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1. Intro: Hey, I'm Charlie, a greeting
card designer, illustrator, and top teacher
here on Skillshare, where I've helped thousands of students navigate the
world of illustration. We've all been there where we've created a piece of artwork, uploaded it to Instagram, only to find that
no one sees it. Rather than just relying
on static images is really good to lean into
video content as well. Especially now that
Instagram have announced that they're no longer
just an image sharing app. But here's the problem. Creating video content can be time-consuming and difficult. I don't know about you, but as an illustrator, I wanna do is draw. I don't want to be spending hours everyday creating videos. The good news is
you don't have to dedicate all of your time
to creating video content. Often by adding just
a subtle movement, like an animation
or an art reveals, can turn your illustrations
into fun videos that will get way more reach
than if you were to just post them as
a static image. In this class, I'll
show you five ways to turn your artwork
into fun videos, ready to post to Instagram. I'll show you my exact
process step by step, including the apps I use. And I promise that with a
little bit of practice, you'll be able to create these exact videos in
less than ten minutes. If you've never made a
video before, don't worry. These methods are super easy and all created using
apps on the iPad. This class is for
any artists looking for fresh ways to
engage their followers. And I hope that by the
end of this class, you'll be excited to share
your work on the platform. Again, posting to Instagram
doesn't have to be boring. So let's get started.
2. Class Breakdown: For the class project,
I want you to create five fun videos using the different techniques that I'll be showing
throughout the class. Video one will be the
slides or technique. In this lesson,
you'll learn how to create this simple
before and after video. Video two is the swipe
through technique. And this is a great way to show your latest projects
or collections. In video three, we'll start to edit our speed
paintings for bills. So in this lesson, I'll show you the exact
app I use for editing all my time-lapse
videos ready to post as a real video for is
a raisin reveal. You'll learn the
exact tools I use fulfillment videos like this. And last neat and video
five is many animation. In this lesson, we'll be taking an existing
illustration and adding subtle movement to
it using Animation Assist. So once you've created
all of your videos, I then want you to share them to your followers on Instagram. So what you're going to
need for this class is an iPad and the Apple pencil. You'll also need
some apps as well. So I want you to download
the Procreate app, bubble house app, and the app. Now you know what to expect from the class and the
tools you'll need. Join me in the next video where we're going to learn
the slider technique.
3. Vid 1: Slider Technique: The slider technique
is a great way to share before and after shots
off your illustrations. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how you
can transform to static images into a video like this in less
than five minutes. Firstly, I wouldn't
need to download the bubble house up and
it should look like this. I want you to sign
up for an account. We'll go over to Procreate. I'm finding an illustration
where you have the final and you have
the rough sketch. And we're going to save
these as separate images. Go to the spanner here, Share and save as a JPEG. And I'll do it with
the sketch as well. I'll go back to the
bubble health app, select this cross, and
go for before and after. I'll bring in my
sketch and my final. And this gives me a
really fun slider. So I can see the before
and after, like this. Unfortunately the app doesn't
come with a record feature, so we do have to
record own screen. But the iPad always comes with
Screen Recorder built-in. I have my screen recorder
saved to my home here. But if you can't see
it, don't worry, just head over to the settings. Go to Control Center. And you can just find
screen recording here and save it manually
into your control center. So I'm gonna go and select
the screen recorder and I'm going to record myself sliding back and
forth like this. I'm going to do it
quite slowly and try and make it as
smooth as possible. And this might take a few guys just to get that smooth motion. So once you have
enough to go by, you can just select this red button here
to stop recording. And it should save to a library. Go to the photos, and just take a look to
see how it's looking. I'm pretty happy with that. I'll go up to Edit here. So I want you to
edit your video. We're going to trim
any excess parts. So just that beginning is a little bit slow
to come into it. And I also only want
maybe three slides, so I'm just going to stay. So one ti me about that is good. Go over to the crop as well. Because we recorded
our whole screen. It's saved as a
really big video, but we just want this square. So we're going to crop the
square ready to post to Instagram as well. Just do that. And once I'm happy with it, I'll just go to Save
Video as new clip, just so I don't lose
the original video. And just like that, we were able to create
a really quick fun before and after video,
ready for Instagram. You can do so much
more than reveal a before and after
with this technique, here are a few fun ideas
to play around with. So number one is residual. So why not recreate one
of your oldest pieces in your latest style and use a slider technique to
spot the differences. The second idea is
do a costume change. Take an old character
that you've drawn and make small tweaks
to the outfit. I use the slider technique for Halloween series of Luschka and the results
went down a tree. Okay, So you should have
lots of new ideas for the slider technique
is now over to you. Use this technique
in your own work. You can pick one to start with. Or if you're feeling
adventurous, why not do O3? Once you've created the video, upload it to Instagram to show
off to all your followers. Remember to tag me in your
posts so I can see it too.
