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1. Intro: If a picture is
worth 1,000 words, then an animated picture
is worth 1 million. Hi, my name is Isaiah
Cardona and I'm a Senior Art Director
and Skillshare teacher. And I loved telling
stories through animation. There's something so special
about taking a simple image, letting my imagination go wild. If you've ever had a
passion for animation, for just one in
new way to express your creativity than this
is the class for you. Animation can fill intimidating, but everyone is capable of bringing their creative
ideas to life. In this intermediate class, I will guide you through several simple
animation strategies in Procreate that I use and my professional
animation work that will get you up and
animating in no time, we will walk through
the whole process from setting up
Animation Procreate, to how I come up with ideas
and plan out my Animation. And I will show you
how Bring us since a movement or motion
to your image, as well as how to animate lines and shapes to catch
people's attention. And we won't stop there. I will also walk you
through how you can combine multiple techniques to create
more dynamic animations. And once you have
that foundation, you will be able create your own expressive
photo animation, which you can share with
family and friends. All you need is an
iPad, Apple Pencil, and the Procreate app as an intermediate
class at setup to quickly get you into animation, I recommend having a
basic understanding of work in Procreate and
how it import images. If you're brand
new to Procreate, I'd recommend taking my Easy Procreate
Animation class first, then taking this class next. If you're ready,
take your photos to the next level
with animation, then let's get started.
2. Class Overview: Welcome to my class. I'm so excited to have you here. Your class project is to
make an animation using one or more of the
techniques from this class and your
own personal photo. It can be anything from
a simple animation to a Fun Animated profile or even
acute character animation. Just make sure I
have Fun with it. And to help you create your
personalized animation, I will walk you through four
Fun animation techniques. Creating movement,
animating Accent Lines, creating Motion Trail,
and how I add Sparkles. Once you have those
techniques down, I will walk you through an example projects
so you can see my entire process for thinking through an
animating and Project. This way, you'll gain a strong understanding of
the animation techniques, as well as how you
can apply them to any animation
application you want. The possibilities are
unlimited and if you get lost or need any help
anytime throughout this class, feel free to leave questions
in the Discussions section, the class, and I'll be happy
to help for this class. You'll need your iPad, Apple Pencil and Procreate app. You will also have access to my helpful animation
guide and Working files, which all can be found in the Resources section
of this class. An important note, Resources are currently not available
through Skillshare's app. So make sure use your web browser in your
iPad to download them. And once you've finished
watching the lessons, I encourage you to
share your project and the Project Gallery so we can all see the cool
animation you made. I've even included
some helpful tips for uploading your project
and the Animation Guide, I'm so excited to see
what you all make. Let's get started with our first animation technique
and the next lesson.
3. Creating Motion: This lesson, I will
walk you through two different examples of how to create a sense of
movement in your image. And this is one of my
favorite techniques as it can transform a boring image into an out of the
world animation. The possibilities are unlimited. To start out, I've imported
my image and to Procreate, to share some insight
into my process, I tend to select images
that instantly triggering Animation idea or has a subject that I could see as something
completely different, which in this case, I solve this ice cream
cone and instantly saw a rocket ship in my head as blasting through
the sky pro tip. It also helps to find or use images with
simple background. Sure, animations can stand out. So I'm going to first
flip the image over. The ice cream cone
is pointing up, setting up the Animation. Next, I will toggle on
animation assist tool, which is located in the Canvas section
of the Actions menu. Since my animation will
be on top of the image, in the image will remain static
throughout my animation, I'm going to tap
on the frame and the timeline panel here
and toggle on background. This will keep my image static and allow me to animate over it. Next, I'll add a
new blank frame. And this will be the first
frame of my animation. I'll start out by drawing my rocket ship and
then the flames. Next I will fill in the
nose cone of the ship. Lastly, I'll draw the clouds
on each side of the rocket. Next, I'm going to
add a second frame. And here I'm adjusting the onion skin opacity and
changing the color to green. I've changed the color
to make it easier to see and trace over says, I will be using white and white on top of white
would be hard to track. With that setup. I will now redraw
my rocket ship. And then for the rocket flames, I will change up the
