Hand Drawn Animation: Create an Animated Gif in Adobe Photoshop

Learn how to easily create a hand drawn animation in Photoshop!

Have you ever wanted to spruce up your website or social with fun, personalized animated gifs? It’s actually pretty simple! In this class, you’ll learn the basics of traditional animation and how to use the video timeline tool in Photoshop to create fun hand drawn animations. This class will be a great first step for anyone who is familiar with photoshop and wants to start learning animation.

What you'll learn:

• Fundamentals of traditional 2D animation
• Setting up photoshop file 

• Basics of the video timeline tool

• Creating layer frames to animate characters and text

• Workflow and organization of frames
• Animating with a video layer

• Exporting your animation as a video or animated gif

What you'll make:

At the end of the class, you will have created a personalized hand drawn gif that will impress others, as well as some useful skills to create additional personalized animations. 

What you'll need:

• Adobe Photoshop (free trial of the software program at Adobe.com)
• Not required but would recommend a drawing tablet or iPad with Apple pencil.

Other Helpful Classes:

This class focuses on animation but if you would like to learn how to design your own character or storyboard your ideas for animation, then check out: 

Character Design: 3 Techniques for Creating Expressive Character Illustrations.

Storyboarding in Procreate: Beginner's Guide to Drawing Storyboards

Additional Animation Classes:

Hungry for more? Check out my other classes, Easy Animation With Procreate: Make Fun Gifs & Videos and Animation in Adobe Photoshop: Create a Social Video to Promote Your Brand!

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