're going to zone out a little bit and do a little animation plus meditation. I've got a really fun little exercise that lets you zone out and create something really interesting and fun. I'll see you in the next lesson. 16. No. 10: Animate & Meditate: [MUSIC] Hello and welcome to Animation Number 10, a little something that I like to call animate and meditate. This is an animation that you can just get lost in and just turn off your brain and get into the flow of creating the animation. I'm not going to say any more than that, let's just go ahead and jump right in. Let's create a new canvas. We're going to tap the Plus sign in the upper right, and we're going to use our 3,000 by 3,000-pixel canvas template that we made. Let's start by setting our background color. We're going to go into the layers panel, tap Background color, and then choose any color you like. Maybe I'll do a nice green color for this, something like that, and then we're going to set the color of our brush by tapping the color picker circle in the upper right corner. For my brush color, I think I'm going to choose a deep emerald. A bluish-greenish color but nice and dark, and I'll do a little test and see if I like that. Maybe a little bit lighter. Just going to experiment until you find a color you like. I think that looks pretty good. Now I'm going to go into my Brush library and I'm going to choose our favorite animation brush for this class, which can be found in the drawing set, and that's the Blackburn brush. But of course, you can choose any brush you prefer. Let's go ahead and jump right into our animation tools. We're going to go up to the Actions menu, Canvas, and we're going to toggle on animation assist. I'm going to increase my brush size a little bit to 18%. Looks good. To keep an element of spontaneity and not having to worry about planning out what you're doing, we're going to reduce our onion skin frames down to one. Let's tap Settings here and here under Onion skin frames, we're just going to reduce that down to one, so we're only worrying about the one previous frame of animation. You'll begin your animation by just drawing a little line anywhere on your canvas like that. Then you tap Add frame and you're going to draw another line that's just a little bit overlapping, but also a little bit forward. Then tap Add frame again, and draw another little line. Tap Add frame. [MUSIC] You can make your lines start to curve a little bit if you want to keep the curve going, like that. Just keep tapping Add frame and draw the line a little bit differently. Make it move that way a little bit maybe. You could do literally anything, you can keep going straight. But I love these curving lines. Just keep tapping Add frame and go wherever the line takes you. [MUSIC] Think about where you want to go. Just go. [MUSIC] What I think is great about this method of creating animation is you're not making a plan, you You tap Draw, tap Draw and it becomes this repetitive almost therapeutic exercise. Or you can just get lost in the repetitive movement. [MUSIC] Put on some good music, just go for it. [MUSIC] Maybe make a little loop de loop because that sounds fun to do. [MUSIC] Keep going around. Once you've decided you've gone long enough and you're ready to finish things out, it's time to close the loop on this animation. We want our last stroke, our last frame, to match up with our first frame so the whole thing will end in one big loop. To do that, we're just going to move our first frame of animation to the end of our timeline, and then we can use that to travel back over too. Let's go up to our Layers panel and we'll move it that way. You can move things here in the timeline, or you can move layers here in the Layers panel, whatever is easier for you. I'm going to scroll down to the bottom of my list, look at all those little marks, and I'm going to get my very first layer down at the bottom. I'm going to tap Hold and drag that up, and then with my other finger, I'm just going to scroll until I get to the top. Then I'm going to place it at the top like that. Now I'm going to tap back to the frame right before that. This one right here, not the very top frame, the one right below that. Then I'm going to tap Add frame, and I'm going to keep going. Keep adding frames until I matched up with that final frame, which was the first frame in our animation but now we've moved it to the end. Now we've closed the entire loop and we get to go ahead and hit Play. [MUSIC] I think this is such a fun animation. You get to watch the little line just dance and loop around almost like a little butterfly flying through the air, and it's also just a fun thing to do. Fun way to spend time with a really great payoff at the end. Now, if you wanted to, you could add a little friend for your dancing flying little line. Let me go ahead and hit Pause, and I'll just pick any random frame. You can really start anywhere and maybe pick a slightly different color. Maybe I'll just do a little bit darker so I have two different colors, and now I'm going to repeat the same thing, so I'm just going to draw a little line, tap over to the next frame, and this time I'm just tapping to the next frame, and I'm just drawing this new line. Sometimes they might overlap. [MUSIC] Then I can just go wherever this line wants to go. Not really worrying about what the other line is doing, just go in whichever way my hand wants to go. I've reached the end of my timeline here. What I'm actually going to do now is I'm going to drag this back to the beginning of my timeline so that way I can start and keep going. I'm just going to tap Hold and drag this over and I can use the other finger to scroll through since there's so many frames, probably can't see because I'm blocking it but there we go. [LAUGHTER] Then I'll just drag that and drop it right there. There's that frame. Now I can tap to the next frame over and keep going until I get back to the beginning. [MUSIC] Almost going to collide there. [MUSIC] Maybe they'll chase each other for a minute and then go their separate ways. Almost like you're telling a story between these two little lines here. Just keep tapping and adding, tapping and adding. Going where ever you want. [MUSIC] This line seems to like to loop a lot. Eventually, you're going to start getting back to where there starts to be two lines in your frame and blending it back to the original spot. Can be a little bit trickier because you don't have all your Onion skins on so you can always turn them back on. I've got a few frames to go. I'm going to go back to my settings. I'm going to turn on my Onion skin frame so I can see when there's that, see the green right there? That's my frame that I need to meet up with and I'm already in that realm, so that's good. Let me get out of the settings, add another line until I get back. Repeat that one a little bit. Let's see, we'll do that again. I'm going to go down a little further instead. There we go. That meets up a little bit more. Now if I zoom out, it's funny how these almost start doing the same action there. Play. [MUSIC] Now I have these fun little lines just dancing around together, playing with each other, and it's just a very fun way to spend a little bit of time to make something that's pretty delightful. You can get going and add more little lines that dance and play with each other until you have a whole bunch of little friends in there. It's pretty fun. I hope you enjoyed animating and meditating with me a little bit today. In our next lesson, I'm going to teach you how to animate a spinning object without having to redraw any frames at all. I'll also teach you how and why you might make an animation go slower or faster. I'll see you then. 17. No. 11: Spinning Shape: I hope you've been having a lot of fun with all of our animation so far. I can't believe we're already to Number 11. In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to animate an object as though it's spinning or rotating around. This is another one where we don't need to redraw any of our frames. We're going to be doing all of our animating using the transform tool. I'll also be showing you how to animate a symmetrical object versus a non-symmetrical object and I'll show you how to use layer groups to duplicate and reverse your animation loop. Let's get started. Let's make a new canvas. Tap the plus sign in the upper right, and let's use our 3,000 square canvas template that we made earlier. The object that I'm going to teach you how to animate is going to be a heart. I think a heart works really well for this technique because it is a symmetrical shape, which will matter a little bit as we explore this type of animation. So let's start by setting up some colors. We're going to tap our layers panel and we'll set our background color first. I'm going to do a little pink on pink for this heart. So I'm going to start by setting my background is like a light pink color, something like that. I like my pinks a little warm. So I'm over here and the reds and then very light. Then I'll set my brush color by tapping the color picker circle. I'll actually start by sampling my background with my finger like that to pull up the eye dropper, and then I'm going to choose just a darker, more saturated version of that color. I think that color will look great. So I'm going to use that, and I'm just going to keep on using this Blackburn brush from the drawing set. You of course can use whatever brush you'd like. Let's go ahead and draw our heart. For this, it really helps if your object is very straight and symmetrical and not tilted at all. Let's use procreates symmetry tools to help us draw our heart. We're going to go up to our Actions menu. We're going to go to Canvas and we're going to turn on drawing guide here. So find Drawing Guide and toggle that on. Then you're going to tap Edit Drawing Guide right underneath that. We're going to get some options down here and we want to tap over to symmetry. By default, it should just have one line down the middle. That means it's just going to make