Motion Graphics: Design Animated Stickers For Social Media

1. Class Intro : Hello guys. My name is Rosie will hatch. I'm a graphic designer, general designer, animator, concept artists, motion graphic designer. In this class, I will teach you how to unleash your creativity by designing your own animated stickers and express your personality through your design. Social media stickers can hold a new meaning when made by you. In this class, I will teach you how to make dynamic set of stickers with your own unique design. We will begin by studying some references to get the whole idea about the latest example has been done. Then we will learn how to draft ideas that worked for us and choose the category that cover many trend design. After that, we will generate a color palette for our stickers to give them joyful and elegant look. We will take a look on illustrator tools. Before starting our works. After that, we start illustrating each of our stickers one by one. Starting from our ideas through that we will learn some illustration tricks and the best way to prepare them for animation. Then we will impart to our After Effects. We will also take a look of some of the tools we will use for our project. After we make all ready, we're going to start animating each of our stickers while you're working on that, we're going to learn a lot of tricks and we're going to learn about animation. Smoothness. Lupin, as also will see about using our graph to tweak our animation and make it look more smooth. And also we're going to learn about adding texture and how to animate it, does not all, as we're going to learn about speeding up our workflow by using a simple code and instead of keys, last, we will export our stickers animation and turn them to a Gibbs to use on any platform on the web. We're going to wrap up by discussing how to upload them to any platform. Stickers are so fun way to express yourself and interact with people. So if you learn how to do your own stickers, it will add too much to your creativity as an artist, this class is for anyone wants to learn motion graphic for social media. It's for all levels. We're going to use Photoshop, illustrator, and After Effects. This class is so simple to follow. So if you are ready to unleash your creativity, just joined us. Thank 2. Study Stickers References : Hello guys. We're going to take a look about some references are great for you. This mood board with the different stickers style, as you see here. Some made from a typo and geometric shape. These are more modern and creative. It can be applied to many events. So modern and contemporary. This one has more graffiti style, can be for our art event or a street style event. And also can be a daily typo for the people who like music or urban style. It has so much curved line and use it only with the two colors. It's so simple but creative. Simplicity always create elegance. The style here is more vintage with a stroke all around. It can be also for a lot of subjects. And the loop take you back in memory. It uses only with the primary colors, blue, green, and red. The color here always holding some meaning. So you always got to concentrate on that. This tide has more height, it has geometric shapes and also effects. The color combination is so fresh, energetic, and dynamic. He's can be also example for a summer vibes or something like that. Even for the music, it can be for anything. Our last category here has a simple graph, but the creative touch are the textures. It gives it more power and elegance. Also the contrast between the black and yellow attract the eyes much. It can feed for any daily post. These ideas of a stickers creation. Now it makes our brain develops some ideas to work on. So let's go and start our preparation. 3. Draw Stickers Ideas: Hello guys. Now we will draw some ideas about our stickers to use them as a guide. We open in Photoshop, we choose any landscape document, no problem. We will make a new layer and then we choose any kind of a brush. This class is not for drought. We will just create a draft of our ideas to use them as a guide. Also, we're going to learn how to choose the categories. You can draw the ideas on any place you like. No problem. You can use Photoshop or a tablet or even a notebook with a pen. You just scan them and upload them to the computer and use them. He, first one, what I've drawn here is the music stickers. I like this category because it represents me a lot. It came to my mind, it to draw upon the head. So I'm drawing that I felt is going to look nice. I think it will also look elegant and it can fit for anything. The same times we are thinking about the way will be animated from now, even before we illustrate, I added a dipole that sounds so nice and also musical to my ear. There are other things represents your personality and your style. You. So I made this cool idea here from each category and we'll create two, then choose one. You can do even more than that as you want. It's according to your style. I was thinking maybe smokes will be going out from the score. So the typo, I'm going to draw maybe muse and make some red blood and dropping from them. It's too much animation, but the idea, it will look very nice. Now I'm making another category which called Cinema stickers. I like this category kind of a given a mood of relaxing and enjoying time. We made he'll come in a drought. I think this is so classic for my taste. So I need more creative and interesting animation. I'm drawing other popcorn. They have the idea of animating them popping out. I'm even thinking of using some code in for this. Don't trash guys choose well the categories and the shapes. Now we type cinema time. I wanted so simple and direct. Now we will make a new category about love. So I made a simple heart shape with some motion. But I also, I want to have with my stickers someone typo. So I make one says Love. I know already I want to have some letters, movement. I'm thinking already that I'm going to choose this one. Draw different styles and idea. It's good to have many choices and roads to go. You do an art, so fly with your ideas. I added a little bit of color just to know it will be different. Now I'm thinking of some category bring joy to the people. So maybe I'm gonna go with the pet category. Hand with the fingers. Maybe can be animated. And a simple typo says friendly. This is also, it's so simple for my taste. But the idea is not about complicating things. Remember, clarity and animation style is the most important. For the second one, we draw our kid. I like to have one of my stickers as a character with the mood that we look joyful and nice. As I like the idea more because maybe I animate the tail and the head. You can make as much as you want. Categories. Just make it hold something in common to be a set. I'm not so much with the idea of individual style. I need to have a collection to publish different from the other one. Also, I like the typo. We say maybe something easy like acute, or maybe I'm cute. I'm going to see about that. Now we'll create a new category that it has a message behind it. And also trained example like saving Earth. As you know now in our world, this is are the most subject we talk about and we try find solutions to. So it's gonna be always a trendy and create each one style and maybe daily activity and drown recycled back to make people remember saving the environment from the plastic. This can be animated in a way, the movement. I don t think as well. We'll go with this one cause so simple for what I like. The second one, I want to target the fitness and the vegan community. So I'm going to draw something more about vegan and fitness. It's kind of a reminder of staying fit and healthy. We make work with simple geometric ellipse. Then we say simple message. Let's meet more feet. We're going to also draw a line. Era is the meat word that will be animated. I know already that I need energy in my animation movement. And a reminder, the alert, she goes, We are thinking out loud about animation categories, what we want to target, what feed our style, what express our idea. We got to think of all these details while we are drafted. Last category is going to hold the big message and also trend everywhere because all happening around the world now about the world, we will make one's talking about not making war. First one is gonna be so simple, dangerous sign. And we put water inside and erase it. If you know how to animate this, definitely is going to look so nice. It's not about illustration, it's about the animation and the effect we would put. Anyway, it's not my ideal choice. I have more creative idea about making bump open than a hand with a flower appear in a simple table says no door. I think I will choose this one because I want to add to it a texture and I will show you how to animate it in After Effects. So would we certainly can things. Now I will start choosing one of each category I want to make. I want to choose the one for the music which is the panda dope. That's for sure because it represents my style. Also with love, I'm going to choose the type or as I told you, I want to have some all my stickers as a typo, save earth alike, more of the work and the idea behind it. So I'm going to see how to animate that and make it look so beautiful. Cinema. Sure, I like the idea of popcorn animation. I'm going to choose that. The war, we already says wrong some texture. So I'm choosing the bone. As you saw guys, we choose our ideas. Now we're going to just go and save the file as a PNG or JPEG as you want. 4. Generate Color Palettes : Hello guys, know before we start, we need to prepare one of the most important keys, the color palette. So we're going to generate ones in this website. Colors. To do that is so simple, we're just going to click on the Start generate and button here. As you see, there are many nice colors. You just click on the space bar to generate the different ones. If you like any colors specifically, lucky to then keep generating a new one. Here we'll add this blue without also the orange right here. I'm trying to lock and unlock till I get what bulk to me more. By now I won't generate only four colors. So it keeps searching for interesting things for our project. I like this little boy, blue. Then I added one more color. I love this purple also. You see how it works, guys. It's better. I think, about the color that we draw category. Now would just export our palette. Do that with our project. That's it guys is simple tip to generate a color palette for any project. 