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Turn Your Illustration into an Animation: Create a Looping Animation in Procreate

teacher avatar Loreta Isac, illustrator & animator

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:23

    • 2.

      Class Orientation

      3:30

    • 3.

      Planning the Animation

      4:24

    • 4.

      References for the Animation

      2:11

    • 5.

      Tools and Settings

      3:04

    • 6.

      Organizing the Work

      3:02

    • 7.

      Rough Animation for the Snail

      3:35

    • 8.

      Rough Animation for the Jellyfish

      3:21

    • 9.

      Making the Animation Smoother

      11:40

    • 10.

      Cleaning the Animation Up

      2:29

    • 11.

      Coloring the Animation

      3:16

    • 12.

      Exporting from Procreate

      2:04

    • 13.

      Adding Sound

      3:14

    • 14.

      Exporting from Premier Rush

      2:17

    • 15.

      Conclusion

      2:43

    • 16.

      Bonus chapter: Create the animation in Procreate Dreams

      9:41

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About This Class

In this class, you will learn how to take an illustration and transform it into a looping animation. We will be using Procreate and Adobe Premier Rush to bring our illustrations to life. 

Additionally, I've included a bonus chapter where we will learn how to animate in Procreate Dreams.

If you're familiar with Procreate, that's great! If you're looking to bring more life to your illustrations by animating them, this class is tailored for you. You will learn how to animate your illustrations for Instagram, starting from planning and organizing each element you wish to animate, to initiating the animation, adding sound, and exporting the entire animation as an MP4 from Adobe Premier Rush.

This class is perfect for illustrators and animators who already have an understanding of animation principles and want to enhance their skills or for those who are facing a creative block and wish to create animations with more emotional impact, moving away from cold and rigid animations.

Short animations have a significant impact in various mediums such as editorials, short poetry animation, and social media. They spark curiosity and yield impressive results.

What you will learn:

  • How to plan the elements you want to animate
  • How to animate a loop transform of one element into another
  • How to make each element loop seamlessly
  • How to refine the animation
  • How to incorporate sound into your animation
  • How to export it

By the end of this class, you will have a loop animation like the one below, that you can share with the world!

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Loreta Isac

illustrator & animator

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My name is Loreta Isac, and I am an Animator and Illustrator. In my professional work, I have had the pleasure of working with Apple, Sam Smith, Bone Appetit, The New York Times, and other notable clients.

My personal work revolves around animating and transforming different plants or objects, or creating a conversation between objects that transforms in a poetic visual way. I refer to my style as "visual poetry."

My techniques are often based on frame-by-frame animation, but I also enjoy using other techniques. I primarily work in Procreate, Callipeg, Clip Studio Paint, After Effects, Moho, and Blender.