a mirror image of whatever you draw on each side. Go ahead and tap Done. Now you'll see that whatever you draw on one side is repeated on the other. So this is going to make it really easy to draw a heart. So let's start in the middle and then come right back to the middle like that. Then you can fill it with color drop. There's any little lines, you can just touch those up like that. Great. Now let's go back to our Actions menu and we can turn off the Drawing Guide. The other thing you want to do is go up here to the Layers menu, and you'll notice it says Assisted underneath the layer name and what the Assisted turned on it will always mirror whatever you draw. So we need to turn that off. In the layers panel, just tap that layer and then uncheck Drawing Assist right here. Just tap that. Now it doesn't say assist anymore and now we're ready to animate. Let's go up to our Actions menu and toggle on animation assist. Let's start by duplicating this frame. We're going to tap the frame down here in the timeline and choose duplicate. See now we have two copies. With this second copy, we're going to use the transform tool to squish it this way. Let's tap the arrow icon, that's the transform tool. You want to make sure that you are in the free-form mode. So make sure you're in free form. Then you're just going to basically squish it this way. So grab one of these nodes on the side and just move it that way a little bit. Then you want to re-center the whole thing. We have a couple of tools that can help us do that. Let's tap here under snapping and we're going to turn on magnetics and snapping. That's going to help us put it back to the center and keep everything in line. Now we should be able to move it straight across and it will snap right to the center. It should look something like that. Let's tap out of the transform tool. Another problem that you might come across is this onion skin is almost the same color as our heart. You can actually change the color of your onion skins if it's hard to see them, you just go here under Settings and you tap onion skin colors. So the red one, of course, is the previous frame. So you could change that to something else. Maybe I'll do like a blue or something like that and make it a little lighter and then the frame that is coming up is a green. I don't think there will be any problems with that, so I'll just go ahead and stick with blue and green. Now we're going to repeat that process again. We're going to tap our current frame here, and we're going to tap it and choose Duplicate. So now we have a copy of that and we're going to use Transform to shrink it a little bit. So tap the Transform tool and you're going to make it a little smaller and you might have a problem where it's hard to adjust it because of these snapping tools. So turn that off for a minute and then you can just shrink it a little bit like that. Turn on snapping and it will snap right back to the middle. Now let's repeat. I'm going to tap the heart down here, this last frame and duplicate it, and go to my transform tool. Turn off snapping and I'm going to shrink it even more than I had been the last couple of times and then I'll move it back to center. If you don't want to turn snapping back on, you can just estimate where it is and you'll probably be okay, but if you're worried about getting perfect, you can turn snapping back on. I mentioned that I squish this one down a little bit more than I had been the previous couple of times. The more you squish it in between the different frames, the faster it's going to spin, the faster it's going to animate because the smaller your increments are, the more slow and smooth your animation will be. But the bigger your increments are, the bigger difference there are, the faster the animation is going to play. When you're doing a rotating heart like this, it's going to spin slower when the heart gets more flat and then faster when the heart goes this way, it's hard to visualize but trust me on this, it will look good. [LAUGHTER] Let's go ahead and duplicate this again. Go to our Transform tool. I'm going to go even more than I did the time before that. Then just put it right back to the center. Go down here and choose Duplicate. Go to my transform tool, squish it even more. Move it back to the center and then repeat. Let's do it again, squish it even more. Basically we're just getting closer and closer to a straight line. It's what we're doing here. Maybe I think just one more time, Duplicate Transform and this time I'm going to squish it. So it's almost like a straight line. Then make sure it goes right back into the middle. Let's go ahead and hit Play to see what things are looking like. Right now, it looks like, I don't know, flapping butterfly wing or something. It's not quite looking like it's rotating around and round and that's because what's happening is it's starting big, getting small, and then just snapping back too big. So what we need is an effect that's similar to what we did with that bubble burst that we made in Lesson 3. We need to go back and forth. So let's tap under Settings and we're going to turn on ping-pong, one goes back-and-forth, back-and-forth and we're going to hit play now. Now we have a heart that looks like it's rotating around and round. So you can imagine when an object is flat like this, and you spin it towards you, it gets thin. That's basically what's happening here. I think it looks really cute. Then you'll also notice how the rotation gets a little slower as it gets more flat like this versus when it's like this. We're trying to do this technique with an object that is not symmetrical like a heart and you would actually have to animate the other half of the animation but in reverse. So let me explain that. Here's a little flower that is not symmetrical and I do not have the ping pong on, I just have the loop. Basically what we want to do is we want to duplicate all of these frames and then reverse them and put them in the reverse order. I think the fastest way to duplicate a lot of frames at once is to put them all in a group and then duplicate the group. I'm going to keep the flat flower the complete like the first one. I'm going to select all the other ones. So just swipe to the right on all of them, put them into a group by tapping group and then I'm going to duplicate the group. So here's the group. Swipe to the left and choose duplicate. Now I have a duplicate copy of all of those. Now I just need to reverse the order of this. In fact, I don't really need this middle. This is the middle of the animation, so I'm going to delete that one. These are the ones I need. Now I'm just going to put them into reverse order, like this, just tap-hold and drag, and then we need to get everything out of groups because Procreate will consider a group as a frame and animation, so that's not going to work. We need to get everything out of these groups. The best way to do that is to just tap on the bottom one and then swipe to the right on all the layers in all the groups, and then drag them all out at once. So just tap, hold, and drag. Then we have these empty groups. See there's nothing in them. We can delete those. Just make sure they're empty first. Now we have it starting flat, going this way, [LAUGHTER] and then going back to flat. So let me play that now. It doesn't quite look like it's reversing, like flipping all the way round, and that's because I said we had to reverse these frames. So this is the middle frame because our flower is going to flip around so let's tap on. This is the center everything after that needs to get flipped. So let's tap this one next. We're going to go up to the Transform tool and then we're going to choose flip horizontal. Go to the next frame, go to the Transform tool, and choose flip horizontal. It's going to flip it the other way and then we'll do the next one here. Go to the Transform tool flip horizontal, and then go to the next one, flip that. We're basically flipping all of them and then the last one. Now we're almost there. So I'm going to tap pause. We're going to go to our settings and we're going to use ping pong now. See how it's flipping to the other side. If you don't have a symmetrical object, you can achieve a convincing look of rotating around by reversing your frames and then flipping them all. Then maybe just for fun, I can pretend that the little circle on the flower on the other side is a different color. So just for fun, this doesn't make sense, but I can fill that in with pink. I'm just going to use color drop to fill all those yellow circles in with pink. There we go. Now if I play, it looks like it's flipping from one side to the next. Very cool, very fun. Using the transform tool to change the shape of your object is another way that you can create animation without having to draw things. All you need to do is make sure that the object is different from one frame to the next. So you can redraw it every time or you can do something like this. [MUSIC] Very fun and a lot of cool possibilities with this. In our next lesson, I'm going to teach you how to draw a set of blinking eyes. This is a really useful animation to learn because maybe you've drawn a character or a face or something like that and it's a way to add some really cool movement to an otherwise static portrait. I'll see you in the next lesson. 