Animated Textures in Procreate | Tips & Tricks for Adding Motion to Texture

Learn to animate textures on your iPad with Procreate! In this comprehensive class, artist and Top Teacher Tracey Capone reveals her secrets for creating captivating, animated textures perfect for GIFs, website elements, and social media content.

Discover how to:

• Create & Import Textures: Master techniques for pulling in existing textures or generating your own within Procreate.
• Procreate Adjustment Tools: Effectively tweak and refine textures using Procreate's built-in adjustment tools for optimal animation.
• Frame-by-Frame Animation: Bring your textures to life with frame-by-frame animation on a single shape.
• Animated Backgrounds: Learn the ins and outs of creating dynamic animated backgrounds in Procreate.
• Layer Masking: Utilize layer masks to seamlessly add multiple textures to a single object.
• Layer Grouping: Best practices for organizing layers when working with complex animations involving multiple textures.

This class isn't just about textures! The skills you gain can be applied to animating any object in Procreate.

Downloadable Resources:

• Access a set of 14 seamless handmade paper and ink textures (flat files) used in the class. (Follow along or use your own!)
  • Note: Downloads are accessible via browser, not through the Skillshare app. Password provided in the Downloads & Resources section.

About Tracey Capone:

Tracey Capone is an illustrator, photographer, and Top Teacher on Skillshare, based in the Chicagoland area. A full-time artist for over a decade, Tracey leverages both iPad and desktop applications (Affinity Suite, Adobe, and Procreate) in her work. She shares her expertise on Skillshare and through short-form tutorials on YouTube. Tracey is passionate about the power of texture in visual storytelling.

For questions or project feedback, connect with Tracey in the class Discussion section or email [email protected].

Music Credit: "Let Your Light Shine," by the David Roy Collective on artlist.io.