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Level: Intermediate

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1. Introduction: When I discovered how to create stylized transformation of my illustrations, I was so excited to explore this expressive and engaging form of digital art. If you love animation and want to take your illustrations to the next level by animating them in a more personal way, then this class is perfect for you. Hi, I'm Loretta Sac and I'm an illustrator and animator based in Bucharest, Romania. I have completed both art school and art university, but my curiosity lead me to learn and practice animation, my animation style. I have had opportunity to work with April for the lyrics of Chad Smith video, the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Bona Petite. It really brings me a lot of joy to know that my work has been recognized and appreciated around the world. I remember when I started to experiment with frame by frame animation without having any plan. That experiment gave me more ideas and made me realize that frame by frame animation looks really amazing. In this class, we will start by working on planning the animation in an existing illustration, what each element will transform into. Then we will move on creating a rough animation, cleaning it up, adding other animating elements, applying colors, exporting from procreate, and finally adding sound into the animation in Premier Rush. All you need is too beautiful illustration. It can be one illustration as well. We will work on how each element will transform. This class is great for a curious and ambitious beginner who already know how to use procreate. And also for those who a basic understanding of animation principles. To get started, you need to have procreate app installed on your ipad. And premier rush for mixing sound with the animation. If you're ready, meet me in the next chapter of the class and let's get started. 2. Class Orientation: I'm happy to have chosen to join my class. This course took shape after I received a number of questions over the Instagram about my animation process and how long it takes to create this kind of animation. While may seem difficult with consistent practice, you will develop confidence and most importantly, patience. By the end of this class, your project is to create between three or 5 seconds of animation. To accomplish this, you should already have one or two distinct illustrations, each containing more than one element. Let me show you why illustrations that I will use for this class. First illustration includes a girl that holds large flour along with a button fly. And the sale and all this will transform into a girl swimming with a large jellyfish and two other marine characters. In this class, we will transform only two characters from these two illustrations. First one is the sal and the second one is the flower that transform into a jellyfish. We will start by creating a rough animation, cleaning them, adding color, and exporting them from procreate. And then mixing animation with the sound in Premier dash. And finally, exporting the entire animation from Premier Dash. For this class, you have to know that I provided a procreate file with these two characters animated and with their transformation. This file will help you understand how I animated these characters. It is ideal for referencing while animating elements from your own illustration. You can even practice coloring this animation using this file before working in your own animation. Or you can use this file to transform these two characters into other characters that you have from your own portfolio. However, if you want to use your own illustration for this project, it is absolutely fine. Remember to upload your illustration or animation it to the project gallery when you feel it is ready or you can upload your final animation into Instagram, Youtube, or any other platform that supports a video file. And don't forget to tag me. Here are a few tips to keep in mind through this class. Patient is gaining to practice. To add a personal touch is important to have your own illustration or a sketch that you want to animate. Create as many poses as you like. Don't delete anything. Complete the anivationtill the end then if you don't like it, start over again till you are happy Osmbian progress after experimenting with different approaches. Now let's go to the next chapter where we'll discuss more about how to plant our animation. 3. Planning the Animation: In this chapter, we will discuss how to plan a transformation animation. We will take a look at the composition I have chosen for this class. From it we will see how many possibilities can be for animating one illustration. For this class, I choose this illustration tagore that holds a big flower in her hands, along with two other characters. But what I wanted to do with this illustration that already has an animation, I wanted to take it to the next level where all these elements are transforming into a new characters and basically a new composition and illustration. The second illustration is this one with the girl swimming along with the jellyfish along with two other main characters. In this class, we will animate only two characters. First one is the snail that transforms into the water snail. The second one will be the most difficult one. And the rest of elements, you can animate them by yourself. I really would love to see your characters and your transformations by exercising with the rest of the elements, and don't forget to add them in the project gallery. Before I was coming up with the second idea of transforming all these elements into the second illustration, I was asking myself if there will be a new story? What will be the new story? What is the direction I would love to explore what I imagine