Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Making text and animations look hand drawn is really easy. You don't have to be an artist to make impressive animations. I'm going to show you three techniques to get impressive hand drawn or jittery type animations. I'll do this in:
1. Photoshop
2. AE
3. FCPX - although it's easy to do in Premiere too.
Here is my Draw My Life video: youtube.com/watch?v=jPk32h8O5Fg
Animations in the past were created with anywhere from 8 to 12 drawn animations per second. That means that if you’re rending out a 24 frame per second movie, then each drawing is on screen for 2 or 3 frames. In today’s digital world we can simulate that effect in three different ways.
1. Create 3 different images in photoshop and cycle them so that they are on screen for roughly .2 of a second. At 24fps, I find that each image should stay on for 5 frames.
2. Create one image and use Effects-Turbulent Displace in AE to simulate the hand drawn effect
3. Screen capture your hand drawing and add a type sketch filter in your editing program (such as in FCPX)
I’ll show you all three as we go through this tutorial.
WATCH THE SKETCH ANIMATIONS 101 Tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF04i...
If you want 52 Things to start on right now to improve your filmmaking and photography - we have videos on them all here: untamedscience.com/blog/52things
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Jonas and I are creating a whole series of how-to-filmmaking videos to get you started. Here is the first video: bit.ly/2AcYvHJ and our book: amzn.to/2zV88LS
My main science YouTube Channel: bit.ly/2EDk6vO
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A big thanks to all current and future patrons who are helping fund this science and filmmaking outreach via Patreon: bit.ly/2Sfmkph
Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/untamedscience
Making text and animations look hand drawn is really easy. You don't have to be an artist to make impressive animations. I'm going to show you three techniques to get impressive hand drawn or jittery type animations. I'll do this in:
1. Photoshop
2. AE
3. FCPX - although it's easy to do in Premiere too.
Here is my Draw My Life video: youtube.com/watch?v=jPk32h8O5Fg
Animations in the past were created with anywhere from 8 to 12 drawn animations per second. That means that if you’re rending out a 24 frame per second movie, then each drawing is on screen for 2 or 3 frames. In today’s digital world we can simulate that effect in three different ways.
1. Create 3 different images in photoshop and cycle them so that they are on screen for roughly .2 of a second. At 24fps, I find that each image should stay on for 5 frames.
2. Create one image and use Effects-Turbulent Displace in AE to simulate the hand drawn effect
3. Screen capture your hand drawing and add a type sketch filter in your editing program (such as in FCPX)
I’ll show you all three as we go through this tutorial.
WATCH THE SKETCH ANIMATIONS 101 Tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF04i...
If you want 52 Things to start on right now to improve your filmmaking and photography - we have videos on them all here: untamedscience.com/blog/52things
Our GEAR ------------
Main DSLR : amzn.to/2Sho2qc
Second Camera : amzn.to/2B9HInR
Main Lens - amzn.to/2BaEXTk
The Adventure Camera Bag : amzn.to/2B8WYRH
The Macro Lens - amzn.to/2hHUhxW
Telephoto Lens - amzn.to/2za1FJV
Our Mega Wide Lens - amzn.to/2z9KtnS
Our BEST On-camera Mic - amzn.to/2hGuSVt
The Drone - amzn.to/2z84Bqc
My Moving Timelapse setup - amzn.to/2SeCZcJ
GoPro HERO 7 - amzn.to/2ShoPHG
Our Filmmaking Book!!! - amzn.to/2zV88LS
Our Music: goo.gl/roSjb7
The full video setup: kit.com/UntamedScience
(By buying through these links you help us support the channel)
On Social --------------
Instagram: instagram.com/untamedscience (Jonas @behindthescience)
Twitter: twitter.com/untamedscience
Facebook: facebook.com/untamedscience
Website: untamedscience.com
YouTube: bit.ly/2EDk6vO (for most of my work)
Jonas and I are creating a whole series of how-to-filmmaking videos to get you started. Here is the first video: bit.ly/2AcYvHJ and our book: amzn.to/2zV88LS
My main science YouTube Channel: bit.ly/2EDk6vO
Help us create amazing, world reaching content by translating and transcribing videos on our channel: bit.ly/2Crnjgu
Audio - Quirky from Audiojungle.net
AMATIC
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