18. No. 12: Winking Blinking: [MUSIC] It's time for animation number 12. I'm really excited about this one because I think it is such a useful animation. That is how to make an eye open and close. If you are into drawing people, faces, characters, animals, that sort of thing. You can see why this would be a really important animation to learn. This is actually one of my favorite animations to do because I just think it's so eye-catching for lack of a better phrase, like you just want to look at it and here's a couple of animations that I have done using this open close method. In this lesson, it's the first time that we're going to be creating frames of animation using layer groups. I have lots of tips about how to work with layers when you're creating animation. Let's get started. Let's create a new Canvas. This time we're going to use the screen size because I want to have a rectangle for this one. Let's just go ahead and choose screen size. I'm going to start by setting my background color. This time I'm going to do a nice bright yellow, something like that. We'll start by drawing our eye and then we'll get to animating it. First we're going to start with the shape of the eye. Let's go to our color picker and we're going to start with pure white. Double-tap close to white to choose pure white. For our brushes, I'm just going to stick with our trusty Blackburn brush. I'm going to draw an eye shape, so that's going to be a big almond, something like that. Then I'll go ahead and color that in. If you want to refine your eye shape, you can use your eraser brush. I'll just tap and hold the eraser. Choose Blackburn as my eraser. I can just edit some of that away if I wish to make it more pointy on the sides. Something like that. I think that's a good eye shape. Now we're going to start adding the iris and the pupil, and then finally the lashes. We're going to do this all on separate layers. So let's go to our Layers menu. We're going to tap the plus sign to create a new layer. And we're going to set this layer to be a clipping mask because we want the iris of our eye should be within the shape of our eye shape. Let's tap on this new layer and we're going to choose clipping mask. Now you'll see there's a little arrow that's pointing down. Whatever we draw on this layer will only appear if it's within the shape of the layer right below it. Let's choose an eye color. I think I'm going to do a nice blue like that. We're going to draw a circle in our eye. Go ahead and draw a circle like that. Now we're going to draw the pupil. Go ahead and select a color that's black or almost black. We're going to put this on its own layer so go to your Layers panel and tap the plus sign to create a new layer. Then you can draw another circle where the pupil like that. If you didn't quite get it in the center of your iris, because we have it on its own layer. You can use the transform tool to move it around and resize it if you didn't want it quite so big, just make sure it's in the center of your iris. Once you're happy with the placement of that, you can go ahead and merge those two layers together. Tap the pupil layer and choose merge down from the menu. Now we have those all on one layer. Then I'm just going to move this up a little bit. Here we go, because naturally your iris isn't like dead in the center of your eye. There's a little bit of space down here. Otherwise it will look like really surprised when the eyes open up. You want it to be just up a little bit. Now we're going to draw eye lashes. Go ahead and create a new layer. Tap the plus sign in your layers panel to create a new layer. You can use the same color used for the pupil, the black color and I'm going to very lightly draw a line that goes across. If I use light pressure, I get all this nice texture in my line. Then some lashes like that. That is our artwork. Now we're ready to start working on animation. Let's go ahead and open up our animation tools. We're going to tap the Actions menu. We're going to go ahead and turn on animation assist. Now you'll see that there is two frames in our animation, we've got the eye shape with the iris and pupil, and then we've got our lashes. What's happening here is, of course, Procreate's treating the lashes as a frame in animation. But also it's treating this layer with eye shape and whatever is clipped to it as a frame in animation. That's something to keep in mind when you're working, is that you can use clipping masks to keep everything together in one frame. But we need everything to be together in one frame. We're going to put all of this into a layer group. Go ahead and swipe to the right on all the layers that they're all selected in blue. Then tap Group. now, because they're in a group, procreate is treating them as one frame in animation, but we're still preserving our layers so we can very easily change things which we'll need to do in this particular animation. Let's go ahead and close our layers panel. We're going to animate the eye closing. We're going to start by duplicating this frame. Tap this frame and then choose Duplicate. Now we have two, and you'll notice that we have two layer groups here. What we want to do is we're slowly going to erase part of the eye away until it's gone and that's going to emulate the eye closing. Let's go into our Layers panel and we're going to select that layer from the menu. This is the top group, and it's the eye shape layer. Then we're going to use the eraser tool to just erase part of it away from corner of the eye to corner the I just erase part of the top away like that. Don't worry about the eyelashes for now. We'll come back to those later. Now let's go ahead and duplicate it again and erase a little bit more. Tap your last frame and choose duplicate. It can get quite tedious to have to go into your Layers panel and find the layer you want to work with every time you duplicate a frame because it's in a layer group. Procreates got a really cool feature that will help you out and make things go a little bit faster. After you duplicate it, you don't have to go to Layers panel. All you have to do is tap anywhere on your screen and this little menu will pop up and you can choose whatever layer from that group you want to work on. In our case, we're going to tap the layer with the eye shape. Tap that. Now we can keep working without having to go into the Layers panel from corner to corner we're going to erase a little more of the eye. It's like almost straight across like that. Then we're going to go ahead and duplicate again. Tap this layer or this frame and choose duplicate. Then again, just tap on the screen and then we can choose this group or this layer from the group, the one with the eye shape. Now we're going to start curving it this way. You want to always keep the corners. Don't ever erase the corners away. You're just going from corner to corner, erasing a little bit of wage time. Then let's go ahead and duplicate that one more time. Duplicate, and then tap, choose the eye shape layer and we'll just erase all of that away now, the eye is going to be completely closed in this frame. We've erased away the eye as we need to, now it's time to change our eyelashes. Let's go back to the second frame so this is our original. That's the first frame, we're going to go to the second frame and now we need the layer with the eyelashes. Let's tap on the screen and choose the eyelashes and now we're going to go ahead and just erase that and redraw them. Go back to your brush tool. I still have that color selected and you can just redraw like that. Then when it comes to doing the eyelashes, they are going to get shorter and shorter than more the eyelid goes down because they're going to get foreshortened. Just make them a little bit shorter than in the previous streaming guess by looking at it in the onion skin. I'm just making them a little bit shorter now. Now, let's go to the next frame in animation tab, choose the eyelash layer. You can erase and you could also use the scrub motion so the gesture to clear layer. You take three fingers and you go that and it clears out that layer. That's another way you could do it and then you just draw along this line now. Because the eyelashes are facing right at you, you wouldn't really see more than just a little dot of them. Just draw like a little tiny lines now like that. Let's go to our next frame. Tap, choose the lash layer, you can do the scrub motion. Oops sometimes it doesn't always work there we go [LAUGHTER] and now we have a line here. Now we can start to lengthen our lashes again. We can estimate it would be about right there. They're going to be the short length now, not quite full length because it's not quite facing all the way down. We're doing the opposite of the shape are up there if that makes sense. Then we have our final frame. We're going to tap, choose the lash layer, clear it out. The eye is fully closed. The lashes are going to be down here like that and then we're going to draw the lashes nice and long. So the opposite of what they are up here something like that. Now let's hit Play and see how things are looking. [LAUGHTER] Obviously really fast because it's looping around from closed right back to open. Let's go ahead and use our ping pong loop method. Go ahead and tap settings and choose ping pong from the settings, and now [LAUGHTER] it's blinking the right way, but it's still going really fast so let's go into our settings and slow it down a little bit. Now I'm at 8 frames per second. I think seven is good. I can also see here where I didn't erase it, I'll zoom in, there's a little bit of blue on one of the layers, so let's find out what layer that's on. I think it's this one here, I'll tap it. I didn't erase the eye fully so I just need to erase that a little bit there we go. I did it one more time. It looks like, I kept missing that spot. Erase, there we go, and there, I think because I duplicated it. That's what it's doing there. Let's see our eye. Awesome. You could do smaller increments of the animation to make it close more smoothly. But I think this looks pretty good. The other thing that I think I want to do here is I want my animation to pause once it closes fully for frame. I'm going to go ahead and pause this, go to my last frame then I'm just going to tap add frame and just redraw those lashes. Go to my brush tool, redraw the lashes. That'll act like the frame is holding let me see how that looks. Cool. I like the way that looks. I could do the same thing here. Let me just try holding that. If I tap it, I can change the whole duration to two. But I can't see the difference when I redraw it. It's wiggly at the bottom see because I redrew the frame and up here it's just static because I just held the frame I did the whole