The EASIEST Animation Exercise for Beginners / How To Animate

[@kdsketch]

I've seen this called the 'magic dot'/beginner circle/the firefly' and pretty much EVERY animator I've spoken to has tried this one, have you? Animation Files - kdsketch.gumroad.com/l/vhvkl

[@katienightingale1921]

I’m shook at how simple that’s made animation feel? That’s so helpful like I’d actually give it a go and I’m no artist

[@kdsketch]

Thank you! So glad you found it helpful/easy to understand ✨🙌✨

[@VeridanaSea]

Thank you for this. I want to do animation for a while. But just getting started is hard

[@kdsketch]

I totally get it! It can be super intimidating but it's as simple as you want to make it - one looping circle at a time :) Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@mrsnapoly]

i love how you showed us how to do the glow effect in krita as well!! thank you!! amazing video as always!

[@kdsketch]

Thank you so much!! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video ✨🙌✨

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

Thanks for teaching me how to animate the glow effect in krita. 🤩 I don't use TVPaint like you and krita is the only animation software I have.

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

Plus it’s great for animating fireflies and stuff too! Thanks for inspiring me! 🤗

[@kwismwikama]

this hooman is nice, whole duck community will do animation now

[@kdsketch]

Thanks 😂 enjoy!

[@yoXneo]

I've been animating in Procreate but this really helps! Thank you! Love your channel 😊

[@kdsketch]

That’s great! I’m so glad you found it helpful! ✨

[@claraelia]

great excercise KD! thanks!

[@kdsketch]

Glad you liked it!

[@HarrietRoses]

Love this! Thanks for the tutorial ❤

[@kdsketch]

No problem! So glad you enjoyed it!! ✨🙌✨

[@BigWolo]

Awe this is awesome and great tutorial ! Thank you for this 🥰

[@kdsketch]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video!!

[@fireball__animations]

I just turned 14 a few days ago and this was a good start for me thanks kd:)

[@kdsketch]

Happy belated birthday!! So glad the video helped ✨🙌✨

[@Nuzzling]

I have never seen anyone draw hands that fast that well 'O_O

[@kdsketch]

Thanks 😂 BUT I cut out the 30 mins of footage of me struggling before I used a reference photo I should have taken from the start! References are lifesavers

[@raminfarahani4648]

Bravo ❤

[@kdsketch]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video :D

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

Okay when I was going to add blur to the glow layer, I don't see the mult checkbox, and I had to do that frame after frame.

[@kdsketch]

I'm using version 5.1.5 so if you're on an earlier version it may be something they've added since you downloaded :)

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

​@@kdsketch​ Okaaaay, I'm using version 4.4.5, but I'm worried about uninstalling it so I can redownload it to the same version as yours because I might lose my work.

[@kdsketch]

If you’ve saved your file you should be able to reopen it in the new version. I think you can install the new version without removing the old one

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

Whew! I'm so glad that's possible! 😇

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

@@kdsketch I have downloaded version 5.1.5 without losing my work. Thanks KD! You really, REALLY are the best.

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

Okay I’m glad you made a how to animate video but, I thought you said lip sync is one of the “early ones” for this. Did you forget or did somebody else requested for this?

[@kdsketch]

Lip sync is going to be one of the early ones but there’s a few important videos to go first :)

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

You know what? I’m just gonna work on lip sync on my own but it’d be great if that came out! :D

[@acluelessstar]

i love this! i've been animating using flipaclip and procreate on an ipad, but i do have a drawing tablet! do you have any suggestions for free pc animation programs- is krita the best? and/or is it okay to continue drawing on the ipad with flipaclip and procreate (with the goal of improving and one day being professional)? thank you and thank you for the tutorial!!

[@kdsketch]

Thank you! So glad you liked this one, I've got a few more in the works, currently on a freelance project at the moment so things are a little slower than I'd like. Personally I prefer Blender over Krita (currently working on a blender grease pencil tutorial for beginners as well!) since blender was an animation program first, unlike krita which was a drawing program first that added animation features. BUT at the moment the brushes are better in Krita and if you're more familiar with the software then it's worth a look. Other Free software you might was to try is Tahoma2D which is meant to be a more friendly version of Opentoonz which Studio Ghibli use. It's TOTALLY fine to use procreate and flipaclip while you're learning. Check out Havzta on KZbin/instagram - they use both programs to make some really cool animations. If you're looking to work in a studio it's likely they'll have a specific software they use BUT if you're amazing at animation then you can easily learn the software. Or if you're a freelancer making commissions or projects to hand over to someone else (I've worked with people who used toonboom/adobe animate and then they passed the exports to me so I could line and colour them). Essentially software doesn't matter as much as learning and getting good at animation. Hope this helps :)

[@acluelessstar]

​@@kdsketch wow thank you so much! been a little worried that working on the ipad will hinder me too much, so i'm trying to go more industry standard :'D if you have time, i have some animations on my channel and i'd love to get a critique from a more skilled and experienced animator like you! thank you :>

[@kdsketch]

@@acluelessstar Totally understand that feeling, but as long as you're improving and enjoying it you can use pretty much anything and relearn a new program :) I've looked at your most recent few animations and left a comment or two. :)

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

Wait what happens when you duplicate the glow layer?

[@kdsketch]

If you duplicate it the blur should look more intense, depends on what you want to go for so it's up to you whether you do it or not :)

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

So I’m not so clear about the first few steps for creating the glow effect in krita. I wanna use them in my videos, though.

[@kdsketch]

What's not clear? If the audio is confusing I wrote down the steps in the video too, and if it's too fast you can always slow down the video as well :)

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

I’d say steps 1-2 is confusing for me.

[@kdsketch]

Basically make your looping coloured circles and duplicate the layer. On the duplicate lock the transparency of the layer and change your brush to white and make it big so you can quickly colour over the circles on each layer. On the original coloured layer highlight the frames by clicking and dragging and then apply the Gaussian blur filter to it making sure to tick multi frame at the bottom of the window that appears. If you want the glow to be more intense duplicate the coloured glow layer.

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

Wow! Thanks a lot! 🤩

[@SuperLaikaBros2000]

This animation is really great! 👍 I would use these in some of my videos in my channel and my viewers would watch that! P.S: Did you read my last comment?

[@kdsketch]

Glad you liked the animation and found it useful!

[@Thatoneninja22]

I’m a bit lost on getting the boiling effect

[@kdsketch]

so if you have 1 frame and it holds for a while, I'll redraw that frame twice more (use the onion skin to trace over the lines) and then copy those three frames until the character/art changes and it just repeats like that :) Hope this helps. I do have an OLD video on my channel where I go over the boiling line technique too.

[@Thatoneninja22]

@@kdsketch do you do this on a separate layer ?

[@kdsketch]

No I have them on the same layer and then just copy them across the timeline if I need the boiling line effect to last longer

[@evilbrothers8001]

😮

[@kdsketch]