#like i drew the body hands and bg on the same layer

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freakuna

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YO I've seen your animations lately and I love them. You got a ramble on how you make them? Thanks and keep it up ❤✌🎶

THANKS, and I DO, ACTUALLY!

✨✨✨WELCOME TO INSERTDISC5′S “”HOW I DO ANIMATIONS AND THERE’S PROBABLY FASTER WAYS BUT THATS HOW I DO IT” FEAT: PHOTOSHOP” EXTRAVAGANZA (with gifs)✨✨✨

I’m gonna do this shot from this tazanimated animation!!!

Its probably gonna be stuff you know already but who cares!!!! because!!!! hopefully!!!! you will learn something new anyway!!!!!

ok so START!!!!!

at this point I have the audio, and the size (1920x1080) and the frame rate (24 frames per second) because the tazanimated people gave those to me. My photoshop animation setup looks like this

nice

first order of business is to PUT THE SOUND IN!!!!

i just click there. tadaaaa

then i MAKE A QUICK N DIRTY N ROUGH ANIMATION!!!!

THAT LOOKS LIKE SHIT!!!!

tru

WHY DID U DO THAT!!!

this step is pretty much the “getting beats figured out and poses kinda sorta figured out”!!! It doesn’t need to be pretty it’s just me figuring out what the hecke im gonna do

HOW DO U DO THAT!!!!

I draw each pose on a different layer! Each new layer you add ends up in the timeline! So it’s just a matter of drawing stuff on different layers and putting it all in the order you want it to be in inside the timeline

The way I know how long each beat is supposed to stay on for is because I can hear the audio when I click play! I just eyeball it tbh

COOL WHAT NEXT!!!!

I make it look less like shit!!!

THAT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING!!!

yea we’re getting somewhere!!! Uuuuh I just drew stuff. what do I say about this step.

OH YEAH for this step animation is on more than one layer!!! 

each color is one video layer, so that way since his body doesnt move i don’t have to redraw it over and over again

VIDEO LAYER????

if you drag a layer into another layer in the timeline the two layers FUSE and become a SUPER LAYER called a video layer!!!

like so! i usually group the same body parts together, like the hands with the hands and the mouths with the mouths. makes it less of a mess (ITS STILL A MESS)

HOW DO U DO THE TALKING

im a fraud and do lipsync by ear as I draw. DONT BE LIKE ME WRITE DOWN WHAT SOUNDS HAPPEN AT WHAT FRAME BEFORE YOU START

also i was mostly lazy and did the Bababa technique (name by me) where it’s just two frames, mouth open and mouth closed, but honestly griffin talks so fast it probably works better than doing Elaborate Mouth Shapes

NEXT STEP?

lines and inbetweens, my dude

NICE

thank

ANY ADVICE

not… really… i just line that shit 

oh uh. see how i dont have a frame between that pose and that pose

thats a secret animator technique… skip that middle hand… makes the movement…. SNAPPIER

OK

ok. um. next step is GOSHDANG COLORS (longest step probably)

HOW DID COLOR BETWEEN THE LINES ARE YOU SOME KINDA WIZARD

YEAH I WISH i did the secret technique… that i will teach you now

do that for the parts u gotta color… lock the layer…. color outside the lines? don’t know her

WHAT NEXT!!!!

a super fast BG and some shadows and overlays

SHADOWS????

I added a multiply layer, then made a shape, went to layer>blur>gaussian blur, and made that layer an overlay, and TADA it looks like nice shadows

to make those layers happen for the whole shot, i put the whole shot in a folder, and made the shadow+overlay layer a clipping mask!

ARE YOU DONE YET

ALMOST WE NEED ONE LAST THING

the very final overlay to bring it all together ✨✨✨

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um sooo here are all the layers i used for this frame alone

that’s it uh. hope you learned stuff????