5. Learn Illustrator Tools: Hello guys. So in this one we'll just take a quick look about illustrator tools will work with in our project. As usual, just choose the document resolution, any kind. On the side. As you see, we have a lot of tools. First one we will see is the shape tool. You can see we have a lot of geometric primitive shapes. Choose rectangle. Then you can change the stroke size, color, the fill, all that, drag over the document and you will create rectangle with the size and the color you want. Here you can change the color also. You can make it empty. If you click on these buttons. If you hold Alt and drag, you will create a duplicate one. Small circles, these two rounded the corner of your shapes. And if we select both and go to Pathfinder, here we choose union. It will join the shapes together, is going to give you only one shape. Now we're going to give it a color. So you see we have this new shape. So easy and simple. Now I want to show other thing. We're going to create ellipse shape. Same change the color or make it empty. Hold Alt and drag to duplicate or the circles and put them intersect with each other. Now select both and go to shape builder tool. You see this plus simple. If I drag over all the shapes, it will union there. And it's gonna give you only one shape. Now, if I wanted to subtract some shapes, I just hold Alt and click. It will delete all the shapes you don't need. Now, we have, as you see here, the small shapes. We're gonna give it a color. That's it. Now we have this one ellipse with a small part of the circle. We're going to group that will make our shapes together. Then we can treat it as only one shape. Now, if we ungroup is going to separate the two different shapes. Now let's play again with the shape builder tool. We subtract this shape right here. Now as you see, I have a circle with the empty part. The tools we will work with are not complicated there, so simple just, you just need to practice more. If I want to deform my shape, adjust drug. We're going to learn a lot while we are working on our project guys. Here we are just taking a quick look. The pen tool here is one of the most used it for vector illustration. You just click and drag to create a line or make it curve. After we just click to make the second point. As you see here with grid in this shape. Now, this tool, under the move tool, it helps you to reshape the bus. You click on any point will appear this little circle here. And when you drag it is going around your shape. Now, I will add a line over it. Select both together. We go to Pathfinder. This time I'm going to choose the operation divide. Now we're going to in-group and it will separate the shapes. So simple and fast. When I work on any object, I tried to mix many tools. The align tool here is to align the shape over the document. To the left, to the side, to the center, wherever you like. Here we have all the layers. When we want to create a new layer, we just click on the Plus button. That's it guys will look a quick look on the tools we're going to use in our project. You're going to learn more while we're at work. 6. Illustrate The Love Sticker: Hi guys. Now we'll start illustrating our stickers. Let's try first greeting new document. We will change the resolution to pixels and we're going to create one document, 500 by 500 pixel. This is the best resolution when you are working and it gives. Now we're going to need to bring our draft. So we go to Place and go and portfolio. We've got to put the love dropped in the middle. This way we can use it as a guide. It's always better to make a draft as a guide, Selena, what you will do. Make an art always need a new ways of doing things to bring more authenticity to your work. Grab the file. Illustration need also to be always a clear and simple to understand when working on stickers. We don't need it to be clear to not distract our eyes. The idea here is just to use it as a guide. So we go to appearance right here and we dial down the opacity. Now we're going to add a new layer by clicking on the plus button at the bottom. Always lock the background first. Now we're going to start designing our sticker. Be careful guys, you've got to put each shape will be animated on a different layer. The ones will not be animated. It's okay to let them on the same layer. Now, we're going to use the shape tool to create a rectangle vertical. We're going to let the field empty and the stroke block. The idea is to draw the shape letter L. Maybe are wondering why we don't write it with a text because I want to make the type of metric shape in After Effects. We'll give them the 3D values and I will show you how to do that. Now we duplicate by holding Alt and drag, then place it at the bar. Same exactly like writing the letter L. Now to join the two shapes together, we select them, then go to the Pathfinder and then choose the operation union. You know already the tools guys, because I showed you before we start our work. Here, we just repeating all this stuff. Now we do the same rectangle, but we place it, you're gonna then we're going to copy other one, crossing same holding Alt and drag. We would put them intersect with each other like the letter X. Illustrator thinking always that will make you get the aim and results. We will select both. Then click on each point corner that will make two circles appear. Loose ones, we drag them to make the shape rounded. Now we select all again, and this time we will use the shape builder tool. It's very powerful one. If you want subtract some shapes, you just hold the, the key out. Then you click. Then we drag over without holding Alt N is going to make it all union. As you saw here, we got the heart shape as we want. I gave you again, don't forget to put each letter on a different layer because every one of them is going to be animated. If you forgot to make that, just create a new layer, then you copy with Command C and then you select the layer and then Command V to paste it there. And not forget to delete the old one. Now we're going to make the letter V same rectangle. This time we select the point in the bottom to reshape it. Just a drug copy by holding Alt and drag. Now to flip the rectangle you choose transfer. So you go to object transform and then reflect it on a vertical 90 degree that will mirror it to the other side. We do the same now select both, then go to Pathfinder and choose union to make it smaller. Now let's create the letter E. So we're going to make three rectangular parallel. Try always to tweak your illustration to make it look better. Now we're going to duplicate another one. We make it like a holder for all the three rectangle. We are shaping the letter E, but with the boxes. Now select all and simply go again, Union there. As you saw, it's so simple, you just practice using the shape builder tool and the Pathfinder. Both are limitless. Now what remains is to color the sticker. First thing, I need to bring the color palette we already generated. Go to place the same when important. While you are working on your illustration, you got to be already thinking how you will animate it and which parts will be not animated. I prefer always your colors reflect the category chosen, the color, the design. We choose the color from the color palette using the eyedropper tool. You just select the Eyedropper tool and then you select the shape you want, and you choose any color. Now we make the stroke bigger. I gave it a color white. The heart, we'll give it a color orange. I don't want to make more than three color the v and the e is gonna be the same color as L. Experiment always take you more and more further and also make you work faster. Avoid always use too many colors. I think maximum for color is more elegant. But you are free to do whatever you want because it's not a problem. Now I want to create some highlights for the heart. So we're going to select it. We go to the Path, Offset Path. Thus we create for us a new stroke is gonna go to incite, use as a highlight effect from the light reflection. I want cut some part of it. We're gonna do that by working with the scissor tool. You just click on the key C to make it appear. Now we're going to create points where we will cut. Okay? So simple. You just delete with the key. To make the ends of this row grounded, we go to stroke and choose the icon for that. As you saw the stroke already gone. So we need to make it again for each our letter. So create the strokes. And then we rounded the edges will be more pleasurable and smooth for the eyes. You got to think about these guys, creativity always need your mind to be open to new ideas. New ideas in your head. Even if they look so crazy, you got to try the observed always are that will feed your brain and finding new ideas. Tools never create a grid. Artists, guys, style and SNCC always does. Always remember that. Now we've got a little bit more from the heart highlight. So this is looking much better. Now already we're going to just check if everything is correct, its shape and a different layer. Now we're going to unhide the background. Then go to file, save as Illustrator format. So easy and simple. That's it guys. This is our first sticklers already done. Now we're going to keep on with the others. 7. Illustrate The Panda Sticker: Hello again guys, which was as we did before, already knew documents, same resolution, 500 by 500. That's the best resolution when you create your stickers, will start making the panda head. So we select the ellipse tool and create a circle. Don't make it with the correct proportion. We just got to make it like a V-shape. As you see, I'm not using the draft. I already knew how I will do, but for you always use the draft as a guide. So we don't make some mistakes. Now with a rectangle shape in a black color. This will be as upon the ear. Simply copy it by holding Alt and drag. And then we need to mirror to the other side. So we just go to Object Transform, Reflect on a 90-degree. Now we select the point at the top. We reshape the upper part by dragging the points circles appear when we select the point. Just drag them to make them rounded. Now we select all, then with the shape builder to withdraw over all our shapes to Union them. You can even draw and make the ears different shape, not as we did here. Try new ideas, maybe we'll give you something more nice. Change the color to white. Now, we're going to select the ears again and change them back to black. As you see, I'm doing all these now on the same layer because I will not animate the head and the ears. But if you will animate the ears example, put each one on a different layer. Think always as an animator or not as a designer only. We will now make the eyes with a rectangle shape. We just deform it to the shape we want. Then we select the point and then around them as we did before. For the other eye, we will create it as x. We're going to just make two lines intersect, intersect with each other. You can do also using the letter x. I prefer this way. Or not making realism art, this vector drown. You can do them as you want. Now, I'm going to put it on a different layer because we'll be animated. So I copy passed over a new layer. Don't forget to delete the old one. We'll make another circle wide. We're going to put it as the eyes. We want to look as the ponder in real-life. Observed the things always around you guys does give you many ideas and