frame. I think I like the little bit of movement that you get when you redraw it. Instead of doing the whole frame, I'm going to undo that. I'm going to duplicate this frame and then on the duplicate, I'm going to find the lash layer, scrub that out, delete it, and then redraw. I'm just trying to trace over like this. It's up to you whether you want to use the whole frame or you want to redraw it just depends on how much movement you want your animation to have so let's try that now. I like the way that looks a lot better. This is a really useful animation if you are into drawing faces or characters. It's a fun way to add a little bit of movement to an otherwise static portrait or image of a person or even an animal. It's really fun. Let me show you one more way to make a blinking animation that's even simpler. Here's a circle that I drew. I'm going to create a new layer and I'll group these two together because they're all going to be one frame of animation, and I'll draw a couple of eyes and then I'll draw a little mouth like that. I'll go to my animation tools and I'm going to duplicate this. Duplicate, I have two copies and I'm going to do a little winking eye on this one. I'm going to tap this and choose the layer with the smile and the eyes and then I'm going to get my eraser and erase one of the eyes. Now I cant really see what I'm doing. I don't know where that eye exactly is. There's one more tool I want to show you. It's here under settings and it's called blend primary frame. Primary frame means the frame that you're currently on. You can toggle that on and now you can see that it's turned the frame that you're currently on into an onion skin. You can see through to the other frames. No I got to select that layer again. Now I can just draw a little line right over where that dot was in my other frame and then I go back to my settings and I turn off blend primary frame and now I hit play and obviously that doesn't look like anything great [LAUGHTER]. A couple more settings we need to do. We want to hold this frame, the one with the two eyes open longer. It just looks like your eyes are open and then do a little wink. We're going to tap that frame and I'm going to hold it for, let's try 10 frames. 10 there we go. Tap play. I still think the blink is too fast or the wink. I'm going to go to my settings and I am going to turn down my frames for a second till they're 10. There we go come on, 10, not close enough 9. There you go. That's really cute. I think that speed works good. Sometimes you have to play around with the whole duration versus the frames per second so you can get the speed of a really quick little animation like this, just right, and then you could of course, also close both eyes. If I erased this one, let's turn on that primary frame. If I closed both eyes like that, then it just looks it's blinking, which is also really cute [MUSIC] I hope you had fun learning how to wink and blink, and you're ready to add some eye movement to some of your characters and portraits. In our next lesson, we're going to be working a little more withdrawing as we learn how to animate a blooming flower using frame-by-frame animation. I'll see you then. 19. No. 13: Blooming Flower: [MUSIC] All right, you guys, we are in the home stretch. It's time for animation number 13. For this one, we are going to be creating this beautiful, blooming flower. This is about as traditional as it gets when it comes to animation. We're going to be setting a background layer and introducing using a foreground layer, and then we are going to frame by frame, draw our little flower growing out of the ground, growing, growing, and then blooming into a beautiful blossom. It's going to be a lot of fun, and I can't wait to get started. For this piece, I want to do something vertically oriented, so let's go to our "plus sign" to create a new canvas. We're going to choose screen size. Then when it opens up, we're just going to rotate it so that we have a vertically oriented canvas. We're going to be drawing a very simple, blooming flower, but I thought it would be great to add some background and foreground elements to this piece. Let's start by drawing our background and our foreground. Let's start by setting our background color. Let's go to the background color, and I think a nice sky blue will be really nice here, so something like that. Maybe we'll add some clouds to our background, so let's choose white as our color. I'm still using that Blackburn brush. You can, of course, use whichever brushes you like. I'm just going to draw some little cloud shapes. Just really simple, we don't need a lot for this. Just draw some little bubbly clouds, maybe just a couple here and there. I think that's pretty good for our background. Now I'm going to add a little bit of foreground, just some green grassy space down at the bottom here for our flower to bloom out of. I'm going to go up to my layers. I'm going to tap the "Plus" sign to create a new layer, and then I'll go into my colors, and I'm just going to choose a nice, grassy green color, something like that. Then I'm going to draw a wavy line going across the bottom of my canvas like that. You can, of course, keep going and add texture, render your little scene however you would like, but I'm just going to keep it very simple for now. Now we're going to add a layer in between these two to begin our animation, so let's go to our layers. I'm going to have you tap the "Cloud layer", and then tap the "Plus" sign, and that will create a layer in between your grass and your clouds. Then for the flower stem, we're going to choose a more yellowish green. Let me see how that looks. Maybe a little darker than that, so it contrasts against the sky. I think that looks good. For the first frame in animation, we're just going to draw a little sprout coming out of the ground like that. Now that we've done that, we're ready to go into animation mode so that we can draw all the rest. Let's go up to the Actions menu, Canvas, turn on Animation Assist. Now it's time to set our background and foreground layers. We've got three frames. The one that's at the bottom, as we know, we've done this a few times now, is going to be our background layer. Then you can also set a foreground layer that is going to be static in every frame of your animation using the topmost layer in your layers panel. Let's do the background first. We're going to tap the "Cloud layer", and choose background. Then we're going to tap the "Grass layer", and we can choose foreground. Now both of these layers will be in all of my animation frames, and I can just animate the little flower. It looks like it's coming out behind something now which is really cool. Let's zoom in here now because we're ready to start animating. Make sure you have this layer selected, the one that has the little sprout that you made, and then tap "Add frame". Now we're going to start to draw a little line coming up, and then these two little sprouted leaves coming off the sides of those. Then you're going to tap "Add frame", and you're going to make it even taller. You can make it curve if you want. Then we'll add in those little leaves like that. Tap "Add frame", and keep going up, making the leaves bigger and bigger each time, making them rise up with it. Tap "Add frame" again to make it go a little higher. Draw our leaves a little bit bigger. Now I'm also going to add a little nub here, and this is where my flower is eventually going to bloom out of. Let's tap "Add frame", and we'll keep going. We'll make it taller. Make the leaves go higher, bigger, like that. Don't forget our little nub. It can start getting bigger too. Tap "Add frame", go even higher. The leaves are going to start getting bigger, and I'm starting also to make them a little more pointy. "Add frame". Zoom out a little bit, go up, oops, draw it even taller, leaves even bigger. Oops, and I think I forgot my little nub in the last frame, so I'll go back and check. Let me go back. I did. Don't forget your little nub. I got it in all the frames. Let's tap "Add frame". I think this will be the ultimate height of my flower, this last one, so I'm going to draw the height of my flower, almost the final size of my leaves, however big you want them to be, like that. Then the nub is going to start spreading apart almost like a little heart shape at the top because the flower is going to start coming out of that next. Let's tap "Add frame". Now we've reached our maximum height here. If it's getting a little hard to see with all these onion skins, you can go to your settings, and turn down your onion skin frames so that we just have this one. That might make it a little bit easier. Now we're going to trace over this. Draw our leaves. Before we draw our little nub here, we're going to start adding in a little bit of the color of our flowers to show that the petals are starting to come out. I think I'm going to do an orange flower. You can, of course, choose whatever color you want, but I'm going to choose a nice bright orange. I'm just going to draw a little, almost teardrop shape coming out there. Then I'm going to use my finger to sample the green I was using. Oops. Then draw these little pieces starting to spread apart, like that. Let's do "Add frame". Draw my leaves and stem. Now I need to select my orange again. I don't really have anything to sample, so I can actually use a really cool feature Procreate has that will bring me back to my previous color. All you have to do is tap and hold the color picker circle, and it will go back to your previous color. In this frame, I'm going to start the petals too. They're going to start emerging, so I'm going to draw three little petals like that. Then get back to my green, and draw those little parts of the bloom sprout. I don't know what they're called. Those little things that we were drawing earlier that we're a nub. Cool. Let's go ahead and add a frame. Keep going. Then we're going to switch to our orange. Now, our petals are going to start popping out all of them. We don't do draw this