Hello everyone, we are going to make an animated GIF in Illustrator. 1
This looks... it looks okay, it could be better. 2
I'm going to show you the tools... 3
and you're going to make prettier stuff than I have. 4
All right, let's get into it. 5
So to make our little bubble blowing whale... 6
open up 'Animated GIF', I'm going to start with this. 7
I group it first. 8
We can decide now-- 9
basically it's just lots of Artboards with slight adjustments. 10
Then you export all those Artboards to Photoshop, to stitch together as a GIF. 11
Now there are a couple of things you could do. 12
You could, like every Artboard... 13
just have him moving forward a little bit more. 14
That would do something. 15
I'm going to use the Puppet Pin Tool. 16
Now, Puppet Pen Tool... 17
it destroys- it kind of distorts what we do quite a bit. 18
If you're doing this on your own, you're finding it a little bit tough... 19
it is a little bit tough with the Puppet Pin Tool... 20
but I think it has a really cool effect. 21
That's my first Artboard, I'm not going to distort this one. 22
This is one, he's going to stay the same. 23
Now, it's going to be lots of Artboards, open up the Artboard panel. 24
The naming convention is quite important, right? 25
So I'm going to call this 'Whale 01'. 26
The naming convention has to be sequentially ordered for this to work. 27
You can't just put in '1'... 28
because when you get to 10, those are two digits, not one digit. 29
So you can't kind of just go 1, 2, 3, 4, all the way to 10... 30
because it freaks out when it sees, there was one digit, now there's two. 31
So it has to be '01'. 32
If you want a hundred different Artboards... 33
I hope you're not, it's going to take a long time... 34
but you'd put in 0 before the 1 just to get the sequence right. 35
The other thing to know is that... 36
Illustrator is not made for this... 37
we're doing it as a bit of a hack, because it's fun... 38
because the main tool to go off and do this... 39
for something like Motion Graphics... 40
would be After Effects, I love it, I know it very well... 41
so I go and do it in there... 42
but I understand it's a big learning curve with that one... 43
so if you've got skills in Illustrator... 44
you might just stay here, because you know it so well. 45
So I need another Artboard. 46
The quick way is to click, hold, and drag it. 47
So I've got a second one. 48
And what we're going to do in this one... 49
is I'm going to select it all, grab my 'Puppet Pin Tool'... 50
I'm going to pin him in the tail, there. 51
There, one there, one there. 52
Anyway I kind of just want it to stay still... 53
it depends on what you want to do, right? 54
So this is what we're going to do, breathe in, breathe out. 55
And we're going to do it per frame. 56
Be prepared, sometimes though... 57
I need a bit of a denser... 58
just to have a bit more control, as I want just this body popping out. 59
So this one here is just going to be a little bit out. 60
Then I'm going to duplicate it again. 61
Curve over here, grab my 'Black Arrow'. 62
Back to my 'Puppet Pin Tool', a bit further down. 63
Duplicate it again. 64
There's going to be a lot of this. Now to speed up your time... 65
you've got to click on it with your 'Black Arrow' first... 66
then back to your 'Puppet Pin Tool'. 67
Now your Puppet Pin tool doesn't have a shortcut by default. 68
If you go to 'Edit', 'Keyboard Shortcuts', and click on the 'Tools'... 69
you can go through and add your own shortcut to it. 70
Up to you, I use Q, because I think Q was the default for the Lasso Tool... 71
which I never use. 72
So that's my handy trick, hit 'Q' on your keyboard. 73
Made him a bit bigger. 74
Do one more with this, then we'll speed it up. 75
So 'V' key, click it, 'Q' key, down. 76
And we're going to go to the next one. 77
Now I'll go into super fast mode to do the next couple. 78
That didn't take very long. 79
I got to a point where-- he's going to start breathing back in, right? 80
I can totally just manually try and do this. 81
Or, because I want it to kind of loop perfectly, what I might do is-- 82
His breathing out is exactly the same as his breathing in... 83
just in reverse, right? 84
So I'm going to try and do that. 85
So what I need to do is, to make sure we don't get lost... 86
I'm going to name my orders here. 87
I get really kind of confused sometimes with... 88
numbers in general... 89
but we'll speed this up. 90
So what we want now is another few Artboards... 91
maybe another four, or five. 92
So instead of having to duplicate them, we're just going to make a new Artboard. 93
One, two, three, four. 94
Now if I end up going off the page, just grab them with the 'Artboard Tool'. 95
Hold 'Shift', click on the ones you want, kind of move them around, it's up to you. 96
So this is where it gets a bit inceptiony. 97