give you a lot of inspiration. Now we're going to make the stroke bigger. Now we're gonna make the nose. We're just going to make a simple rectangle. Deformed at the top. Make the drought the way you are comfortable with. I keep saying these things because it's important for the artists to understand that. Now use rectangle again to create the mouth rotated to put it on and you're gonna also the mouth will be animated, so we put it on a different layer. You guys have, I'm already thinking while working on my illustration. The idea for the mouth here is to make it close and open. Throw the timeline to look so expressive. I will create some Depot to disturb the white and the black color. Maybe I made a little bit of a color. So it came to my mind to calculate like a bandage over the head of the panda. We're going to make it a blue with a black stroke. You can do the same or let it without. I prefer you create your own stickers following this same technique that will help you learn so much better. Never complicate the grounds for you to animate. Go to Path, Outline Stroke. Each shape will be animated. Now we're going to create a small rectangle as a pattern for decoration. Okay? Now group them. You can move them as one. Now we're going to just copy the stroke of the head. Command C, command F to paste it on the same place. When I say command guys, that means Mac, but in Windows you can use the key control. We scale it. I want to create a path for our typo too loose, curve it around the panda head. So I'm gonna go here to the Text tool and choose the text path. Now we type panda dope. The bundle dope. I made it from the panda in the word dog. That's the way in urban language to express something very nice. You see now how it's taken the rounded path. Now with a little stick here, I place it where we want. Now we're going to choose the size and the font. Choose whatever you like. Guys. Don't forget to put the typo on a different layer as it will be animated. We copy the word and the bus to create a new one. So I'm going to edit on the top and a type, another word maybe like example melody. You can choose the different forms or related the same. As you know, this table is going to be animated. So we need to do that every time we're going to animate something. The font you will have are the ones. Only install it on your computer, but you can search online. Many websites download the free or two by one for a commercial user. These stickers is already finished. Know we're just going to go and save us Illustrator, Former, under 8. Illustrate The Cat Sticker: Hello guys know who will work on our illustration. We Great, same document resolution as we did before. Now we import our draft by going to place after that, we're going to place it in the middle and then crop the document. Now we do also the same, bring our color palette. We go to Place and import the file. After we prepare everything. Now going to start working on our design. We use the Ellipse tool to create a circle with a deformed shape. In this one, we're going to mix a GUN tracing. We're going to see how to do that. Don't forget also to put each shape on a new layer. Keep remember that with each one you work in the field, we let empty. We just work with the stroke on me. As you see, the drafting is so distracting and we need to lower the opacity as we did already before. So let's go and do that. Keep remember these guys always draw the way it represents your ideas and your, and your style. The color palette I will put on a different layer because I can't be on the same one if we're going to lower the opacity, try not to complicate the drugs you are not painting. Now we will create the ears same way we did with the bundle stick. We can answer guys make seasonal stickers or event ones like birthday or Christmas. There are a lot of categories you can choose from. I prefer always to make your style. I prefer always to make your stickers in a set like example, having same category or color palette or a texture that should have something income and also will make them always do creative and pleasurable. Remember to group the shapes together if you need to move them as one. Choose object transform and then reflect to mirror it to the other side. Illustration, not complicated, It's not about tools, just about your style. You are the storyteller so you can tell your stories the way you want. Grid other circle further faced with the same proportion. You see guys know we are making a character, so we'll give it a touch of a mood. And I'm thinking to do that with the eyes because the expression always appear there. We're going to create a circle. Then we're going to put a line divided. Select both. Then with the shape builder tool, we subtract some shapes. The idea is to make the eye closing so the cat look in relaxing mood. See something illustration you like. Then you could do the same things with your own style and a way to make it look different. Now we're going to create the nose. We are using the same tools on and on and on with all projects. Really get used to them. Not always represent your style, so don't speak to that. The most important is to express yourself. Drawing guides over the start from believing yourself and knowing where you want to reach. As an artist. I make the line under. I create some cheeks for our kids where we're going to put the mustache. We use the pen tool to make a line, then copy it with a different rotation. All these shapes we'll be together on the same layer because I will not animate any of them. Now select all, go to Object Transform and Reflect. You do the same mirror, the other part of the moustache. Now we create the body. This time we're going to use the pen tool to trace it. First, create a new layer before we want the body to be alone in a different way. That also helped me to be organized with race only the half, to curve the shape, just click and drag. That will create for you a curved line. Then go to transform and then reflect listed on vertical 90 degree. Thus we mirror to the other side correctly. Now I want to join them together. So place them on each other. Then click Command G or Control G on Windows. Now with the pen tool, we create the legs, make a line on the left. And also one in the middle. The left line to the right one the same way we did already many times. Now, to create the feet, we just use the shape tool with a rounded rectangle. Would correctly. Now let's call her all the shape of our cat. We're going to use the three different colors to create a balance. It's more amazing to the eyes to create a dark and light color mix. I prefer you don't use the same colors. Try generate your own. So I already understand how this is work. Try to make it always according to your style. Mini-course I make. I always talk about making your own style and being authentic to your work. Because that's the keys will make you so different from the others. Color represent expression in evoke emotion when you use certain way, start getting that. Now we'll create the day on a different layer. The tail would be animated. I still not sure if I use the one I make here or a new one in After Effects, I will show you how to do that later. But by now, Let's create one right here. We're going to make it with the pen tool. Let's follow the shape. Well, let's see it. Now we're going to drop to the bottom to appear shown from the back. Maybe we do correlated little bit by adding some shape of the top. There are different ways of animation. The kid can be something first or something more complicated by Reagan, all the character. We will do the easiest way and the fastest way to make our cat alive. Now go and select each shape and make them outline stroke. Here I will show you how to animate our get easier and make him alive without complicated. I keep check and fix the shape of the cat. Now, I want to create a dipole that will be animated too. So I'm gonna make it on a new layer. We're just going to type, I'm cute. Something so simple and can put a smile on people's face. This kind of stickers always have a big audience. Well, the font also here, I wanted to have some curves. For the color. I'm going to choose orange and the stroke black. That's all we need to do, as you see guys here. Now we have a great sticker with a character. Then after we animate, it is going to look so much fun. We finished already our illustration. Now we're going to just save as Illustrator form. Put all your stickers in a folder. So later when we import them to After Effects, we have them together in the same place. So let's keep on guys. 9. Illustrate The Wok Sticker: Hello guys. For this one, we will create our work sticker. We select the same resolution, 500 by 500. You know already we made this many times. First thing, bring our color palette. We based it in a corner where we can access it. Now we're going to make a rectangle with the black color. Then we look at we'll make a new layer. Then with the ellipse tool, we make a circle with the correct proportion holding Shift and drag. Now we're going to make this stroke empty and the field wide. Use the align tool to align it in the middle. Color your stickers, as I tell you, reflect the meaning of your category and what evoke interviewer. G, always more simple and also what everything made from like in 3D always we start off from his U-shape. We're going to create a vertical rectangle because we want to have a handle for our walk. Get the inspiration always around, you know, we select the point at the top and then we try around them. So simple. So as you see, it's so simple. Coloring your secrets can be with a Pantone acrylic. Try a different style. It's always fun and bring a new spirit. I can make my sneakers even sometimes look like oil painting or example vantage. We can desaturate the color and add some texture of old style. I can make it even sepia. You go and experiment with the different styles. I want to create a stroke inside. So I go to the path and I click Offset Path. As you see here. If I put 20 will make it look so big. But we want the stroke to go inside. So we say -20. It's going to invert this direction to the inside. And that's what we want exactly. For this one example, I can choose the smoke effect animate from the net and use it to add to my animation is going to look even more creative. Go wide with your ideas, guys, don't scare to try many things. Now, I will just make stroke bigger and the color blue. Okay? The field empty? Sure. Gonna make a little circle over the handle because I want to have a holder. Because as you know, guys do work can be also hang over in our kitchens. Now, I select both. I go to the Pathfinder and click Divide. Now I'm going to ungroup and delete the little circle. You so go to the stroke, disappear. Don't worry if that happened to you. It just gone under. So we need to drag the layer over on the top. Let's create our typo now. Let's say less meat, more feet. This will be talking to the begun people and the