bring your designs to life with these captivating canva animations in today's canva tutorial you'll
learn exactly how to animate in canva to grab the attention of your audience with super engaging
animated content ready let's do this hi my lovely people it's Natalia and welcome back to my channel
where I help you create better content and grow on social media in today's kind of a tutorial for
beginners you'll learn how to create awesome animated graphics and videos and I'll explain
all the different ways you can put elements into motion use fun Transitions and create your own
custom animations to make sure your content stands out and really engages your audience
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for good measure too alright let's jump to point number one and start animating our slides first
let me start with the easiest way to animate in canva and that's using page level animations
anytime you'd like to create a quick animation for multiple elements at once you can simply go
to the top panel in here without having anything selected on the site you want to animate and then
click animate at the top in here and you can then choose from the variety of different options you
see in this left panel the first section is for the preset combinations of animations that go
together for various elements as you can see with this party one in here we've got the first bubble
that kind of Pops in then the ring slides from the right and the text shows up by animating letter
after letter below we have the basic Styles the exaggerated ones and the photo movement ones which
animate all of the elements in a very similar Style Like This breeze one in here you can see
that it kind of eases in our three elements or then we've got the stomp animation that creates
a thumping vibration of sorts for all of them for this one I think I like the drift animation
like this if you click on it you'll see further controls available four canva Pro users only if
you'd like to test these out make sure to check the link in the description box to get the pro
account for 30 days completely free of charge I feel like it's a great option to kind of get to
play with these functionalities and see if the pro account would be useful to you now from the slider
right here you can adjust the intensity so you can see that it goes kind of a bit harder it's a
bit slower then below you've got the directions you can make it move from kind of the left from
the right from the top or from the bottom now these controls are animation specific meaning
that each of them will have different options if you click on them depending kind of on the style
of movement so for example if you go to Baseline right here you can choose whether you want that
animation to happen on exit on enter or on both and then of course we've got the speed in here as
well so you can make it kind of happen faster or slower and you've got the direction as before as
well and now if you go go to the block animation in here you can see that it even allows you to
choose a color I can choose one from my palette and it's great to stay on brand even with little
small details like this now remember all of these different controls because that's a universal way
of interacting with animations in the canva editor and it will be very similar across the board with
Transitions and Element Animations as well now once you've animated the page you can always
decide against it and click remove all animations here at the bottom to revert to the static slide
or apply this style of Animation to all of your pages so again I can click on it and go apply to
all pages and that will kind of change all of the controls for all of those animations across the
board for you now although page level animations are super convenient and definitely can work for
kind of less complicated motion patterns I feel like these are very basic and it's very obvious
that they were created in canvas simply because they kind of lack new ones and they're a bit more
crudely animated and this is precisely why I prefer to animate individually rather than
whole pages which is a great segue to our second style of Animation animating individual elements
at this stage it's worth mentioning that we have a plethora of different animated elements available
through the library that don't really require any work to make them move now the first way
to access them is through the elements tab in the left panel under the stickers section in here now
these can instantly Elevate any static design and create a fun movement to make your design
stand out now the moment you use an animated sticker like this you can export your designs
as an MP4 video so the motion is visible but these are also a great addition to your
videos since the animations can be a little bit more robust than their standard canva animation
functionalities and of course that's only a limited selection of featured animations
so the second way to find them is to search for something specific I'll go to search for abstract
and go to this little icon in here and select animate it from here then hit apply filters
this way we're only seeing animated elements in the library I'll go for graphics in here and this
is super useful when you already have something in mind and these can be used as kind of overlay
elements this can these can be textures it can be indicators or simply it can be a visual cue
to make your videos more engaging and of course I wouldn't be myself if I didn't sneak in a slightly
more advanced tip here so as a third way of finding already animated elements you can go
to elements in here then scroll down for videos Co and now I can just search for green screen now
from here you'll access a multitude of different elements different animations or even footage
recorded on a green screen which makes it super easy to remove the background from in canva now
once I choose something that I like let's say this subscribe button something that I'd like to use I
can go to edit video here at the top then go to the effects Tab and tap the background remover
it may take some time depending on the size and length of the clip this one's pretty quick but
then you should be left with an element like this it's super cool but remember not every clip is
going to be ideal since the background remover is not always as precise as more Advanced Techniques
like chroma key would be as an important side note the video background remover just like our photo
background remover is a pro only option so this won't be available to you on a free plan all right
we've got the library of animations covered now let's move on to the animations available within
canva for individual elements here we've got three different categories we've got text we've
got photos and Graphics so let's start with the last one because it's the simplest one to explain
if you choose any graphic element from the library and by the way that's including all the animated
elements I've just talked about you can actually animated individually here we have a slightly
smaller selection of animations than with our page level animations but they can be very effective
especially when we include all of the controls I've pretty much explained how these animations
work already so I'm not going to get into it again here this is a sneaky little new update here that
I'll talk about in just a moment so make sure to keep watching but before we move on I want you to
know that you can also group two elements together and then animate them to create a cohesive motion
for example these two here so I've got the kind of bubble from below and then the circle they
both create an orb together and let's say I don't want to create separate animations for them but
also don't want to resort to animating the whole page because I have a different vision for the
text I can just select both of them either by holding and dragging like this or just
selecting one and holding shift to add another one and then the group option appears above
