0 1 00:00:03,155 --> 00:00:07,264 Hello everyone, we are going to make an animated GIF in Illustrator. 1 2 00:00:07,516 --> 00:00:10,578 This looks... it looks okay, it could be better. 2 3 00:00:10,937 --> 00:00:12,063 I'm going to show you the tools... 3 4 00:00:12,088 --> 00:00:13,875 and you're going to make prettier stuff than I have. 4 5 00:00:14,117 --> 00:00:15,266 All right, let's get into it. 5 6 00:00:15,672 --> 00:00:20,304 So to make our little bubble blowing whale... 6 7 00:00:21,133 --> 00:00:23,469 open up 'Animated GIF', I'm going to start with this. 7 8 00:00:23,711 --> 00:00:24,906 I group it first. 8 9 00:00:26,234 --> 00:00:27,773 We can decide now-- 9 10 00:00:27,798 --> 00:00:30,421 basically it's just lots of Artboards with slight adjustments. 10 11 00:00:31,062 --> 00:00:36,289 Then you export all those Artboards to Photoshop, to stitch together as a GIF. 11 12 00:00:36,866 --> 00:00:38,445 Now there are a couple of things you could do. 12 13 00:00:38,477 --> 00:00:39,813 You could, like every Artboard... 13 14 00:00:39,838 --> 00:00:41,820 just have him moving forward a little bit more. 14 15 00:00:42,484 --> 00:00:43,531 That would do something. 15 16 00:00:43,969 --> 00:00:45,725 I'm going to use the Puppet Pin Tool. 16 17 00:00:45,750 --> 00:00:47,139 Now, Puppet Pen Tool... 17 18 00:00:48,358 --> 00:00:51,155 it destroys- it kind of distorts what we do quite a bit. 18 19 00:00:52,537 --> 00:00:54,897 If you're doing this on your own, you're finding it a little bit tough... 19 20 00:00:54,930 --> 00:00:56,854 it is a little bit tough with the Puppet Pin Tool... 20 21 00:00:56,879 --> 00:00:58,367 but I think it has a really cool effect. 21 22 00:00:58,991 --> 00:01:01,218 That's my first Artboard, I'm not going to distort this one. 22 23 00:01:01,243 --> 00:01:02,812 This is one, he's going to stay the same. 23 24 00:01:03,186 --> 00:01:06,280 Now, it's going to be lots of Artboards, open up the Artboard panel. 24 25 00:01:06,718 --> 00:01:08,937 The naming convention is quite important, right? 25 26 00:01:08,962 --> 00:01:13,475 So I'm going to call this 'Whale 01'. 26 27 00:01:13,764 --> 00:01:17,366 The naming convention has to be sequentially ordered for this to work. 27 28 00:01:17,663 --> 00:01:19,163 You can't just put in '1'... 28 29 00:01:20,421 --> 00:01:23,850 because when you get to 10, those are two digits, not one digit. 29 30 00:01:24,335 --> 00:01:27,092 So you can't kind of just go 1, 2, 3, 4, all the way to 10... 30 31 00:01:27,148 --> 00:01:30,475 because it freaks out when it sees, there was one digit, now there's two. 31 32 00:01:30,788 --> 00:01:31,968 So it has to be '01'. 32 33 00:01:31,993 --> 00:01:34,202 If you want a hundred different Artboards... 33 34 00:01:34,484 --> 00:01:36,687 I hope you're not, it's going to take a long time... 34 35 00:01:37,210 --> 00:01:40,671 but you'd put in 0 before the 1 just to get the sequence right. 35 36 00:01:40,991 --> 00:01:42,514 The other thing to know is that... 36 37 00:01:43,398 --> 00:01:44,795 Illustrator is not made for this... 37 38 00:01:44,820 --> 00:01:47,094 we're doing it as a bit of a hack, because it's fun... 38 39 00:01:47,702 --> 00:01:49,631 because the main tool to go off and do this... 39 40 00:01:49,656 --> 00:01:51,303 for something like Motion Graphics... 40 41 00:01:51,335 --> 00:01:54,131 would be After Effects, I love it, I know it very well... 41 42 00:01:54,156 --> 00:01:55,429 so I go and do it in there... 