fitness community. Make the size bigger. Sure. Any type you choose should be adaptable for your category. It always hold a lot of amine example here. For this, we need the font curve with and not perfect, like the drought on the board with the shocks. You see it a lot in the kitchen or for restaurant. Place it in the middle. Always remember to group the shapes that we'll be together. We choose a blue from our color palette. The typo will not be animated, so I will let it in the same layer. If you want to animate your typo, you just put it on a new layer and then go to Object and then go to Path Outline Stroke to turn it to a shape. Now on a new layer, I want to create the line that will be animated. The idea is to appear and disappear through the timeline. I'm going to animate all the work with a line together wiggling. And I will show how to do that with a simple code. It's going to make our work faster and it looks so energetic. Know so simple guys would just unhide the background and just save us Illustrator file format. That's it guys will keep on in the next one. 10. Illustrate The Bomb Sticker: Hello guys. So we're back to Illustrator again. We're going to work now on the bone illustrator or a sticker. We're going to choose the same document size, 500 by 500 pixels. This one, I will show how to trace Image draft, any kind to illustrate easy what you want. In this one we're going to use geometric shape and also we're going to trace with the pen tool. I'm trying to place the image we're going to trace right here. After we place the hand over the document in the middle, we're gonna go and import the color palette or the top, so we use it when we need it. Now this way, everything is easily accessible for you. Let's lower the opacity of the image. We're always try to mix many tools if you know more than one, that will make your work more easier. We start tracing with a pen. You can select it by pressing P or you select from the tools bar. Now let's zoom to see better our image. You do that with the command plus or control plus on Windows. First, lock the background and create a new layer. Now we're going to start tracing the flower stick with just click to create a bond. Then if we want to create a clarified, we get to drug. As you see, I forgot to put the fill empty, so we're gonna go and fix that. Little round can be done many ways. You can even mix different styles. It's not painting, the need to look, so details just to clear and what it means. Think of our layers will be animated and put them in a different ones. We'll trace all part of the flower with the same layer because I will not animate it. You can use different software to do your vector layers if you know to use other ones. Example, if I want to animate the petal, I would have dropped each petal in a different layer. But I'm just tracing the flower head separated over three parts. And also in the same layer. I want to have the flour alone, in the hand alone. No, I want select all. Go to Pathfinder and then, and then choose the operation union. It's not what I was thinking. I can change other tools, but I like what happened right now. Those would call an art happy accidents. They always occur when you are working is kinda defect, but it ended up a good road to take. Now different layer. We're going to start tracing the hand. I make the bigger shape first the most obvious in the image. Follow the curve drug and poor dragon pool to curve the lines. Other ways of making stickers can be 2D, frame by frame animation, the traditional ones. Thus, all the different techniques. Now I trace on the same layer, the finger one-by-one, following the girls. You can do the way you like and comfortable with it. Just use the same principle, not the tools. Think about all shape would be together and the one will be in the same layer. That's so, so important in your work guys. During the course of these same things? No, we select all the hand and with the shape builder tool I tried Joan part together. You just to drag over the ones you want them one shape. Don't forget to select all before using the shape builder tool. If not, it will not work. Now we join the inside part. We're going to trace the name we forget to do. Now we'll give it the color with the eyedropper tool from our color palette. I don't want to make much color, just one for the hand and one for the flower. Don't need such a colours alone, same color scheme. Grid, also the strokes for all. If you want to create monochrome color, I think that's why it looks so much elegant. Experiment with colors and dx or dx, you always do a new level. Don't try to complicate things for yourself, so then you don't start going working in After Effects. Let's move the flower behind the hand. We need to create the illusion of the finger part. Behind the flower stick. We create line cutting the following shape of the flower girl with. Then we're going to select it with the finger. Will go to Pathfinder and divide. Now, ungroup, then move it. I will reshape it fall under the curve from the other part. I can also put it on another layer, but I will do this instead. It's more easier to have all the ones we've not be animated in the same layer. I'm not just illustrating, but also thinking of the possible good ways of animating my stickers. It's all about the way we will animate the shapes. Now we'll create the bond. We make. So simple rectangle color black. Now we just selected the under point and try to around it. We place other small rectangle on the top that will be the one we're going to animate it because I already know that I will make the top open, then hand appear, then close again. Non tried to copy anyone always try to be authentic the way you're like, it's your art, your own way of doing things. There are no rules without you do the things the way you want to do. After around them. We create tiny rectangle. You'll want to create the handle. I put a rectangle horizontal and deform it. I need more point to reshape the shape. So I'm going to add that with the pen tool. I add more point. You do that every time you need more prone to create a shape, but you don't have enough wants to do that. It's matter of work in smart and also fast. Drop the hand and the flower to the bottom till it's in the correct place. So as you see here IN height and height and drag down. You can also make even black and white stickers. That's going to make it always look elegant. If you don't want to work with the colors, you can go this way. What remained now just the typo. Let's tape simple and direct one node to work. Or maybe make love, not war, put any message you will like to deliver against the war. You can even search on net for some quotes about that and use it according to your taste. We'll use the font look like gravity or handled grow. I think that's the most suitable for mastic. Sure, the color is white. This one will have the texture. We can add it here, but I prefer to do that in After Effects. I'm going to show you how to animate it. Also, n is going to give it a lot. It's gonna give it a push over creativity. As you know, unreliable and should have the dusk scratch. Thus the effect of the environment. We will add only one texture over dust. Now we need to place each layer of the bone and the type of alone. So we're going to copy and paste each part on a new layer. Not forget to delete the old ones after you paste them in their places. He was a mistake. We should do that from the beginning. Who should have put each one of them on a new layer. Before we do this. We don't need to do these now. But anyway, we can fix that. This is the way, as I know already will not have a text animation. We'll just animate the top and the flower. So no need to create the text or the shape. If you will animate it, select and go to the Path Outline Stroke to turn it to shake. Check if there is something you need to correct before you saving your file. That's it guys. Save as Illustrator format as before. 11. Illustrate The Popcorn Sticker: Hello again guys. This one we will illustrate the popcorn stickers. She was the same document, resolution 500 by 500. So let's start by designing our pot, which use the shape tool rectangle. We create one over the document, long and vertical. We're going to make the color blue. After that, we're going to hold Alt to duplicate many ones next each other. The idea is to create a part with the two color columns. If you want to create it with other pattern, go ahead and do that. Non scared, the experiment is going to always make you look so different. I encourage you always to do your own ideas. We put it on a new layer. We should have did that from the beginning. So be careful always about that. That's why I will keep always telling you about it. Now I select different ones and change their colors to white. Now moving to the center, we group all. Then you select the bottom parts point and drag them, is going to make it look like a pot. Now, we're going to use the rounded rectangle to create the edges of the bone. It's not gonna be animated. So I prefer to put all on the same layer. Now to give it a little bit of realism and we'll create a shadow to create a depth under our edges. To do that I just create a rectangle, then give it a color gradient, black and white. Now simple, we go to the toolbar where we have the gradient option and we click on it. That will make the run-up stick up here. We'll place it vertical in the middle. Then we're gonna make a little black fade to white. We do that by dragging these circles. Now we're going to rotate it because we wanted the under edges to have the shadow that realistically where light doesn't access much. Reshape it to follow the curve of the pot. Go to transparency and change the blending mode to Multiply. I may try light here, a screen or something, but I think multiplier is the correct one. Now we'll just duplicate it and put it to the bar. I tried to give you different tricks in each stickers to practice with your own project that's giving freedom to your own imagination and you'll create any shape for your bot. Make it always look your own style. Now, we'll decorate more hour, but we're going to create a circle here with the color in the middle where we want to put some type. We forgot to bring our color palette, so before unpause it and we'll create a new background layer. Then I'm going to go and click on Place two important. We're going to choose the perfect color from our palette. Know so simple, I will type a popcorn. You can even put your name, put the brand name. You can put whatever you like as it's not a problem. Don't worry guys, the popcorn's you see here just to draft, I will show you how to draw the ones we will use together in a moment. No, so simple, we're going to type cinema. Besides the Hagana with any font you like. Let's start creating that. Also time. I'm going to put it in a different layer with a different size and color, also different font. It's so simple. You should have them both in a