flames as I draw them. As in real life, they would be very organic
and move as the fuel burns. Also, I will draw my clouds a little further
down in the Frame. By moving the clouds down, it will give the illusion that the rocket ship is moving
up past the clouds tip in order to
create a sense of movement with the stationary
element like this rocket, you have to move the background
or surrounding elements. And so I will add a third Frame and repeat
the previous steps of retracing the rocket
and continue to reposition those
clouds further down. Next, I will add a fourth frame. And then this frame, I want to show that
the rocket has fully blast it past the clouds. So I will just redraw
the rocket ship and flames and not
draw the clouds. And because I want this
animation to loop, I will add a sixth frame. And this time I will draw the two clouds at the
top of the frame. This will create a nice
seamless looping animation. Next, I'll play my animation
to review how it looks. And I noticed that
the Cloud placement isn't even between each drawing. So I can use the
selection tool to reposition the clouds
more evenly spaced apart. Sometimes you have to go
back-and-forth between playing your animation and making fixes to get it to
the right stab. And that looks so
much better now. And there we have a nice
linear moving animation. But now, let's look at
how this technique could be applied to create
circular movement. In this example, I have a cool
image of a record player. I wanted to create a sense of circular movement to show
the record rotating around. So as with the previous example, I have my image set as
a static background. And in the first animation, I draw the outline of
the record player. Then I'll draw an outline around the center of the record. Next, I draw some motion
lines around the record. Then in the second frame, I've redrawn the
stationary outlines of the record and then I'll redraw the inner motion lines in
different places by moving the position of
these motion lines around the record
and each new frame, it will create the illusion
of circular movement as it will look
like the lines are moving around the record. And I repeat this step for a couple more frames
to it gives me that appearance at the
lines are rotating completely around
in a seamless loop. I'm not worrying about how these lines look as
the frames will be played back the *** so you won't really notice any imperfections. And just like that, we have a nice rotational
movement that was just created by drawing
some circular lines over the image and rotating their
position multiple times around the record until the animation looks like
it's fully rotating. The number of frames need. It will vary based
on what you're animating and how
you draw your lines. To recap, I just
walk you through two ways of creating
a sense of emotion. And we talked through the
importance of creating moving background elements to give a sense of linear movement. We also look at how we can
apply this technique to circular movement with
the record player. This technique is
very versatile. Here's some other
ways of using it. In the next lesson, I will walk you through
how Animate Accent Lines
4. Animating Accent Lines: In this lesson, we will walk through one of
the simplest ways to add animation to photograph
using Accent Lines. These expressive animations are used a lot and Social Media as a way to call out or bring emphasis to the
subject of an image. In the first example, I
will walk you through. I have already chosen a simple image with
a clear subject, which is the light bulb. And I will animate these expressive lines
around the light bulb. The first step of
my process is to sketch out in Animation Guide. I have found that creating
a quick sketch or Guide for animation
helps me plan out the Animation and think about the number of frames
I will need to complete any animation
while this step isn't need it for
all animations, I think it's important
to use for drawing continuous animations
like these Accent Lines. Or when you're creating
an animation with multiple elements animating
at the same time. To start out, I have my
file already setup of my image set as the static background
and a new frame created, which I'm going to use to sketch out a guide for my Animation. So I'm going to first
choose a color that will contrast with my background and the final color
of the animation, I will just draw
out where I want my lines to go around
the light bulb. And then I'm going to add
some tick marks to help me figure out the timing of
the animation was timing. Timing is a principle
of animation. Associate with the
number of drawings for a given action that varies
depending on the movement. Need it. Fast movements get less
drawings, while slow, complicated ones need
more timing will give believability to the movement of your characters and objects. Then I will make sure this guide layer is at
the top layers panel. And then in the timeline panel, I'll toggle on
foreground and reduce opacity to make it easier to see my Animation drawings below. And the reason I make the
Guide layer, the foreground, is I want to keep it static
as I draw out all my frames. Now, I'll add a new frame, which will be the first
frame of my animation. Then I'll change
my brush color to the color I want to