it will happen with all these elements into the next illustration or the next story. Let's see how many ideas and possibilities there are before starting to animate the chosen story. The first idea was to transform the flower into a jellyfish. And the girl will start to swim along with two other marine characters. The second one was the girl continues to walk the changing seasons accompanied by hard flower that was transformed into a Christmas tree covered by snow. The spring appears and the flower starts to reappear again. Final idea was to go freestyle with all the elements from this first composition. All of them are interesting to try, but I feel like the jellyfish were more complex and more interesting to do. When selecting a subject to illustrate and to animate, remember to keep the original document and duplicated to have layered composition. This helps you decide which element will be animated by. That means keep your outline separate from your textures and from your color elements. Please don't forget to have all your characters in different layers as well. If you're animating your own illustration from your portfolio, or if you choose to animate this illustration from this class. Ask yourself in what object or form you want to transform these characters, how these objects or forms or characters are moving. In real life, write at least three ideas around your illustration or around the existing illustration in this class and then start to sketch. The choose one direction to be illustrated and animated is are to go to the next chapter where we will discuss about the importance of hiding sterences. Video. 4. References for the Animation: Before we start animating our characters from chosen illustration, it is important to gather some references video first. This will help you know where to start and prevent you from feeling stuck and overwhelmed by thinking that maybe this project is too difficult or unachievable. I usually collect a lot of videos for shapes, characters, moving plants, or anything that I want to animate. I film them myself or I search them over the Internet in different videos. Or Jeeves for the jellyfish and for the snail. I have a few references that I filmed them while I was in Valencia at the oceanographic Center. The video shows a graceful swimming of the jellyfish and other marine characters. I will use this video as a reference for the swimming part of each character where they are not transforming. Knowing how these characters are moving in real life will help me imagine how to transform and to exaggerate, The shapes references video are really important to keep you on track with your project. Especially when you don't know where to start from and you still want to push forward and experiment with animation. The idea with experimentation only came only after you pay attention and observe the movement in reality. And then think about how to exaggerate each movement when you want to animate them. But this depends on what you want to achieve with your animation. You have to think about what energy you want to have your characters and choose element if you are still curious. Time to go to the next chapter, where I will share what tools I will use to start animate my characters. 5. Tools and Settings: In this chapter, I will introduce you to the tools that I will be using inappropriate for this animation. I will use animation assist. I will activate it by going to the action menu, choosing canvas and activating by sliding this button from the Animation assist. Animation Assist is a user friendly interface for animators with essential features like onion skin, instant playback, different options for how this animation will be played, and visual timeline. On the right, we have our layer menu, where we can organize our layers, seen as one frame. As you can see, the timeline will automatically activate at the bottom where we can play the animation. To set it up, I'll go to the timeline bar settings and select loop. Then I'll set the frame rate to 12 or ten for the beginning. Remember that 24 frame per second is usually set for animation production, meaning that there are 24 drawings per second. However, I prefer to use ten or 12 frame per second because it gives my animation a smooth effect. Next, I'll set the onion skin frame to one so that I can see the first layer. While drawing the first skin, I'll set the onion skin opacity to 26% and choose onion skin color that won't interfere with my composition. As you can see, each group of layers appears in different frames, even if they are from the same composition. What I usually do is add everything into a single group. Another thing I do is set my background image. This helps me to have a starting point for the animation. Or to see the elements that are never animated, but need to be seen through the entire animation. When I know what I will animate, I start by animating the most important element in the composition. Usually it is a bigger one that draws your attention. But it's not wrong if you choose to animate the smallest element in your composition and make it more visible or the center of the animation. Now it is your turn. If you haven't activated your animation, assist and adjust the settings in the way you like. Now it's time to go to the next chapter where we'll discuss about how I organize my work. 6. Organizing the Work: Let's take a look on how I will organize my work. Each step is saved separately in a folder. In procreate, this means that I will create a new composition, or I will duplicate the composition, and then I will resize it for the new composition created. I will change the name and I will start to create a line work animation. Then I will duplicate the line work composition and I will then clean the animation. Finally, I will duplicate the composition to start coloring each