Doodly Advanced Tutorial

Key Framing Animation in Doodly

Advanced Tutorial #7

Key Framing in Doodly

Doodly image settings for how to create animation in Doodly.

Key framing is an advanced level concept that requires the use of image manipulation software outside of Doodly to provide the appearance of animation inside of Doodly after importing the images. Learning proper key framing techniques will bring your doodles to the next level impressive.

Concept

Key Framing allows you to add animation effects to your doodles without sacrificing the color scheme like GIF animations. You can keep the millions of colors for quality and still have animation effects. It is a series of images played one directly after the other like the old paperback animation drawings. It is the same concept.

Location

Key Framing is completed in the layers section and not using the scenes.

Benefit

Adding motion to your doodles makes them extremely impressive. It takes time but watch the Scene Transitions video tutorial. All animation in that doodle was completed in Doodly with the exception of the part at the very end where I specifically state that it was Adobe Premier.

How To


Scene Transitions and Exit Animations

The best thing to do is to watch my Scene Transitions video tutorial and that will walk you through the key framing process.
Doodly Beginner Video Tutorial: Scene Transitions
Multiple images that are slightly different from each other will be imported into Doodly. Ensure the naming convention is there like:

  1. BlurredTransition01.png
  2. BlurredTransition02.png
  3. BlurredTransition03.png

Set the delay to 0 and the duration to 0.1s with the reveal mode to fade for each image in the layers section. This can be reversed so the duration is 0 and the delay is 0.1s.

Ensure to copy and paste each image so that is exactly on top of one another and then slide the next image asset on top of it and choose Yes, Replace.

You can also keyframe with masks as well but we will not get into that concept during this tip.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to the most common questions regarding this topic.

Key framing is an advanced technique where you use external image editing software to create a sequence of pictures. When you bring these pictures into the program and play them in order, it creates a smooth animation effect similar to a classic flipbook.

Using this method allows you to maintain high image quality with millions of colors. GIF files often reduce the color palette and lower the overall visual quality of your project, whereas a sequence of images keeps everything looking vibrant and professional.

You will manage all of your animation frames directly within the layers section of the program. This process is not handled in the scenes area, so you must arrange and adjust your image sequence layer by layer.

For the best results, you should set the delay to 0 and the duration to 0.1 seconds. You will also want to set the reveal mode to fade for every image, though you can also swap the delay and duration values if needed.

To keep everything perfectly aligned, you need to copy and paste your first picture so it sits exactly in the same spot. Then you simply drag your next image over the copied one and select the option to replace it, which prevents any unwanted jumping or shifting during playback.

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