use for my animation, which will be a
light yellow color. Now I'm going to just draw some dots at the start
of each of my lines. Then I'll add a second
frame and I will draw a small line from the point of the dot to the second tick mark. And then I'll repeat
this step and draw the line to the next tick
mark for all the lines. In the third animation frame, I will redraw my line, now extend it to third mark on each line around
the light ball. Since I want my animation
to loop seamlessly, I will need the lines to
eventually disappear. They can shine out. Again. There are multiple ways
of accomplishing this. I can make them
just disappear by leaving the next Frame empty. I could also have them fade out by duplicating the
last frame and making the layer
more transparent until a Lines just
completely fade out. Another option which
I'm going to use in this example is I'm going to
have the lines taper off, which I feel gives the animation
a more playful nature. And census will be the
only animation element. I want it to be more impressive, but the other options
would be great choice if I want a more subtle animation
for the next frame, which will be Frame for, I'm going to have the lines start from the second tick mark. So the line begins to taper off. And I will repeat
this process tie reached the last tick
mark on my line. And as you can see
with every new frame, I will make the
lines smaller and smaller tie reach
that ninth Frame, which I will just draw dots. Next, I'll just add a blank frame and have
it hold for two frames. I prefer to hold the blank
frame for a couple of frames. So when the animation
is played back, the viewer is able to see the Accent Lines fully disappeared before the
animation loops back. If I did it, the
animation may go too fast for someone to notice
is completely disappeared. And now I have a cool
looping animation. Now, let's look at another
way to Accent an image. And this example, I will
show you my process for creating this Fun
dog barking animation. To start out, I will draw the first sound wave and
the animation frame one. And then I'll add a
new frame and draw the second sound wave
a little bigger. And then I'll redraw the first sound wave by tracing
over the previous line. The third frame, I will draw the last sound wave even bigger, and then I will redraw the
two smaller sound waves. Now, I will add a new frame, which is Frame for, and I will redraw
the last two waves. I'm not going to
redraw the small wave as I want the wave
lines to fade out, so the animation
loops seamlessly. Next, I'll add the fifth frame. I'll reduce the onion skin
frame setting to make it easier to keep track of
the faded out sound waves. And then I will go in and redraw just the
large sound wave. Next, I will add a new frame, which I will keep blank to show the sound waves have
fully disappeared. And now I will press play
to repeat the animation. And there you have a cooled
dog barking Animation. To recap, we just walked through two methods for creating
Accent line animations, which can be used in
many other useful ways. We also discussed how to
create an Animation Guide by sketching out the
Motion Path and timing on the foreground Frame. And then the next lesson, I will show you how you can use an Animation Guide to create
a Fun Motion Trail Animation
5. Animating A Motion Trail: In this lesson, we will build on previous techniques to create
a motion trail Animation. Step one, the Animation Guide. So like the last technique, I will start out by
sketching and Animation Guide to help me plan
out the motion trail. I already have my files setup with my image set
as a background Frame and have set up a blank frame on top
of my Animation Guide. And since I'm planning to use a cyan color for the animation, I'm going to sketch
my Guide using black. Now, I'm going to draw my path. And since this is a guide, is okay if it's not perfect. And for my path, I've added some loops
throughout to bring some more interests and
excitement to the animation. Just like the light
bulb example, I will draw tick marks to determine the timing and spacing on the drawings in my Animation and to
explain how this works, the ticks error closer
together are going to animate slower while ticks
are spread apart, will be the parts
of the animation where the action speeds up. So with that in mind, I have set up my tick marks, so my animation starts out
slow and then speeds up before slowing down while going through the first loop and then
speeding up afterwards. And I'll make one tick mark right before the start
of the second loop, which I will partially
erase the path. So it's clear that
the animation will go behind the lamp here
before looping around to the top showing
your animation going behind elements in your image is a
great way to give your animation more
depth and dimension. And then I will
continue marketing the path to I get to
the top of the lamp. Next I will draw a couple of
tick marks on the lamp head. This will help me determine
the number of frames between the motion trail
and the light turning on. And once again, I will lower the opacity on my guide layer. So it's easy to see my Animation dragons
under the sketch. Step to animate. Now, let's dive
into the animation. First thing I'm going to do is change my brush color
