Go to "View" at the top menu and select "Onion Skin Mode". Then, only active layer will appear, and the previous and subsequent layers will appear with a shade of red and green. This will help creating an animated cartoon or a flip book to see several frames at once. (For Mac users, command + up arrow key and command + down arrow key.) When moving between the previous and subsequent frames, Ctrl + up arrow key and Ctrl + down arrow key is convenient. In order to check the animation, go to "View" at the top menu and select "Auto Replay". You can specify the speed of frames.īy turning off Onion Skin Mode, it will bring back to the regular canvas display. Once an animation is completed, let's export as a PNG format in sequence numbers. Go to "File" at the top menu, select "Export Layers(Onion Skin Mode)", and designate an exporting destination. It will export as PNG files in sequence numbers. Diagram: "File" > "Export Layers(Onion Skin Mode)" If you upload those PNG files in sequence numbers to a GIF animation creating website "AlpacaDouga" you can easily create a GIF animation. Please see "how to create a GIF animation with FireAlpaca and AlpacaDouga" for the step-by-step instruction.Most animation start with an idea, which will then be further develop in storyboard and animatic. For me, most of my random short animation start with a piece of music. In this case, I found this lovely music in youtube audio library which give me an idea to make this simple animation. The whole animation is done under 24 hours. Drawings are done with medibang paint pro and frame by frame animate using firealpaca onion skin mode. Compositing are done using After Effects. Originally, I was planning to do this animation with Blender3D, but it seem like it is going take a while to models all the props and set up the render. So I just use the 3D render as a guide for tracing background art in doodle style.Ĭharacters are draw and animate frame by frame using Fire Alpaca onion skin mode.
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