Animating In Procreate For The Ipad

Tags: Procreate Digital Illustration App

Impress your friends and take your animations to the next level with easy to follow lessons.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.8

- How to animate in Procreate on the iPad
- The 12 principles of character animation

What you'll learn

How to animate in Procreate on the iPad

The 12 principles of character animation

* Requirements

* An iPad with the app Procreate
* An Apple Pencil or stylus is recomended

Description

The key to making great animations is understanding the 12 core principles of animation. In this course we use the animation assist features in Procreate to learn the basics of animation and apply them to our work in a practical way. We start simple by moving simple shapes and slowly build on those basics with each project. You will be stunned by what you will be able to create by the end of this course.

Who this course is for:

Beginners who want to learn animation
Illustrators who want to make more polished animations

Course content

3 sections • 13 lectures

Introduction 3 lectures

About this Course Preview 04:04

In this section we talk about what you need to take this course and the best way to learn while we go through all these lessons and projects.

Animation Tools Preview 08:49

In this section we review the animation tools in Procreate and go over how to turn on animation assist and how it works with the existing interface.

Export Features Preview 03:55

There are several export options or ways to get your animations out of Procreate. They all have some pluses and minuses.

Animation Principles 5 lectures

12 Principles of Animation Preview 12:10

These are the animation principles that are taught in schools and form the foundation of everything we are going to do in this course going forward.

Your First Animation Preview 06:38

Now that we understand the principles of animation we are going to make our first basic animation and get our feet wet with Procreate’s animation assistant.

Ease in and Ease Out Preview 02:55

Changing the spacing or easing or our ball makes a big difference in our simple ball animation.

Squash and Stretch Preview 05:35

We take our ball animation and we add a little more to it. This time morph the shape as it goes along the timeline to give it more of a sense of weight.

Anticipation Preview 04:40

Before something big moves in a cartoon or animation usually it telegraphs that motion, this is called anticipation.

The Projects 5 lectures

Animating Multiple Objects at Once Preview 13:33

Every layer in your Procreate file is a frame in your animation. But also every folder in your document is a frame which lets you move multiple objects in your animation at once.