different layer. As we will animate them. Then you select each one of them. You go to the Path Outline Stroke that will make each one of them has a shape. We're going to use the Ellipse tool to create a circle with deform it propulsion and duplicate it. As you know, in real-life, popcorn is very deformed, doesn't have a correct chain. Greeted as you want. It just come to my mind to do it this way. Now we're going to select all. Then go to Pathfinder union. That will make all the shapes as one. The field color I let it wide. Sure. Then Command C, Command F to copy on the same place. I'm going to make a new shape, smaller and put it in the middle to create the heart of the popcorn. We make the stroke empty and the fill. I'm going to give it a little bit orange or maybe red as any real-life popcorn has some burning color effect. Would any color you like, just don't let it pure white. Now we group them then go path, outline, stroke. We're gonna do many copies all over the pot. Each one of them is gonna be in a different layer because they will be animated. We create them with a different shape and rotation. We pulled out so the shape of some of them to deform a little bit. Some pieces should be smaller than the others. Just here trying to imitate the real life hooker. It doesn't matter, It looks so similar. Adjust, it has the same principles. Now, I'm going to ungroup and delete the heart of some pieces. As you know, some of them would be flip it and they appear only white. Do as many as you want. Now, I was thinking my shadow layer, I prefer to put them each on a different layer in case I decide to animate it. Go ahead and check if there is something you need to fix. Check the layer, check the color, check everything guys. Check if the typo need to be outlined stroke. Because if you don't make outlines, so can you take it to After Effect is not going to turn it to a shape. We're going to see that when you are working in After Effects. We finished already here, the popcorn Snickers. So let's keep on with the other one. We're gonna do the same. Just save the file as illustration form. 12. Learn After Effects Tools: Hello guys. I want to talk a little bit about some tools we will use in After Effects. So the ones you use it for the first time can understand. But as you see here, this is the view part. Well, we'll see our work up here where we import our assets for our project to create a composition, you're going to click here new combo, or you go to composition, new composition. Now here we'll put the setting. We want you give it a name, then you change the resolution you want to work with. You change the color, the background, you can change the frame. Now we're going to start by dropping these asset or a video in this composition down here. Yes, e.g. I. Will use this texture and try to animate this button here. We can hide and unhide the background. If you want alpha fire with After Effects, you can animate anything you want with the keyframes. Your imagination is the limit. Let's try something so simple. We open transform option. As you see, we have scaled rotation opacity position. Let's try animate the position. We click on these club to create the first T. Then we just move the slider to the time we want to change the volume. So I will change the position to move the textures. And that's creates automatically a new key anytime we change the box. Let's see what we have. There. You did your first animation. So simple from a PNG file, you can do the same to play with the opacity rotation or anything you want. When you move your keys to shorten the gap between them, you can speed the animation or slowed. Now, if I want to make it loop, we use a command C to copy and Command V to paste. Drag the timeline to shorten. And if we do our animation, we see how animation loop. Now. As you see, we created a loop animation here. We fill all the timeline. It will create a loop animation here. Our tricks to make the animation smooth. Select all, and then choose Keyframe Assistant, Easy, Ease. You see how it became smoother than the one we had before. I'm going to show you another trick. Also. We're going to play with a velocity number. Velocity goes is the speed of something in given direction. We can tweak it and get different motion. You see how the speed of the velocity change it right now. Now I want to show you here we have a lot of effects animation transition. We can use. We just choose one and rub it over. The one who play with example fade in and out frame. Here you just drop it. So let's see what we get. Then here in After Effect Windows, we're going to play with the balls. You can play with a value here and there are no specific one you just to try until you get what you want. You can also animate the bolus as you see anything has this clock option you can animate. You see it gives me a fade effect to the texture when entering the frame. So that's it, guys. Most of the tools you will use in After Effects, we're going to learn even more wild work on our project. 13. Import Stickers To After Effects: Hello guys. I will show in this one how to import our illustration file into After Effects. To do that, we go to File Import. Now as you see, we have all files here in the folder. We select all know here instead of a footage, we change it to Composition Retain Layer Sizes. That way our files will be imported as composition with a resolution 500 by 500 pixels. Let's see it. Now every time we want to work in any one of them, we just click on its composition. And we will have all the layer in the timeline. That's it guys. So simple and fast. 14. Learn Animation Expressions: Hello guys. In this one I will talk with you about some simple coding can help you speed up your workflow. So we're going to start by learning some basic random expression. The most basic crumble random expression in After Effects is simply random parentheses, random parentheses 50 in the example above, After Effects will return random value 0-50 every frame. The number type it in the parentheses is the maximum value we set for this property. If you were to apply this expression to the opacity layer, it would randomly choose a value. 0-50 is going to happen in each afraid. If you were to type hundred instead of 50, then the opacity value will randomly animate 0-100. Random isn't just for opacity either. You can put any expression we need, hold Alt and click on the watch icon is going to open a box where we can put our code. You can also randomize just about any property in After Effects and gluten scale. If you're just stuck with the random parenthesis expression by itself, what plays back will be different every time. Thankfully, the Adobe After Effects team hooked up with this expression that can help us out. Wiggle expression. You can edit your expression at anytime by hitting Alt or Option on the stopwatch. Again, the first number in this expression represent the frequency of the wiggle, essentially how fast it appears to the shape. The second number represents the amplitude of the wiggle, which is how far it moves. You can adjust this number however you would like wiggle parentheses two comma 40 will make a layer or a shape dramatically but slow. Wiggle. Parentheses, ten comma three will make Layer dirt around quickly without moving too much in any one direction. Let's see what we have. That's it. You see now we have a different effect. That's it guys is so simple expression and multiply them by a different amount. Example for rotation multiplied times by 360, which is one full rotation, and then divided by the number of seconds you would like the full rotation to help. It's so simple expression will make you have the animation so fast. We will see more while working on that loopOut expression. Looping animation and absolutely effect is incredibly easy with the loopOut expression. If you ever had to create a repetitive movement in After Effects, then you probably gone through the painstaking process of copying and pasting keyframes so that they line up perfectly. This technique work, but it's certainly isn't either. As with most techniques in After Effects, loops can be created much easier using a simple expression, loopOut parentheses. The loop out parentheses expression work by taking all of the keyframes in your currently selected layer and created an automatic loop. Once the last keyframe is played, the animation will automatically begin again. In short, your keyframe will look for with loopOut parentheses expression. You also have the option to use two modifier, cycle and ping-pong cycle is a loopOut expression default. It's simply look up the keyframes and definitely The Pink bird modifier, on the other hand, will play the loop, then backtrack to the beginning of the loop. And it's going to keep on and on and on and on. You can use the ping pong Modifier by using loop out parentheses, ping-pong. Instead of loop out parentheses. Let's try and see. We'll make a simple animation position. Take the watch more of the slider further. Then move the position. Now we have a simple animation. So let's try and loop. We click lower child in art, open the box. Loop out, cycle. As you see how it looks. Now type loop out parentheses inside and we say ping pong. Let's see. You saw guys, we created blueprint so fast without copying the keys and tweak the seed guys, these are the most simple and effective. Gordon in an animation. We're going to learn them more while we're working on our project. 