hello so i've made a decent amount of animatics in my time so far i don't think i'm necessarily at a professional level but i do think i have a lot of good tips and tricks and things that i can share with you if you're wanting to make your own animatics so yeah let me run through the process with you so the basic part of making an automatic is just drawing the frames and editing them together i use photoshop to draw all the frames and i edit them together in premiere pro you can use any drawing program you want and i know of a editing program that will is similar to premiere pro if you're looking for a free one because i know adobe's expensive i get it so um it's called davinci resolve i've never used it i recommended it to my friend and i think she liked it so i'm pretty sure has a lot of the same features as premiere pro so yes i've also i know a lot of animatic artists use things like windows movie maker and final cut and it's final cut free i don't know um whatever free editing program on your computer will suffice there's some techniques and things that i'm going to talk about later that you need more advanced editing software to do but there you can still make really really good animatics without that i just like to do fancy things because i don't think that my art is as dynamic if i don't anyway uh yeah so that's that's the you know basic things you need to start so i'm just gonna go over different techniques that i use let's do it saving your shading is extremely important um to keep your animatic consistent especially if you're doing colors i've done black and white animatics and colored animatics it's important to save your shading so that everything looks consistent and you're not switching tones in the middle which i have done in the past i have an animatic like my first one slowly fades more and more throughout like it gets less uh contrast you know um what i do is i'll i'll take the color i'm using or like the line art color and i'll use it for the shading and then i'll lower the opacity and then you put a little dot in the corner of your canvas on a different layer and you write down the percent of opacity that you used for the shading and boom that's saved there you just tool drop the the dot you made um if you're switching between like doing white highlights or something which i do so yeah you guys saved it's there and now you'll be consistent for the rest of the animatic and just to be safe i do recommend saving that as a separate jpeg because i have in the past exited out of photoshop and then lost the the thing that i saved so saving as a jpeg is helpful too i don't because i'm lazy but you you could and you should um also i would make sure you keep all of your frames in a folder on your computer all together for that one animatic and have like a background layer in case you do pieces um like gliding across and stuff um that need a transparent need to be transparent background because they're overlapping things you know um having a having just a plain white or whatever base color you're using frame is good to have and keep it all keep it all together for easy nice clean storage yeah okay gliding across the screen um is another tool that i use to add more movement without animating you know basically i just take a drawing say you want someone to walk across the screen draw one picture erase your background and then save that you go to your effects controls and it'll have like the coordinates of where things are on your screen i know it sounds really complicated it's not this it's just numbers you save where you want it to start and then you go to the end and you pick new coordinates where you want it to end and it'll just glide there you got your starting point and your ending point and it will glide between those points you can do that for all sorts of things you can also have things glide on top of other images by stacking the layers um it's all good useful things i hope that that made sense if it didn't sorry if you want something to go ahead across the screen so you want like someone to like shift their pose or expression midway through walking that is that is all doable my guy you just gotta basically take your first you got your first your first quality boy and you have them quiet to the end spot you want and then you take your second glitty boy and you put them on top and you copy paste those attributes like those effects onto him and he will also glide and then you just cut him in half so that he switches in the middle this prey is pretty easy um and it makes things look a little bit more dynamic if you're looking for that um now for zooms zooms are so easy you know sometimes you just got like add movement without spending time drawing more and a great way to do that is just having the frame zoom you just you just draw a picture right and then you do you go to your effects you go to your scale and you put your starting point and your ending point and it'll zoom in or out um just like the glide thing it's basically the same tool but um you know and you can do like a combo you can have someone glide forward going back or you know and it really adds a lot when there's not a lot happening you know what i'm saying yeah also adding motion lines can help make it like a movement look more believable but do not overdo motion lines i will say i used to overdo motion lines and it looked messy it doesn't look good if you just draw a whole lot of lines um so only when necessary like if you want someone to be turning their head really quickly that's a that's a good way because you like your audience will know hey that person was standing there a second go oh that person was facing that way a second ago and then you draw them facing another way and then draw little motion lines people like oh they turned you know this is a good way to add motion once again without having to fully animate another thing that i find very useful is blurring things if you want a character in a frame but they are unimportant blurring them is good and it also just adds visual interest in my opinion um so yeah you can add the blur um on your drawing program or you can add it in your editing program i usually do it in my editing program especially because