Animate Illustrated Text Stickers using Procreate and Adobe After Effects

Want to create awesome text stickers to share on your socials? Want to learn simple techniques to make and animate them?

You are in the right place! In this class, you will learn how to transform your hand-drawn illustrations into exciting stickers to upload and use on Instagram!

In this class you’ll learn:

• How to decide on what stickers to create
• Techniques for sketching and colouring text-based illustrations
• How to upload and prepare your illustration files ready for animation 
• Step-by-step how to use Adobe After Effects and the plug-in Motion Tools Pro to add cute and fun motion to your illustrations
• How to export them as GIF, create a GIPHY account and get your stickers available online! 

You’ll be creating:

• A GIF and sticker of your new animated illustration to share with the world!

This class is for illustrators who want to create simple animated stickers and GIFs, who are just starting out into animation. 

What you need: 

• A way to draw – I’ll be using procreate, but Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator will work too! You can also start with pen and paper if you prefer, then move into digital. 
• You are also more than welcome to use my files if you don’t have time to draw your own. I have provided them for download in the ‘RESOURCES’ folder.