15. Animate The Love Sticker: Now after important all our speakers, we will start the fun part by animating each one of them. Before we start, we don't need to have a background color will export PNG file. So click on this button right here is to hide and unhide the background. So we're going to need to unhide the background. We select all and choose Create Shapes from Vector Layer. Now we delete the old layers. We don't need to let them will make the work heavier. It's very important to transform our vector layers to shape, to be easy to animate. First thing I want to do change the type strokes and we just select them then go to the Stroke option up right here and change to black. We need 3D. So we'll click on these Geo boxes shape right here. When you work on after effect or any other software too, I say from time to time. So when it's crushed, you don't start from the zero. To extrude, you need to go to the layer option, the setting and search for the geometry option. Therefore, if you found them gray out means they are in the classic 3D. So we need to change in the oxygen to cinema 4D render. Before we change the value, we click this clock icon to create a key. Now we exclude the shape. To animate it will pull the slide forward in the timeline, what we wanted to change to take place. Animation with keys is limitless. You can do a lot by changing all the settings you have with your layers or change the extrude to have. As you saw when we change the value in the setting, it created a new key automatically for us. We need to copy the first key and place it after the new key. We're trying to create a loop animation. Now we need to use our trick to create smooth animation. Select all, go to the key assistant in choose Easy, Ease. Let's see what we have now. Never, ever let your animation look sharp and static. Try always to make it smooth. It's more pleasurable for the eyes. We want to animate the position of the z-axis. That's the devs position you have when you have a 3D layer. We create the key, then do the same pole. The slider changed the burner to create a new one. Any type of animation you apply, try always to smoothen it is very important. Copy paste first frame and we smooth with the same trick. Easy ease. Now we're going to use another trick, change in the velocity number. So let's put example 70, 50. The velocity guys will change the speed of the motion, is going to give you a different animation from the one you hit. We do the same for the extrude animation. Always put your animation assets in one folder to keep organized. Tweak placements of the key. Now I'll show you another trick. Tweaking the animation in the curve graph will open a try here. We select the dots of the curves. Now we're going to pull the handles to change the animation speed. We can example making it faster when it start, then slower, or maybe slow and at the end, speed up again. Choose as you want your animation to look. We animated the extrude, but also you can animate any other Barlow like the bevel or the scale. Lot of options to choose from. It will always give you a different one from what we have already. Before animating always you have ideas, what you will do from the beginning while you're drawing your ideas, you saw it start fast, then slow down. We copy the extrude animation. Then we just pasted over the other letters. The position animation you can copy because each letter field different part in this space from each other, then they will have a different position Barlow. So we got to tweak each one alone. We start at zero Z depth. Then to 40 than zero. Again. You see how it look? Sure we use our trick of the easy ease and the velocity speed. We're already gonna use it a lot, so we will know it by heart. I'm going to use the same number for velocity. He's animation can be tricky when you practice, you will love it plus downscale using coding example, that will always be a place for your work and make you finish faster. We're going to take a look how to do some basic coding while working on our project. Observe and tweak. We keep do the same for all the rest of the letters. We open, changed the position, then smooth. Any idea come to your mind, even animation, other settings and see what will give cigarettes. Animation can be character typo, simple peak. Work, what you are comfortable with. Experiment. Always take your work further and make you saw different from the others and also make your work look so US-centric. Animating with keys always more accurate if done correctly, the keys always into it. We changed the time of each letter animation start. So we pull the keys further in the timeline to delay frame from each other. Take your time, the more you spend time on your animation, the more it will look better. You can make some stickers take to After Effects to play with a value. It's setting the presets effect. Practice, experiment. You will always get out of something new and will help you become more comfortable using them. See, most of the time are moving keys tried to correct the way we do. Now to make it loop, we copy all the animation keys, we pass it in the rest of the timeline. There are different ways of creating Lupin. I will show you the most effective and fast one, but I've been some simple code. We're gonna do that later with other stickers is important guys to adopt always too fast workflow to get the job done in time. You can also add some animation effect you download from the Internet, like smoke particles in quotes. Whatever can add your animation shows should be cartoonish style. There are a lot you can get from the Internet. As you see here, each letter animating a different time from the other. That will create more smoothness to the animation. We keep tweaking the keys placement to create the Lupron. We can also create our effects alone, Victor style. Then bring them to our work and animate them and it's gonna give you all those different thing. Now what remains is to animate the heart. The idea is to make it begins on the timeline. So simple, we open the setting, go to Scale option. Click in the words to create the first key. Then we're going to go little bit further in time and scale it a bit bigger. Let's play. We make same Greeks Easy, Ease. Then we copy both keys many time in all the timeline frames. Let's see what we have by now. See how that give us the illusion that the heart is beating. You can slow or speedup the bidding by moving the keys further from each other. According to your taste. Let's see again now. Okay. Now you see our animation done. It's so smooth and also looping. That's all we keep on animating the rest of our scene. 16. Animate The Panda Sticker: Hello again guys will keep on with our animation. We're going to animate the band obstacle. As you see, we have more layers here. We need to change them to che, select all and do the same, create shapes from vector layers. Never forget that is very important step before start animating, delete alls. I want my work to be more lighter. The idea is to have a loop animation matter sequence. Avoid always to let unnecessary files in your project, but Command Shift N D to cut this pair layers. Also remember to save your project every few minutes. So in case it crashes, you don't start from the zero again. Okay, already now, let's start our work. First thing I will animate is the xy. I want to make it rotate forever. I will show the faster trick to do this without using the case. So we go, so we'll go here to the watch, click on it to create the first key. Then hold the Alt key and click on it again. It's going to open a box where we can put some coding. Just going to type time multiplied by hundred, mean that the rotation will happen in all the timeline. That means that the rotation will happen in all the timeline and multiply it by hundred. That's the speed. If we want a faster speed rotation, we multiply by higher number. Okay? There are many code and for time, I'm just showing you here the simplest and the basic one. You saw clear now that we have a rotation happening forever as a loop. That's what we want to do with the case, could have took more time. Now we'll animate the mouth to do that, we just select the layer, go to Content setting. Group. Select the path. This will show the path of the mouth. Then simply we go further in timeline and we pull the upper points of the path down to it, become a flat line. It will give the illusion that the mouth of the panda open and close throw the timeline. We are making our upon the head alive is going to have a rotation in the eyes and it's going to have movement in the mouth, emission or any other war coding or whatever. Never tried to go fancy. Just work with what you are comfortable with and give you the results you are aiming for. It doesn't matter that you use coding or complicate things. The most important you work with the things you understand very well. Understanding is the key is not copying the last key in the correct place. We see now what we have. As you saw, we have the eyes and the mouth and you made it used. Now our trick, easy ease and the velocity to smoothen the animation. So guys, so simple and easy, we finish it already shape animation. The last thing we will do now is animate the type. We toggle this box of the GUI code to make it 3D layers, as you see, As you see Go to the rotation axis separated individually. Because the layers that I became somebody, I want to rotate the y-axis. Great new key, lingo and timeline and rotated to the left. Copy is diversity to bear to the same position. Then you rotate the dipole to the right side of the bottle as much as you want the rotation to be. I prefer just a little bit Tilton. The type of animation is a whole separate category can be studying alone. And there are a lot of things you can learn. As you see, we just copying key for our animation to start the static than two to the left, then back normal, then tail to the right, and on and on and on until you fill all the timeline. That's it. We check all the animation. We need to fix some things. We do the same the animation with the easy ease and the velocity as we did with all the animation before. Now adjust the check. That's it guys. We're going to keep on with the next one. 17. Animate The Cat Sticker: Hi again guys. We keep on. Now we will do the animation. We click on the Combo. Now first I want to delete all the layer you don't need before, turns them to shapes. Okay. Are we doing guys, because we did it many times. In this one I will show you how to create a tail in after effects and also type. So we get rid of both. Now click on P to use the pen tool. It works same way as in Illustrator. We're going to make a point and then drag if we want to make a curved line or click a point and then go ahead and make another point to make a district straight line. I draw the tail with the fill empty. I'm just going to add two dots and not so much. I don't want to complicate the forum of the tail. Drug each door to reshape the tail Very well. We're going to try to make it look so similar to the real-life tail. I need to round at the end of the tail. I have here plugin called bud copper. It's a free one. I will let you the link to download it. If you don't. You can download that from the website. If you don't want to use it, you just go here to content. Stroke. Then choose rounded cup. I'm just trying to speed up my workflow and make less clicks. To animate the tail in After Effect. There are many ways to do that. We go by the simplest one. So we're going to select the path, then create the first key. What were our animation will start, drag this slider and start moving the tail. I will simply make it look to other direction. Try and imitate in real, real-life movement. Sure. It's not exactly sure it's not the exact one because it moves so randomly. We keep poor drug till we are satisfied with the result. The animation always hold the story to review or throw the way it's been animated. So think of that while you are working on your animation. Now, great, We have the tail animated. We will copy the keys again to fill the timeline. Simplicity in the moment can tell a lot. Also guys. It's going to look so beautiful, especially if combined with the shapes and the colors. I'll try and make it solid in the three of them. You saw, the animation looks statistic and robotic. It needs to be so smooth to be more believable. We're gonna do the same trick we did before. The easy ease and the velocity speed. Practice as much as you can, not only