42 43 00:01:55,593 --> 00:01:58,132 but I understand it's a big learning curve with that one... 43 44 00:01:58,157 --> 00:02:00,796 so if you've got skills in Illustrator... 44 45 00:02:00,937 --> 00:02:04,124 you might just stay here, because you know it so well. 45 46 00:02:04,655 --> 00:02:05,681 So I need another Artboard. 46 47 00:02:05,706 --> 00:02:07,492 The quick way is to click, hold, and drag it. 47 48 00:02:07,866 --> 00:02:08,960 So I've got a second one. 48 49 00:02:10,045 --> 00:02:11,506 And what we're going to do in this one... 49 50 00:02:11,531 --> 00:02:13,679 is I'm going to select it all, grab my 'Puppet Pin Tool'... 50 51 00:02:13,704 --> 00:02:15,479 I'm going to pin him in the tail, there. 51 52 00:02:15,504 --> 00:02:17,995 There, one there, one there. 52 53 00:02:18,044 --> 00:02:19,731 Anyway I kind of just want it to stay still... 53 54 00:02:19,756 --> 00:02:21,263 it depends on what you want to do, right? 54 55 00:02:21,492 --> 00:02:23,352 So this is what we're going to do, breathe in, breathe out. 55 56 00:02:23,377 --> 00:02:26,609 And we're going to do it per frame. 56 57 00:02:27,219 --> 00:02:29,461 Be prepared, sometimes though... 57 58 00:02:29,742 --> 00:02:31,219 I need a bit of a denser... 58 59 00:02:32,164 --> 00:02:35,929 just to have a bit more control, as I want just this body popping out. 59 60 00:02:36,805 --> 00:02:39,180 So this one here is just going to be a little bit out. 60 61 00:02:40,258 --> 00:02:41,907 Then I'm going to duplicate it again. 61 62 00:02:43,383 --> 00:02:45,852 Curve over here, grab my 'Black Arrow'. 62 63 00:02:46,188 --> 00:02:48,774 Back to my 'Puppet Pin Tool', a bit further down. 63 64 00:02:49,266 --> 00:02:50,500 Duplicate it again. 64 65 00:02:50,695 --> 00:02:53,586 There's going to be a lot of this. Now to speed up your time... 65 66 00:02:54,953 --> 00:02:56,610 you've got to click on it with your 'Black Arrow' first... 66 67 00:02:56,635 --> 00:02:58,149 then back to your 'Puppet Pin Tool'. 67 68 00:02:58,181 --> 00:03:01,062 Now your Puppet Pin tool doesn't have a shortcut by default. 68 69 00:03:01,297 --> 00:03:04,539 If you go to 'Edit', 'Keyboard Shortcuts', and click on the 'Tools'... 69 70 00:03:04,735 --> 00:03:07,063 you can go through and add your own shortcut to it. 70 71 00:03:07,096 --> 00:03:11,164 Up to you, I use Q, because I think Q was the default for the Lasso Tool... 71 72 00:03:11,189 --> 00:03:12,078 which I never use. 72 73 00:03:12,284 --> 00:03:15,167 So that's my handy trick, hit 'Q' on your keyboard. 73 74 00:03:15,652 --> 00:03:17,034 Made him a bit bigger. 74 75 00:03:18,705 --> 00:03:20,737 Do one more with this, then we'll speed it up. 75 76 00:03:20,762 --> 00:03:23,854 So 'V' key, click it, 'Q' key, down. 76 77 00:03:24,807 --> 00:03:26,736 And we're going to go to the next one. 77 78 00:03:26,761 --> 00:03:30,877 Now I'll go into super fast mode to do the next couple. 78 79 00:03:35,119 --> 00:03:36,580 That didn't take very long. 79 80 00:03:37,698 --> 00:03:39,916 I got to a point where-- he's going to start breathing back in, right? 80 81 00:03:39,941 --> 00:03:42,268 I can totally just manually try and do this. 81 82 00:03:42,416 --> 00:03:45,885 Or, because I want it to kind of loop perfectly, what I might do is-- 82 83 00:03:46,260 --> 00:03:49,119 His breathing out is exactly the same as his breathing in... 83 84 00:03:49,144 --> 00:03:50,244 just in reverse, right? 