element. This way, I want to be sure that I have each step of my process saved in the same stock or folder when I created a new composition and gave it a name. Before I create the composition, I want to make sure that my time lapse video is set to a better quality. Since I plan to share my process online too. I will do that by from the gallery tab plus button in the top right of the screen. This will bring up the new canvas menu. In the top right of that menu is an icon made of two rectangles with a small plus symbol tap to bring up the custom canvas screen tap time line settings. From here you can tweak select resolution of your video from 180 to full four K. Tweak recording quality settings from low to lossless, which means larger file will, no loss of details. Hc is a new form of video compression for advanced motion graphics creation. It is off by default but can be toggled on. Then I will choose the size of my new composition, which will be 180 on 1920. The resolution at 72 DPI. It is a size that I usually use, especially if I'm planning to post it on Instagram, reel, Tiktok, or Youtube stories. And then I will drop each illustration from the previous composition into the new composition. The font part will be to go to the next chapter where we will start to draw our first animation for the snail. 7. Rough Animation for the Snail: This chapter explains how I will animate our first character from our composition. I will demonstrate an easy animation of the snail. The remaining characters will be animating by you later. Alternatively, you can choose to animate each element from your own composition and illustration in your own unique style. To start, I will focus on the snail. As it is a simple and easy transformation animation, the snail transformed into a water snail. For this animation, I will look up again at my chosen references video where fish are swimming and other marine characters. Or I will search over the Internet to see how a snail is moving or how water snail is swimming. I will use the references to animate both characters while they are not in the transformation situation. To start this animation, I have the first frame and the last frame of the character from the second illustration, and then again the first frame with the snail. I know where to start and where to end. Firstly, I will make the snail shell disappear. Then I will make wings similar to a fish. Wings appear on the water snail. These wings will grow from the same body and then the water snail will swim till he disappears on the left of the page, and then the snail appears once again in the page. The first step is to add an intermediate layer that shows how this transformation will look. After that, I will add another intermediate layer from the second scene, where we see the snail to the water snail. To do this, I will go to the Time Line menu and click on Add Frame. As you can see, this will automatically add a frame after the first frame. Then I will go to Settings and activate the onion skin. Next, I will deselect all other elements from the composition to focus only on one character. I will choose a dark blue color for the line and start creating the desired conduit for this first in between layer. This is how a snail looks like, transformed into the water snail and how he reappears in the composition. I'm really curious to know how your animation looks for the snail. Let me know by adding a preview in this class. 8. Rough Animation for the Jellyfish: Let's move to the jellyfish animation. This is the most challenging element in this composition. I will start by animating the largest element from this illustration, which is the flower that has to transform into the jellyfish and back again into a flower. I will use the same technique that I use for the snail, which is adding in between layer to start animating this character. However, the transformation process will be longer because this character has multiple elements that needs to be animated. Some of them has to disappear and other elements has to reappear in the composition. Although completing this animation may seem a bit difficult and intimidating, there are few things to keep in mind. Start by animating few elements. After completing the animation from the beginning to the end. Repeat the process, but this time from the end to the beginning. By starting with the main character, This will determinate the duration of one entire animation. Since this character will be the first element that the viewer see, it is important to establish the tone of this animation, whether it will be faster or slower transformation. The plan for the flower is to gradually make each petal appear as if they are falling. However, in reality, they will slowly transform into the shape of jellyfish to create a lupo, well animation. It is important to have a plan from the beginning. This includes determinating the transformation between the flower and jellyfish. Then we will see the jellyfish floating a bit. And then it will start to reverse the transformation, which means transforming from the jellyfish into flour. This is my rough animation with the flower that transforms into the jellyfish and back again into the flower. But I feel like adding more in between layers and make the animation a bit smoother. In the next chapter, we will discuss how to make this animation a bit. Smooter. 