Simple Animated Lettering In Procreate

1. Intro: Hi there, creative friends. Welcome to class. I'm Sarah. I'm an artist and designer. And in this class, I'll show you my process for creating simple animated lettering in the Procreate app. Motion graphics and videos have become more and more used and are starting to be seen everywhere, such as in social apps, web graphics, marketing, and messaging to name a few. We'll start with an animation exercise to get an understanding on how animation works in Procreate. Then We'll move on to creating three types of eye-catching lettering, animation effects. By the end of this class, you will have three fun animated projects you can share. In addition to having a good understanding on how animation works in Procreate, all you'll need for this class is an iPad, a stylus. I'll be using my Apple Pencil and the procreate app. Are you ready? Let's get started. 2. Class Project & Download: For your class project, create one or all of the animated lettering effects demonstrated in class. Try different words or phrases and play with color palettes to create some fun eye-catching animations. To upload a class project. We will go right below this video. Make sure we are on the projects and resources tab. Then we can click on Create Project. And this is where we will upload our class projects. So we can give our project a cover image. You will add a project title. And then right here we will tap on images to upload our projects from our photo library. You can add as many as you'd like. If you want, you can add a project description that's totally up to you. Once you have everything set, we can hit Publish. And your projects should appear in the project gallery right under the class. Now I will show you how to download the class resource. And something important to note is that you will need to be on a web browser and not the Skillshare app to access the download. I'm using Google Chrome as my web browser. So I've included a color palette for this class, but feel free to use any color palette you'd like. We will go right below this video, make sure we're on the projects and resources tab. Right here you will see a Dots Swatches file. And that is our Procreate color palette file. We will click on that. And it will open in a brand new tab. And you can see the file down here. We will click on download and then open in. And we will select our procreate. And your color palette will automatically download into the Procreate app. And you can find it in your palettes panel. And it always places the new downloaded color palette at the very bottom. We can just move that up all the way to the top. Now, you are ready to use your brand new color palette. 3. Animation Exercise: We're going to start off with a fun exercise so that we can get comfortable with how animation works in the Procreate app. And that way I can go over all the settings with you. We'll start with a brand new canvas. Just tap the plus sign up here. And I have found that 1,000 by 1,000 pixels is a great starting point. We can always adjust our canvas size later, or you can make it any size you want. I'll start with 1,000 by 1,000 pixels. So I'll make sure I'm on pixels. And then I will just type in 1,000 by 1,000. And then I'll make sure I'm at 300 DPI. For the color profile. I'll be going with RGB for this class. Now I can tap on Crete. Throughout the entire class. I'll be using the mono line brush that comes with the Procreate app. And you can find that by tapping on your brush library. And if you go to calligraphy, you will find the mono line brush. So for this first exercise, I am not going to add a background color. So I'll make sure I'm on a blank layer. And I'm going to be animating a bouncy ball. So I will just draw a circle. And this will represent our bouncy ball. So now I can turn on my animation assist. And you will go to your actions and make sure you're on Canvas. And right here you'll see it says Animation Assist. We will turn that on. And you can see this little menu pops up. And this is for all your animation settings are. So I'll start off with showing you how to add new frames. So keep in mind anytime we add a new frame from the menu down here, it will give us a blank frame, so it's, nothing's on it. As you can see, the frames correlate to the layers. So every new frame is a new layer. If you want to add blank frames, you would just add a new frame for your next frame from down here on the menu. Or I'm going to delete these. We can add a new frame from the layers panel as well. And you'll see it adds a new frame to our animation. Little like timeline down here. Or if we wanted to duplicate of the bouncy ball, we would just swipe left and click on duplicate. And it would give us a brand new duplicated layer, which would be a brand new frame with our bouncy ball. I'll just delete that for now. Now. We tap here on Settings. You can see we have a few things. The first will be our loop, ping pong and one shot, and this is how our animations will move. And I'll show you that once we create an animation, it'll all make sense. These are gonna be your frames per seconds. So the higher up you have your frames, the faster the animation will go. And the lower you have your frames, the slower the animation will go. Now we have onion skin frame. And let me show you how that works. So if we duplicate this layer and we move it up, you can see there's a lighter version of our bouncy ball. And that's a great