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This document provides a lesson plan for teaching animation basics using Procreate, focusing on creating a simple bouncing ball animation. It covers essential concepts such as timing, squash and stretch, and volume, while guiding users through the steps to create their animation. The lesson encourages creativity by suggesting further transformations of the ball into different characters and directing users to additional resources for deeper learning.

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LearnToAnimateGettingStarted-ProcreateLessonIdea

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching animation basics using Procreate, focusing on creating a simple bouncing ball animation. It covers essential concepts such as timing, squash and stretch, and volume, while guiding users through the steps to create their animation. The lesson encourages creativity by suggesting further transformations of the ball into different characters and directing users to additional resources for deeper learning.

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LESSON IDEA PART ONE

Learn to Animate:
Getting started
PHYSICS ART

Learn with
Lesson ideas
Use these Lesson Ideas to spark your imagination for
using Procreate in the classroom. Feel free to take them further
and make them your own.
Learn to animate 1.

Animation
basics
The animation tools in Procreate
make it easy to create simple
animations.
Animating is a fun way to discover
how physics affects objects.

All you need is an iPad and:

Procreate
The bouncing ball 2.

A simple Think about...


animation TIMING
The bouncing ball is a great way As the ball falls it is accelerated by gravity -
for first-time animators to learn with larger gaps between balls going down
essential animation concepts. as it travels more per frame.

SQUASH & STRETCH


As the ball falls it stretches.
When it impacts the ground it squashes.
But not too much or too little!

VOLUME
The ball should remain the same mass
as it squashes and stretches.
Background 3.

Animation
assist
Tap the wrench icon to open
the Action tab. Then select Canvas.
Turn on Animation Assist.

Background
The toolbar will display at the bottom
of the screen. This shows you the frames
of your animation. Tap the current frame
and turn on Background.
Guide line 4.

Make a guide line


Drag your finger or pencil to draw a vertical
line roughly down the middle of the canvas.
Hold at the end to snap into a perfect line,
using QuickShape.

BRUSH
Use the Technical Pencil under
Sketching for your basic animation.
Guide line 5.

Create markers
Draw eight dots, making them closer
together towards the top. This will help
you express gravity.

Background layer
Make your guide a background layer.
Tap the frame and turn on Background.

Add frame
Finally, tap Add Frame to make your
first frame.
The ball 6.

QuickShape
Make a perfect circle. Draw a rough
circle, then hold for a second at the
end to snap into a smooth curve.
While holding, touch the screen with
your left finger for a perfectly round circle.

Don’t worry if your ball is not


perfect! You can easily move
TRANSFORM or resize your ball using the
Transform tool.
The ball 7.

Going down
Create a new frame per ball, going from
top to bottom, using the guide as a rough
indication of the center of each circle.
Remember to both space and stretch
the ball out as it goes down.
The ball 8.

Coming up
Now draw the ball squashing at the bottom,
then springing back up.
The balls on each new frame should get
closer together as it reaches the top.
If you use 16 frames for this animation,
you’ll get a nice smooth result.
The ball 9.

Remove
guide line
Tap the Layers icon in the top right
to reveal the Layers panel.
Scroll down to the bottom of the frames
and untick the guide layer. This will hide
your guide from the animation.
Play it! 10.

Congratulations
You have created a realistic looping animation
of a bouncing ball!
Press Play to watch your work come to life.

16 FRAMES
Take it further 11.

Transform
your ball
Can you make your animation into
a jumping animal, monster or alien?
Go to our Animation Basics Two lesson
to take your animation to the next level.
Create
Artistic expression helps make
education meaningful, memorable
and fun. Find more creative lesson
ideas at education.procreate.art
To dive deeper into the full creative
potential of Procreate, see our
Handbook at procreate.art/handbook

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