- Most people know you can animate in Canva.
There are animated elements, they move on their own.
Then, there are page animations.
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Here you can control individual objects
or affect a whole page.
People often forget about Page Transitions.
This is where you can animate between slides.
Match and Move is a favorite.
But did you know there is a new animation in town,
a tool for creating your own custom animations,
and it's easy as drawing a path?
Stick around and I'll show you how.
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Hi, I'm Mat,
a product manager in Canva's Video and Motion team.
As you may have guessed, I'm really into animation.
If I'm not making it, I'm watching it.
Disney, Pixar, Studio Ghibli, LAIKA, Aardman,
I'll take it all.
That's why I'm so excited
to work on Canva's animation products.
In this video,
I'll show you when to use animations,
how to create, edit, and export them
from your desktop or your mobile device.
So say goodbye to complex animation software
and let's learn how to save time, stand out,
and animate with ease.
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I wanted to show you this video.
It's a great one where Jenny goes
into a lot of the animation techniques
that I already mentioned.
It's the perfect video to watch after this one.
Okay, you might be wondering
what sort of things you can animate
and when it might feel right to use animation.
Well, for me, animation combines the joy of play
with design and storytelling.
They are perfect for battling static slide fatigue.
It's a thing, trust me.
Animations make slides interactive,
helping content stand out
and communicate information
in surprising and interesting ways.
According to Forbes,
people spend nearly seven hours every day consuming content,
scrolling phones, watching TV, and other digital media.
That's a lot of digital content.
Animated content quite literally pops off the screen,
grabbing attention,
helping your content stand out amongst all of the noise.
So how do we do it?
Well, it can be summed up in four simple steps.
First, we select an element,
then we go to the Animate panel, and next we draw our path.
Lastly, we can customize the animation.
Sounds easy, doesn't it?
And it is.
Are you ready to get moving?
Let me show you on my laptop first.
We'll start with a new document.
I'm gonna create a social media post for World Bee Day.
Animations can be created in most digital doc types,
like social media videos and presentation decks.
Now we'll search for a bee to animate.
One handy tip is to choose elements
that already have a slight animation to them.
Just keep in mind,
if too many things are moving in your design,
you might overdo it.
Here, this little guy looks fun.
We'll go to the Animation button
to open up the Animation panel.
Here, we can select Create an Animation.
Begin to draw a path with your cursor.
This will be the path your element follows when it animates.
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When you draw your path, if you speed up or slow down,
that's recorded, too.
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Cool, huh?
Now, our final step, customizing our animation.
There are a few things we can do
to make our bee animation feel a bit more realistic.
Here, we can layer on more animation with a motion effect.
Let's use Wiggle.
This adds a slight natural movement to the bee.
How sweet is that?
And last, we can adjust the speed.
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There, that feels pretty bee-like to me.
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But what if I didn't control my path quite right?
Easy, we can just edit it.
Select the element.
Click here and adjust your edits
or delete the path and start again.
And if you'd like more than one element
to animate on a path,
you can simply copy the element
and keep the same path
or draw a new one, like this.
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Isn't animation just the bee's knees?
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Now, in my opinion,
animations work best with layered, subtle movements.
Disney first experimented with this thinking
called the multi-play camera,
and it changed animation forever.
In short, instead of drawing cartoons on one plane,
it introduced multiple transparent planes or layers,
allowing elements to be animated in different ways.
This created depth and made animations more realistic.
So time to build some layers and add some depth.
Let's add a background and a foreground.
Let's add some clouds.
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If we group them,
we can place them to the side of the canvas like this.
Now, let's animate them.
This time, I'll hold down Shift when I draw my path.
This will draw my path in a straight line.
Time to customize.
We can adjust the animation movement here
by selecting Smooth or Steady.
For the clouds, let's choose Steady.
And now we'll move, like the name suggests,
at a steady pace.
Now, our background is done.
Let's work on the foreground.
Let's start with some flowers.
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Once everything is in place, let's animate.
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We'll keep the movement style as Steady
and adjust the speed,
so it's like a subtle breeze.
And we're done.
Let's play our animation back like this.
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Yeah.
I'm happy with that.
The final step is to export
and download our video like this.
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We can also share directly to socials or Messengers
from the share button right here.
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In film language, you could say, "It's in the can."
Creating an animation from your mobile is similar,
as in incredibly simple.
Let me show you.
Here's a presentation I've been working on.
This slide shows data.
At the moment, it's a bit static,
and I wanna really emphasize growth here.
I think this calls for some animation.
I'm gonna exaggerate this growth with a graphic.
First, I'll search and find the right one
and add it to my design.
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Then, we can add animation like this.
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I'll draw our path up, up, up.
Look at that growth.
And customize.
Here, I'll add a steady movement.
I promise I'll show you smooth as well.
This is perfect for elements you want to move
at a constant speed.
And by checking Orient to path,
our element rotates
and moves to follow the path's angles like this.
Animation is perfect for making pitch decks pop
or take off, in this case.
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I think we have time for one last cool effect.
But before that, let me know what questions you have.
Put them in the comments down below,
and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
Okay, this next one
is a way to create more abstract motion graphics.
Perfect for adding some character to your brand
or title cards in a video.
Here, I have colored circles layered on top of one another.
If I select them all, I can animate them together.
It will apply the path I draw to all elements selected.
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I'll add a smooth movement here,
and it's as simple as that.
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We keep discovering new and interesting ways
to use this tool.
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Actually, if you come up with something,
feel free to share it in the comments.
We'd love to see.
So whether it's from your desktop or mobile,
creating an animation and adding it to designs
is quick and easy,
not to mention a whole lot of fun.
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Ooh.
My popcorn's ready.
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Now it's time to storytell in Canva.
Happy animating.