I made an animated reel for my comic! Did you ever make any? Show me yours!

[Llyrel]

Okay, not exactly an "animated" reel, because I'm not an animator BUT I used CapCut to add a bunch of cool transitions and effects to bring the first page of my comic to life and tbh, I'm ridiculously proud of the result

(Posting the Youtube version because it has some more special sound effects as opposed to the Instagram version, which only has the background music).

I really like the idea of experimenting with these sort of animated slideshows to post on Instagram and TikTok and I was wondering if anyone else tried it? If so, how did it go? Show me your videos!

[sunshineyon]

I like it a lot. Especially the lightning and thunder sfx.

I don't really have a reel type, but I have an animated counter part to my comic.

I think for the next one, you should linger on the cover image and logo of your comic a little longer, I had to pause at the right time to even see what it was.

[Llyrel]

Thank you! And yeah, you're right, the last slide should have definitely been longer I was trying to keep it under 15 seconds, because Instagram seems to really dislike any reel that is longer than that turns out I did have one extra second left I could have used for that last slide, but oh well... hopefully someone will rewatch the video a couple of times to catch the title? :'D (rewatches are apparently good for engagement, lol).

And oooh, wow, a full animated video complete with voice acting, that's so cool! May I ask you which software did you use for the animation?

[sunshineyon]

Mostly After Effects. Some of the editing in Premiere Pro. The Elements in the scenes are in Illustrator. Sound is in Audacity. Yeah. A lot of stuff, haha.

[xstarx07]

I mainly used what Clip Studio allowed me to and simply ripped the sounds off YouTube for these.

First two are more animatics, the 3rd I tried putting more effort into ^^“

I like to use reels for memes, but I have a bigger animation on the back of my list that I would like to finish alongside the comic one day! :3

[LouisWinter]

I wanted to make an anime that was action/comedy then wanted to make comic of it then abandoned it.

[EncryptedWriting]

Stop the animation is SO smooth

[Aleksei]

Lol, I made a teaser for my series a while ago, and now I see the old drawings and It feels so weird to look at, haha!

Anyway, at lest it convey the message needed, so I am happy for that n_nU

I should someday do a new one... maybe for the next season, after chapter 40?

[dreample2000]

Hello. I'm planning to make one for promotions but how do you make these animations? I can't and don't have Aftereffects tho.

[Llyrel]

@xstarx07: Aaaah, I love these, and the third one looks so cool! I totally need to make more memes myself, I heard they tend to do pretty well... but I never seem to know how to search for audio I could use
@BattleStead: omg, that's some awesome job you did over there, great work!
@Aleksei: oooh, I love the transitions in this! And also the B&W to color effect, as well as the mini animations! May I ask you how you made those, btw? I've seen a bunch of comic trailers where 2D pictures are being animated (I think some Tapas trailer do that as well) and I always wondered how it is done!

Hello. I'm planning to make one for promotions but how do you make these animations? I can't and don't have Aftereffects tho.

You could try CapCut! It's a free app for iPhone/Android (works on iPad too). It's not exactly an animation tool, more like a video editing tool, but it comes with a whole bunch of cool transitions and special effects that can help you make static drawings look more lively!

For example, the rain, lighting and "magic" effects in my video were all added in CapCut!

[dreample2000]

Thank you very much!

[xstarx07]

Thank you very much!
There's so many audios to use, finding a good one is kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack, but they do tend to do well :3

[RocketAxxonu]

Wow, these are amazing. So many different styles, but such great use of different programs and tools. (Making an animation really is a great way to advertise a bit for your comic, plus also pick up some new skills with different programs in the process.)

@Llyrel: I just love how this is cut together. Even though it's not animated in the technical sense the effect of the rain/lightning combined with the images creates such a sense of atmosphere, and I also just love how the words act as a kind of voiceover from a narrator and finish with a hook at the end. Definitely makes for a compelling ad for sure.

@BattleStead: I'm super curious how you achieve so many complex poses and movements (including specific lip movements for certain words and that dramatic camera angle sweep around), did you use a lot of video reference and/or reference from specific fights in 80s anime for this? (I'm also curious what programs you used, It looks more like frame-by-frame than flash-style animation, but it's so smooth it's hard to tell!)

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I also did a trailer a while back for fun, both just to try animation and also serve as a little bit of advertisement (it's a fancomic so most clips are taken from the show on which the comic is based in a kind of AMV style, but a few clips I animated):

I used Photoshop for the art for the frames, OpenToonz to pull the frames together into mp4 files, then Adobe Premiere Elements to cut everything together with music. (The animated clips I mostly made by taking clips from the show with similar movements to what I wanted and copying/tracing them frame by frame.)

I definitely want to try more at some point, but. Animation is not an easy medium, lol.

[LouisWinter]

The complex poses came from drawing alot. Applying that in animation came from what I learned from attending the Art Institute of Seattle in 2016-2018. I used Toon Boom Harmony for the animation and lip-synching. TBH has a auto lip-synching feature.

You draw the mouth shapes then the program TRIES to apply them to a scanned audio track, then you edit it.

I used a lot parkour videos as a reference and the camera sweep around use an idea I got once I realized I could immitate 3d space by just sliding the background the right and rotate the character 45 degrees. I did alot of frame by frame which probably why there's alot of "wobbling".

Here, I wanted to do more lipsynching and pose to pose animation for this Peppa Pig...anime

[RocketAxxonu]

^Thanks, that's fascinating! I'd never heard of such a thing as a lip-syncing feature on these programs, that would be really useful. (Ah, fairly simple technique on the turn, but so effective, I guess that is the big thing with animation just knowing how to do things to make it work.) So much motion complexity in the other video as well (that punch toward the viewer, ha). Thanks again for the insight!!

[BoomerZ]

just a gif

[Aleksei]

Thank you very much!
The animtions were made in After Effects. There are tons of tutorials in youtube, you will have to search the one that helps you, but basically I made different layers for background and characters, and moved the characters a bit with the help of AE. It's not hard once you understand, but it takes time, sadly =P

[system]

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