Frame-By-Frame Animation in Photoshop For Beginners: Keyframes, Inbetweens & Onion Peels

Black & white line-art short animations are more popular than ever, thanks to the likes of Telepurte. Here's how you can get started making your own animations, and the core concepts you need to understand to progress fast.
Check out this video to understand how to set up Photoshop for animation: • ANIMATE using Photosho...
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Video editing software: Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019
Screen recording software: OBS Studio
Image editing software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
Microphone: Audio-technica 2020USB+
Audio recording software: Audacity
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0:00 Introducing
1:00 Keyframes, inbetweens, onion peels
3:05 Smooth VS Fast
4:59 Find the rhythm
5:59 Animations on CZcams & Twitter
7:50 Outroducing
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[@cuff2860]

Great guide! Thank you from a first timer! Here's hoping my first product comes out even half as smooth as this!

[@D3troisVarietyChannel]

Thank you so much! I hope so too

[@zeebopixchii]

It's even more crazy that Adobe hides this away within Photoshop acting like it's not a useful feature.💀

[@D3troisVarietyChannel]

It is because they mostly wanted you to use (buy) Adobe Animate or Adobe Flash. Maybe it's designed this way to give you a taste of animating so you get the full product dedicated to it

[@zeebopixchii]

@@D3troisVarietyChannelI suppose that makes sense

[@mk-aka-morgan8386]

I don't know how you were able to make something so creepy so pretty 😳 It turned out amazing 💖

[@D3troisVarietyChannel]

It's all in the contrast between the first frames and the 'true' drawing

[@Maikoh]

Such an awesome animation! Love the creepy look the black and white gives it! Awesome tutorial, I’ll definitely be revisiting this at some point, recently got the idea to make some sort of mascot or avatar for my vintage recipe videos 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 Idk if I’ll do it or not, might play around with it next time I have some free time!
Lol, totally agree with the not-for-kids aspect. I’d like to be able to swear or be lewd, if I choose to, but I don’t necessarily want that to be a major aspect of my channel. Also, I feel like I’ve heard that videos with swearing (and bleeping) aren’t recommended to viewers by CZcams as much, or something along those lines 🤔

[@D3troisVarietyChannel]

I would recommand to start playing with it first without expecting anything. It's hard to make an animation look good, I have so many abandonned projects because I found out it was above my skillset.
For the swearing, I like to keep it occasional but sometimes it does come naturally and I don't want to restrict myself

[@lolipop504ful]

so are you adding a new key frame in between the key frames you sketched already?

[@D3troisVarietyChannel]

Yes I am adding frames in between until the timing and rhythm of the animation feels right. I like to start with the most important frames, or the most 'different' ones, and then draw the transition frames