Animated Handwriting, Signature or Hand-drawn Logo Effect | Procreate Tutorial

all right i've had a couple questions about how to do this logo specifically or how you could make your own animated signature uh with this hand-drawn effect or your own animated initials youtube logo so in this video i'll simply explain how you do this on your own yeah let's just jump into it at the simplest level there's really only two steps there's drawing the signature itself um in this case my initials jm and then revealing that signature in a hand-drawn effect to expand on that you can also add two more steps to the beginning and end i add a bit of a flare in terms of a drop that comes in and then hits where the logo is about to start and animates the logo on and then at the end i add a disappearing animation in this case it's kind of an explosion uh type animation order to make it disappear so you can do it in two steps you can do it four steps the main two things are draw the logo or the signature then reveal the logo and i'll show you how we do that and then we can add the last two steps number three being we'll make the beginning look cool number four being we'll make it disappear in a cool way so we're in procreate i'm to open up a new procreate file and i'm going to do a 16 by 9 aspect ratio and the pixels are 1920 by 1080p you really don't need to go bigger than this i'm gonna do the background color as black and i'm going to draw on my signature with white so the brush i'm going to use is denim inking and we're going to use the studio pen you can use really any brush but i think this one gives a cool calligraphy effect to it and i'm just going to start by drawing my initials j and you really kind of got to do it a couple times until you're happy with it no let's try that i actually like that yeah something like that so once you're happy with your signature you know that's the part that i can't really teach you as much you've got to just you know try it a bunch of times try a couple different brushes see if you like uh what you're doing then once you have the signature that's step one step two is again the reveal we're gonna reveal the logo and what's weird about this is we're gonna actually do it backwards we're gonna start by turning on animation assist and as you can see we've got this frame uh our signature on the first frame and in order to make it look like it's drawing on in a hand-drawn effect we're gonna actually erase the logo backwards so all i'm gonna do here tap here duplicate the logo go to this logo that's in front and you can always rearrange them if you get them out of order but go to the first logo and i'm going to erase a little bit duplicate go to the first frame erase a little bit more try to keep it looking smooth so it doesn't look like a hard line and i kind of give the edge a little bit of a round shape to it um just like it would actually look if i was writing on it wouldn't be a straight line duplicate go to the first frame erase a little bit more now make it a little round now the method that you need to think about is the distance between your erasing lines now if you've got your onion skins back on i only need you know two or three onion skins that'll show you the previous layers a little bit faded out so you can kind of compare the distance between each frame we're gonna make sure this is 12 frames per second and yeah everything else looks good so the method that you need to think about in terms of the distance between each erasing lines is the speed um the further apart these erasing lines are the faster the animation is gonna go the closer these erasing lines are the slower the animation is gonna go if i watch this back you can see that you can't really see it yet but it slowly eases to the end and we can always even add in another frame let's say we want to go to the very end duplicate this go to the previous frame and just erase even a little less than what we did before all of that helps ease the animation to the end um but just think about the distance between each of these erasing lines so as i duplicate this this line is this distance if you can see that i might double the distance now because i want things to pick up a little bit here now it's kind of weird to think about because you're doing everything backwards but you know just try it a couple times the first time through just erase it all frame by frame a little bit by bit and see how it looks and then as you start to see how the distance between the erasing lines changes the speed you know do a different logo and see how it looks the second time you do it so i actually did that out of order i need to now drag this frame to the front and now that's in order so let's play that you can start to see how it's moving fast but then it slows down at the end and i'm just gonna go through all of this erasing every little bit of this logo and i'll just speed through it so you don't have to sit through all this [Music] now the one thing i think about as we get to the very beginning of this if you're wanting to have it have a slow start or the speed of the drawing to ease in to the motion then again you're gonna start to get these erasing lines closer and closer together and my rule of thumb is i usually half the distance each time until it gets really small and then it doesn't matter so i'm halfing i'm duplicating this and then i'm going to half the distance here and then the last one even half of what that was which is basically nothing so i'm just gonna erase the last of it and voila we've got it animating on so like i said that's all you really need to do there's only two steps to get an animated hand drawn logo done in procreate super easy