


The spirals I’ll be animating were created separately, so I’ll pull them into this canvas on the next step.Īny variety of changes to your export settings will impact the quality of your GIF. I’ve chosen this skull design and I’m going to focus on animating the eyes. If you have complex artwork, choose one element you think you could animate well.

You can animate virtually anything, but I recommend picking something simple to start with. Pick a good piece of artwork to animate and drop it into your square canvas Take advantage of your real estate to get more eyes on your work! 2. Also, compared to the size of landscape videos, a square takes up more vertical space in an Instagram or Facebook feed. Square format is my preference and probably the easiest size for a beginner. If you need to go smaller, I don’t go smaller than 700 x 700.

I recommend image dimensions of 1500 x 1500. You’ll be sharing this GIF in a lot of different places so you don’t want a big file (10mb) or too small a file (100kb and very pixelated). Experiment with different settings to find the best way to color your sketch.Setting the dimensions of your canvas from the beginning is important. In the bottom part of the left side panel, you will see such options as Flow, Paint Mix and Brush Settings that allow you to control how much paint will be visible on canvas, how new brush strokes will blend with the existing ones, change their angle, and adjust pressure sensitivity. For instance, you can change its flow, intensity, and the way it blends with other elements of the composition. Besides, you can adjust the way any paint looks on your screen. Just use borders to create a neat watercolor design. You can also prevent different paints from blending if you want. One of the main advantages of live brushes is that you can blend strokes as if you were using real paints. Select a brush for watercolors or oil paintings, and then select the color by clicking on the circle icon on the left sidebar. You can use the Color Picker panel to access the color wheel, adjust transparency, tone, brightness, saturation, recently used colors as well as any colors from the Creative Cloud library.