on animation, but also in illustration. Let's open the graphic and play little bit with the curves. We're going to try to make the animation a little bit different by changing the speed randomly throw the timeline. I use the graph in your animation when you want, add more to it. But don't go over because you can end up in a cave. Look instead. You see it's much better now. As you saw in some parts it speed and in the other it's low. Tweak and z again. Experiment guys try use anytime you have a space to practice, that will always push you more and more. Never let your animation look similar in the speed in all the frames, just to change it by tweaking the curves. Let's animate now the head, you see we have all chambers of it in the same layer. Because when I was illustration or no, I will animate the head with all the shapes. We'll go to Transform setting. We play with the rotation. Let's make him tilt his head to the right. Then to the left. Copy parsed with Command C, Command V. You sure? You got to watch always how things move in real-life and how the speed of the movement that change. And try always to imitate that with your work, it will make it more accurate. The most important here are the principle to your motion graphics. The most. If you know how to animate with a different software, no problem. Go ahead and apply the same principle to your motion graphics. The most important are the results. As usual, do the same tricks for the animation. Now as you see, we brought our care to live as the most fun for any animator to see. We didn't make Reagan or any complex thing here. We just make some simple movement and we made our ghetto life. After this class, you will be able to animate any illustration or object in After Effects or in any other software. The most important, as I told you before, guys, are the principal and the moment. I see some issues here, I know already how to fix this. Let's change the placement of the head and the tail. There are some block and I need to fix just by changing the keys placement, we don't let them are the same with the tail. That's what goes in these always you go to observe the motions, then tweak military issues may be changed more of this bead or the movement. Now with the text tool, we will create a typo to animate. Same as Illustrator. Choose the font and the size and the color. It's so easy, you know how to do this already guys. Stroke, I will let it in black. We use the same phone to choose and in Illustrator all fonts and style it new computer will be available in your old softwares, is going to be different from mine okay? To animate the text we will choose for our preset effect. I'm going to choose something called wiggly scale work. Now you see how the effect Luke. We need to copy past and wikis in all the timeline. Let's check our animation now. Nice, I like how it looks. Let's think we smoothly type of animation. So that's it guys, we just finished. We keep on with the next one. 18. Animate The Wok Sticker: Hello guys again. In this class, I will show you how to animate the work sticker. So we're going to use a simple code to create a complex animation so fast. Now first I delete what I don t need. Then I shorten the timeline. We don't need so much of frames as usual. Turn your layer to a shape. You already know the procedure. After Effects telling me some layers can be turned to a shape. I know already why, Because we didn't make the type was outlined stroke to become a shape. If you will do that, outline, stroke them before you import them to after effect. In our case, is not a problem because we will not animate them. So first thing we will animate is the line. We'll open the setting and we play with the opacity. We put the opacity in zero to make the line disappear. And we toggle the watch. That means we did an after effects that we don't want have line at the start of our animation. Then we make the line appeared after one frame. Then we just copy paste the two keys in the rest of the timeline. I want to tweak the keys placement and also the timeline because I want to add the first key at the end. This way we're going to create a loop animation. Smooth the animation now by creating the easy ease. Remember, well this observed tweak. Those are the most important tips. Let's check the animation. As you see, we made the line appear and disappear through the timeline looping forever. We keep tweak and see. This one is so simple, we don't try complicate with just work smart. You can say a lot from a little things. We can see again, spend time in there, it may eat you would other ideas of moving the things that will add a lot to your animation. Now we want animate all of the work. So to do that, let's create a pre-comp. Pre-comp guys. It's like a group. And in Photoshop, you put all layers in the same group and apply the same effect to all. Just renamed the composition and click. Okay. Now we'll be able to play with the settings of the new comp. So let's open and see what we will do. Open transform, rotation to type the code, we need to hold Alt and then click on the clock. As you see it open for us a new box where we can type our code. And now we need to type the expression wiggle After Effects. Already know the one you want to type just after saying w i. Now we need to put the two values between parenthesis. Example two, comma 50. The first number in this expression represent the frequency of the wiggle, essentially how fast it appears to the shake. The second number represents the amplitude of the wiggle, which is how far it moves. You can adjust this number however you would like. Wiggle parentheses two comma 50, we make layers shake dramatically but slow. Wiggle parentheses ten example comma three will make layer dot around quickly without moving too much in any direction. I see that the frequency is low and the traveling is too much. So let's change that will make the frequency higher and the travel less. So let's put five comma 20. I like this Much better. I want to add energy to the animation seeds like saying that eating less meat gives you more energy and healthy body. I will make the frequency even less. So I'm gonna change it to two. Let's see. No. I think this is what I'm looking for. Same what I had in my head. Exactly. Check if there is something you need to tweak. That's it, guys. We finished our animation and we did it as exactly we want it. Let's keep on with the next one. 19. Animate The Bomb Sticker: Hello guys. In this one, we will learn new tricks animating the bone board. First thing, turn on layer two shape as usual. After Effects telling us we can turn some layers to a shape I know already cause the type of words. I didn't make them outline stroke as I will not animate them. So if you will, animate them, do that in Illustrator before export. So first thing I want to animate is the top of the bumps. So I need to select all the layers and create a new pre-comp. Brigham in After Effects work as a group and in photoshop will let you put all the layers together as one and apply the same effect. So we'll go to it and select it. Now. Then we open the setting, will go to transform. And as you guys will play with the rotation, we want to make it open in a frame to allow the hand out then close again after that. So let's do that. Create the first D. Before we keep on, we need to change the anchor point because the rotation always happen around the center of the anchor point. Let's move it to the corner where we need the rotation to happen. No, after one frame, we rotated open. Copy the first frame. Would it after the second one. So it start closed and open and close again. We will smooth the animation now using the same tricks. The keyframe assistant, easy ease and the velocity speed. That's the easiest way of making the animation looks more. Don't forget to put the shapes will be animated on different layers. I keep telling you this course is the most important thing to do for the hand and the flower. Now, we create the new gone great Dickey. Then when the bomb top open, we move the hand to the top to appear same as the other. Copy the first key, then place it after the second one. Now supposing the animation with the same tricks, avoid always lead in your animation with, without the smoothing, it will never look good. We use the same tricks, but you can use the different ones. Try and see. As you saw, we have the animation, we want it to happen already. Now I will show you how to animate the texture. I have here a dust texture PNG will change the blending. We made it to screen. Then we're gonna take this little box here that's played with the position setting. First, I need to lower the opacity. I don't want it to appear so much. Working with technology guys, we need you to be ready always to fix some issues can happen. Now let's animate the position of the texture to create the illusion of making it move. Remember this what making good animation Always is experiment and practicing with a real-life references, observe and copy. That's how it works. Think always out of the box if you have any ideas, don't scare to try them. Let's see what we have by now. Great. We'll do the same copy first frame, then smooth. You see we keep repeating the same techniques. Again, the same way. You can use same with any texture. Just need it to be PNG file. I just saw guys here, texture animation added a lot to our stickers and make it look more creative. Now as you saw this time, we didn't copy the keys to all the timeline because I wanted to show you a new trick to create a loop so fast this time we will do that by using some expression. So we hold, click on the position watch. Open for us the box to put the code in here. So we're going to type loop out hoping parenthesis. And we say ping pong. I think this is clear, guys, what means that we're telling After Effects we want the animation to loop forever. Wanted to happen as a ping pong ball. And repeat you so simple, you can use an audio loop animation. Now we will copy the same expression for the position of the hand and the rotation of the bump. Command C command V to paste it there. First you hold Alt and click on the words to open the script inbox and then with Command V to paste it there. Try to practice animation is not complicated. Work always on a new projects and try new ideas. Let's see what we have by now. As you saw it keep repeating forever as we want it exactly. See it was more faster with a golden no need copy pass keys. The idea here is we speed up our workflow. Now we just need to make some tweaking first assured than the timeline. No need to have all these command and hold and indeed to delete this, Berliners. Avoid working with unnecessary frames better to not make a walk heavy. Once was going to lower the possibility of a software to crash. We can always make your animation better, so don't trash and take your time. And that we move the key of the hand animation near to speed it. See, it didn't work. So I think we'd make it a slower little