4. Vid 2: Swipe Through Technique: Unfortunately, carousel post on Instagram don't perform
as well as they used to. So if you have multiple images or designs that you
want to show off, then a great way to do this is turn them into videos like this. Think of this, like
flicking through a mini portfolio or
collection of your work. And here's how I did it. Firstly, I want you to download the app and it should
look something like this. This is what I use to edit
all of my videos on the iPad. They do have the option to
upgrade to a Pro account. You can stick with
the free account for now and see how you get on. But if you are going
to be using this for all of your video edits, I'd highly recommend
upgrading eventually, I think it's around £29
for a one-off payment. And you get access to
all of their features. And they do remove
ads and watermarks, which is really handy if you're using this for all
of your marketing. I'm gonna be using
the Pro account, but if it looks a little bit different because you're
using the free version, don't worry, I'll
be using all of the features that are
available in the free version. So we're gonna go over to
video and go to Photo. And this is where I have all
of my static images ready to upload to ensure
select the pattern. So I'm going to be using, I'm using patterns here, but you can use any series
of illustrations you want. And I'll select the tick here. This is how it looks. I want my canvas
to be in square, so I'm just gonna go
to Canvas and put that down to 11, ready for Instagram. And as you can see, all of my illustrations or
flicking through as a video. At the moment my illustrations
are five seconds long. If I kept them at
this iteration, it's going to make a
really slow boring video. I want to make sure that each illustration is
probably around in 1 second. How I do this is I'll just
select one of my clips, go over to speed. I'm bringing the duration
down to about 1.8. I feel this is a
good amount of time for people to still
have a look at my work, but it's still
entertaining and engaging enough that people
aren't going to click off it on Instagram. I can either change
the duration of just this one clip or if I want this to be on all of my clips, I can click on the two ticks here and apply that
speed to all of them. And this just saves
you a lot of time, so you're not having
to do that manually. I also want to
change the order of my illustrations
so I'm gonna hold down on one of the clips. And this way I can
start to drag and drop to reorder my images. I'm going to move this
pink one here just so it's not right next to that pink one. And maybe I'll have
this one at the end. Once I'm happy with the order, I can just click off like this. Now that I'm happy
with the order of my images and also the speed
that they're being shown. I can now start to add a
really fun transition. If you can see these
little white squares in-between my images, this is where I can
add a transition. I can select lots of different transitions
to play around with. Some of these are only
available in the Pro account, but the basic ones are
available in the free account. These are the ones that
I actually use the most. You can have some
that are sliding on and off your
screen like this. This is where your
images are pushing onto the screen and you
can have it the other way. And this is the one that I use the most for my transitions. Just because it looks like
you're flicking through a book or a portfolio
which I really like. So I'm gonna go with this one, but you can have a
play around with the transitions to see
what works for you. And again, I'm just going
to apply this to all, so I have that transition
on all of my illustrations. And just like that, you're able to create
a really fun and quick video showing
off your latest work. Once you're happy with this, you can go over to
the Save button here. I always put the
resolution up to four k, just so I have this in a really high-quality
and are safe. I'll just go over to my gallery just to see
how that's looking. And that's how you create
a really quick fun video, ready to post to Instagram. Now over to you, show us your latest creations using swipe through technique. Maybe you have lots of new products that you
want to share with your audience or a series of patterns that you've created
over the last month. Remember, you're not just
limited to doing patterns here. You can create any illustrations
there as you want. I can't wait to see your videos.