little green bits anymore. We're going to draw this petal a little bit bigger, this petal bigger, this petal bigger. Now, these ones are busted out the bottom too like that. Now, let's add a frame, and we'll keep going. Switch back to my green, do my leaves. Then my petals now are starting to get even bigger, so I'll draw them a little bit bigger. I'm even going to show the center of the flower starting to emerge, so I'm going to go ahead and switch to a nice bright yellow like that, and then draw just a little dot in the middle like that. Let's add a new frame. I'll switch back to my green, which now I have to go back to the previous frame to sample it. Now that I know that this stem is going to be in it for a few more frames and I'm going to keep drawing the same thing over and over again, I can just go ahead and add a new frame and just draw that a few times, and then go back and do my flowers. Sometimes it's a better workflow to do a piece at a time. I'll just guess how many frames I might need. I'll just draw a few stems. I've done three, and we'll do one more. Let's make more. Now, let's go back to the first copy of the oldest flowers that we did. We need our orange actually, so I'm going to go back a frame, sample that color, and then go to the next frame. I'm going to make my flower even bigger. Maybe my petals start to get wider. Maybe not quite that big. There we go. The petals are starting to get wider and bigger. Then the center of my flower, which is that yellow, you can always go back a frame to select color you need is also starting to get bigger. Then I'll go to the next frame. Now, I can go back and forth between the orange and the yellow. Now, we're going to get close to the final size that you want your total flower to be. Make it as big as you want. Recall that yellow color. Then I think that's pretty much the size that I want it to be. I have a couple of these frames that I already drew left. I want to hold the bloom as it is for a couple of frames. I don't want it to be just static. I want it to have that wiggly. See, it's going to wiggle because we're doing a hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation. If you want it to look wiggly, you have to redraw it. Let me get my orange. Now I'm just going to trace my previous frame because I want it to stay the same now. I can go to my next frame and do the orange while I still have orange selected, do it assembly line. That works too, like I'm doing. Now, I can switch to my yellow, go back, do all my yellow like that. Cool. I think that's going to work. Let's try it out. We're going to hit "Play". So cute. Let me try the ping pong looping method because I think that's going to look better. I can bloom, and then go back out. In fact, I might draw a couple more frames to make the bloom stay up just a little bit longer. Let me do that real quick. Add frame. Got to go get our green. There we go. Now, we're going to trace over this. You can add as many more frames as you want to keep the bloom in place. I'll do a few, maybe three more times. I'm adding three more frames of the bloom fully opened. I did all the stems, and now I'm going to do all the petals. I'm just tracing over and coloring it in. Doesn't have to be exactly perfect. If it's a little off from frame to frame, that'll just make it look more wiggly. There's nothing wrong with that. That's like using this brush because it has a lot of character and all these little dry strokes on the edges. When you're doing this type of animation, that's really like loosey-goosey. They were just really compliments it very well. Now, I'm just going in and adding the centers to all my flowers. Cool. Then I think we should be done. Awesome. I think that's so cute. One more thing, I think this needs is a blink frame right before this one to show that there's nothing there. Let me add a frame. I'm going to move this blank frame to the beginning. It's between my background and this very first frame. I might even hold it maybe two frames, so it'll disappear completely, and might hold it even longer than that. Maybe let's try five. Good, because that gives it a little pause before it pops back out again. That's so cute. This particular animation gives you a real taste of what it's like to create an animation and go from it changing from one thing to another and having to draw each frame individually. There's a lot of work that goes into animation, and doing stuff like this has really helped me get an appreciation for all the amazing animation that is out there in the world. I hope you had fun with this one. [MUSIC] In our next animation lesson, I am going to show you how to animate one of my favorite things. That is little sparkling stars that you can use to add a touch of magic to just about any illustration. This lesson is also going to give you a taste for tracking different motions that happen at different times within a piece. I'll see you then. 20. No. 14: Sparkle Stars: Welcome to Animation Number 14. We are going to be animating one of my favorite things, and that is some twinkling sparkle stars. In this lesson, I'm going to be teaching you how to create movements that happen at different times within the same timeline so that we have movements that are starting and stopping at different times to create this twinkling effect. You'll get a lot of practice animating different elements within the same scene. Let's get started. Let's tap the plus sign in the upper right corner to create a new canvas. We're going to use that 3,000 pixels square canvas template that we made earlier in the class. We'll begin this piece by setting our background color. Let's tap into our Layers panel, go to Background Color. I'm going to be animating these little sparkle stars. I'm going to do them in white so you could really use any color you want for your background. I am going to use a nice bright orange. Then I'm going to tap over to the color picker circle to set my brush color, which I already have it set to white, but you can double-tap close to white to choose white as your color, or you could do whatever color you want. Now for the brush, I'm going to keep using our trusty Blackburn brush, but of course, could use whatever brush you like. Just like in the lesson where we did the word, okay, that writes itself. We're going to set up a guide to use to create our animation. That's what we're going to do first. We're going to set where we want. All our little sparkle starts to be. For these sparkles stars, they are made up of three lines, one vertical line, and then two lines that make an X. That all three lines are evenly spaced. I'm just going to go around and add a few of these. You can do them in different sizes. Just add a few here and there, and then I also like to do a little plus sign stars like this just for visual variety. We'll do and write there, wow, it's maybe down here. Then maybe one more lake right there. The more stars you add, the more complex your animation might be. Don't go crazy, but you can add about this many, it would be good. This is going to be our guide as we create our animation. Let's go to our layers panel and we're going to reduce the opacity of this layer by tapping the little and then reducing the opacity so it's just visible, I'm at 20%. Then we'll open up the animation tools. So Actions, menu, Canvas, and turn On animation assist. Then we're going to set this guide as our background layer, so we have it available to use in every frame of our animation. Tap the frame and choose background. Now let's go ahead and tap Add frame. The goal here with these little sparkles stars is we want them all to twinkle at different times and at different rates. If they all grew and shrank at the same rate, it wouldn't really look very convincing as like twinkling stars. To achieve this, we're going to animate one star at a time. Let's start with this guy here. I'm going to start by just starting small and then building up to the full size and then shrinking it back down. I'll start with a little dot like that. I'll tap, Add frame and then I'll draw just like a little version of it. Tap Add frame. Draw it a little bit bigger. Tap, Add frame, and then draw its full size. Tap Add frame. You could even go a little bit bigger if you want. We want it to go even bigger. Just depends on how big you want it to go. Then tap Add frame, and now that we've got it at its full size, I'm going to shrink it back down. We're going to draw it smaller. Tap, Add frame. Well, that's smaller, even smaller until it's just a little dot. Then we want to have several frames where this animation isn't happening at all, like this star is just disappeared. I'm just going to tap to create a few more frames like that. Now I'll play, we've got one star that's like twinkling bright and then goes away. At this point, I'm going to go ahead and also adjust my frames per second. That it's animating at the speed I'd like. I'm at nine frames per seconds, so we'll just go with that for now. Now we're going to work on animating one of these other stars. I'm going to go ahead and hit Pause. I'm just going to find a different spot in my timeline here. Maybe I'll start right here. This star is about to disappear, and maybe this star over here can start appearing. I'll start with a little dot. I'm just going to slide to the next frame. Now. Draw that a little bit bigger and then tap to the next frame. Go even bigger. Maybe go to the biggest that it's going to be. There we go. Then tap to the next frame and maybe now I'll start getting smaller. It gets a little hard to see with all having all the onion skins turned on. I'm actually going to lower it. I'm going to do two onion skin frames so I can see if the animation is getting bigger or smaller. I think that should work. Now this one's just a little dot. Let's see how that looks now. So cool. We have two little stars twinkling at different times. You can also play with the like, how fast these stars expand and shrink. Maybe for this one, let's see, I'm going to start, maybe I'll start here in the