to a cyan color, and then I will begin
drawing my motion trail. I'm just using the
guide to help me know where and how far
to draw my line. And as you can see, the Guide makes this part super easy as I just have
to follow the guide. Once I get to the second loop, I will draw my line
and then switch to the eraser and erase
the area of the line that will be behind
the lampstand and then redraw the line around
the next tick marks. And then the next frame, I will redraw the line, but this time I won't
erase any of it. As I want to show
that little line is moving in front of the lamp. Wow. And then I will
continue redrawing the line till I reach
the top of the lamp. Here, I erase just the tip so it's flush with
the Agile lamp. And it looks like
it's going inside a little app and
seven front of it. Next, I'm going to redraw just a little tell in going into the lamp to show movement. And then I will
create a new frame. And using the selection tool, I will select the shape of the lamp light beam and fill
it in with my cyan color. Next, I will duplicate my
current frame and go back to the first light
beam Frame and use the Selection Tool to cut out half of the light beam shaped. I said it this way, so it's more of a light flow Animation and so the
light just blinking on. Next, I will hold on the last
frame for several frames. And I do this so that when
the animation is played back, the lamp light doesn't
just blink on and off. It will be on for good
amount of time before going off and looping back to
the start of the animation. Now I'm going to tap play
to review the animation. And I decided that the
light beam is to Chris. I will use the
Gaussian blur from the adjustments menu to
blur the shape a little. I will repeat this step for
the other light beam Frame. Then I will play
back the animation. And now I'm happy
with the end result. To recap, I just
walk you through my process for creating
Motion trials. This technique is great
for creating Fun and organic animation elements
that we've through an image. Motion trails also
make great triggers for other animations
and effects as they catch the user's eyes and lead them to a specific
point in the image. Here's some other examples. I use the motion
trail technique. And in the next lesson, I will walk you through how Add Animated
Sparkles to an image
6. Adding Animated Sparkles: In this lesson, I will
walk you through how I add Animated
Sparkles, two images. Step one, animating. Here I have a nice image
of a Fun and isolated subject with plenty of room to add some Fun animations to. We'll start out by drawing my Sparkles shape and
the first frame using a red color from the doughnut sprinkles to show this
sparkle bursting out, I will follow a similar approach to the Accent line technique. So I'll add a new
frame and this time we will redraw disconnected lines, show that the sparkle is
beginning to disperse. Then in the third frame, I will draw in the Lines smaller and spaced
further apart. And the fourth RE-AIM, I will draw a tiny dots. And since this will be
a looping animation, I'm essentially starting over to the beginning
of the animation. In the next frame,
I'm going to draw a tiny little sparkle
shape and the center. Then in the next frame, I will draw the spherical
shape in-between the sizes of the tiny
and full-sized sheep. Now, I'll play back
the animation. After watching it, I
decided I wanted to add another frame to draw a new sparkle that's even
closer to the first shape. And then I'm going to
playback by animation again. Step to duplicate it. Once I'm happy
with my animation, it's time to duplicate it to
balance out my full Visual, my first step is duplicating the animation is to select
the layer and duplicate it, then drag it onto
that original layer, which will create a layer group. Layer groups allow you to have multiple animations or actions
happening in one frame. And I will repeat this
process of duplicating layers and putting them
into layer groups with their original
counterparts. And then once done,
I'm going to change the color of the second sparkle. And so what I'll do is I will select a color from the doughnut and change the duplicate layers to the science sprinkle color. And we'll repeat with all
the duplicated layers. Next, with all duplicated
layers selected, I will move the new
sparkle animation over to the bottom left corner. Now I have two colorful Sparkles around my doughnut image. To recap, I just
walk you through a quick technique for
creating Sparkles and showed you how you can
duplicate and animation by duplicating the layers and grouping them with
the originals. This strategy helps you duplicate animation
without having to go through the work of redrawing the shape again, each frame. And you can use layer groups to not just groups
similar animations, but even very
different animations. And our next lesson, I will walk you
through my process for animating the Class Project
7. Animating Your Project: This lesson, I will
walk you through my process for animating
the Class Project. Projects steps. For the Class Project, you will first Choose
an image to animate, and then you will Apply one or more animation
techniques to your image. Once your animation is done, you will Export your
animation as a gift or Video. Lastly, make sure upload your animation to