9. Making the Animation Smoother: Currently this draft of animation looks quite rough. I feel like it needs more attention. And by that I mean I will add more in between layers, especially for the part where the jellyfish swims into the water and the flower has to be floating a bit in the air. But I don't think the snail needs any improvement as I really like the way it is right now. But if you feel like adding more in between layers for your characters, feel free to do so. In my case, the jellyfish needs more attention. As I was mentioned already, I want to make the swimming part of the jellyfish more sweater and the part where the flower is a little bit in the wind. Also, I will pay attention to the dose that appears on the jellyfish body because they have to appear and then disappear. However, if you have a different character or on the object and you want to make them more dynamic and you don't want to add any in between layers to make them smoother, then this is perfectly fine. It is your decision how this character has to be animated. I strongly advise you to experiment. Next, I will start to animate by adding more in between layers till I'm happy with my smooth animation. In the case of the jellyfish, we have more than 20 layers that needs to be animated in the same time. But please be patient, because I worked on this character more than four days. Sometimes having a small break helps you come up with more ideas on how to animate each element. This is how my animation for the jellyfish looks at the moment. And I'm ready to go to the next chapter where we'll discuss how to clean up our animation. 10. Cleaning the Animation Up: I'm really happy that we succeeded by now with the line animation. Now it is really important to start cleaning each layer of our animation. You may wonder what is the best way to do that? Clean up animation is the process of creating the final drawings that we see in our final animation. It is not only about cleaning the lines, it is also the part where we closely examine the details of each frame. If you missed something such as the shadows expressions, the animation flow, there are a few possibilities. But we will start by revising each layer and reshaping the lines that I don't like. Or maybe I forgot to animate a tiny shape, or maybe a line is missing from a shape. This happens often to me when I'm in a rush. Or maybe I'm too absorbed by what I love to do. If my layer is too messy, I will draw over each existing layer because it is faster, especially if it is too messy. The tools here are so helpful to make these revisions. Onion skin, which is a tool that helps me to see the shadows of the previous or above layer onion skin is useful for checking if the shapes that are moving in the scene are drawn correctly. Adjusting the frames per second. If you make this animation too fluid and it looks like it is too slow, you don't need to delete any layer. You can see what it looks like. If you increase the frame rate after that, decide if this is truly necessary to delete some layers. The tip is to make a revision, and this is the moment when we can see if there are missing layers. Or maybe we added too much animation in our loop and we want to delete some layers. Now it is your turn to start cleaning up your animation before going to the next chapter, where we'll discuss how to color our animation. 11. Coloring the Animation: Coloring is really my favorite part of this process of creating the animation. In this transformation animation, I know that the color will be changed along with the transformation of each character. And it seems to me that it plays such a fun part in the process by adding color gradient textures. Of course, this all depends on the illustration chosen for this class. As you see, I say the first composition with all the color layers and the last illustration with the jellyfish with slightly different colors. By coloring this shape faster, we will start by duplicate some layers and using the fill menu, or dropping the color that the app allows. I will choose one color first and completed till the end of the animation. And then the rest of the colors for each petal of the flower that transform into the jellyfish. As you see the gradient part of the flower, the blue and orange met. I will select the shape with a free hand form selection tool. Then I will make this gradient with the brush that I love. I know that this means that each frame will be slightly different and that means there will be an animation. I must say, I love the effect. And it adds like a texture that animates on each shape by having this gradient. This is how it will help me make the transition of color to the next shape. Then I will revise each layer to see if I missed something. If adding color to one shape. Now that you know how I'm planning to color each element, I will start doing this for all these elements till I finish them. Some tips for coloring in procreate. When you fill the layer, you can adjust the percentage of filling by dropping the color into the shape. If it's too much, drag it until it's right for you. If the color doesn't fill the entire shape, just check each corner and use the brush to fill it. The imperfection. When added textures or gradient to a shape, use a clipping mask. Remember at the end to check if all the shapes have been colored and make the revisions for the layers that still have some messy lines around. So this is how my final animation looks with the color. I hope you are happy on how your animation looks in full color with all the levels of the details that you wanted. After that, we can go to the next chapter where we'll start to export our animation. 