So this one is going to be whale. I'll fast forward this again. 98
So this is where I get kind of confused sometimes... 99
because at this distance it's really hard to do copy and pasting... 100
because the Artboards get a little mixed up. 101
So I want this one to go in there. So I want, I'm just looking here. 102
Whale 05 to go to Whale 07. 103
So I'm going to zoom in. 104
So Whale 05 to Whale 07. 105
How do I get to it? I was just going to use this over here. 106
For some reason it's not jumping to it. 107
There you are, 07. 108
I'm going to hit 'Command F' rather than 'Command V'. 109
Command F gets it back exactly where it got off the page. 110
So the next one is, so you want from 05 to 07... 111
and you want now-- 112
If you're watching this, and you're like, just copy and paste them... 113
this is where my brain gets boggled 114
So I'm just going to slowly but surely work my way through, and we'll speed it up. 115
Okay, we're back. 116
That could be it, you might just want to breathe in and out... 117
to kind of get a feel for... 118
first of all, they kind of ended up over the side, so what we might do, just-- 119
we can reorder them, we can go into here. 120
Actually this option here, and say... 121
"Actually could you make them in one line... 122
or reorder them in two columns?" 123
Click 'OK'. 124
I just ordered them straight up and down. 125
Let's have a little look... 126
a way of kind of previewing what it's looking like. 127
So with it zoomed in at 100%, or full screen... 128
which is 'Command 0', or 'Control 0' on a PC... 129
you can just kind of toggle through this, so go all the way at the beginning... 130
and hit this arrow here, next, next, next... 131
And this is our very exciting animation. 132
So what I'd like to do... 133
when he starts breathing back in, I'm going to do one last thing. 134
You could skip ahead now, but I'm going to get him to blow a little bubble. 135
So when he gets to here he's going to start blowing the bubble. 136
This bubble is going to be pretty exciting. 137
It's going to be the same color as this. 138
Actually no, it's going to be blue even. 139
So my 'Ellipse Tool', he's going to blow a big bubble to start with... 140
and it's going to get smaller. 141
I'm going to select kind of about there, and maybe push it behind him. 142
I'm going to copy this, move to my next Artboard. 143
'Command V', sorry 'Command F' to get it back where you got it... 144
or 'Control F' on a PC. 145
I'm just going to move that Artboard a bit using the keyboard shortcuts. 146
And shrink it down a little bit. 147
If you're doing this kind of shrinking stuff, maybe... 148
Smart Guides can be a bit of a pain, so you turn those off. 149
All right, next one. 150
Copy him. 151
Paste in. 152
We'll get it to speed up now so you're not watching this. 153
Okay, you're back. 154
Yeah, very exciting, Dan. 155
And he breathes out a bubble. 156
So we've got our animations, right? 157
And we've made sure our naming conventions are all right in here. 158
Now it's about getting these Artboards out, and then to Photoshop. 159
It's easy enough, go to 'File', 'Export', we're going to use 'Export Screens'. 160
Make sure they're all selected. 161
I'm putting mine in this folder called 'Whale' on my 'Desktop'. 162
Put yours wherever you like. 163
In terms of the resolution... 164
keep it high now, we'll cut it down in Photoshop later on. 165
So we'll make it... 166
PNG, JPEG, it doesn't really matter at this stage. 167
Make sure there's no prefixes. 168
Just '1' scale, make yours look like mine. 169
Let's click 'Export Artboard'. 170
You'll see, in here, I've got mine sequentially numbered. 171
You could name them afterwards... 172
doesn't matter, you don't have to do it in Illustrator. 173
And now the trick is, in Photoshop, go to 'File', 'Open'. 174
Click on the very first one, so '01', and click on 'Options'. 175
And this is the magic trick. 176
You can say, I like 01, and check if there's a sequence. 177
Click 'Open'. If you've numbered them correctly it won't have an error. 178
You can't even miss one, if you're missing 04 it will freak out. 179
Now Frame Rate, you can come back here and try this a couple of times. 180
There's ways of overriding it afterwards, but 30 frames/sec is fine. 181
Now in Photoshop the trick is to go to... 182
'Window', 'Workspace', and switch it to 'Motion'. 183
Weirdly Photoshop does some pretty cool video stuff, video editing... 184
but for the moment what we want to do is... 185
let's just hit the 'Play' button here to see what our thing does. 186
That is our super exciting animation. 187
At the moment it's happening a bit fast. 188
So there's two things, one is, if yours is really hard core... 189
and Photoshop can't play it back because it's freaking out... 190
