How to Animate a Lightning Strike ⚡

Here's one way to animate a lightning strike. I'll animate more ways in the future, but experiment with this idea until then, have a play around with shapes and timing!
Send me your animations on Twitter @DanRoot_VGAS
Have fun!
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[@powerbolt2846]

i dread doing lightning strikes so thank you

[@TheSqueakerNerd]

This was very awesome. I was making a drawing based off of a lightning wielder. Learning how to do this could really be awesome if integrated. Thanks for this!

[@redwolf6334]

Same

[@ady9903623834]

brother you are the best. as a beginner nothing helped me more than this. I got a lot of confidence following your method. your techniques are so easy to grab as a new learner. please make more like these. Thanks a lot

[@Zakronyx]

This is so cool! I've been wondering how people animate stuff like this, I appreciate it

[@dungeonsanddioramas8068]

This was absolutely phenominal of a tutorial! You even taught my some shortcuts (I'm new to adobe animate) and helped me realize just how easy lightning actually is! Thank you so much!

[@DanRootAnimTute]

You're very welcome!

[@locochavo4560]

Wonderful tutorial! I've always loved the lighting animations in live actions films and stylized ones in animation and l want to create my own at some point! Thank you!

[@artofchuks]

Incredible tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

[@JManTheOddball132]

fantastic work as always. Thank you so much for everything you do

[@boop_po]

Thank you! This was really helpful and easy to follow!

[@bananabike279]

Great tutorial, this was something I always wanted to learn about!!

[@gauthierruberti8065]

Very interesting thank you!

[@aintyourfavoritechampion4691]

Saved my life ,thank you..Exactly what i needed to know.

[@luciesmejkalova4063]

Thank you for tutorial! I will use this technique for my short motion graphics animated story :)

[@mooncup3485]

thank you for helping me in my animation assignment that was absolutely useful !

[@ElTaitronAnim]

Wow, this is surprisingly simple! I dread trying to draw effects but I'll definitely give this method a try when I have the chance, thanks for making this :)

[@DanRootAnimTute]

You're like totally welcome!

[@neonranger1192]

I am currently trying to make an animated film. And this will help me alot. Thank you ❤

[@fernando3289]

amazing!

[@Winstreak1]

Love it! I am going to try to use this in my next gaming mechanic video to show a stunned/paralyzed character!!! 😊

[@saarbrook]

You’re amazing! ❤🎉it finally clicked!

[@thesmilefox7definitiva]

Thank you :)

[@Mr.J503]

8:55 You can add filters only when you have converted the frames into movie clips. You can do this by selecting the frames one by one and clicking F8 key, Selecting the type 'Movie Clip', and then Clicking 'OK' (Do this for all the frames) . Then only you can find the 'Filters' option under the 'Properties' tab, when you have selected the frame, which you have converted. Note- We can't convert blank frames/keyframes into movie clips. All the Best!👍

[@SkellumsJuice]

I just liked the video for your intro! You've got a cool style.

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Hey thank you!

[@caleasthetic]

@@DanRootAnimTute did you now there was a tool in flash cs6 that could draw this effect already. yet in a more realistic style. The tool could draw this and animate it at the same time if you toggled the animation button. too bad the the creative cloud version does not have this tool anymore. i used it yesterday and then just copied the frames to the creative cloud project. it works perfectly. I hope they add thjis tool back in at some point.

[@clarancemichael156]

I never knew there was a glow tool... I used to draw those glows 🙂 for like 1year now

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Now you know!

[@clarancemichael156]

@@DanRootAnimTute yayaya but wait glow effect isn't working in mine🤷‍♀️

[@DanRootAnimTute]

@@clarancemichael156 Are you on the correct frame? You can tinker with the settings, maybe see if it's too small or something.

[@ssizzlee14]

Thank you so much, this is now one of my favorite things to animate, this really helped

[@aksel725]

Are you really using Animate or is it just for this Video? I always struggle with Animate because I find the brush inaccurate and the program sometimes does weird things. Is that just me or do other people have these problems aswell? Great Video, keep up the good work!

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Animate is generally known for being a unreliable, yeah. It sucks, but I don't often have any problems with it. It's fine for being so cheap. Thanks!

[@JohnCena-vv8wg]

Gear goth Luffy

[@jakedover5301]

BLANK KEYFRAMES!!!

[@vaillardfilms]

[@riok4523]

Hey thanks for this video. What do you mean by "increase the exposure of this frame" when youre referring to the keyframe at the beginning of the lightning.

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Hi, so I mean if the drawing is lasting for 1 frame, 2 frames, 3 frames etc.

[@jakedover5301]

so why when you switch between frames your previous lightning flash disappears but mine doesnt? are you operating in the symbol layer? it looks like your just constructing this on the stage layer

[@rentheseer190]

Twitter won't take my gif. 🥲