12. Exporting from Procreate: Now that we have the entire animation done, I think it is a huge achievement because we worked hard. There are a few steps to be completed before we can see it done. Procreate has a few options to be taken in consideration when it comes to export your final animation. In the action menu, I go to the shared icon and look at the part where it says share layers. Here there are four different types of possibilities that we can share for animation. I use Jeff when I want to share a simple animation, have it like a sticker, or when I want to upload it to my GP account. But when it comes to such a long animation we created in this class, I don't recommend using a G. I use PNG when I want to export an animation that doesn't have any background and I want to add it to a larger animation. Basically, I'll be compositing the animation into another app. P four is an ideal video file format that I usually use for my animations. Hash VC, which stands for Highly Efficiency video coding. The hash VC format is primarily designed for four K video. I will export MP four to my ipad when I want to share this animation in social media, and I will use HashVC when I want to upload this animation to Youtube or Vimeo. For this class, I recommend it to be exported MP four. We are ready to go to the next chapter where we will add sound into our animation. 13. Adding Sound: The sound to me is quite important and inspiring for the viewer as it creates an emotional connection. There are few options when it comes to adding sound. You can directly add the sound to your social media. Post platforms like Instagram, Tiktok, and Youtube allow you to do this. It is a great way to incorporate your favorite band into your artwork. Alternatively, you can search for your favorite sound over the internet. Some artists sells their sounds or you can create your own song by using sound creation software. In this class, you have possibility to download the sounds created by me and they are available in the class resource. Please download them if you are curious to mix the sound with your animation. I'll open Premier Rush and click the button to create a new project. This will take me to my Covera role, where I will select the animation I exported from Procreate. The composition is based on the size of existing video. Once the composition is completed, I'll add the sound by clicking the plus button again from the corner of the app and selecting the sound from my folder. Now we have everything in one place, ready to mix. Premier Rush is an easy to follow up. I choose this app because I wanted to demonstrate how you can do everything in a single device, such as ipad Pro. At the bottom of the app, there is a larger timeline where you already have the video. I will also add the sound by dropping it in the timeline. I enjoy experimenting with the sound mixing, so this is how my mix looks for now, however, I will continue to make changes and try different options until I'm satisfied for the sound. There are a few tips to consider when planning. What feeling would you love to have this animation? In my case, I want to have a sound for the transformation part of these two characters. At the beginning, I want to capture the mood of the Spring when all this is transformed into the jellyfish and each character starts to swim. I want to have the feeling of swimming in the water. This is why I choose a very peculiar sounds. Now it is your turn to mix your illustration with the sound in the way that suits your animation. Let's go to the next chapter where we will export our final animation with the sound. 14. Exporting from Premier Rush: I'm really excited to share the final step of this class. When everything is ready, I'll kick share. And then in the Quick Settings menu, we can choose between Match Automatic Frame rate. This means the video will be exported with the frame rate from the app exported before. In my case, this is 12 frames per second, 35 C with the same size, but the frame rate is faster than in my composition. After that, you can choose to export it on your ipod or directly into the platform. We want to see this animation. After completing this final step, feel free to celebrate by sharing your animation in social media or adding a link here in the Skillshare class. Before doing that, my advice is exporting first your animation and see it on your ipad every time when I see my animation exported without having any settings around makes me realize if the animation needs any adjustments or improvement. For instance, if this mix of the sound gives me the feeling that I want and deserves to be shared with everyone or maybe deserves to be improved. I would really love to see your final animation if you're posted on social media. Don't forget to tag me. I'd really love to share your final version of the animation. Alternatively, if you share it in other social media, don't forget to add a link here in Skillshare class. Other than that, enjoy your final work. Let's go to the next chapter where we'll discuss what we accomplished by now. 15. Conclusion: Congratulations, we really did it. We finally succeeded to create a transformation animation for our character from the chosen illustration. Here is what we accomplished in this class. We have selected our illustration, we bras ideas and settled on one direction for the animation. We discussed about the tools and settings that I will use for this animation. We have chosen the references video. We started to create our rough animation for the snail. Then we learn how to create a more complex animation, transformation for the flower that transforms into the jellyfish and back again into a flower. Then we move on by digging up our animation, coloring it. Then we export it from procreate. And finally we learned how to add Sound and how to export it from Premier Rush. Through this animation creative experience, it is really important to celebrate your achievement. I can't wait to see your transformation Animation. Please don't forget to share your final animation into the project gallery. Now that you have seen how this transformation animation works, don't forget that it can be applied to any illustration from your portfolio. Just make sure to ask yourself the right questions before starting a new project. Even if your project is more ambitious, don't forget to break it into pieces that will help you manage your time and complete the animation in your own personal way. Keep working with curiosity and enthusiasm. And don't forget to take a few breaks if you need them. Sometimes after taking a few breaks, it will help you improve your ideas and you will work with more enthusiasts. Thank you once again for taking this class and I hope that this knowledge was helpful and that you enjoy. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. As it is my first class, it means a lot to me. Please let me know what can I improve for my next idea. Thank you and see you next time. Goodbye. 16. Bonus chapter: Create the animation in Procreate Dreams: Bonus chapter. Yea, I said goodbye earlier, but I really wanted to do a special chapter where I want to share five easy steps on how you can create this animation in Procreate dreams. Because this app is easy to use and you can do everything in one single app, such as editing, animating, and adding sound. So if you have been start your Procreate Dreams, that's great. We are ready to go. Let's get started. First step, creating the canvas in Procreate Dreams. To start, I will open the new app, Procreate Dreams, and I will click the plus button in the right corner of the app. Here we have five possibilities to choose the size of our canvas. I will choose the Harsh Death Social, because the purpose of this animation is to share it as a real on Instagram Tube or even Tiktok as I already mentioned in the previous chapters. Then I will click on these three dots to choose my frame rates and duration. Finally, we have a longer duration with no restriction on layers. Here we have many possibilities for frame rate. I will choose 12 and duration 5 seconds from this part where we have two icons, draw or empty. I will choose empty. And this is done. We created our new canvass and Procreate Dreams. Second step, import layered illustration from Procreate. I will drop the composition from Procreate directly into our new canvass from Procreate Dreams. And as we see, there will be a truck. When I will click with my finger on the layer truck, I can select Group. And then we will see this composition with three layers in the same truck as I said in procreate, but the background it is a different truck. What is the truck you may ask? Truck functions like layers, stacking content vertically on the timeline. The visual content with this truck is displayed on the stage. Content at the top of the time line appears in the foreground of the stage. Why? Content at the bottom is the background. Step three, tools for animation. The new menu is located in the middle of the right side of the page. This menu function in different modes. Once we clicked on, we operate with a specific mode from right to left. The menu includes when we press on class button, it is the Add button, which allow us to add files. For example, I can add procreate files from my folder or sound files from this location. The next feature is Drawing and Painting mode. This mode activates the canvas similar to procreate. In the right corner, we'll find the menu for brushes, Much tool erase, layers and colors. On the left side, we can adjust our brush size and opacity. I will use this for my current animation. For example, the snail that I want to animate, I would have my first and last layer on the same different truck. I will use the flip mode to draw frame by frame. This mode is excellent because it's flexible. When I want to draw, the timeline is closing and then the flip mode is activated on the canvas near me. And I can move it whatever I want in the canvas. Let's not forget about onion skin, which is here when you press over the timing on the right. You can even change the color for the onion skin, for the backward layer, or for the front layer. Also here, we can choose how many layers can see while we are drawing. Next timeline. It, it is for the editing video and sound and I will show you later performing. It is a mode that anyone can activate and get start animated. Even if you don't know how the animation works, it will instantly record your movement or effect through every single touch and instantly respond to the as it plays. Let's see how many things we can do with truck layers as we will work a with them. If you hold on the layer and drag it to make the single layer longer, basically it sets the duration longer of the single frame. You can select or hide the same truck. You can choose the blend mode for one truck. You can rename this truck. You can cut it, and basically you can edit if you have longer animator or if you have a video, you can duplicate this truck. Finally, we can select a multiple tracks and then group then step number four, adding Sound. I will add sound by going to the plus button, which says Add. And then I will choose File. And then I will select the sound and add them in here. And then I can edit my song the way that I want. Step number five, exporting the animation. To export, all you need to do is place over the name of this canvas, choose Share, then select the video. It will be exported automatically and saved to your ipad. A few tips to keep in mind. I recommend you finish your entire illustration first in procreate, because the app has all the shortcuts that I love to have at my disposal. Then if you missed something and you want to add some details, you can still do them through procreate dreams if you decide to animate your illustration, but I will use it when my rough animation is done. If you can't find your brushes through procreate, you can find them in procreate and drop them into the new app. Procreate Dreams, you can make one frame number if you feel the light is to, you can add textures with the brush and then use the stall. This is pretty much what I wanted to share regarding procyinedrins and what you can do in this app. I hope this chapter was useful and that you will create from now on, magical animation bins. Goodbye.