5. Vid 3: Editing for Reels: In this lesson, I'm going to walk you through my
process of getting my time-lapse videos ready to upload as a reel for Instagram. When you work in
the Procreate app, it automatically records
your whole process from start to finish. But what if you need to cut
out parts of your process or stitch together multiple
clips into one video. The Instagram app is definitely limited when it comes
to editing videos. So what I like to do is clean up my time-lapse videos in
the inshore at first, and then opening
into Instagram sad, music over the top. You should already have the app downloaded
from the first video. And we're just going to head
over to the Procreate app. I have my process split
up into two campuses. I normally start with
a small canvas just to get the overall color
and composition byte. Then I'll bring this into a
large canvas to finalize, just in case I want to
upload it to society six, or maybe our license out
to accompany later on. So it's always good to
work in a large canvas. But because my process is
split up into two cancers, it means that I need to export
both of my process videos. I'll head over to
the first Canvas, go over to the spanner
and head over to video and export
time-lapse video. I'll select full length
and safety video. I'll also do the
same with this one. So go to Spanner video and
export time-lapse video. And I'm selecting full length
just because I can control the speed and length in
the intro app later video. I'm also going to save a static
image of my final tastes. So Canvas Share,
JPEG, Save Image. So you should have one video, or if you work in
multiple campuses, one to two videos and
also a static image. I'll go back to the inshore app. Select video. I'm going to bring in my
two time-lapse videos. Photo here and bringing
my static image as well. So I have my time-lapse
video brought in. You can play around with the canvas size so you
can have no frame. I select the 916, but I do know that the
free version doesn't allow you to select all of
these canvas sizes. So if you are working in
the free version for now, square format is
absolutely fine. You can always upload a
square format into real. So if you don't have this
option, don't worry. I'm just gonna be showing
you in the nine by 16. I'm also going to get
rid of the black hair. I'll select my clip
and go over to crop. And I can just cut out any parts of the image
that I don't want. Just go over and make sure that I've caught
that properly. And this will just fill
up my Canvas a lot more. I'm also having a look
to see my other clips. This is on its side, so just going to
rotate this as well. So I'll just select rotate
just so I can see it. And I'll hold my finger down and bring this to the beginning. So make sure that your clips
are all in the right order. And with my fingers I'm just
going to pinch out just so I get a good overview
of all of my clips. So now that I've
put them in order, the next thing I'm
going to do is start cutting parts of the
clips that I don't want. So I'm just going to trim the beginning part
with procreate. They do show the final
illustration you see here. So I don't want this part
because I want it to be a bit more of a mystery when
people are watching it. So I just want to
cut that first out. So I'm just going to zoom
in just to edit this clip, a bit easier about that. Select the clip and
then hit Split. Select this part and delete. So I've just cut that
beginning part out. And I'll do the same
with the second clip. Just about there. Okay, to split and
just delete that part. That's looking pretty good. The next thing I
want you to do is change the duration
of your video. Sometimes process videos, especially if you're exporting
them at full length, can be quite long. So you don't want to upload
a really long video to Instagram just because people's attention
spans aren't that long. So at the moment my clip
is nearly two minutes. I want to try and
get that down a bit. We'll just select the
clip and go to speed and bring that up to
maybe around two feeds. Maybe 1.8. And on this part as well, I'm going to do the same. Maybe I'll do it
slightly slower. Because I find that
the sketching phase is probably the most entertaining
part of the process. So I don't want to go
too fast through that. So about 150. Now, I'll just have a look
to see how long that is. And it's about one minute, which is a lot better
for Instagram. And the last thing I
wouldn't need to do is add an effect to that static
image at the end. So I'll select my
