Mixed Media Animation in Procreate

Mixed Media Animation in Procreate

“Dear student and badass cyber pal, well done! You’ve reached the end of our little motion magic quest, and I honestly can’t tell you how thrilled and proud I am for you to make it here and for keeping me company. I know how time-consuming and frustrating it sometimes can be when learning something new and especially cel animation—it takes a lot of patience, practice, passion, and effort. Trust me. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to crash my Ipad against the wall and quit. But mastering something your gut feeling is longing for is so insanely rewarding, and this is honestly what life is all about. Having fun and learning and growing—and you might think, there’s an end station, but there really isn't. We all continue learning each day if we seek it—even the masters. So let me just applaud you for a few seconds here for your courage and I hope you’re celebrating yourself with me out there behind the screen, cause you deserve it. So let’s have a look at what magic we’ve worked on together. • We’ve looked at our different sources of inspiration, and influences. • We’ve looked at what animation actually is. • We’ve looked at the 12 Principles of Animation. • We’ve learned what a properly executed client brief looks like and how to communicate with clients. • We've planned, brand researched, found our story, sketched out our composition, created a fitting color palette, drew a storyboard, and took photos for mixed media animation. • We’ve learned how the animation timeline works in the app Procreate for Ipad Pro. • We've seen how to prepare for a bigger animation project finalized in Adobe After Effects. • We’ve also touched base on different social media platforms and how to post and share on these along with which content is good for which platforms. You’ve hopefully now attained some new skills and upgrades in your toolset, so you can start having some fun with traditional animation in Procreate. Learning how to do cel animation is a process. I recommend you to give yourself different tasks like picking a certain character and practicing to animate it—for example raindrops. Look at them and try to imitate their movements. You have to understand and observe your character before succeeding in animating it. To push yourself even further and to keep practicing the skills you've learned in this course, try and come up with imaginary clients as we did with Snape—or ask a friend or a family member or even a brand, if you can create something for them while they give you honest feedback. Being able to understand your client and in that way create a successful product is crucial. If you’re interested in creating more mixed media motion for practice, I’d recommend you to go and take some cool photos of whatever you find interesting. Maybe you already have a few nice ones from a vacation or of your granny or you could check out royalty-free photo sites like Unsplash and pick a photo from there. You can also draw your own background, just make sure to have a story in mind and create a storyboard beforehand—this will help you in your process. Have fun—an animation is a beautiful tool for a storyteller, and with today’s technology you don’t need much to start creating. Rough composition

Style frame Storyboard Final animation To finish off I would like to thank you, sincerely, for taking my course. My animation journey hasn’t always been easy, so being able to sit here now and teach—something I’ve dreamed about for a long time—is huge, and I hope these words will also encourage you and assure you, that wherever you are in your process, you got this. Patience and practice are key. With a pinch of humor and kindness. So thank you for being here, and I hope this course has given you something valuable to continue with on your creative quest. Oh yeah and Snape says hi and thank you as well—he really appreciates our muggle magic, he says. I can’t wait to see what you create. Give it all you’ve got and have fun. Please be patient with feedback though—I am a working freelancer and will do my absolute best with the Domestika team to get back to you in between client work. One of the many great things about this community is also that you can share and ask questions amongst the other students of this course. So please feel free to help each other out—this can only enhance your experience here and maybe even establish new friendships and collaboration opportunities. If you’re interested in staying in touch with me and my work, I’d love for you to check out my different channels (show social media channels on-screen) where I upload work consistently and have Q&As. Thanks again so much for being here and I wish you loads of creativity and passion and joy on your motion magic journey. See you in cyberspace!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Students and cyber pals, well done, you've finished this Domestika course! I can't tell you how thrilled I am for you to make it here. I know learning something new, especially cel animation, takes a lot of patient practice, passion, and effort. Mastering something your gut feeling is longing for is so insanely rewarding, and this is what life is all about, having fun and learning and growing. You've hopefully now attained some new skill sets so you can have some fun with traditional animation in Procreate. For your final project, come up with an imaginary client, like we did ...”

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Course summary for: Mixed Media Animation in Procreate

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (639)
• 33855 students
• 4 units
• 32 lessons (8h 7m)
• 13 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Procreate

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Illustration