reference. So you know exactly where your bottom frame is or your bottom layer. So you know exactly where to place your next element or your next illustrated element. So if we go back the onion frames here, I like to put it at max because that means it will show every single frame. But you can limit it to maybe you just want one frame underneath showing through or maybe just for I like to see all my frames at once. So I put it on max. Then this is the opacity of your onion skin. As you can see. It gets lighter or darker depending on where you'd like it. I usually leave it around 35. I just wanted to be a light layer underneath as a guide. Then this is just how it will blend. Know if you can see it, how the blending of the onion frame will be. So you can see your onion frame coming through your solid layer that you're working with. Or you can turn it off and you will only see it lightly underneath, but nothing will be showing through your Frame that you're working with. That's what blending blend primary frame means. And then of course, you can change the color of your onion skin, which is this lighter layer. I usually just leave it on the default that it is this light grayish color. Those are the settings for animation assist. They're very straightforward and simple to use. And we'll be going over them as we illustrate it will all make a lot of sense once we start creating some animations. So I'm gonna go back to my layers panel and I'm going to delete this duplicated layer I created earlier. We have our original bouncy ball. And I'm going to just center that up right now. So I'll just click right here on this little arrow icon. And where to snapping. I'm gonna make sure my snapping and magnetics are turned on. Now I can just center my little bouncy ball. And I want my bouncy ball to go down, up and down and up and down. So I'll just make sure it's in the center and toward the bottom. That's perfect. So now I'll be adding a new frame. I don't want a blank frame like this. I don't want to redraw my bouncy ball, I just want to make it go up. So in this case, I will just delete that extra added blink frame and I will duplicate my original bouncy ball. I want to use the same ball. I just wanted to go up a bit, so I will click on Duplicate. And then again, I will click here on my little arrow icon. And I can move it up slightly. And as you can see, the nice thing with the onion frame is I can see exactly where my bottom layer is. So I know roughly where to move it and I kinda want it like halfway up. Now we're going to do the exact same thing. I'm gonna duplicate now, my new layer because I want it to go slightly up again. And then I can just bring it up. And you can see, you can start seeing all your onion skins. And that's why I like to leave it on max because I don't want to just see the one underneath it. I want to see all my onion skins at one so I know exactly where to place my bouncy ball and it gives me an idea how my animation will look before I test it out. I'm going to keep duplicating the little bouncy ball. And that will be the layer at the very top. And it can have, we'll just move it up slightly. And we can do that till we're happy with about how high we want it to be. I don't want it to go way, way up on top. Oh, maybe one more. I think that's good. Now we can test out our animation to see if we need to add more layers or take out layers or adjust anything. Right here, we'll tap on play. And you can see it's going slow. So we're gonna wanna fix the frames per second. So I'll go to my settings. This is where we can play with how fast or slow we wanted to go. And as you can see, if you put it up, it goes really fast. And if you go down, it's going to go really slow because there'll be one frame for every second. So this is preference depending on how fast you want your animation to go. I think five looks pretty good. Then this is for, we'll play with these settings. So loop is just going to go all the way once and then back to the start, all the way through and back to the start. Ping-pong will go back and forth and back and forth. And for the purposes of this bouncy ball, we will go with ping-pong because we want it to look as if it's bouncing up and down and up and down. One-shot only goes through it once. So we'll stop after it gets to the end. So we know for sure we will be going with ping-pong for this animation. Click on play and all that. I see it on ping pong. I think I wanted to go a little faster. So I will tap on Settings and I will increase my frames per second. I think I liked the way eight x. That is the basics of animation in Procreate. And if you want to stop it will just pause it, or you can just play it like that. I'll pause it for now. That's how Animation Assist works in the Procreate app. And I'll go over exporting and saving at the end. Once we have animated all our texts defects, play with the settings. Try doing this little bouncy ball effects. You can get comfortable with how Animation Assist works. And now we'll move on to our very first lettering animation. I'll see you in the next lesson. 