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1. Stop motion intro: Hi there. Do you
want to know how to create stunning
stop motion video? This is the right
course for you. All you need is a
computer and Kanvaccount. Name is Violet, and I'm multi disciplinary
artist and designer. I teach how to work
with Canva and I also illustrate, Inprocreate. I have an online shop and a
beautiful small art studio. In this course, you are going to learn step by step how to create fun and playful stop motion
animation using only Canva. We will exercise
variety of technique. In the final project, you will create your own fun and playful Stop Motion video. So are you ready to
start? Let's go.
2. INSPIRATION of stop motion videos: We are going to learn
about what stop motion is and how
to create it using Canva without any
cameras or real objects. Let's start with the
important question. What is stop motion?
Stop Motion is a fun animation
technique where we make objects appear to move by
taking a series of picture. Imagine you have a toy figure. If you move it slightly
and take a photo, then move it a little bit more for another shot and
continue this process, you'll end up with a video
that shows the toy in motion. Another example is if you
had a paper cut out of cut of a cat like this cute cat, and you could change the cat position slightly
each time you take a picture. When you play all the
pictures quickly, it looks like the cat, it looks like the cat is moving. That's the magic of stop motion. Now, let's have
some inspiration. Let's look at the Pinterest
board that I made. For you can find the board in your resource section
in the course. Okay. Okay. Now that you have seen examples of
stop motion videos, you probably understand
better what it is, right? Now, in this course, I will be using Canva Pro. If you don't have it, I suggest you try it
for free for 30 day. But if you still want
to create videos with the free version of
Canva, it is possible, but it might take you a
little longer because you will have to remove background
from images and elements, and you will have to use
another website to do that. Now, let's go to the next
chapter, your past exercise.
3. First exercise - Creating a movement : To start creating a
stop motion animation, we must first understand how
it's work behind the scenes. We will start with
a simple exercise that you can actually
copy and practice. After you understand
the technique, you can think of your own
idea and practice again. Let's start with the first step logging to your convoy account. If you don't have a pro, you can still create
step motion videos, but it might take a bit longer as we use elements and
images without a background. Once you logged into
your Cvy account, you can begin by selecting an option to create
a new project. From here, choose video and now we began to add
elements to our slide. Select a basic object like
a flower, go to elements, and then search for
flowers like so, if you can find a flower with no background, that's excellent. But if you don't just remove the background
from the photo. I take this lovely flower and I place it in the
corner of my video slide. You can see like so. And I want to make a video where the flower is step by step
moving towards something. Let's find a box, right? Box, searching graphics. Let's take this one. Or maybe this one. Now, let's take this one. We take this box, we
place it in here. We're not going
to move this one. We're just going
to move the flour. We want the flour to make this round and get into the box. How do we do that? We have to duplicate it multiple times and make
a very small movement. Let's begin. Do you
see the clock here? We want the timing
to be the minimal. 010.1 second, and we
apply for all the pages. Now what we are going to do, we are going to duplicate
the page right from here or we can do
Control plus D. We duplicate this page and
now we take in tiny movement, so duplicate the page again, and I know here I want the
flower to come from this way. I imagine that there is a thin
line here and I follow it. Again, I duplicate and I
do the small tiny movement each time I duplicate notice that you are
duplicating the right, the last slide each time. If you don't do that,
it's going to mess up. Again, I think you start
understanding the idea. If you're not sure that
you move the flower, you can look at
the last slide and see if the movement
is too big like here. What I'm doing, I just duplicate
the one before like so, and I just take a middle. Step and I see, this is okay. Again, you can just do
Control D. If you want, for me, it's easier like this. It's very therapeutic for me. Now we're going to do
something different. We are going to slightly
make the flower a little bit smaller and we can also make
a little movement of the box toward the
left side. Okay? Here, again, we duplicate the page or
the slice and duplicate it. Look what's happened. The
flower is behind the box, we have to put the
layer to bring it forward because we want
the flower inside the box, not behind the box. We continue and
now we're going to do something really,
really nice. It's going to be like
magic. Watch it. After we duplicate,
multiple time and make all our tiny movements. We want to make a feeling like we want to create an illusion
that the flower is actually getting into the box. How do we do that?