84 85 00:03:50,269 --> 00:03:53,221 So I'm going to try and do that. 85 86 00:03:53,369 --> 00:03:56,416 So what I need to do is, to make sure we don't get lost... 86 87 00:03:56,456 --> 00:03:58,056 I'm going to name my orders here. 87 88 00:03:58,229 --> 00:04:00,627 I get really kind of confused sometimes with... 88 89 00:04:02,698 --> 00:04:03,861 numbers in general... 89 90 00:04:04,604 --> 00:04:06,565 but we'll speed this up. 90 91 00:04:10,518 --> 00:04:13,119 So what we want now is another few Artboards... 91 92 00:04:13,144 --> 00:04:14,714 maybe another four, or five. 92 93 00:04:14,948 --> 00:04:18,588 So instead of having to duplicate them, we're just going to make a new Artboard. 93 94 00:04:19,603 --> 00:04:22,353 One, two, three, four. 94 95 00:04:22,659 --> 00:04:25,823 Now if I end up going off the page, just grab them with the 'Artboard Tool'. 95 96 00:04:25,848 --> 00:04:29,643 Hold 'Shift', click on the ones you want, kind of move them around, it's up to you. 96 97 00:04:30,908 --> 00:04:34,220 So this is where it gets a bit inceptiony. 97 98 00:04:34,245 --> 00:04:37,362 So this one is going to be whale. I'll fast forward this again. 98 99 00:05:06,756 --> 00:05:08,942 So this is where I get kind of confused sometimes... 99 100 00:05:08,967 --> 00:05:12,279 because at this distance it's really hard to do copy and pasting... 100 101 00:05:12,304 --> 00:05:13,974 because the Artboards get a little mixed up. 101 102 00:05:14,209 --> 00:05:17,435 So I want this one to go in there. So I want, I'm just looking here. 102 103 00:05:17,701 --> 00:05:19,342 Whale 05 to go to Whale 07. 103 104 00:05:19,443 --> 00:05:21,662 So I'm going to zoom in. 104 105 00:05:22,849 --> 00:05:25,654 So Whale 05 to Whale 07. 105 106 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:29,638 How do I get to it? I was just going to use this over here. 106 107 00:05:29,756 --> 00:05:31,310 For some reason it's not jumping to it. 107 108 00:05:31,959 --> 00:05:32,990 There you are, 07. 108 109 00:05:33,412 --> 00:05:37,036 I'm going to hit 'Command F' rather than 'Command V'. 109 110 00:05:37,068 --> 00:05:39,755 Command F gets it back exactly where it got off the page. 110 111 00:05:40,521 --> 00:05:43,443 So the next one is, so you want from 05 to 07... 111 112 00:05:43,568 --> 00:05:45,006 and you want now-- 112 113 00:05:45,709 --> 00:05:48,114 If you're watching this, and you're like, just copy and paste them... 113 114 00:05:48,709 --> 00:05:49,943 this is where my brain gets boggled 114 115 00:05:49,968 --> 00:05:53,654 So I'm just going to slowly but surely work my way through, and we'll speed it up. 115 116 00:06:08,891 --> 00:06:09,969 Okay, we're back. 116 117 00:06:10,009 --> 00:06:12,156 That could be it, you might just want to breathe in and out... 117 118 00:06:12,181 --> 00:06:13,758 to kind of get a feel for... 118 119 00:06:14,437 --> 00:06:18,429 first of all, they kind of ended up over the side, so what we might do, just-- 119 120 00:06:18,578 --> 00:06:21,180 we can reorder them, we can go into here. 120 121 00:06:21,205 --> 00:06:22,364 Actually this option here, and say... 121 122 00:06:22,389 --> 00:06:25,864 "Actually could you make them in one line... 122 123 00:06:26,551 --> 00:06:28,430 or reorder them in two columns?" 123 124 00:06:29,481 --> 00:06:30,418 Click 'OK'. 