This was so fun! I’ve never tried the animation feature on procreate so this was an awesome opportunity to try it out.
I did not create an “animation”, per say; more so movement in the lines (that’s different, right?). I adjusted the lengths of each “scene” and put them all together in the Capcut app. I looped it so that it reached the required 25 seconds. 🙂
The animation feature in procreate is incredibly simple and straightforward. Each layer acts as a frame, as shown here:
My poster shows the mice being shown one by one. I drew each individual mouse, then duplicated and combined layers so that they showed up and stayed in the page at appropriate times.
An issue I ran into was that the fpi cannot be adjusted for different layers in the same file, so I had to create different files for each “page”. It was such an easy fix, though, that I was not bothered by it at all.
The second thing is that the poster was initially 8.5 x 11 but it somehow shifted up during the making of it. I’m not sure what happened. All of my pages are the same slightly scaled up size, and since I was duplicating pages to move onto the next phase of animation, I’m guessing something happened on the first page.
This poster is inspired by the mice I drew in my notebook the other day. I love drawing little creatures. 🙂