It's very simple. Watch it. I move the
flower a little bit. And look, if I take it
a little more down, look what happened,
I need to cut the flower and to
align it with the box. Let's do it again. I
just cut the flower. Now we have the illusion
that the flower is starting to get into
the box, right? Duplicate page. The flower actually is
too big, but never mind, you get the idea because this is only your first exercise. You're going to become better. I promise as long as
you keep practicing. Duplicate again, and
what do we do now? Yes, you guessed right. We are cutting the flower
again Look it's like a magic. It's really easiest
animation in the work. I love doing it. I hope you too. Some people are saying
it's hard work, but I don't think so. I think it's really fun. Look. We can keep it this way or if you want to really
put the flour inside, you can do and cut again. Last one. I think you understand the idea. If we want to see
what we create, we need to play back from here. Let's see what we created. Wonderful, isn't it?
4. Stop motion techniques: So we can see that we have
stop motion techniques. You want to bring your
idea to life and there are many techniques you can use. For example, changing
colors in items or text, element cropping, maybe making objects
appear or disappear. Let's see some example. Element replacement when
we take one element and he becomes something
else like here. Element dancing or moving
scaling or zooming out, changing color, and making
objects appear or disappear.
5. Second exercise - Adding items: Now let's create
another video in which the elements do not move in a motion in a
certain direction, but are added from image to
image, like in this one. This is what it looked
like behind the scenes. There are two ways to
create this video. The first way is
to add an element to each slide,
duplicate the slide, and then add another item, o and continue this process
until the end result. Another way which I prefer, and it's much easier for me is to start with
the final outcome. We just set up the last slide with all the elements
that we want, and we just begin to duplicate, we begin duplicating and
removing one element at a time. And, of course, you
must see that this is a reverse of what we did
in the first exercise. Now, make sure to organize
the slide properly, beginning from the last one, the last slide, and
working your way back. Let's do this together. So after creating
our final slide, we start to duplicate it. Now we can duplicate. The page, like we say, we are reducing one
element at a time. I delete this. I duplicate, delete this, duplicate
again, napkin out. Don't forget to
duplicate the last one. I'm starting to
reduce the element, duplicate and reduce and
you get the idea again. And you can see this
is much easier. Oh, I didn't duplicate. So this one, I have to
duplicate and again, reduce reduced cheese and the tomato. And I think this will be the
first slide that I want. I don't want to delete this
one. Now, what happened? We have everything we want, but we have to rearrange
the slide because look, we don't want this result,
we want the opposite. I just start, it's much
easier to go here to the grid view and I start to
take the first slide here, put it last, and I start to make my way you
take this one before this. It can be a little
bit confusing, but you can still see
all the elements. It makes sense to start with the plant and
you can double check here. You can see there's a plan
and then a plate sorry, plate with tomato, plate
tomato and cheese, et cetera, and you
can see that you have no mistakes here and
go to the first slide. But play. Great. And now all you have to do is
just to add a music.
6. Third exercise - Element replacement: In our third exercise, we are going to
use the CAT tool. Let's exercise
together this example. Okay, so I'm taking an
apple that I found. I make sure that it's in the same size of the
illustration of the apple. If I can't see good enough, I can also I can take off the transposity and see be
more accurate, like so. I think it's good enough for me. And now what I'm doing, I'm cutting the
upper apple. Okay? We are making a Apple exchange, maybe a little bit like
so. And I'm cutting it. Cutting it like so, okay? So you start to understand
what happened, right? Again, I am
duplicating the page, and now it's easy to move a
little bit the real apple, the green apple, and
I'm just pull gently and I'm extent my photo. And here I'm doing the opposite. I'm moving the
illustration of an apple, and I am cropping
it, like so. Okay? Pay attention. Don't
crop it like this. If you do so, you can
see the line here are cutting and the line
here is on the green line. So when you are cutting, pay attention that you
don't cut anything else. Now, I'm duplicating again, and I'm repeating the prosis. I'm adjusting everything
to look nice. Tiny movement, of course, as we already learn,
I am not forgetting. Don't forget to duplicate. And look, now I'm
doing the same. This apple is a little it's not fitting well,
but we tried anyway. You don't have to choose apple, of course. You can choose
whatever you like. And experiments,
that's all the fun. Great. Of course,
you don't have to stay with a white background, play with it, be creative. We're just exercising
a simple stop motion. And we are almost finished. Again, I'm looking and maybe two more because I really
wanted to look nice. This one. Oh, look. Look what happened. Don't do what I did.
