Compositing are done using After Effects. Drawings are done with medibang paint pro and frame by frame animate using firealpaca onion skin mode. The whole animation is done under 24 hours. In this case, I found this lovely music in youtube audio library which give me an idea to make this simple animation. For me, most of my random short animation start with a piece of music. Please see 'how to create a GIF animation with FireAlpaca and AlpacaDouga' for the step-by-step instruction.Most animation start with an idea, which will then be further develop in storyboard and animatic. Diagram: 'File' > 'Export Layers(Onion Skin Mode)' If you upload those PNG files in sequence numbers to a GIF animation creating website 'AlpacaDouga' you can easily create a GIF animation. It will export as PNG files in sequence numbers. Go to 'File' at the top menu, select 'Export Layers(Onion Skin Mode)', and designate an exporting destination. Once an animation is completed, let's export as a PNG format in sequence numbers. You can specify the speed of frames.īy turning off Onion Skin Mode, it will bring back to the regular canvas display. In order to check the animation, go to 'View' at the top menu and select 'Auto Replay'. (For Mac users, command ＋ up arrow key and command ＋ down arrow key.) When moving between the previous and subsequent frames, Ctrl + up arrow key and Ctrl + down arrow key is convenient. This will help creating an animated cartoon or a flip book to see several frames at once. Then, only active layer will appear, and the previous and subsequent layers will appear with a shade of red and green. Go to 'View' at the top menu and select 'Onion Skin Mode'. All three layers will get blended onto canvas, so three balls are visible. But, by handling layers as frames, it enables to create an animation.Īs shown below, for example, there are slightly shifted balls drawn in three different layers. Diagram：Preview the previous and subsequent framesįireAlpaca does not specialize in creating an animation, therefore it is not equipped with a tool to manage frames. Onion Skin tool is used to preview the previous and subsequent drawings with a translucent mode. This will help creating an animated cartoon or a flip book to see several frames at once. A new function called Onion Skin is equipped from FireAlpaca 1.5.1.

Animating with firealpaca