timeline. We'll make this one go really slow. I'll start there and just go like a tiny bit bigger. Just like a little bit bigger after that. I'm just tapping to the next frame, making a tiny bit bigger. Each time. This one is actually taking me more frames to get to the same size, meaning that it will actually animate slower. Maybe I'll do one more, maybe even one more. It goes from a small to big, like much slower. Now I'm ready to start going back down. We'll just take away a little bit here and there incrementally. Tap over to the next frame. Now I need to go back to the beginning because I've reached the end, and I just know that I need to make it a little smaller than that. Maybe I'm right there now and then just a tiny dot and then it goes to nothing. Now when actually only has one frame where there's nothing there. So let's see how that one's looking in comparison with the others. That one twinkles a little more slowly. Let's do some of these little plus-sign ones. Maybe I'll do this one. I'll start with just a dot, go to the next frame, then go to the next frame, make it a little bigger, and then I'll come back down. That's really just like what? Four frames, five. That looks good. Let's do another one that maybe starts. I will start it right there. Let's do this one. Little dot, make it bigger. So that one just goes pretty quickly, only a few frames to get it back to gone. There we go. Looks amazing but, we can see how they are looking. Cool, this is looking good. I think I'm going to do this one next. I'll find a good spot. Maybe right here, there's not a lot happening right there. Start with my little dot, make it bigger, even bigger, and go this one pretty big. Now it's going to be a little hard for me to go back and know exactly how much bigger or smaller I need to make it. Instead, I'm just going to move this frame to the beginning. Remember, you can move the first and last frame back and forth to help you blend. I'm just going to go over there. There we go. I'll just move that one over. Now we're here, now we need to go smaller. Just moving the first or last frame to the end or the beginning to help you. There we go. That one looks good. We've got a few more to do. We've got 1,2,3,4. Maybe I'll start here with this little guy. Bigger, smaller, back to dot, and two more, just these guys over here. This method takes a little bit of time, but I think it's a really good payoff in the end when you have all these differently sparkling stars, looks really cool. Let's start here with this one. Little dot, next frame, little plus, even bigger. Maybe we'll go even bigger with that one. This one will get an extra frame, it'll expand at a different rate. Back down, going back to dot. Now I think the last one. I think somewhere, maybe right here it would be good. Little dot, go to the next frame. Maybe one more, go even bigger, why not? Now we can start going back down. Hold up. Cool. I think we finished, let's check it out, so fun. At this point, if you wanted to add more sparkle stars, you could just pick a spot somewhere in your timeline and maybe I want one here and then just go for it like dot, go to the next one. Maybe we'll do a little plus sign one like that. Make it bigger, make it smaller, back to dot. Now I have a little star there, maybe I want to add one right here. Do a little dot, go to the next frame, maybe one even bigger than that, and then back down. Cool, let's hit "play". Fun, and maybe we'll play with these frames per second. Move this over, hit play, so fun. I'm not 13 and I like the way that looks. I'm going to go ahead and now turn off my guide that I've been using this whole time. I'll go into my Layers panel and just turn off this Layer 1. This is the one that I use to create the guide. So just turn that off, and now we can go ahead at hit"play". There needs to be something that's not happening, maybe like right here would be nice. I'm just going to find a spot when it's empty and add a little Just turn that off, and now we can go ahead and hit play and see our full dot. Go to the next one maybe I'll do one of these, make it bigger, even bigger, and then I'm going to move this one to the end so that I can blend that animation loop a little bit b. Come on, go over there. There we go. Go to the next one, we'll make this one even bigger, and now go down. Let's see how that looks. Look at all that, so fun. Obviously, this took a lot of little steps to add all the different stars, but it's pretty straightforward. You just got to scroll to a part in your timeline and start making a star, and then keep doing that and add as many stars as you want throughout your total animation. This type of animation looks great around the outside if you did an illustration and you wanted to add little sparkle stars around it that were blinking and growing, that would be a really good way to use something like this. I hope you had fun learning how to do these wonderful little sparklimg stars. This is an animation that I really love, so I hope you loved it too and you're ready for our final animation in this course. In our next lesson, I'm going to be teaching you how to animate a sun with a cloud. More importantly, I'm going to be teaching you how to combine movements within an animation piece where you have different movements happening at the same time. I'll see you in our next lesson. 21. No. 15: Multiple Movements - Sun & Clouds: [MUSIC] It is time for Lesson 15, the last animation in this course. I'm really excited because we're going to be pulling from all the knowledge that we've learned so far in creating one of the more complex pieces that we've made. I'm going to teach you how you can combine multiple movements that are happening at different rates within the same piece. We're going to be working with layer groups. We're going to be duplicating things. We're going to be using the transform tool. We're going to be redrawing stuff. It's going to be a lot of different things, but you can handle it because you are more than prepared at this point. Let's go ahead and jump into making this really cute sun and cloud animation. Let's start a new canvas. We're going to tap the "Plus" sign in the upper right. We're going to use our 3,000 by 3,000 square canvas template that we made earlier in the course. This piece is going to be of a sun with some rays beaming out and then a little cloud that travels across like this. There's going to be different movements happening in the scene and they're each going to be happening at a different rate. The cloud traveling across is going to be a little slow. Then we're going to have the little beaming sun rays beaming out that will happen a bit faster. When you want to make a piece like this where there's multiple things going on, planning is going to be key. You want to think about, of course, what's going to be moving and how fast it's going to move in relation to the other things that are going to move and change. Then you also want to think about what things are going to be static. I'm going to go ahead and just start by making my scene and then we'll talk a little bit more about the plan. I'll start by setting a background color. I'm going to go to my Layers and go to Background color and choose just like a nice sky blue, something like that. Then I'll start by drawing my sun. I'm going to go to the color picker and choose a nice bright yellow like this one. Then of course, for my brushes, I'm still using that awesome Blackburn brush from the drawing set. I'll start by drawing the sun, which is just going to be a big circle like this. Then I'm going to create a new layer and draw the cloud. I'm going to go up to my layers, tap the "Plus" sign to create a new layer, and then switch over to a pure white value. So I'll double-tap close to white. Now I'm going to draw cloud. I'm not really worried about how they sit in relation with each other quite yet. I'm just going to go ahead and draw a cloud shape. I like to make my clouds a little triangular. Here we go and fill that all in. Pretty good and [inaudible]. That's a bigger bumps on that side. Go ahead and get your cloud looking the way you want. Now I'm just going to arrange everything where I think I want them to be. I'm going to go up to my layers. I'm on the cloud layer, so I'll just move that a little bit so it's more centered. Then I'm going to go to my sun layer and move that off to the side. I want it sticking out of the side of the cloud, something like that. I'm just going to erase a little bit right there. There we go. One thing I do know is that the middle of my sun here is going to be static in my entire animation so that I know can become a background frame. Let's go ahead and get everything set up with our animation. We're going to go up to the Actions menu canvas and turn on animation assist. Here I have the sun as my bottom-most layer. I'm going to go ahead and set that to be my background frame. Just tap it and choose background. Then I have the cloud here. There's going to be those sun beams behind the cloud. I need to make sure I put those on a separate layer from the cloud so that I can also move the cloud independently. We know we're going to be using layer groups for this. Let's set that up too. We're going to go up to our layers. I'm going to tap the "Plus" sign to create a new layer. This is where my sun beams are going to go. Then I'm going to just select the cloud layer as well and then group there. All my frames will consist of two layers. The next thing to think about is how fast your different animation movements are going to be. For example, the sun beams are only a few frames. If you remember we did that on the animated headshot and we made those bursting lines. They only take about five frames depending on how fast you do them. Those probably you're going to be pretty quick and it's going to repeat a few times while the cloud just does one loop across the sky, it's going to slowly go across and then disappear. When we're doing multiple movements that are of different speeds, I always start with the shortest