Do you like doodling? Do you draw funny characters? Do you want to see them move? There are some easy and some time-consuming ways to make them come alive. I earlier wrote about it, mostly with the focus on how to use them in teaching; this time I’ve collected some more ways to animate your doodles without having to learn to use any programmes.
1 Stop motion is an easy but not necessarily fast way to make your drawings move. You need to create several frames that you will put together in a gif to create the illusion of movement. Below’s a demo of the process and following this link you will find a more detailed guide on how to create a gif by stringing still images. You can put together the still images in ezgif to create the gif you need.
2 Do Ink is an intuitive tool to animate your drawings (and you can create green screen videos as well). Unfortunately it works in the Apple ecosystem only, but if you have access, you can create awesome animations and videos. Follow Tricia Fuglestad (@TriciaFuglestad) and Erika Sandström (@greenscreengal) on Twitter for a lot of fun ideas on how to use this tool.
3 Meta Demo Lab allows you to upload your doodles and animate them. It can animate one character at a time, by scanning, adding joints (only for the sake of animation), then by allowing you to pick a movement out of a selection of pre-prepared options. Unfortunately, it doesn’t allow downloading the animated character, but you can take a screencast.
4 With Scroobly you can animate your drawing using your own movement. Sounds fun? Give it a go! Doodle on the screen and use your own body to move around and animate it. You can make a 15-second recording. You can export the gif, you can export the sequence of images (in PNG format) or you can export the doodle – which is great as you can work with it later on and it’s super easy to use it in another tool (for example in a video).
Do you know of other great and easy ways to animate your drawings? Let us know in the comments section.