image and I'm just bring it down to
about four seconds. And I'll bring the cursor
around here and add a filter. So head over to filter effect. This is where you
can start to add really fun effects to
your static image. I really like to add
effects at the end, just so people know that
it's the final illustration. So I'll go over to Phil because I really loved this zoom effect. It's quite dreamy and it really shows off my
final illustration. You can have a play
around with all of these different effects and
see which works for you. And here I've added that really cool zoom
effect at the end. If the zoom effect. So again, we can just pinch
your fingers out to zoom in. And we can just make sure
that we are starting the same effect as the static
image comes in like this. And that's how you create a time-lapse video really
easily in, in shock. So once you've neat and up your time-lapse video and cut out untrimmed any parts
that you don't want. And you've added the effect. It's time to upload
to Instagram. Before we do that, I just want to give
you a little bit of a rundown with the music. I normally create my videos
in the initial app and then bring them into
Instagram to add the music. That way, there is an option to add music
through the initial app, but I wouldn't
recommend doing that. So the music that they have in the library, some
is copyrighted. So if you do use it
in your own videos, you could get in trouble. So I try to avoid
this library and I'll just use the music from
the Instagram app. It's just a little bit safer, just in case you are using music that you're
not allowed to use. So once you've created your time-lapse video and
it's ready to post Instagram. We're gonna go and save it. So go to resolution
for k and safe. So this might take a little
while just because it's quite a large video, a k. So now it's saved. Just going to go back
and go to my photos and just have a look to see
the video is working. I'll just flick for it
to make sure that there aren't any parts
that I want to edit. Then I'll go over to
the Instagram app and I'm going to upload
my time-lapse there. So I'm going to click
the X here and come over to bring up my time-lapse video. And again, I can just
quickly check it, make sure that
everything is fine. If there are parts that
you want to edit fill, you can trim the video that way, but obviously we've already done most of the editing
in the initial app. So once you're happy, just go add next, and we're now going
to add some music. Here is the music icon. I'll bring the
camera audio down. I don't think there
was any sound, but I just don't want anything to interfere with the music. Go-to music. And here they give you lots of different recommendations
and suggested audio for your videos. Here, I will just go
through each one, see if there's any
that fit my video. And this might take you a while, but just have fun with that. And sometimes you might find some audio that you really like and you can
save it as well. So here I have lots of
audio that I've saved and I'll show you how to
do that in the next video. Once you've had a play around with adding
different music. So for example, I
could add this. You can also change the part of the song to fit
your video as well. So once you're happy with it, you can just press Done. Done again next and edit cover. We'll just add that static image just so people know that it's, this is what the final
is going to look like. I'll add a quick
caption as well. So I have been calling my
process videos making of. And also when you're adding
your capture is try and get some key words in that
to relate to your video. So I'm giving my followers
a kind of cool to action. This is just asking
people to engage and seeing if this is something that they want to
see more of it. So it's really important that you are adding some keywords and also a little call to action at the end
for your followers. Just sign up with luck Charley, because that's
something that I do. And I'm also going to add my hashtags in the
same caption as well. So I'll just go
over to my notes, copy some hashtags that
I already have saved, go back and I'm
just going to paste some relevant
hashtags like this. Your assignment is to export your process videos and
edit them in the app. Once you've done that, bring it into Instagram and make it into a real play around with different music to try
and fit your video. Don't forget to tag
me in your videos so I can see your amazing work. I can't wait to see
what you come up with.