bit by pushing the keys further. We keep tweaking. See if it's correct. Move it again. Keep tweaking position. You see guys, that's how it always work. You've got to always change things, try to find other things may be better or correct order than the other ones you choose there. Always it works like that. The thing here is observed and tweak. Keep making these days. It's correct. Diamond grid now. It's correct. Let's see. So that's it guys. We've finished our animation and it looks so nice. We're going to keep on with it with the other ones. 20. Animate The Popcorn Sticker: Hello guys, our last animation we'll try imitate the popcorn popper from the pot. This one is going to be a little bit complicated. So I will show you how to do that with the expression tried to follow me well, to understand, as you see in timeline, all the layers. So first I need to change the blending mode of a shadow layer. So multiply. As we did in Illustrator. We added color to add color to the layer so I know where they are. Also the book corn typo, this, I give it a color. This layer will not be animated, so I loved them. Let's rename the typo layers. This is so much work for us here. You better renamed in Illustrator each of your layers before Important them. So we don't need to do all this technical work. Rename also the bud. I will put all the layers up. The ones will not be animated and the dipole that will be animated. The way the book corners will appear behind like it's inside the pod. Renamed the shadows layers also. Know love them all. Select all our layers and unhide. Now let's search for one popcorn to animate. We got to have one in the middle. Maybe I think I will use this. I will turn all do shapes and let the 1s will not be any made. The original one. It's useless to lead because they will not be any made. After I import the layers to After Effects, I realized that I don't need too much popcorn because it will be better. Animate only one, then copy. Many of them are the same value and the same animation. As you see, I end up in many cases changing my mind, especially if you have other changes to speed up your workflow. Let's create a pre-comp from the chosen popcorn, the Clerk of both of them to create the first key. Then change the Y position to create a new key. I will move it up. Then other key down to the same position is like popping up from the book. As you know when current pope it will not down at the same exact position and rotation. So we need to create all that as any real-life. Move it a little bit to the left. Smooth and the animation same way we always do and tweak the speed in the graph. That will add a lot to your animation. We can, we'll make it more professional and more clean. I want to make it faster so I move the keys near to each other. I want to heal focused on the keys and the volume, how it's going to effect the animation. Now we're going to play with the rotation. The placement of the keys always effects so much or animation in any position you put them, give you a different energy and a different movement. We will also change the scale. So we make the car and jump up small than opening the air. And for bigger. As what happened exactly when you cook the popcorn on the file. This is a heavy projects and better say from time to time in case after FFT crash and you don't always start from the beginning. Now we will choose from After Effect already preset one called Gradient Map yes, applied to the corn. But change all the color to white. Now we'll start typing some expression. So we click on the blending with the original holding the Alt key to open the box of script, we will work with a random expression, make it a choose one random value based on the index, which is the layer number. So first thing you need to put is random seed and x true? That means we'll keep one value not to change Minnesota example here we type random 100. That means it will choose one value, 1-100, n-cubed. Before, Let's create a variable. S variable is like letter container hold inside all the scripts. So instead of putting all we type, adjust the letter S. Let's create if elses segment means if something is true, put 100 per cent, and if not, put zero, that means we are referring to the random. Say, if then we won't make this statement, it is higher than 50, that will be 50 per cent. Then we make a curly bracket. Then we type the wallow, we need give it to this property. And that's 100 per cent. So means if the S higher than 50 show 100 per cent. Then we're going to type the else statement and we type the curly bracket. Then down in the line width I observe. It looks complicated, but guys, you can use same for any animation you want. Any mate with a random box. Save all, then you just change the box. You keep practicing in a different ones. You will understand it so much. But the idea here, every time we duplicate a layer will give a different color, one or white or others with heart, as you know, a reliable coordinate or appear with the heart because it's always flip two different sides. Now we won't copy the same expression to the scale. Scale scripting books, and paste the expression there. As you see, it goes not going to work the same color scale split to 2 v. And we need the popcorn either flipped or stay the same. So to flip it, we need to put x scale in minus hundred. So it will be either 100 or minus hundred. To do that, we just put x equal to 100 or else x will be minus hundred. Know we want to tell it also what will happen to the y-value. So we open the bracket, we just type x and then it will know the values. It hold it. When you say X hundred, it will understand you refer to the X Y. Now as you see each time I duplicate, it will give a different popcorn. You see guys, how fast will you do this with expression if we do it mentally with Okies is going to take a lot, a lot of time. Now. I will just place them in a pot correctly. I hope the expression not overwhelming. You can learn it only by practicing. You can just go use it in other animation, change some values, then you will even understand what you're doing. So let me see the animation we have by now. They pop up small, then they scale bigger before they fell in the boat with a different color. Let's keep tweaking the placement well. The animation can tell a story, hold any speed or a movement or position provoked the viewer. Guys, you can make as much as you want, duplicate it pieces of the current is according to your taste. Now let's shorten the timeline and delete despair layer. We do that by selecting all layers. Then put the slider where you want it to cut to happen to him holding Shift and Command and D. Now, I want to make some tweaks as you saw, they jumped altogether and they fall at the same time. That's looks so much more. I want them to jump like in real-life randomly. So to do that, we're going to move the layer different from each other. Keep drug one-by-one and change the placement. You move in here. Keep moving here and there. According to your taste. Animate your stickers with the effects are keys, are coding mix. The three will create complex animation and it's going to look so much good. Tweak, tweak, tweak, and that's how it works. You see now, it's so much, much better. Last thing, we will animate the dipole using effect reset. Now as you see, the animation is more interesting. We'll create keys from the effect we opened in both layers, would double the watch to create the keys. And then on the last frame would change all to 65. You can put any number you like. There are no specific numbers. You just put numbers and dry put numbers and writing you get what you want. Now we'll just smooth it using the same tricks. The survey called the animation and see if we have some issues. Grid it look nice. That's it guys, less animation. Next one I will show you how to export them. 21. Export Stickers Animations: Hello guys. Now we're just going to export our secrets animation. To do that, we just go to Export during their key. As you saw it appear down here. Now we just changed some settings. We need to click on lossless. Here a window option will pop up. For the file format. We let it quick time. The general we're going to change to LGB. And now for the audio, we put audio output of that, so we click Okay, now, you will choose the output path for our render. You just go and save on any place you want. Don't forget to rename it. Okay. So that's all guys. You go and do the same for each one of your stickers. 22. Transform Stickers To Gifs: So we open Photoshop and just drag the video in the Open button right here. The last thing we need to do is to prepare them for the web. That's my way of opening the files, but you can open Photoshop, then you just go to File Import. So as you see here is the timeline where we have our video. Now we just need to transform as a GIF. So we go to File export, Save for Web Legacy. As you see, we have some options here to change. First thing is the former is gonna be a gift that's the same you'll find in social media and immediate stickers. If you have lots of colors, it's okay to let it into hundred 56. If like me here just a few. We need to change them to less like maybe 16. The Resolution, sure. 500 by 500. As we already created, we need to let it checkout so the loop oxygen should be on forever. Resolution. Okay, All okay. Now we just save. Now just put the location of the file and name it. You see here a preview. I open it on the Google and it's working well as we expected. You go ahead and do the same for all the stickers. So that's it guys, we've finished already our class. We're going to talk a little bit about some tips in the last video. 23. Final Thoughts: Hello guys, we already finished it. Our class, I hope always clear and you understand the process very well. As you see here, I create a new composition landscape. I put it 1920 by 1082 pixels and the color to blue. Now we add on the animation on the same composition next to each other. This one is a way to represent all of your work together on the same sheet. If you want to post your own profile or send to some client. It's good always to have a sheet or present the work and the gifts of each one. Try practice with the different shapes and different projects. Did you develop your workflow? The idea here is to make stickers represent your own style and express your personality. So choose where the categories that torque more about you. As you see here now, all working well and it looks so nice and smooth. Now to use the stickers, you need just first upload them to give me. Once they have been approved. They will be available on all the platform and anyone can use them. That's all guys. I hope the class was so helpful for you. Don't forget to keep an eye on my profile. Motion graphic, graphic design, illustration, product in and all that. Thank you guys for taking my class. And don't forget to upload your project to the class so I can give you a helpful feedback. That's it. Thank you so much.