4. Handwritten Effect: For our first project, we're going to create this sort of handwritten cursive lettering effect. So I will show you how to create this animation effect where it looks as if we're writing the word Hello. We will just go back to our gallery. We will create a new Canvas. And again, we'll be using 1,000 by 1,000 pixels at 300 DPI. And our color profile will be RGB. Now we can tap on Create. For this project, we will be using a background color. So we'll go to our layers panel and tap on the layer that says background color. And I'll just grab this light pink color. And now I will write out my text, my base texts layer. So we'll make sure we're on a brand new blank layer. We'll grab our dark blue color. And again, we'll just be using the mono line brush for this project. And since I'm doing some lettering, I'm going to turn on some guides just so I can stay consistent with my lettering. I will tap on my actions panel, turn on Drawing Guide, and we don't need to adjust them. They're just there for us to make sure we stay consistent. I can adjust the brush size. We don't want it too thick or too thin. You can play with that and see what size you like for your lettering. I'm going to go in the middle and have my brush be era about a 45%. So I'm going to just let her out the word hello in just a kind of cursive style. Nothing fancy, nothing complicated. Just write out the word hello in a kind of cursive style lettering. Just take your time and leave some space in between the letters. You don't want them all smushed up because we're gonna be deleting each letter individually. So we want to give it a little bit of space in between. So now that we have our word written out, if we see any little like adjustments we want to make, this is the time we will make them because this is going to be our base layer. So I see a few things I want to smooth out. So I'm going to just lower my brush size. I'm going to smooth out the 0 in this little piece right here. And the l right here. Right here a little bit. Let's see. I think that looks good. Now I'm going to center my word to the Canvas. So will tap right here on my little arrow icon. Make sure snapping and magnetics are turned on. And I can just center the word to the canvas. You'll see these little yellow cross hairs come on when you place your word right in the middle of the canvas. Now we can de-select and we can now get rid of our drawing guide since we won't be needing those anymore. So now we have our base text layer. Now we can turn on our Animation Assist. So again, we'll go to our actions panel and turn on animation assist. We have our base text layer and we are just going to duplicate that layer. And this is where we'll start erasing each individual letter. So it looks like we hand lettered it like it's being handwritten. So I will go to my new layer. I'm going to grab my eraser, and I'm going to delete this first little bit right here. Now, we will duplicate that layer that we just deleted, erase this little piece and duplicate that. And I won't be erasing the letters to the next one. So right, where the L meets the false, we will erase the OH, like that. Now we can duplicate that layer and we'll delete the L Next. Make sure we get all the little bits. Because sometimes if you go too fast like this, you might skip little bits. We want to make sure all the little bits are deleted. There's no straggly little pieces when we have our animation completed. So just take your time and make sure you get all the little bits. We will erase it to our next letter. Now we can duplicate that layer and erase our next letter. Make sure we get all the little pieces. We will duplicate that. Now we will replace the e. Sure all the pieces are deleted. We will duplicate that layer. And I'm going to delete the h and I'm going to leave this last little bit. I get up close to make sure I get all the blue area of my age like that. And see, this is what I mean. You don't want to leave any little pieces like that. So make sure you have all your little bits deleted. Get up close to make sure. That looks good. Now our last little bit, this little tail right here, so we'll just duplicate that and we will delete this little piece right here. Now that we got our entire word finished, we deleted all each individual letter. We can test it out. So I will just tap on Play. And it's going a bit fast. So let's just, for our frames per second. C, probably around four. Let's try that. That looks good. The only thing is it is going backwards instead of a four. And I'll show you how to fix that so it looks good. But we want our word to look as if it's going from left to right. So we'll just pause it at. And what we're going to have to do is swap everything solo. This layer become our first layer down here. And this first layer will become our last layer up on top. So we'll just tap on our layer at the very top. And we will just bring it down underneath all our layers to become our first layer. I like to leave it selected, swipe over to bring my next layer. So now I will go to my layer at the very top hold and bring it up right above that layer. So I'll tap on this so I can know where to bring. My next layer will go right above their top one here. I bring this one right above here. Tap on that one. Bring this one right above that one. Tap on it. Now I'll bring this one up above that one and tap it. The same thing for each one. I think we got them all, so let's test it out. That's much better now, as you can see, it's going from left to right. So it looks like it's being written out to, but I think it needs to go just a little bit faster. Let's try five frames per second. I think that looks really good. It looks like we are handwriting out our word. Hello. That's how you do the handwritten lettering effect. She just go slowly each letter, we delete each letter and then we just arrange the layers to bring our first layer to the top and our last layer to the bottom. So it looks as if it's going from left to right. For our next project, we will work on our weekly lettering effects. 