sometimes i think it's fun to have things fade into blur or fade into focus which once again it's the same thing as the zooming as the gliding across you put your start blur and your end blur um and it'll it'll fade into that the editing program does it for you it's it once again adds dynamic um scenes without doing much with the drawing process so expression shift is what i call this i don't know how to explain it it's like when an expression does a little like bouncy shift into another expression i've seen um quite a few animatic artists do this sort of thing i remember wanting to do it and then looking up how and i could not find it so i had to figure it out for myself so here's me telling you so that you don't have to figure it out for yourself maybe it's obvious on how to do it for some people but i i need guidance and so i'm sure there are other people out there who do as well so expression shift basically you draw your first expression and then you draw your second expression but maybe more extreme you know um and you draw that out and then you take your second expression and you liquefy it so that like maybe the eyes are a little more squinty and the mouth is smaller or whiter basically make it look closer to the first one and you edit it so that it goes from that first expression to the second expression to the in between expression and back i don't know if i explained that correctly i am showing you visuals so hopefully you get it but basically you take the liquefied version and you have first split second on top of your second expression so it does a little bounce i'm really bad explaining things but yeah that's that's how i do that i hope if you need more like explanation let me know okay um we're gonna move on to a q a section this sounds very professional and fancy um i just asked people to send me cues so i can give them a good question a plus uh yeah uh so honestly i asked on all my social media i asked on youtube i asked on twitter i asked on instagram um and i'm gonna answer those questions i'm not answering all them by the way um just the ones that i didn't already give answers for in my in my tips that i gave earlier okay question how do you deal with the overwhelming amount of layers i've struggled with this for a while and it always slows down the program i used to have that problem a lot with my old laptop and then it died and i had to get a new one and i haven't had that problem since so i feel bad about not really having an answer for that just save a lot delete the unnecessary layers keep it at like one or two or three layers per frame and then get rid of those layers start fresh you know and then on your editing program that's another story that's uh i used to get so frustrated i have auto saved that was good for me but yeah take breaks in between i honestly don't know try to clear space on your computer yeah sorry you're having that issue how do you remain so consistent with your art style practice a lot but honestly with animatics especially you don't need a consistent art style no matter what you draw is gonna look like you drew it so just just draw just draw whatever feels natural if it starts to switch halfway through that's fine i that happens to me all the time but no one's gonna notice i promise you it's it's you're fine you're fine how to avoid making entire animation because i feel like if i ever tried making one of these i make a bunch of frames i consider essential instead of just key still frames once again i understand this greatly when i first started making animatics i for sure overdrew frames and made it like really choppy animations um what i found in recent times helps with that is just to think about what movements are essential for what you're trying to get across yeah um just like know your starting and ending point and what in betweens are necessary to make that jump look natural does that make sense is there anything you've learned from doing animatics that would have been good to know from the beginning that they'd take a lot of time it's time consuming stuff i would keep that in mind and you know if you're taking even like a month to make it don't sweat it don't beat yourself up about it like it's it takes a long time uh do you sketch out storyboard how you're gonna have the animatic weight out first or do you just sort of wing it i wing it it wouldn't be smart to storyboard it um but like i said it's time-consuming stuff to make so i just go lyric by lyric and figure out what i want for that next part but i will say if you want to do an animatic as a career um you're going to have to storyboard because clients are going to want to see your process so it would be if you want to do it professionally get into the habit of doing that i don't so i don't how do you choose the songs i just whatever sparks inspo when i hear if i hear a song and i and i connect it to characters and i can start to sort of picture one in my head then i'll make it and there are times when i hear a song that i like and i really want to make an animatic for it and and i'll try to brainstorm characters that i think fit it so yeah it's usually just whatever i feel like doing uh that's it that's my tutorial type video on how to make my animatics if you have more questions or i'm gonna go into more detail explaining you can ask me in the comments and i will reply but no guarantee i'll be good at explaining it especially without visuals i am a visual learner myself but hopefully this this all made sense and i hope it inspired you to want to try and make your own animatic because all you got to do is just do it you know even do like a 10 second animal just do it right like you don't have to use any of this devices draw pictures and then edit them together and put music on top that's it that's an animatic you got it you did it that's that's it that's all i got thank you for watching i hope you enjoyed this video um please check out the animatics i've done maybe um a lot of them are old and not very good but you know they're there and check check out my other videos maybe if you want to i do speedpaints and stuff and yeah that's it thank you so much i appreciate you and i hope you have a good day this is a new outro for me [Music] bye