you can go to 'Resolution', turn it to '25%'... 191
and it looks worse up here, but it exports just fine. 192
A bit slow. 193
Mine's looking fine because it's quite simple. 194
Next thing we will do is right click it, and this is it, Speed. 195
You can speed it up or slow it down. 196
So if you want to speed it up, crank it up... 197
and it shrinks down, right, but if I want to slow it down... 198
it weirdly doesn't jump back out. 199
That's the way it thinks, if I slow it down to maybe... 200
the lowest is 25%. 201
Yes, let's click '25%'. 202
I have to drag this out. 203
Just keep dragging until you get the whole thing. 204
You might have to drag it twice like I did there. 205
Just keep dragging it until it's all the way out... 206
because, otherwise... 207
there it is there, goes out to 14 frames. 208
You can zoom out this way, Dan. That's better. 209
Just drag the end out. 210
Now I can see it all, hit 'Play', it's probably too slow now. 211
Yes, too slow. 212
50%, it streams down fine, but remember, it doesn't go up, just drag the end out. 213
Now it's about exporting it. 214
You don't have to do a GIF, we're doing a GIF because GIFs are cool... 215
and they're reasonably... 216
you know, you stick them on social media... 217
and they play automatically on lots of website, Facebook included. 218
Now what we're going to do... 219
Here's 'File', we'll do the GIF way first. 220
So go to 'File', 'Export'... 221
we'll have to use this old school, 'Save for Web' version. 222
'File', 'Export', 'Save for Web'. 223
And up the top here, 'Preset'. 224
Depending on the quality and size, you'll have to play around with this one. 225
Any of these options work for export. 226
Basically the more numbers you have, 32 looks fine for mine. 227
If you got a really detailed graphic, you might have to get up to 128 colors... 228
but the file size is going to be a lot bigger. 229
I'm making mine small. 230
Anything else you can play around with makes very little difference. 231
The big thing that does make a difference is looping. 232
You loop once, or forever, that's what we want. 233
Hit 'Play'. It's not a good representation here in this kind of export window... 234
so now you sweat at it, it's not quite right. 235
Then we hit 'Save'. 236
And we're going to call this one 'Whale.gif'. 237
Very exciting. 238
It's taken us a while, and a bit of a disjointed class, I know. 239
So I've got my GIF, it's on my desktop, if I hit 'space bar' on my Mac... 240
look at him doing all this GIFness. 241
Now there are some artefacts up here, that's just from the Puppet Pin Tool. 242
I didn't really kind of take much notice of him. 243
I should have fixed that up before I carried on... 244
but there's my bubble blowing... 245
it's kind of, well, it's okay. 246
You can also do a video version. 247
So back here in Photoshop, there's 'Export', 'Render Video'. 248
In here, it eventually pops up. 249
We're going to export mp4, it's a really common format. 250
I'll have 'Whale.mp4'. 251
Down here we're going to use Adobe Media Encoder. 252
And it's going to be the format, 'H.264' is the most common one to use. 253
Gives you a mp4. 254
On my Mac here, I could do 'QuickTime' as well. 255
Now Quality ratings, you can play around with this. 256
You can get quite low because... 257
ours is such a simple animation. 258
In terms of the speed, you control it with this. 259
30 frames/sec is going to play like it did originally in Photoshop. 260
The lower you go, the more jumpy it is, but the slower it plays. 261
Up to you how you want to do it. I'm going to leave mine at '30'. 262
Click 'Render'. 263
Kick back and relax, depending on how long it is. 264
And let's check it in... 265
my 'Desktop', there's my 'mp4', I'm going to double click him. 266
And, genius. 267
It's not looping though... 268
but that is how to do animation in Adobe Illustrator. 269
Now there are lots of other things you could have done. 270
Is our bubble blowing whale exciting? No. 271
You have the tools now, right? 272
It could be moving, lots of things could be moving around. 273
You could use Puppet Tool, you could use the Liquify Tool. 274
There's lots of things you could do to your animation. 275
Just make sure that the sequence numbering is correct. 276
And then once you get into Photoshop, you can export the GIF or mp4. 277
All right, so it's the end, and it is homework time. 278
I want you to do something more creative than what I did. 279
You can use the whale, that's fine... 280
or something else we've drawn in this class... 281
or anything you like. 282
I'd love to see your animation. 283
Post it to me on the website here, under your projects. 284
Or on social media. 285
I'd love to see you on Instagram, I'm bringyourownlaptop. 286
On Twitter, I'm danlovesadobe. 287
All right friends, let's get on to the next video.