5. Wiggly Effect: For our next project, we will create this wiggly text effect. And I'll show you how to create this animation style right here. So we will go back to our gallery. And again, we'll just be using our Canvas, 1,000, 1,000 pixels. And we will add a background color for this project. We will go to our layers panel. And again, we will tap on the background color layer. And I will select this light yellow color as our background color. Now we will make sure we are on a blank layer, and this will be our texts layer. Again, I'll just be using our monoline brush for my text. I want to use this lighter blue color. I will select that. And since we're doing text, I'm going to turn on my drawing guides to help me stay consistent with my lettering. So I will go to my actions panel, make sure we're on Canvas and turn on our drawing guides. Now for this text, I want it slightly thicker. So let's see. I think I will keep my brush at around 50%. And now I will just let her in my word. I'll be writing the word howdy, but feel free to use any word you'd like to write it. This is just gonna be a handwriting style, nothing fancy or complicated. So I'll be using my grid as a guide for my lettering and the spacing between my letters. So I can just begin by writing my word. I will just write in my word right here. Just like that. And now is the time to adjust anything and I'm going to adjust the spacing in-between my letters. This is our base text layer, so we wanna make sure we get it exactly how we want it. I will just fix the spacing in-between my letters and then I can center my word to the canvas. So again, I'll make sure my snapping is turned on and I can just send her my word to the countless just like that. And that looks good. So now that I have my text layer, I can create my illustration layer with the little cowboy hat. So I will go to my Layers panel and create a brand new layer above my text layer. And I'm going to grab this brown color from my palate. And then I can just draw a little cowboy hat above this word. Nothing fancy. We're just going to draw a simple little cowboy hat above our text. Just like that. Now we can center it to the canvas and adjust it with our text. And that looks perfect. So now we want to combine the two layers. So we will just pinch both of those layers together to create one layer. Now that we have R1 base layer, we're going to center our graphic to the canvas. So again, I'll click on my arrow icon, make sure my snapping is turned on and layer my graphic. You'll see the yellow cross hairs come on when my graphic is centered to the cow. That's perfect. Now that we have our text and illustration base layer done, we can turn off our guides. I will just turn off my drawing guides. And now we're ready to animate our graphic. I will get, again, go to my actions panel and turn on animation assist. So how you will get a wiggle effect is we will just be tracing over this base layer very slightly, very softly, just so we can create a small variation above it to create that very slight weakly effect. So we will want to create a brand new blank layer above my base layer. So you can add a new frame from the menu down here, or you can add a new frame from your layers panel up here. Now I'll grab my text color, this blue color. Make sure I'm on my new blank layer. And I will just trace over my word. And you want to just, you don't want to go too extreme like this. You want to go as close as possible to your letter underneath, but you don't want it to be exactly the same. That's what will give that slight kind of weekly effect. We will just trace over our lettering underneath. Will do that to each letter. Now that I have my texts done, I will do the exact same thing. To the illustration. I will grab my cowboy hat color is brown. And again, I'm on the exact same layer as my text. And I will just trace over my cowboy hat. And you can see how there's just a slight difference between my base layer and my current layer that I'm working on. And that's exactly how we want it to look. Now that we finished that layer, we're going to add one more frame or layer from the layers panel. I will just add a new blank frame and do the exact same thing. I'll start with my text, I'll grab my blue color. And again, I will just trace over my word. Now I'll grab my brown color for my hat. That looks good. So now that we have all of our layers completed, we can test out our animation. So I will just press on play down here. And that looks good, but it is a bit fast, so we're going to lower our frames per second, so we'll tap on Settings. And it's at 15 frames per second right now. So I'm going to bring it down, see how five frames per second looks. And this is preference depending on how fast you want your animation to go. And that looks good. You can also play with the settings right here and see if you prefer loop or ping pong. And I think I prefer loop, but you can go with whichever one you prefer. So that is how you create this sort of weekly texts effect with a illustrated elements. For our next and final project, I will show you how to create a bouncy lettering effect. 