124 125 00:06:30,634 --> 00:06:32,337 I just ordered them straight up and down. 125 126 00:06:33,961 --> 00:06:34,947 Let's have a little look... 126 127 00:06:34,972 --> 00:06:36,735 a way of kind of previewing what it's looking like. 127 128 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,781 So with it zoomed in at 100%, or full screen... 128 129 00:06:39,806 --> 00:06:44,043 which is 'Command 0', or 'Control 0' on a PC... 129 130 00:06:44,305 --> 00:06:47,227 you can just kind of toggle through this, so go all the way at the beginning... 130 131 00:06:47,252 --> 00:06:49,478 and hit this arrow here, next, next, next... 131 132 00:06:49,503 --> 00:06:52,013 And this is our very exciting animation. 132 133 00:06:54,364 --> 00:06:55,283 So what I'd like to do... 133 134 00:06:55,308 --> 00:06:57,746 when he starts breathing back in, I'm going to do one last thing. 134 135 00:06:57,771 --> 00:07:00,513 You could skip ahead now, but I'm going to get him to blow a little bubble. 135 136 00:07:01,153 --> 00:07:03,653 So when he gets to here he's going to start blowing the bubble. 136 137 00:07:04,263 --> 00:07:06,731 This bubble is going to be pretty exciting. 137 138 00:07:08,341 --> 00:07:10,067 It's going to be the same color as this. 138 139 00:07:10,348 --> 00:07:12,005 Actually no, it's going to be blue even. 139 140 00:07:15,747 --> 00:07:18,294 So my 'Ellipse Tool', he's going to blow a big bubble to start with... 140 141 00:07:18,442 --> 00:07:19,825 and it's going to get smaller. 141 142 00:07:21,122 --> 00:07:24,466 I'm going to select kind of about there, and maybe push it behind him. 142 143 00:07:25,270 --> 00:07:28,059 I'm going to copy this, move to my next Artboard. 143 144 00:07:28,425 --> 00:07:33,145 'Command V', sorry 'Command F' to get it back where you got it... 144 145 00:07:33,177 --> 00:07:34,356 or 'Control F' on a PC. 145 146 00:07:34,381 --> 00:07:36,958 I'm just going to move that Artboard a bit using the keyboard shortcuts. 146 147 00:07:38,596 --> 00:07:40,401 And shrink it down a little bit. 147 148 00:07:41,338 --> 00:07:43,510 If you're doing this kind of shrinking stuff, maybe... 148 149 00:07:43,535 --> 00:07:46,010 Smart Guides can be a bit of a pain, so you turn those off. 149 150 00:07:46,377 --> 00:07:47,634 All right, next one. 150 151 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,102 Copy him. 151 152 00:07:52,737 --> 00:07:53,674 Paste in. 152 153 00:07:55,501 --> 00:07:57,463 We'll get it to speed up now so you're not watching this. 153 154 00:08:09,578 --> 00:08:10,937 Okay, you're back. 154 155 00:08:11,756 --> 00:08:13,023 Yeah, very exciting, Dan. 155 156 00:08:13,187 --> 00:08:14,469 And he breathes out a bubble. 156 157 00:08:15,476 --> 00:08:16,890 So we've got our animations, right? 157 158 00:08:16,923 --> 00:08:20,038 And we've made sure our naming conventions are all right in here. 158 159 00:08:20,273 --> 00:08:23,070 Now it's about getting these Artboards out, and then to Photoshop. 159 160 00:08:23,328 --> 00:08:27,672 It's easy enough, go to 'File', 'Export', we're going to use 'Export Screens'. 160 161 00:08:28,061 --> 00:08:29,625 Make sure they're all selected. 161 162 00:08:30,311 --> 00:08:32,781 I'm putting mine in this folder called 'Whale' on my 'Desktop'. 162 163 00:08:32,806 --> 00:08:34,086 Put yours wherever you like. 163 164 00:08:34,304 --> 00:08:35,890 In terms of the resolution... 164 165 00:08:36,054 --> 00:08:39,038 keep it high now, we'll cut it down in Photoshop later on. 165 166 00:08:39,063 --> 00:08:39,999 So we'll make it... 166 167 00:08:41,101 --> 00:08:43,735 PNG, JPEG, it doesn't really matter at this stage. 