6. Vid 4: Eraser Reveal: I found that some of my
best performing videos have been where I've shared
the tools I've used. In this lesson, I'm going
to show you how to create a really fun reveal video
using an overhead tripod. So for this lesson, you're going to need a phone. And you can use any phone here
as long as it can record. And also a tripod. So this is a really cheap
overhead tripod or from Amazon. And it just clips onto the
side of my desk like this. And I've linked this under the About section of the class in case you
want to get one too. Alternatively, if you don't
want to get a tripod, you can always hold
your camera in one hand and reveal like that. The only disadvantage to that is it will make for a shaky video, but it still gets the job done. There are few things
I want you to pay attention to when you're
recording your videos. Always set up your video near natural lights so you want to be never window just to
get that natural light. It will make your
video a lot brighter. The other thing that
I want you to do is have a look
around your home and studio for any props that you want to add
into your video. For example, I have some pens here that I'll be
adding around my scene, and also some plants as well. And this just adds a pop
of color and nature. So I'm just going to
turn on my camera. And what I want to
do is just try and align the iPad up as
neat as possible. Just make it straight.
And I want to have the same amount
of gap up here, thumb as well just to
make it look better. I'm also going to add these pens in just that an angle to add a
splash of color as well. Try and get those
leaves then. Like that. Just adds a little bit
more because let's say I have my illustration in
two different campuses. I have the final and
also the sketch layer. Just going to bring that
sketch to the top hair. And what's it gonna make a
duplicate of that just so I have a backup in case anything goes wrong
with my first sketch. So it's always important
never to arrays or damage your original sketch. Always make a backup. I'll go over to the
amazed to hear. And there was so many brushes
to choose from that it can be difficult to know which
one to use for the arrays. So what I'd recommend
is go down to drawing and select Blackburn. You can bring the brush size
up to around 80 to 90%. And I'll just show you an
example of how that looks. So you just get a really
nice crisp amaze here. It just means that you're
not having to erase all of your illustration
at a slow pace. And I think that's
a common mistake. I see a lot of
people do is they'll pay quite small or razors. Or maybe they don't
have enough capacity. And it will be
really hard for you to quickly erase your sketch. So always use a large eraser. And now I'm just going
to start raising my illustration back
and forth like this. And as you can see, I'm kind
of going over the same part, but gliding my pencil down. So what makes a really
good arrays video is if you do it in a really
clean sweep like that, I'll just do it one more time. Slowly raising
that illustration. Before you go off to create
your own reveal videos. Here are a few
things to remember. So tip number one is to always
film near natural light. If you find that your videos
are still quite dark, you can always go in
and edit them using apps like VSCO or
Adobe Lightman. Tip. Number two is, use a large eraser brush. And I can't stress this enough. If you want to get
that really clean, smooth motion than
using a large brush, we'll just make your
video look a lot cleaner. Tip number three is add
pops to your videos. So have a look
around your house. Try and find plants or pens
to add around your scene. And this will just add
a lot more personality to your videos. Tip number four,
edit your videos. If you need to trim any
parts of your video, then remember, you can always do this directly through the iPad. Just click on edit
and trim your video, ready to post to Instagram. And tip number five is to use the same audio that I've used in my reveal videos on Instagram. So we'll head over to Instagram and I'll just
show you how to save it. So find the rebuild
video that I've created. Click again and you'll
find the audio here. You can go up and save this
audio to your library. So every time you create a real, you have access to this audio. I want you to use this
fun audio in your own reveal videos that you've created through this lesson. I can't wait to see your videos.