6. Bouncing Effect: For our final project, I will show you how to create this super fun bouncy letter effect. So we will go to our gallery and we will create a new canvas, 1,000 by 1,000 pixels. And again, we'll pick a background color for this project. So we'll go to our Layers panel, tap on the background color layer, and I will pick this light pink color. Now for this project we will be using a font. So I will make sure to select my font color before I start using my font. So I want this darker pink color. Now I will go to my actions panel. I will tap on Add, and then I will tap on Add text. Now I can write in my Word, you can write in whatever work you'd like. I'm going to type in the word awesome. Now I can select it because I want to make some adjustments. I want to use a thicker font. So I will be using this font called impact, and it comes with the Procreate app. And I know I want all my letters to be capitalised so I can turn that on and we will make this whole thing larger. I want to give some space in-between my letters, so I will play with the kerning a little bit of room in between the letters. So I have it at 13.6% for the kerning and 43.8 for the lettering size. And I liked that. I will tap on Done. Now that I see I loved the way it looks. I love the size and the spacing. I can rasterize this layer. I will tap on my layers, and I will tap on my text layer and tap on rosters. So it is no longer an editable text layer. It is now in illustrated elements in my layers panel. So I can center it to my Canvas and we'll do the same thing we did with our other animations. Make sure my snapping is turned on and just center my word to the cow. And that is perfect. So I will go to my Layers panel always gives us an extra layer home. We're adding a text or font layer. So I will just delete this layer. I don't need it. Now I have my base texts layer and that's perfect. So I will now need to duplicate this base layer seven times in addition to this base layer that I have. So that will be a total of eight layers and it will all make sense when we are working on our animation. But basically it's a layer per each letter. So I will duplicate this several more times for a total of eight layers. Here's 1,234,567.8. We should have eight layers. You always want to duplicate as many layers as there are letters plus one extra as a base layer. Now that we have all of that, we're ready to begin animating our effect. I will go to my actions panel, tap on Canvas, and turn on my animation assist. And I'm also going to turn on my drawing guides because we're gonna be making our letters bounds up. And we want them all to hit the same area when they go up for consistency. So I will start with my bottom layer, which is my first layer. And we will begin with our a and we'll make it go up. So I'm going to tap on this little S symbol and make sure it's on freehand. None of these other settings should be on just the free hand. And it should be on the blue. Blue on the plus symbol. I will just draw around my age. I will bring it up to this line right here. And that's why I have my guides turned on. So we know that all our letters will hit this line right here. Now I can deselect it. So we're finished with that layer. So now we will go to our next layer and do the same thing to the W. So again, we'll just draw around our header, bring it up at the same height as the a. And I can deselect it. Now we will go to our next layer, the exact same thing with the E, and we will do that to each one of our letters. Will do that to the S. Now the 0, M, and finally the E. And then you will have one layer at the very top that nothing is done to it. It is exactly as we typed it in at the beginning. So your layer should look like this and you can see where each one of our letters bounces up and then our solid base layer of texts that has not been edited at all. So now let's test out our animation and we will tap on play. And that looks really good. It's just going super fast. So we're going to lower our frames per second. So go into our settings and let's just lower this. Again, it's preference, how you want to, how fast you want it to be. Let's see. I think I like it at six frames per second. And again, you can see if you like ping pong, which will go forward and backwards and forward and backwards. But I like loop, I like for it to start and go straight ones and then start again at the beginning and go straight through. So now that we have that we can get rid of our lettering guides, all these guides in the background. So I'll just turn off my drawing guides. Now. I will play it to see if I am happy with the final results. I think it looks great. That's just perfect. For our next lesson, I will show you how to export and save all of our animated projects. 