if you're wanting to add a little bit more flair you can do those uh third and fourth steps so the third step being let's figure out how to do a little bit of a drop that comes in and animates on and then the last one how do we make the logo disappear so let's start with the first one what i'm going to do is i want to do that drop look and i'm going to have the drop up here from the middle of the frame and loop around and hit the top of the j and then start drawing on what i'm going to do first though is go to the bottom make a new layer make sure it's actually at the bottom i'm going to label this my guide and then tap on the layer in the animation timeline and we're going to turn this into background so this is going to be a guide that we end up deleting later i'm gonna go to red this is my guide i'm gonna just have it start somewhere in the middle make it way smaller than that and wow that was perfect all right and uh hit right there so that's a smooth line that i can now follow along as i make new new layers for this drop animation so let's go back to white i'm on my studio pen i'm going to make it a little bit bigger and i'm going to make a new frame again we're kind of working backwards a little bit so it's weird to keep the layers straight this time i'm gonna start at the beginning and work my way to the beginning of the j it doesn't make sense just follow along something like that i'm going to have this drop pick up speed a little bit as it goes along not big you can start to space it out a little bit and then also the faster it goes the more trailing droplets it's going to have so i'm going to pretend like some of these little droplets here are falling behind so maybe i've got some droplets here here i'm gonna lower my onion skin so you might be able to see that a little bit better these droplets are getting smaller in the next frame because they're starting to disappear but as it goes around new droplets keep getting created and there's some more trailing droplets [Music] all right so that's looking pretty good i might need to adjust some frames we can now get rid of this guide layer so come up to here turn off the guide and now when we watch it we've now done step one two and three and now let's see how we can make this logo disappear i want the logo to stay on for a certain amount of frames before it disappears and let's just go with 10 frames that'll keep it on for enough time that someone can actually read it but not too long we're going to duplicate this frame move that to the end so i have the logo holding for a little bit and then this is the frame that we're going to start to explode and make disappear what i used for my explosion was the liquify effect and basically all i did was use the crystals and the push liquify effects to get the kind of explosion effect that i wanted it's not perfect but it's super easy you can mess around with the size and pressure of this and the amount of distortion that is that it has i'll speed through this process so you don't have to sit through it but mess around with this see how it looks i'm going to start with the crystals a little bit hit here back out make a new frame go back to liquify and make it expand a little bit more than that this time gonna grab the push and maybe start to pull some of these little pieces out so that they're not all so uniform and this you can kind of just eyeball and with an explosion the most most of the impact happens at the very beginning so you can kind of do a lot more of this this distortion at the beginning of this animation but then slow it down at the end as it gets smaller anyways i'm gonna speed through this so you don't have to watch it all [Music] all right my video stopped recording so i didn't get to show you every little frame of this explosion but basically the process was just going back up to liquify using the crystals and a little bit of the push to make this explosion effect and then at the end of each frame or at the end of the explosion a couple of these frames once it gets really big and you've crystallized it to the point that it looks like the end of this explosion just start erasing a little bit here and there as you go keep going up to liquify and expanding it frame by frame but erase a little bit here and there and just kind of think about how explosions work you know the very beginning there's this big impact so you can make the animation a little bit further out because that's going to increase the speed of the impact but then at the end of an explosion you know the smoke slowly dissipates and um most of the speed is at the very beginning so at the end you know slow down on the crystallized effect make it you know inch out just a little bit by bit and erase it slowly frame by frame and that's the whole animation you could always add other little flares you know on mine i added some little droplets that you know squirt out at the very end of the j and at the bottom of the m you could do your explosion differently you could test out some of the other effects all right that's all i have for you today if you're liking these videos and you're finding these animation tutorials helpful let me know down in the comments and also by subscribing and i'll make sure to make more videos like this in the future and until then i'll catch you later

Channel: Jason Murray

Views: 93,295

Keywords: Procreate, Animation, Logo animation, Logo, Animated logo, Hand-drawn logo, Handwritten logo animation, Handwritten logo, Hand lettering, Procreate animation, Rough Animator, iPad, iPad animation, Animated signature

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Length: 14min 9sec (849 seconds)

Published: Mon May 10 2021