167 168 00:08:47,273 --> 00:08:48,913 Make sure there's no prefixes. 168 169 00:08:49,117 --> 00:08:51,937 Just '1' scale, make yours look like mine. 169 170 00:08:52,328 --> 00:08:53,515 Let's click 'Export Artboard'. 170 171 00:08:54,594 --> 00:08:57,500 You'll see, in here, I've got mine sequentially numbered. 171 172 00:08:57,525 --> 00:08:58,905 You could name them afterwards... 172 173 00:08:58,930 --> 00:09:01,312 doesn't matter, you don't have to do it in Illustrator. 173 174 00:09:01,617 --> 00:09:05,109 And now the trick is, in Photoshop, go to 'File', 'Open'. 174 175 00:09:07,031 --> 00:09:10,055 Click on the very first one, so '01', and click on 'Options'. 175 176 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:11,195 And this is the magic trick. 176 177 00:09:11,641 --> 00:09:14,242 You can say, I like 01, and check if there's a sequence. 177 178 00:09:14,267 --> 00:09:17,656 Click 'Open'. If you've numbered them correctly it won't have an error. 178 179 00:09:18,344 --> 00:09:21,445 You can't even miss one, if you're missing 04 it will freak out. 179 180 00:09:22,062 --> 00:09:25,859 Now Frame Rate, you can come back here and try this a couple of times. 180 181 00:09:25,884 --> 00:09:29,187 There's ways of overriding it afterwards, but 30 frames/sec is fine. 181 182 00:09:29,805 --> 00:09:31,931 Now in Photoshop the trick is to go to... 182 183 00:09:31,956 --> 00:09:34,970 'Window', 'Workspace', and switch it to 'Motion'. 183 184 00:09:35,445 --> 00:09:38,320 Weirdly Photoshop does some pretty cool video stuff, video editing... 184 185 00:09:39,211 --> 00:09:41,336 but for the moment what we want to do is... 185 186 00:09:41,361 --> 00:09:44,882 let's just hit the 'Play' button here to see what our thing does. 186 187 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,937 That is our super exciting animation. 187 188 00:09:48,203 --> 00:09:49,921 At the moment it's happening a bit fast. 188 189 00:09:49,961 --> 00:09:53,984 So there's two things, one is, if yours is really hard core... 189 190 00:09:54,009 --> 00:09:56,712 and Photoshop can't play it back because it's freaking out... 190 191 00:09:57,023 --> 00:10:00,344 you can go to 'Resolution', turn it to '25%'... 191 192 00:10:00,516 --> 00:10:03,835 and it looks worse up here, but it exports just fine. 192 193 00:10:04,359 --> 00:10:05,304 A bit slow. 193 194 00:10:05,329 --> 00:10:06,883 Mine's looking fine because it's quite simple. 194 195 00:10:07,086 --> 00:10:10,343 Next thing we will do is right click it, and this is it, Speed. 195 196 00:10:10,368 --> 00:10:11,953 You can speed it up or slow it down. 196 197 00:10:12,109 --> 00:10:14,187 So if you want to speed it up, crank it up... 197 198 00:10:15,070 --> 00:10:18,054 and it shrinks down, right, but if I want to slow it down... 198 199 00:10:18,599 --> 00:10:21,044 it weirdly doesn't jump back out. 199 200 00:10:21,341 --> 00:10:23,091 That's the way it thinks, if I slow it down to maybe... 200 201 00:10:23,124 --> 00:10:24,795 the lowest is 25%. 201 202 00:10:24,966 --> 00:10:26,341 Yes, let's click '25%'. 202 203 00:10:26,629 --> 00:10:27,700 I have to drag this out. 203 204 00:10:28,669 --> 00:10:30,552 Just keep dragging until you get the whole thing. 204 205 00:10:31,841 --> 00:10:33,552 You might have to drag it twice like I did there. 205 206 00:10:33,577 --> 00:10:36,146 Just keep dragging it until it's all the way out... 206 207 00:10:36,365 --> 00:10:38,318 because, otherwise... 