7. Exporting & Saving: In this lesson, I will show you how to save and export our projects. And I will also show you how to share and use our animations. Here, our original projects that we created in our previous lessons. And I'm going to duplicate each one of our documents because I want to have a master copy. If I make any edits or crop the canvas size, I want to make sure I can go back to my original files. So I will swipe left, then tap on duplicate. And as you can see, it gives me a duplicated file of my original project. So I'm going to do that to each one of our projects. Now that we have a copy of each one, we can, we can, we can begin editing and sharing our animations. So I will tap on our duplicated of first handwritten effect project. And I want to crop the size of the canvas to make it really close to my word. I will tap on my actions panel and we'll make sure we're on Canvas. And right here where it says Crop and Resize, we will tap on that. Right now we are at our original file size of 1,000, 1,000 pixels. So I'm going to bring down my canvas size right close to my lettering. I'm not going to have any exact measurements or anything. I'm just going to bring it in real close to my word Hello. So that looks really good. So now I will tap on done. And as you can see, this is why we created a duplicated file. So we can always go back to our original file if we need to change something or reference it. So now that I have my Canvas resized, I'm ready to export as a GIF. And I will first show you how to export as a GIF, and then I will show you how to export as a short video, e.g. Instagram Reels. So we have all our layers that we created earlier and our background color. Now for the gifts, I like to create them without a background color, so I can use them as stickers for my stories or web graphics. I can just turn off my background color right here. And as you can see, it is just my word hello, on a transparent background. Now I will tap on my actions panel again and tap on Share. And as you can see right here at the bottom, this is where we will save for our motion graphics if we have options. And I'm just going to be using the animated GIF and the animated MP4 file types. So I'll start off with our animated gifs, and I will tap on that. And right here we have some settings. And you can decide it's those going slow or too fast. This is where you can still play with your frames per second if you want to change anything from the original that we had it on, I'm going to leave it at five where we first had it. But if you see you want to change it a little bit, you can fix that right there. I always leave the other settings as is. I just make sure I'm on max resolution and you can give it a background if you turn off, off the transparent. Or we can leave it with a transparent background. And that's where you would do that right here with this little button right here. With a background, without a background, or you can do it from the layers panel like we did. Everything looks good. So now I can tap on exports. I just want to save this to my camera roll. So I will tap on Save Image. And now if we go to our images, It's hard to see, but it's right here. You can see it has saved it with a transparent background and I'll show you how to use it in like a sticker for Instagram stories in a little bit so you can see how it works. We have that saved. We can go back to the Procreate app and that's one way to save it. Or we can also save it by going to our gallery. Tapping on select, tapping on the file, then click on Share. And again we would tap down here where it says Animated GIF. And it's the same menu that pops up. We can do the exact same thing. So those are the two ways you can save as an animated GIF. Now I will show you how to save if you want to save for, say like a short video for Instagram stories or something like that. So I'm going to go to our weekly howdy effect. And think about this as a stop-motion short film almost where you want to have several small frames to create a long, a longer video for a few seconds. Instagram doesn't support. I'm posting just gifts unless it's a sticker. So we're going to have to convert this small animation to a small video with at least 6 s. So we'll go to our Layers panel. And I'm going to rename my layers because we're going to be duplicating all our layers several times to create a short video. I'm going to rename them and make sure I keep them in order. We're going to want to keep them in order. So I'm just going to number them 123. So all know exactly what order all my layers have to be in a tupple one. Then I'm going to rename this one to two. And then this will be three. And I did that. So when I duplicate my layers, I know exactly what order they will be in. We can't get them out of order. We want them to always stay in this order. Now I will swipe right on all the layers I want to select because we want to duplicate all of them at one time so they can stay in order. If we have all our layers selected. And a really quick and easy way to duplicate my layers and have them all stay in. The same order, is you will select all the layers you want to duplicate. Now you will tap on the top layer and drag out. And when you see that plus sign turn on, we let it go. And as you can see, it duplicated in the right order. So 123123, we're gonna do this several more times. We can create a longer, around six second video. We will select our new group of layers and do the exact same thing. Hold and drag out. I'm just going to do this probably about eight more times. And then I can share as a short video. Okay, I think that's good. We have all our duplicated layers and they're all in the right order. And we know this because we labeled all of our layers from the beginning. So you can just go back and check. We're going to make sure it's always 123123, all the way to the top. And now we strung together a short video. Now we're ready to export as a short video instead of an animated GIF. You will tap on our actions. And this time we're going to tap on animated MP4 and make sure it's on max resolution. And again, if you want to change your frames per second, here is where you can do it. And I want to leave it where I have it. So now I can click on