the Class Project. Step one, selecting an
image for my project. I have selected
image of myself with a simple out-of-focus
background. So everything in the
background blurs together, which allows for my
animation to stand out. On top tip, I recommend
finding images that have sparse or simple backgrounds
to your animation can pop. Step to planning. Once I haven't image selected, I will take time to think
through my Animation. Let's break down my
Project animation. I have multiple animations
going on at once, but we can break these
all into two groups. We have the motion trail
that traces micro file, which is a continuous animation. And then we have multiple repeating
animation elements such as the tax that says Hi, and these Fun Animate zigzags, since the motion
trail is gonna be the most complex to animate, I'm going to start out
with that part first, step three, animating
the motion trail. So I will follow, is similar approach as I used
in the previous examples. It will draw the line and
segments of various sizes. But since this
motion trail is very simple and we'll just
go along my profile. I don't need to create an
Animation Guide as I'll just be using the profile
to guide my drawings. To start out in frame one, I'm going to draw the
line entering the fray. And then I will draw a longer
line from the ending spot. And I'll continue up
along my shoulder and then around the
color in the next frame. And then in the next frame, I'll draw the line
around my ear to NAC. I will rotate my
canvas to make it easier to draw around my head. And the next frame, I'll zoom in and draw the line around the
edge of my glasses. And now I'll begin going
around my shoulder. And then I will
continue down my arm. Tai reached the
bottom of the frame. Now I'm going to review
the animation to see how it looks and see
if I need to fix anything. And I decided to extend the line around the classes
to make that part of the animation look a
little smoother step for Adding repeating animation. Now that I've created for aims, for the most complicated
animation element, I'll work on creating
my repeated elements. So going back to frame one, I will start drawing
out the word hi. Next, I'll draw a
zigzag elements, which I will have in the
top right corner and the bottom left corner to
balance out my visual. Lastly, I will draw a
wavy line under my word. Next, I'll go on to the second frame and redraw
all of these elements. Again, I will continue
this step of retracing all the repeating
elements in each of those already drawn out frames. By just redrawing my repeated
elements and each frame, I will get a subtle
wiggle animation effect when the animation is played. And now I'll review
the animation. I notice that the age really
shifted in one frame. So I'm going to use
the selection tool and that Frame to
cut out the ladder. And then I'm going
to redraw it so it's more in line with the
honoree drawings. And then I'll play back the animation again
until I'm happy with the final Animation stat
by exporting Animation. Lastly, I'll export
the animation. You can reach the
Export options from the Share subhuman you located
under the Actions menu. I recommend exporting an
Animated GIF to share your class animation
on Skillshare as gifts are easier
to add to a project. And as always, feel free
to reach out to me in the class discussion
section if you run into any problems uploading
your class project. And if you would like to
share your animation on a social media platform
like Instagram or TikTok, then you will want to export
it as an animated MP4, which is the support it Format. To recap, in this lesson, I walked you through
my process for creating the Class Project and I showed an example that use
multiple animation techniques. But your project can be as
simple or complex as you want. Just make sure I
have been worth it. The next lesson, we
will wrap up this class
8. Final Thoughts: Congratulations on
completing this class. I hope you create a project that you're excited to
share with the world. And I really
appreciate you taking the time to take
my class through these lessons and
exercises we have discussed for Fun
animation techniques, how to develop and plan
out your animation ideas. And lastly, we walk through my process for animating
the Class Project. And I hope this class
has shown you how Fun in Easy animation can be. And I hope it's
inspired you to apply these animation skills
and future projects. I'm very excited to see
what you create it. So make sure to post your work to the Project
section of this class. Sharing your project with
the Skillshare community is a great way a help inspire each other and continue growing. And if you post your
project on social, feel free to tag me in it. I always enjoy looking at
my students creative work. And if you'd like more classes to help
you learn animation, then follow me on Skillshare
and checkout some of my other classes on
animation and motion design. And if you've enjoyed this class and found
the lessons useful, I would really
appreciate you taking a moment to leave a review. Positive reviews like yours can help other students
find this class. Thanks again for
taking my class and I hope to see you in
a future one soon. Bye for now
Isaiah Cardona, Art Director & Motion Designer