207 208 00:10:40,825 --> 00:10:42,348 there it is there, goes out to 14 frames. 208 209 00:10:42,888 --> 00:10:45,341 You can zoom out this way, Dan. That's better. 209 210 00:10:46,919 --> 00:10:48,247 Just drag the end out. 210 211 00:10:48,341 --> 00:10:51,380 Now I can see it all, hit 'Play', it's probably too slow now. 211 212 00:10:52,794 --> 00:10:53,685 Yes, too slow. 212 213 00:10:56,310 --> 00:10:59,818 50%, it streams down fine, but remember, it doesn't go up, just drag the end out. 213 214 00:11:01,357 --> 00:11:02,482 Now it's about exporting it. 214 215 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,895 You don't have to do a GIF, we're doing a GIF because GIFs are cool... 215 216 00:11:06,904 --> 00:11:08,396 and they're reasonably... 216 217 00:11:08,568 --> 00:11:09,902 you know, you stick them on social media... 217 218 00:11:09,927 --> 00:11:13,488 and they play automatically on lots of website, Facebook included. 218 219 00:11:13,973 --> 00:11:16,418 Now what we're going to do... 219 220 00:11:16,444 --> 00:11:20,410 Here's 'File', we'll do the GIF way first. 220 221 00:11:20,910 --> 00:11:21,855 So go to 'File', 'Export'... 221 222 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,981 we'll have to use this old school, 'Save for Web' version. 222 223 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,012 'File', 'Export', 'Save for Web'. 223 224 00:11:27,223 --> 00:11:28,699 And up the top here, 'Preset'. 224 225 00:11:28,871 --> 00:11:31,558 Depending on the quality and size, you'll have to play around with this one. 225 226 00:11:32,871 --> 00:11:35,637 Any of these options work for export. 226 227 00:11:35,662 --> 00:11:38,949 Basically the more numbers you have, 32 looks fine for mine. 227 228 00:11:38,982 --> 00:11:44,410 If you got a really detailed graphic, you might have to get up to 128 colors... 228 229 00:11:44,435 --> 00:11:46,207 but the file size is going to be a lot bigger. 229 230 00:11:46,302 --> 00:11:47,270 I'm making mine small. 230 231 00:11:48,270 --> 00:11:51,105 Anything else you can play around with makes very little difference. 231 232 00:11:51,130 --> 00:11:53,903 The big thing that does make a difference is looping. 232 233 00:11:54,035 --> 00:11:56,231 You loop once, or forever, that's what we want. 233 234 00:11:56,465 --> 00:12:01,730 Hit 'Play'. It's not a good representation here in this kind of export window... 234 235 00:12:01,755 --> 00:12:03,301 so now you sweat at it, it's not quite right. 235 236 00:12:03,598 --> 00:12:04,738 Then we hit 'Save'. 236 237 00:12:05,590 --> 00:12:09,504 And we're going to call this one 'Whale.gif'. 237 238 00:12:09,887 --> 00:12:11,004 Very exciting. 238 239 00:12:11,941 --> 00:12:15,011 It's taken us a while, and a bit of a disjointed class, I know. 239 240 00:12:18,512 --> 00:12:21,606 So I've got my GIF, it's on my desktop, if I hit 'space bar' on my Mac... 240 241 00:12:21,910 --> 00:12:23,918 look at him doing all this GIFness. 241 242 00:12:23,943 --> 00:12:28,660 Now there are some artefacts up here, that's just from the Puppet Pin Tool. 242 243 00:12:28,685 --> 00:12:30,887 I didn't really kind of take much notice of him. 243 244 00:12:30,912 --> 00:12:32,652 I should have fixed that up before I carried on... 244 245 00:12:32,677 --> 00:12:35,591 but there's my bubble blowing... 245 246 00:12:35,918 --> 00:12:37,574 it's kind of, well, it's okay. 246 247 00:12:38,445 --> 00:12:40,246 You can also do a video version. 