once I click that and then select the group you can simply animate both of them together and this
gives me the power to style the video just the way I like this is also a great moment to introduce
This Small hidden trick that allows you to kind of control how certain elements appear without having
to add another page now let's say I want these two animate Graphics to disappear before my whole
slide finishes now this slide takes 3.7 seconds I may want them to just pop in for a second and a
half now if I right click on the element or both the elements and then click show timing in here
you're going to expand the timeline below to show the timings for the selected elements now from
here you can simply shorten the duration of these elements I can go to 1.5 for this one 2.2 let's
say for the second one and when you play it you'll see them disappear before the slide runs out it's
a super cool thing to keep your timeline a bit more neater and without massive amounts of cuts
now you'll see from here that I keep clicking the different elements on my slide and I'll see the
preview for them change on the timeline so it's great for kind of quick edits as well okay let
me quickly go to the elements Tab and add a photo for you so you can see what these animations look
like for photos I'll push it forward and if you go to animate you can see that we've got three extra
options here for photo movement we've got photo or flow we've got photo rice and then we've got
photo Zoom now these are clearly only going to work with photos but it's good to know that this
is an option here if you use photographs in your designs or videos and also as a side note all of
your uploads are treated as photos as well so these animations will apply to them too okay
let's remove those and select our text because that's probably one of the most exciting parts
of animating within canva since we have many more options here now I'm encourage you to just test
these out for yourself with different variants too because they're really really cool and open up a
lot of fun opportunities to create really engaging videos now for example if you look at shift here
you'll see that I can choose the writing style so you can go for character you can go for Word
level or you can go for line level if you've got more text so let me just add something here
like this you can see that if I click line that's going to animate both lines here I also really
love to use merge for these kinds of texts when there are multiple lines because it really gives
this cool effect now all right we nearly have the individual animations covered but there's one that
definitely deserves a separate point because it's a brand new update which I've shared with
you last week I think in my new camera features video I highly recommend you watch it next but
for now let's look at Point number three create an animation this is one of those updates that
definitely changed the game for me we now have the power to create our own custom animations
for each of our graphics for text boxes for photos and even video clips if you want them
to move a certain way now let me show you how it works using the star elements let me go to Star
and find something like this so This is actually a photo but it's going to be perfect for
um this animation now all you need to do is to select it again click animation and then click
create animation from here you're going to drag our element to create the path for the animation
and release and it's really as simple as that from here you can choose the movement Styles you
can go for original motion the smooth one which kind of eases it in and out and then steady for
a nice and constant movement you can also toggle Orient elements to path which is going to make it
follow along the line and rotate if needed or adjust the slider for the speed now if you're
not happy with your animation just click delete path here at the very bottom and start over now
while animating you can also hold shift for any straight lines while animating as well now when
you're ready hit done and enjoy your completely custom animation it's completely mind-blowing to
me and it gets even better when you learn it's available on the free canva plan as well okay
let's tie this thing together using transitions which is our Point number four every clip you've
got on your timeline in canva can be animated on entry on exit or both and this gives you the power
to create really fun videos or presentations with little to no effort at all now to use a
transition you first need to have at least two clips luckily we've got more than that and now
if you hover over the gap between the clips this small icon right here is popping up which you can
then tap to add your transition now here another panel pops up with a great variety of different
fun transitions that you can choose from we've got cool effects like Circle wipe in here which
can then choose the duration for and as you can see when I adjust the duration it affects
the duration of the clips on the timeline as well you can make it kind of go in or go out
really cool effects in here here you also have something that's called a color wipe and from
here again you can choose the different colors from your palette to stay on brand even within
your videos for example so that's quite a cool effect as well we also have flow which is really
fun for these kinds of videos but I want to highlight one transition to literally rule
them all match and move now what it does is that it allows you to create an animation between the
same elements appearing on two or more different slides okay let's take this little star again I'll
just copy it to the next slide in here and make it a little bit smaller maybe I'll rotate it like
this and then let's copy it again and paste it in our third slide let's make it even smaller
and rotate it and maybe I'll put it kind of right next to the E just for fun now let's add our
transitions between those clips so match and move in here and match and move in there as well let's
go back to the very beginning and as you can see canva understands that it's the same element that
it has to move around for us to create seamless transition between these slides now to show you
how much you can actually do with it let me jump to a different video created just to show you the
power of animations in here now all of these different holographic Bubbles and the text are
animated using the match and move transition I've turned them in different directions I've
moved them around I made the text rotate I changed the angles for the headlines to make them appear
and disappear from various spots and most of it was possible thanks to this transition only of
course this whole short video came together using all the different animation Styles I've shown you
in this video because because for example the very beginning this is a custom animation then
there are different text animations all of it was created with a simple vision in mind that canva
helped me bring to life now speaking of this video I had an idea to actually show you a step-by-step
guide on how to recreate this animation now I always show you how to use different kind
of functionalities I share tips and tricks to kind of Empower you to produce better content
and discover your creative voice more but I feel like a huge part of it is to actually practice
now I know I learned much much quicker when I started recreating different designs and then
only fleshing out my own ideas so I saw a format like this where I guide you on how to create a
specific design might be helpful to you now let me know in the comments if this is something you'd
be interested in I'd love to hear your opinion if it would be a fun thing for you to do along
with me here now I'll also be sharing YouTube short very shortly on how to create your own
green screen effect animations to use in your videos if you're editing in different software
and need to make these custom animations so make sure to subscribe and hit that notification Bell
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