i am going to have a go at designing and creating some new gifs for my instagram stories
so if you haven't seen the previous video which i made probably over a year ago now i actually
created my first ever gifts i think i've done a tutorial about them i don't know i'll leave
that linked on screen and in the description but i thought it was about time that i made some more
so what i've done i thought i've set myself a little bit of a challenge you know what
i've done is i've written down five things that i want to create i haven't looked into it i haven't
researched i haven't got any inspiration in mind i'm literally just going to try and create some
gifts from scratch so i've got my ipad in front of me i'm using procreate i'm using my apple pencil
and we're just gonna we're just gonna give it a go so the prompts that i have are happy mail
the word yay so cute thank you and a little heart because i feel like they're the things i would use
the most and don't have so i have a little square canvas and i'm gonna go with my happy mail sort of
prompt first i'm gonna quickly sketch it but only like roughly i'm not gonna dwell over it too much
because i find that i'm a serial perfectionist and i avoid completing or starting things for
that reason so i'm thinking maybe a little envelope or a box with happy mail written on it
so we'll go with box to begin with maybe it could open that could be cute so like this
we'll do an envelope rather than trying to do something sort of 3d
maybe like that with a little heart on it and then it could say happy
mail with some little dashes on the side and then the next slide it opens so it gradually
opens maybe is this going to work am i really creating a lot of work for myself you know like
as if the letters just come out of it do you like that does that make any sense probably not right
we're just going to get into it so i'm going to delete that there for now i'll delete that there
for now i'm going to go into options and i would like animation assist on so it basically helps me
create frames i'm gonna do it without my background on at all so you can see the reflection
of my face in the ipad i'm thinking just like a simple white envelope so i'm gonna go into my
calligraphy options monoline and we're gonna use white so i can't actually see
the outline of my thing hang on let me just put it in black for now turn the canvas on
draw in a rectangle press and hold edit shape rectangle and then i'm going to fill that
rectangle and i think i want it to be a little bit taller okay then let's make that white using the
alpha lock turn off the background color there we go we can actually see that maybe if i add a
little outline on it so i'm going to kind of curve these corners slightly just with the erase tool
so add a little curve
like this and then i'm thinking like classic envelope so i'm going to create a new layer
oh a new layer creates a new frame what happens if you merge them okay that's fine so i'm gonna use
like a beige color actually maybe maybe like a red and draw a little line i don't want it in red i've
changed my mind let's put that in like a gray sort of tone let's merge those so it's all together
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join my little creative family then i'm going to draw a little heart in the red let's draw a heart
and i'm gonna write on it with probably a calligraphy pen i've not
done calligraphy in so long so uh i'm gonna write happy mail maybe in black
or like the dark gray we can always change it i'm gonna create on a new layer so i can adjust it
happy mail i feel like it's like when hagrid wrote on harry's cake and it wasn't spelt right
and it looks a bit funky i feel like this is that kind of vibe let's change the h to a capital to
happy mail that'll do let's move everything up a little bit merge them together
so that is the basic sort of background so now i'm going to add a frame i'm going to duplicate it
which creates it in a new layer layer and i'm gonna rotate it slightly and then
rotate it a little bit more again and then start rotating it back so this is
like super basic hopefully as we do a few more of these it'll be a bit easier so let's play
wow that's fast hang on so frames per second okay you can kind of see the effect
see what i'm doing it's very like bumpy maybe if i add some frames in between one two
three and then get rid of these press play loop it
that kind of works it's very very basic but i feel like as a warm-up i'm happy with
that so i'm going to export that let's just pause it i'm going to share as animated gif
i what's dithering i don't know what that is frames per second i want max resolution
transparent background yeah we're gonna name it something no that'll be fine cool so that's
number one for the next one i'm gonna do a little bit different rather than just like
duplicating things i'm gonna actually draw things multiple times i feel like i have
drawn the word yay as a gif before so i'm not sure if this is gonna be very repetitive when
i upload it to my giffy account but you know we'll give it a go so let's create a new canvas
and this time i'm just going to calligraphy it like hand style calligraphy my favourite that's
monoline i need animation assist on canvas animation assist i want it quite chunky
i like that and i'm just going to nudge this over like that and i don't know if i want them
in different colors yet so i'm going to leave that for now i can always change it and i'm
just going to keep going over them in fact i want to straighten off these edges so just gonna erase
just makes it look a little bit more polished you know like this
and go on to the other layer which is also created itself as a frame and i'm gonna draw
it again but not perfect like not directly over it so i want it to have a little bit of wiggle room
to create the illusion of it moving and again get rid of these edges and another layer same again
okay let's see how that works and if it wiggles right
