Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence
How to Animate 2
A course by RYLSEE ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: How to Animate 2
Overview
“In this lesson, I will showcase the ping-pong animation. I will then explain how to export it according to how you would like to use the animation, whether that's as a GIF, Instagram sticker, video insert, and so on. ”
In this video lesson RYLSEE ☻ addresses the topic: How to Animate 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence. Combine playful lettering with motion graphics to create eye-catching GIFs that stand out on social media.
Partial transcription of the video
“ HOW TO ANIMATE Now comes the animation part. The magic of it. We will go Settings. Select the Ping-Pong because for this animation we want it to, erase and then go back to the illusion of writing. We will select Ping-Pong. We here have 15 frames per second and the onion skin should not be too visible. We can now click Play. It's super trippy. This is where you're going to see the difference with the frame per second. We're running at 15 frames per second. If I go to only five, you would see that it moves really chunky. It looks like old internet times. On the other hand, if you add some f...”
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Course summary for: Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence
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Category
3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Animation, Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Typography

RYLSEE ☻
A course by RYLSEE ☻
Cyril Vouilloz, better known as RYLSEE, is a Swiss visual artist and author based in Berlin. He has been drawing for as long as he can remember and turned his childhood hobby into a 20-year career in visual arts. RYLSEE is a freelance designer and one of the founding members of Urban Spree, an arts and music venue in the heart of Berlin. He also runs lettering workshops for individuals, schools, universities, and companies.
RYLSEE has worked with clients including Nike, LinkedIn, and Converse. He has presented at art exhibitions all over the world and a number of his artworks have gained global attention, including his viral “Too Shy to Rap” design. In 2017 RYLSEE published How to Play With Letters, a guide on how to add playful touches to lettering. More recently he has moved into animated design, and his “New Post” Instagram sticker has been used over a billion times on the platform.
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