loop. We know that's going to be our sun beams because we're going to duplicate that a few times and then we're going to move our cloud. Let's start by animating our sun beams. The most efficient thing to do right now would be to duplicate this layer group a bunch of times because we know that the cloud is going to be in every single frame of animation, even though it's going to end up moving, it is going to be in every frame. We're going to need all of our frames to contain the cloud and to contain this blink layer that we can draw our little beams on. Now, just for even more efficiency's sake, let's go ahead and turn off the visibility of the cloud layer like that. Because when we draw our beams, we want them to go all the way around. The cloud's going to just get in the way for now. If we turn it off on all the frames, it will be a little bit easier. At this point what we're going to do is we're going to duplicate this group a whole bunch of times so that we can make sure we have enough frames to do the sun beam bursting lines animation. The quick way to do that would be to swipe to the left on the group and then choose "Duplicate". Swipe to the left on the group name, duplicate. We'll do that a few times. I don't know, maybe like, how many do we have? 1, 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, that's probably good. I have seven frames. If you remember from when we animated these bursting lines on our animated headshots, we started with the lines at their longest length and then we made them go out. Then we came back and we made them come in at the beginning. Let's start in the middle. I'll just choose one of the frames in the middle, that one. and we can draw the lines for our sun beams. If you tap on the screen, it'll flash really quick, but it will select that layer in the group because it's the only layer visible in that group. It'll just select it automatically. But you've got to remember that you have to tap the screen before you start drawing. Now I can draw my sun rays. We want them to go all the way around and you can make them as long as you'd like. I'm going to do that. We do this one here. There we go. Now we're going to tap to the next frame. If we tap the screen, it'll auto select that layer that's in our group. Now we're going to draw just part of the line leaving the inside, little bit of the inside of the line visible. Just drawing some of the ends of each of these lines. Then I'm going to tap to the next frame and make it even, whoops, auto select. I always forget, but it does it for me, so a little bit shorter and then I'll tap to the last frame. Auto select and then draw a little dot just to show the line disappearing. There we go. Then I realize we're going to need one more frame where there's no lines at all so we can have that little pause before the lines come back. I'm going to duplicate this one. Auto select, and then just erase all these. I'll duplicate it a couple of times just in case I want there to be a little bit more of a pause. We can't use the hold frame this time because the cloud is going to be moving across, so the hold frame feature won't work in this case because that would stop the cloud as well. I've just added a few, let's see how many 1, 2, 3, three frames of just no rays. Now I'm going to go back. Now I'm realizing I need to draw some frames that have the full length of the rays because I want that to hold too. I'm going to actually duplicate this a few more times. I'm going to tap onto one of the blank ones and choose "Duplicate". Now, let's see, I'm going to work my way backwards. I'm going to start at this one that has the full length of the rays. I'm going to repeat that, auto select. I go back to my brush. Now we're in business. I'm just going to draw those lines just normally for about three frames because I want that length of sun beam to hold for three frames. I'll go back one more, auto select. Every time I always forget that's going to happen. Now I'm going to start drawing less and less of the line. I'm going to go back a frame. Now we're just going to draw auto select most of the line leaving just the tips empty. Go all the way round. Go back a frame and draw, auto select, even less. Then go back one more frame and just draw a little dot all the way around. Let's go ahead and play that and see how it's looking. Now that I'm seeing this, I'm just going to adjust my frames per second to see how fast I want that to go. I'm going to slow it down a little bit. I'm at 10 frames per second. I think I probably have one too many frames in when the light beams are their full length. I'm actually going to delete one of those. This is fine tuning. I'll just delete one of those. Now I'll try it again. See that looks a little bit smoother. It was pausing too long in the middle especially because it was a little wiggly. I think that looks good. Now I have all the frames in my animation for the sun rays going. Now it's time to start thinking about the cloud. I'm going to go back to my layers and I need to turn on the cloud layer on all of these groups. I'm just going to check little checkbox for all of those. Turn it back on. I'm still planning this whole thing out. I want the sun bursting the rays. I want it to repeat at least twice as this moves across. In the time that it takes for the cloud to move across, the sun rays will burst twice. What I'm going to do is I'm going to duplicate all the frames I have so far before I start moving the cloud. This might make a little more sense as we continue on. Just to make things a little cleaner, I'm going to close all these groups. We're going to use a method to duplicate this loop that we used in one of our earlier lessons. Let me close all these groups. That's a little bit cleaner. Now the easiest way to duplicate an entire loop of animation is to put it into a group and then duplicate that group. We got groups on, groups here. What I'm going to do is I'm going to select all these groups by swiping to the right on each one and I'm going to put them all into a group. I've grouped my loop. [LAUGHTER] Now I'm going to dup my loop group. [LAUGHTER] I'm going to duplicate my loop group. I'm going to swipe to the left, this is the group that contains all the group, swipe to the left and choose Duplicate. Now, I have duplicated my loop groups. [LAUGHTER] Are you with me? Now I'm going to select all of those groups and pull them out of their bigger groups so that they're back to individual frames. Let's go ahead and select this group. I'm going to swipe all these groups. There we go, all the groups. This is the group the groups are in. Don't select that, but select the groups within it. All these. Now we're going to pull all of these out. I like to pull them up above the group that they're in. I'm just going to "Tap hold" and now I can drag them all above the group. There we go and let go. Now everything's back out of the groups and I have duplicated all my frames, all my groups. I can delete these empty groups now. So delete. Now I can play. Now of course it's going to repeat twice before it goes back to the beginning because I've duplicated this sun bursting animation. Now let's work on moving this cloud across the sky. We're going to start it, it's going to start off and then it's going to go all the way across and then go off. It looks like it'll just continue indefinitely. We know that somewhere here in the middle of our timeline, the cloud is going to be in the middle of the sky. Here at the beginning it's going to be off the screen this way. Then at the end it's going to be off this way. Let's start at the very beginning. We're going to move this off. I'm going to tap the screen and choose the Cloud. Always make sure you choose the cloud only. Then I'm going to go up to the Transform tool and I'm going to make sure I turn on magnetics. I'm going to go to Snapping and turn on Magnetics and that's going to help guide the clouds so it goes straight across. Then I'm just going to move it so that it's just barely visible, something like that. Now I'm going to go to the next frame and I'm going to tap the screen and choose the Cloud. Then we go to the Transform tool and I'm going to move this back until it meets up with my last one, but then move it forward a little bit like that. Do that one more time. Tap the next frame, tap the screen and choose the Cloud. Then we're going to move it back. Move it forward a little bit like that and then go to the next frame. You just want to make sure that you always tap and choose the cloud before you go to the Transform tool because if you go straight to the Transform tool, it's going to select the cloud and the sun rays, and that's not what we want. Always make sure to tap the screen before and tap the cloud and then move. Go meet up with that one and go forward a little bit. Then we go to the next frame, tap the Cloud. Move it forward, something like that. You just keep on going. Tap and move, tap and move. Remember you do control how fast the cloud goes so you can actually control if you want it to speed up and slow down within the animation loop. Maybe like when it goes over the sun, we can slow it down, which would look cool. I'll choose the Cloud and move it forward a little bit. Go to the next one. Choose the Cloud layer. We're starting to get there where it's starting to cover the sun. Maybe I'll start slowing it down now. I'll go to the next frame, tap, choose the Cloud, move it, but this time I'm only going to move it forward a little bit less distance than I had for the previous frames. I'm going to go to this one, tap, choose the Cloud. Little bit slower here. We're almost getting to the point where we're meeting up with where the original cloud was. In fact, it's probably my last frame. The next frame is going to be staying where it's at. I'll go to the next frame. That one's going to stay. I'm going to skip to the frame after that and start moving it this way now. Tap, choose the Cloud, move it forward. It's getting a little hard to see what I'm doing. I might at this point adjust