Export. Again. We'll just save to our camera roll down here where it says Save Video. Now we can go check it out in our photo gallery. And as you can see, it gave us a seven second video. And now we can share it on our Instagram Reels or as a video somewhere. So it gives us 7 s. And if you want to make your video longer, you would just keep duplicating your layers as we did. So now we'll go and save the rest of my projects as animated gifs and short videos. I will speed up the process and you can see me work through each one of the file types. Now that I saved all my file types, I am ready to move on and use my animated elements, and I will show you how to use it as in Instagram sticker. Now, show you how to share your animations as an Instagram story sticker. So we will create a new story. And I have this picture of this coffee cup. And I want to use the animation that says Hello in a handwritten style. I will go back to my photo gallery. And this is the animation I want to share. So I will click on the Share, and then I will tap right here where it says Copy folder. I will go back to our Instagram story and it paste it down here. So I will just tap on that. And now I can resize it to make it smaller or larger and position it where I want to. And that's how you would use these stickers for your, I'm stories or any social app. Fit needs a cute animated sticker. If you want to share them as a real, that's where you would use the videos. We created these short videos. We'll just create a new reel. And we would pick our video. And then we can share it that way. You can also send these as a fun text messages. So I will quickly show you that and I'm just going to send it to myself as an example. So you will go to the person you want to text top right here for the photos. And then you can just pick the animated GIF if you want to send. And I can just send that. And it's a really unique and fun way to send messages. I'll just delete this one because it's just send it to me twice. And that's how you would share it with in text messages. And these are really fun because you can save them and use them as web graphics or on your social apps, or as fun animated stickers. 8. Bonus Lesson: Uploading To GIPHY: In this bonus lesson, I will show you how to upload your new animated gifs to Giphy. And this is great. If you want them searchable through social apps such as Instagram. I will go to Giphy and you will want to create a new account through Giphy. And once you have that all set up, we can upload our gifts. I will tap on Upload. And then we will be using a GIF file. So we will just click on that. And then we will be using our gifts from the photo library. So I will select my GIF file and click on Add. And it will take us to this new window. And we can see our gift right here. We will make sure it's on public, so it's searchable. And then we will add tags. And this is important because this is what makes it searchable. So we will add descriptive words that represent our gifts. So when someone is searching it, it will pop up in the search. So I can write things like Hello. I can write script. Greetings. Try to think of things that represent our gift and give it some descriptive words. So maybe hand and written. Hello and written. So you want to pick things that you think someone might search and make it very descriptive. So once you have all your tags done, we can tap on Upload to give you an ad like a URL source or anything. I just leave it like that. So I will click Upload to Giphy and it is uploading. And now it is up on Giphy and searchable through social apps or messaging. Now, do keep in mind, this sometimes takes a while. It sometimes takes 24 h to be searchable through the search bar. But once it is searchable, we can go to Instagram and create a new story. We'll use our coffee cup. And now it should pop up in our search bar. Once it is uploaded, we can find our gifts. Here's some gifts I created earlier. And if you want it to be searchable through just the search, like say hello, you will need an artist account. And I have linked some really helpful links on how to apply for an artist the count. You can find those links right below this video in the project and resources tab description. But I believe if you are not verified as an artists account, you can still access your gifts if you type in the at and your username, so minus my name. You should still be able to access them with the act even if you are not in artists verified account. But the nice thing of having an artist verified account is it you won't have to type in at and your name. You can just type in like say coffee. And it would automatically pop up. Your GIF would pop up here if you used the tag coffee in your GIF. So that is how you would upload your gifts to Giphy. And again, I've linked some helpful resources in the resources tab below this video. If you'd like to take a look. 9. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for taking the time and joining the class. I hope you have fun creating some new animated lettering effects in the Procreate app. I would love senior amazing animation projects. So don't forget to share your work in the project gallery. Remember to have fun and be creative. I can't wait to see what you will create. And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. You can post your question under the Discussions tab and you'll find that located right below this video. Thanks again, and I'll see you next time.