Animation in Procreate

My venture into 2D animation continues. From now on I'll be trying to get familiar with some easily accessible ways to try it out. So I started by making a super simple gif with software I have at hand. Here's the result.

The picture was drawn on Procreate on an iPad Pro 11". I still haven’t used Procreate that much so I wanted to take the opportunity to get familiar with the animation options. The process was fairly intuitive and there are a ton of tutorials available on Youtube to further help the case.

First I started by drawing the static image. I chose one of the pieces I had scribbled earlier in my sketchbook and redrew it in Procreate. I wanted to give a sense of motion to the text so I decided I’d make at least three frames to achieve that.

To begin with I watched this short video to get an idea of how animating works in Procreate. Seeing that it was super simple I just grouped all the layers on my original picture and duplicated it twice to have three identical folders. Then I individually drew the text in each one. To actually make these folders into a gif you have to go to Actions --> Share --> Animated GIF.

In the next screen you can choose how many frames per second you want the animation to be.

I'm quite happy with the final result and the process was super easy, even for a beginner. Next time I'm sure I can go for something a bit more complicated, perhaps even animate the whole picture and not just a part of it!