my onion skin. I'm going to go to Settings and turn down my onion skin frames and maybe keep it at two. Let's see, where was I? I got to remove that one so go to the next frame, tap, choose the Cloud. Now I can start moving it forward incrementally. Here we go. Keep moving. Now I'm starting to get to the end, here are my timeline. I might need to speed it up to get the cloud to zoom off before I run out of frames. I might start moving it a little faster now. I'll go a little faster, meaning push it a little more forward than I had been. Tap, choose the Clouds, start moving it. I'm going off of this frame here a little further. There we go. See how big the jumps are from frame to frame. Now it's starting to move really fast. Next one, it's almost completely gone. I just have a little bit left, which is okay. I still have two more frames and the cloud is still there. I might actually just delete the clouds off of that one and then there'll be a little break in the sky before the clouds reappear. I'm just going to select the cloud layer and do that three fingers scrubbing motion to clear that layer and I'll do the same thing for the last one. There we go. Let's see how this looks. Play. Cute. See how it slows down as it goes in front of the sun and then it zooms off because we had those bigger jumps during this part of the animation. But this is really fun. I really love the way that this turned out. In fact, now that I'm looking at it, it might be fun to have some other clouds just static in the background. Let me pause this and go to my layers and I'll find the layer with the sun, and I'll just draw some more clouds right on that layer. I'm going to choose white as my color and just draw some little cloud shapes in the bottom here. Fill that in. Here we go. Then maybe one up here. I like that. Fill that in. I don't want it to touch the sun but it can be close. That's a good looking cloud. Let's go ahead and hit Play and see how that looks. Fun, zoom out. Maybe one more cloud, we're just going to go crazy with clouds here. [MUSIC] There is my final cloud and son animation. We have two things happening here; we have these bursting lines that repeat twice in the same time that the cloud travels across once. It's a little bit more complex to do something like this as you can see but I think it's definitely worth it because you have these really fun movements happening at different rates. [MUSIC] Thanks for sticking with it. As we put together this animation, I know there's quite a few more steps in some some the animations we did in the beginning but once you get the rhythm of being able to duplicate things, you can open up a lot of possibilities for what you can do. I'll see you in the next video where we're going to wrap things up for this animation class. 22. Publishing to Instagram GIF Search: [MUSIC] I wanted to do a quick lesson about how to get your animations to show up when you go to the Instagram Story GIF sticker search. I just went through this process myself and as of now, you can go into your Instagram Stories, go into the little giffing and type in Lisa Bardot, all one word and you'll probably see some familiar animations. I did a bunch of the ones from this course. But let me talk to you about my experience of getting my animations to show up there. If you want your animation to show up in the search results, you have to upload them through a website called giphy.com. Let me just give you a quick rundown of the process that I went to. I created a Giphy account and then you have to make sure you upload at least five GIF stickers. Once you do that, you can apply for a creator account which has to go through an approval process. My approval happened really quick. It was only a day, but for some people it can take up to a couple of weeks. Then once you're approved, your Instagram stickers will eventually populate into the search results. It's different for everybody, how long that takes. It took me I think like eight days for them to show up, but I've heard a couple of weeks for other people. The first way you'll be able to find them is by typing in your Giphy username. Mine is Lisa Bardot and if you type in Lisa Bardot into the search results, you'll see my GIFs. You have to also add tags to all of your GIFs so that they will come up if you want it to be, if you want them to show up for like wiggle or rainbow or something like that, you'll want to tag them. That takes even longer, mine aren't showing up under those type of search terms yet, but hopefully they will in the future. I'm still pretty new to this whole thing, but it's pretty exciting to see them in there. This is my Giphy account and these are all the animations that I have uploaded. After you create an account, you can start uploading your GIFs. You just tap Upload. You want to make sure that you export your animation as a GIF with a transparent background, so you can choose the sticker option. You tap Choose File, go to your photo library and choose your animation, tap Add. Then here you want to be sure to add tags that are relevant to your animation, so it will come up under those search terms and then you're going to upload it. Here is my uploaded animation. If I go back to my profile, I can see now that that is a part of my animation library. The amount of time that it will take from when you upload it here to Giphy to when it actually shows up in Instagram, when I was trying to do this it took anywhere from a few hours to a few days. But now I can create an Instagram Story, tap GIF. If I tap in my name, you can see my library of GIFs. As of now, my GIFs aren't coming up using the search terms like the ones I put it in like rainbow wiggle, things like that. I don't know how long that part takes. If you're wanting to share your Instagram stickers with other people, I would tell them to search under your Giphy username, in my case, that's Lisa Bardot. You can actually go and use these stickers right now. Here are all of my animated GIFs that are available in Instagram right now. I think it's so fun to see something that I've made coming up in the search results and now other people can use these too. You might wonder if it's worth it to go through all of that and it really depends. If you want your animations to be accessible by the great wide world, by other people, then you'll want to go through that process. If you just want to add little fun animations to your own stories, I probably wouldn't bother and I would just use the method of going to the Text tool and pasting them in. One, because you don't have to go through that whole process, but two, they're going to be a lot better quality. When you upload an animation to Giphy, it really shrinks it down a lot, so it gets really pixelated. You'll notice between Instagram stickers and the ones you paste it in yourself, the ones you do yourself are going to be much better quality. That's my two cents on the whole process. If you want to learn more, there's a lot of resources out there on the web about how to do this, but that is my experience with it. 23. On Your Own: [MUSIC] At this point, you have 15 animations under your belt and a wealth of knowledge about how to create animations in Procreate. You are very well equipped to take on the next project of creating your own animation in Procreate. As your final animation for this course, I want you to come up with an animation of your own. Start by thinking about what you would like to animate. Whether it's something simple like shapes, you can pick symbols like hearts, stars. You can pick plants, animals, food, you could do any illustration. There are a lot of possibilities you could do. Lettering, if you wanted to do some animated text. Just think about what you might want to animate, and then also think about how you want to animate, what movement you want to do. We went through a lot of different movements over the course of this course. Think about if you want to do one of those, or maybe if you want to combine movements and do something a little more complex, and then get to work animating. Revisit some of the lessons if you need a refresher on how to do some of the different animations or use the different tools and create your animation. Then I want you to share your original animation in your Skillshare class project. You'll want to make sure that you export your animations in the GIF file format to share them in your class project. If they're really big files, you also want to scale them down like we did in Lesson 1. You want to head over to the Projects and Resources tab of the Skillshare class page and click the "Create Project" button. One more thing to note is that if you upload your GIF as your cover image, it won't animate in your final project. Be sure to add your animations into the body where you type in all the texts, add them into the body of your Skillshare class project. You can share your original animation there. You can share some of the other animations that you made in this course. Talk about your favorite animation techniques that you learned. If there are any aha moments that you've had, I would love to hear about all of it. Good luck on making your animations and please share them in your project. I can't wait to see them. [MUSIC] 24. Conclusion: [MUSIC] Congratulations, friend. You have done it. You've completed the easy, eye-catching animations in Procreate course. I hope that you had a lot of fun learning animations. I had a lot of fun teaching you how to do it. I hope that you were able to experience some of the magic that I feel when I create animations. I just think it's such a fun way to spend some time. You just sit there working on your animations frame by frame, and then you hit "Play", and it's like, "Wow, it works." [LAUGHTER] It's just this thrilling moment. It's so much fun to do. I hope you take what you learned here, and go off making more animations on your own. If you ever want to say hi, please do, and share your animations with me. I would love to see them. Congratulations again on finishing and happy animating.