247 248 00:12:40,271 --> 00:12:46,343 So back here in Photoshop, there's 'Export', 'Render Video'. 248 249 00:12:48,770 --> 00:12:50,410 In here, it eventually pops up. 249 250 00:12:51,629 --> 00:12:54,816 We're going to export mp4, it's a really common format. 250 251 00:12:55,933 --> 00:12:59,933 I'll have 'Whale.mp4'. 251 252 00:13:01,067 --> 00:13:04,184 Down here we're going to use Adobe Media Encoder. 252 253 00:13:05,098 --> 00:13:09,175 And it's going to be the format, 'H.264' is the most common one to use. 253 254 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:10,472 Gives you a mp4. 254 255 00:13:10,746 --> 00:13:12,699 On my Mac here, I could do 'QuickTime' as well. 255 256 00:13:12,988 --> 00:13:15,606 Now Quality ratings, you can play around with this. 256 257 00:13:15,646 --> 00:13:17,171 You can get quite low because... 257 258 00:13:17,812 --> 00:13:20,714 ours is such a simple animation. 258 259 00:13:20,942 --> 00:13:23,637 In terms of the speed, you control it with this. 259 260 00:13:23,662 --> 00:13:27,074 30 frames/sec is going to play like it did originally in Photoshop. 260 261 00:13:27,246 --> 00:13:30,207 The lower you go, the more jumpy it is, but the slower it plays. 261 262 00:13:31,013 --> 00:13:33,843 Up to you how you want to do it. I'm going to leave mine at '30'. 262 263 00:13:34,218 --> 00:13:35,288 Click 'Render'. 263 264 00:13:35,606 --> 00:13:38,004 Kick back and relax, depending on how long it is. 264 265 00:13:38,029 --> 00:13:39,934 And let's check it in... 265 266 00:13:41,325 --> 00:13:44,481 my 'Desktop', there's my 'mp4', I'm going to double click him. 266 267 00:13:45,971 --> 00:13:48,018 And, genius. 267 268 00:13:50,346 --> 00:13:51,486 It's not looping though... 268 269 00:13:51,752 --> 00:13:56,260 but that is how to do animation in Adobe Illustrator. 269 270 00:13:56,486 --> 00:13:59,417 Now there are lots of other things you could have done. 270 271 00:14:00,354 --> 00:14:03,127 Is our bubble blowing whale exciting? No. 271 272 00:14:05,276 --> 00:14:06,438 You have the tools now, right? 272 273 00:14:06,463 --> 00:14:08,758 It could be moving, lots of things could be moving around. 273 274 00:14:08,783 --> 00:14:12,752 You could use Puppet Tool, you could use the Liquify Tool. 274 275 00:14:12,777 --> 00:14:15,173 There's lots of things you could do to your animation. 275 276 00:14:15,337 --> 00:14:18,212 Just make sure that the sequence numbering is correct. 276 277 00:14:18,549 --> 00:14:22,190 And then once you get into Photoshop, you can export the GIF or mp4. 277 278 00:14:22,354 --> 00:14:26,065 All right, so it's the end, and it is homework time. 278 279 00:14:26,251 --> 00:14:28,360 I want you to do something more creative than what I did. 279 280 00:14:29,174 --> 00:14:30,419 You can use the whale, that's fine... 280 281 00:14:30,444 --> 00:14:32,033 or something else we've drawn in this class... 281 282 00:14:32,058 --> 00:14:33,291 or anything you like. 282 283 00:14:33,432 --> 00:14:35,072 I'd love to see your animation. 283 284 00:14:35,097 --> 00:14:38,744 Post it to me on the website here, under your projects. 284 285 00:14:39,924 --> 00:14:41,268 Or on social media. 285 286 00:14:42,814 --> 00:14:45,877 I'd love to see you on Instagram, I'm bringyourownlaptop. 286 287 00:14:46,557 --> 00:14:48,908 On Twitter, I'm danlovesadobe. 287 288 00:14:49,109 --> 00:14:51,750 All right friends, let's get on to the next video.