Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this drawing livestream I'm working on an animation commission of sparkly pink smoke. This smoke is for a twitch streamer's v tube character. I've never worked on something like this, so I'm hoping to do more 2D effects commissions for live streamers!

I'll show a bit of the animation process for how to animate your own smoke animation cycles. It's actually pretty easy once you have a foundation down to help the motion feel smooth and fluid.

TimeStamps:

0:00 Intro
0:52 Lightning Animation
5:25 Smoke Art Commission
7:47 How To Animate Smoke
15:08 Clean Up Animation
40:22 Shading