Click here to see the swinging tire swing! I’ve been wanting to create an animation for a while now. I see a lot of them on Instagram. But everytime I come up with a concept – it’s way too complicated. Especially since I wasn’t sure how to go about it, how to animate my illustration – video? animated gif? an app? which app?
The other day on a whim, I painted a tree and thought it could use something else. A quote? A tire swing! I realized I could start simple. My stop motion animation would be of the tire swinging. The background doesn’t change. The tire swing would be the only moving component, so I drew it separately.
But how to make it work? I figured it out using the process of elimation – video too shaky, one app wouldn’t allow me to upload my own pics, animated gifs don’t play on Instagram (I don’t think ), another app left a huge watermark across my animation, etc.
I was ready to give up! I decided to try one more thing and try iMovie on my Mac – which I don’t know well. At first it didn’t seem like it would work. How do I upload my pics? But after some modifications, finally success! My tire swing was swinging! 🙂
A simple thing, but it feels like a milestone. I made my illustration move! Haven’t seen it yet? Click here! I’m already thinking of the next animation. Stay tuned!
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That is very lovely and super cool! Can I have a swing? 😀
Of course!
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Fun! Congrats on your success.
Thanks!
So cool!!! Love!!
Thank you so much!
What happens when we don’t give up ! Great job and learning experience.
You are so right! Thx
Very cool idea and drawing.
Thank you Sharon! 🙂
This is so cool. I’ve watched it many times! I love to see children’s books in iBooks add these little animations like you have done, and the kids love it too. Would you say it was a fun process?
It was very fun to bring to life what I imagined! Frustrating to figure out how to do it, but now that I have it, I’m planning another. 🙂
Haha well if anyone can figure it out, it’s you! Waiting to see the next one 😉