7. Vid 5: Mini Animation: In this lesson, I'm going to show you a quick way to animate your existing
illustrations using animation assist in Procreate. If you're stuck on
what to animate. Here are a few ideas
to help you out. You could add bubblegum
to your characters, make insects fly at twinkle effects to your
stars in your space scenes, or suddenly move animals
tells an eyes like this. If you want to
learn how to create a stylized scene, an animated, be sure to check
out my phone was spaces class here on Skillshare, where I go into a lot
more detail about animating full scenes like this. So what I want you
to do is take one of your existing illustrations. It's important to note here that whatever you're animating, it needs to be on a transparent
background like this. I have my illustration
merged down, but I have all the
elements that I want to animate on a
transparent background. And this is really important
when I go to move it, that it doesn't interfere
with the background. Then I have this orange set
to a layer beneath like this. I want you to go over to the spanner and toggle
on animation assist. So if the background
fills your Canvas, don't worry, there's a
simple way to avoid this. I want to set this background
to all of my frames. So I'm just going to
double-click on the square here and set this to background. So now this is set
to all of my frames. Moving forward, I'm
going to duplicate the original illustration
and I'm going to start to animate parts of my elements. So I'm going to
rotate my flowers. I'm just going to add
a rotation there. I'm just going to do
the same on each one. So you can probably see that there's this kind of
layer underneath, and this is the
original illustration. So the layer below, this
is called an onion skin, and it just helps
guide us to know where to add movement
to the frame above. The same here. I'm just adding a really subtle
shift in that rotation. So I don't want to move
my flower too much because the animation will be quite jarring and
won't be smooth. So I want to make
sure that I'm adding just a really subtle
movement to each layer. And I also want to
have these sparkles. Twinkle. I'm going to make this slightly smaller and just add it into the center of
that onion skin. And I'll do it here as well. Again, makes sure that
it's in the center. When you're creating
your animation, it's really important
to double-check that everything is smooth
and is playing well. So I just click on the play just to see how it's
looking so far. And I really like that. So I know that the way I'm rotating the flowers is perfect. So I'm just going
to duplicate that and just repeat
the process again. And just rotate it. If you are rotating
or moving some of your elements and you're noticing more than
one onion skin. Just head over to the settings here and
just make sure that you have your onion
skins set to about one. If I have it set
to two or higher, then it's going to start
getting really confusing to know where to move my flower. If I set it to one that I've
just got the layer below. So I can use that
as that guideline. Okay, and I'm pretty
happy with that. I love how the stars
sparkling in and out, kinda getting
smaller and bigger. That's how I wanted it. And I will say I really like how the flowers are just
kinda shifting, rotating back-and-forth. Once you're finished
with your illustration, you can have a play around with all of the
different settings. At the moment I have
it to ping-pong. This means that my stars will pulsate smaller to bigger
and then bigger to smaller. Again. If I have it on loop, it will just go small and then go back to the
beginning of large. So I don't get that kind of subtle sparkle
effect that I want. So Ping Pong is just a
lot better for this. And remember, you can always play around
with the speed here. So frames per second, this is way too fast. So I normally set it to around
three frames per second. This just gives me a really subtle movement
to my illustrations. You can go over to the
spanner here and go to Share. And we're going to save
it as an animated MP4. And this just means
that it's ready to upload to Instagram, just checking the speeds. So frames per second is three, and I'll just export it
to my library like that. So your assignment
is to take one of your existing illustrations and find from ways to
add subtle movement to it using animation assist. I'm so excited to
see you animations.
8. Thank You: Thanks so much for
joining my class today. I hope you have lots of new ideas for you're
next Instagram post. I was so excited to share
this class with you because the world needs to see all the amazing work that
you're already creating. Before I wrap up this class, I just want to remind you to take care of your mental health, especially when it comes to
posting on social media. It can be really easy to fall into the trap
of self comparison, organ and obsessed with numbers, we've all been there. The goal of this class
was to give you fun and creative ways of presenting the work that you
love to create. So have fun, enjoy the process, and take lots of breaks
on social media. If and when unity, there will always be a place for you when you decide to return. So if you want to
see the music that I used in the videos
throughout this class, then you can find them over on my Instagram at
Charlie Clements. And don't forget to tag me in all of your amazing
videos over there. I always love seeing
what you guys create. If you want to
learn how to create more illustrations
for your videos, then be sure to check out my
classes here on Skillshare. I have classes on
character design, picking perfect color palettes, and also how to
animate do things. Thanks so much for
joining me today. Bye.
Charly Clements, Greeting Card Designer and Illustrator