does that work
all right let's just adjust it a little bit i feel like some of it is a little bit too different
i don't want it to give you a migraine you know that's not my aim so let's just i feel like the
a jumps around a lot i like that yay i like that maybe should i add some like spikes on it
in fact let's change the colors so i'm gonna go with an orange because
i love an orange or maybe white because white on like yeah i'm gonna go with white wow i'm so basic
i'm just gonna fill all these with white using the alpha lock i can get rid of the background color
and then maybe i could add some little like confetti bits and you're like dude like that
i like it i just don't like the bottom ones so like oops eraser that would help just get rid of
these ones and then it's just a little accent on the top two corners rather than on the bottom of
the y too again i could have changed the colors of each one but i feel like that would be a bit much
so i feel like i like that it's simple i'm not over complicating things and it works
that's what i'm telling myself if you don't agree don't tell me um okay full full resolution
exporting next cue is so cute now i use this a lot when i share things that people have tagged
me in and stuff so this was a must so for this so cute one i'm thinking of putting it in a little
bubble maybe like pink ish pinky peach monoline and i'm just gonna do in a big bubble like this
fill it in get rid of the background color and literally just write in it i'm just gonna create
a new layer for now and then we'll sort it out properly in a second i'm going to put this in
white and we're going to write i don't think my bubble's long enough let's make my bubble wire
it's not really bubble is it it's a cloud whatever it is you know what i'm on about or do you
cute
i'm gonna straighten off those edges let's move the word cute completely down a little bit
so cute and then what i think i'm gonna do is make the cloud around the outside move so i'm
merging them all together i'm gonna turn on animation assist i guess i can duplicate it i'm
going to duplicate them and just keep adjusting the cloud will this work maybe i shouldn't
merge them together just yet we've got the cloud and we've got the text separate for
now but they don't need to permanently be so i'm going to draw the cloud again just slightly
different so it has a little bit of a wiggle fill that in let's create a new one same again
fill that in okay this could work so at the minute i've put the text and the cloud separate so i'm
going to duplicate the text twice and just merge them all together so they've each got exactly the
same text it's just the cloud part that's moving i'm not sure if that even makes any sense but
hopefully it does because i'm confusing myself you see like that or do i want the text moving too
i feel like i do so let's undo that and instead draw on top of them
and again another layer draw on top of them again i like that i'm happy with that let's export that
this is going well so far i think it helps when i'm not being fussy and i'm just accepting it
for what it is all right i'm gonna skip the thank you one because i feel like we've done
a lot of text we've done two text ones in a row so i'm going to do the heart so let's go
with let's go into my color palette so let's go with this pink and i'm just going to draw a heart
in fact maybe i could do this one in like a sketchy pencil that'd be fun
you know so it's just as if someone's drawing it in like lipstick or something let's find a
cool pen that's cute okay let's do it bigger so it fits the thing i'm gonna remove the background
i'm gonna turn on drawing not drawing assist animation assist let's add a frame
settings frames per second
it kind of works i love the the pen for that i think i'm going to do it step by step so
do that add frame that now i know there's a way of doing this in
after effects it's very complicated and i don't have the patience for it
to be quite honest so all i'm doing is sort of drawing it a little bit further each time and then
adding a frame i don't know if this is gonna work but this video is all about experimenting it looks
kind of like stop motiony i quite like it okay let's carry on so what frame are we on this one
so i really like that i'm gonna export that so get rid of the background color i have it on
loop rather than ping pong so it completely draws itself each time and yeah we're just
going to export that again so share animated gif same settings as before click export so for
this last one my front camera is dying so we're just gonna go with this camera with my hands and
i'm just gonna write thank you in like maybe like a bubble writing style thing
so let's see how this goes again i'm not gonna overthink it i'm gonna try not to overthink it
and i'm just gonna do what comes to mind although i hate that straight away
do i want in bubble writing i don't i've changed my mind i'm gonna go
with my classic calligraphy i feel like this is kind of my style so why not just go for it so
maybe like this we could move this up a touch
like that i've just left a bit of that behind let's straighten those edges
i'm just going to nudge these two letters up a little bit and move them up a bit
and i guess same principle so i'm gonna turn on animation assist add a layer trace it a few times
so i think for this one i've got the little wiggle
and then i think i'm gonna get a little smiley face so i'm gonna just do
so i guess that's it for this video i'm actually really impressed that i've managed to create
five gifts in i think it's been less than an hour usually this would take me forever i'd overthink
it so it was a nice little fun challenge which i hope you enjoyed watching too don't forget to
give this video a thumbs up if you did enjoy it subscribe if you aren't already and let me know
in the comments what kind of giffs you'd like me to make next and yeah i'll see you next time
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