I didn't duplicate. I was working for nothing. I had to duplicate
and I didn't do it. So I'm happy it happened
because you can learn from me. Okay, so now that I duplicate, I am cropping, again, moving the items, the apples. Yeah, I think, these
ones are good. And again, duplicate,
moving, cropping. Continue for two more slides. Duplicating, moving,
cropping here. I think we have, this one. I'm trying to be accurate. This is a little
big, so I adjust it. I am duplicating again. And now we have
almost a whole apple. I'm checking if it
looks good. No. I think like this is better. And again, duplicating. And now we have the whole apple and we can just delete this one, just throw it away
from the page. And what I'd like to do
is when I duplicate it, sometimes I like to make
the object dancing movie. So what I'm doing is
shake it a little bit to the left and duplicating,
shake it to the right. And I can copy these two
last slides and past it, but I prefer to duplicate
and do it again. I don't mind. Duplicate
and shake it a bit. So we can test it before
we continue if we want to go the other way
back. Let's test it. No. Let's test it. Great. It looks very nice. And we can continue, of course, from this slide and
we can duplicate it. You can make all the way back and replace it
with something else. So it's up to you. You can exercise. You can choose any
item that you want. It doesn't have to be an apple. Just the trick is to
find something that looks similar in the shape or in the size and moving
and cropping, and don't forget like
me, to duplicate. So good luck on your
third exercise.
7. Brainstorming and Planning: Brainstorming and planning for your first stop
motion animation. Let's start with writing
down your selected topic. Think about a subject. Maybe for your business
or your family. If you're a teacher,
maybe you want to teach something with
stop motion animation, what is the subject that
you want to start with? Create a mind map. Think about the best
format for your idea. Which elements do you
need for your idea? Which text? What stop motion
techniques will you use? And most important,
keep it simple. Mm hmm. This is a stop motion
animation that I created, that I have created
a few years ago for my online soap job. Sell. I have an
online shop called Aita and this is my mind map. I wrote the word
online shops sell. I was thinking about
my print here, my print, my illustration, and then I was thinking
of frames and wall, planet and fun, happy and
fast stop motion animation. And I was thinking about
moving and dancing items. I was choosing my stop
motion technique, and you saw the result. But of course, you
don't have to make all those steps in
order to create. You can just have fun. You can keep it
simple and have fun. So think of a subject. Try to create your own mind map for your first stop
motion video. Good luck.
8. Final touch : Let's talk about how to add music into your
stop motion video. You can select music or sound
effect directly from Canva. If you have a Canva P, you will have an access to a
wider range of options. Let's see how it works. Let's see how we do it.
Find the audio icon in the sidebar in Canva. Pick the music or sound effect that fit your
video perfectly. For example, in this stop
motion video I made, I want to add a
sound of bubbles. I just type bubbles
in the search bar and see if I can find sound that I like and that
matches this video. Let's see how it sounds. Now you know that you can spice up your stop motion video by any music from the music library or by uploading your own audio. Just remember to use Canva content without stepping
on any copyright toes, it is super important
to stick to Canvas content license,
term and policies. Are you ready to
download your video? To download the video, click
Share on the top Toolbar. Now click Download and pick
up the MP Video option. Click Download again,
and that's it. Your first stop motion video
in Canva is ready to go out. Good luck, everybody. I really hope you enjoy this course. Please share your
project with me. I will
Ayelita Studio, Illustrator and multidiscipline designer
