Another quick post on animating my sketches - I recently found the app, Muglife, that creates 3-D animations of photographs to create memes, etc. Since the app was free, I decided to give it a try on some recent portrait sketches. Amazingly, it recognized my sketches as actual human faces and performed its magic!

Tommy Kane

For all of these portraits, I just uploaded the photo and let MugLife do its standard magic. I have since paid an additional $3.99 to use the Creative Mode in the app through which you can change the animations to do different things. But, I haven't really used that yet - other than playing around with it.

Have you tried MugLife or other similar apps? I'd love to hear your thoughts and experience with it/them.

One of my favorite contributors to Procreate's free brushes and tutorials, Abbie Nurse, introduced me to a simple animation app, Sketchbook Motion, via her excellent Instagram posts.

The Sketchbook Motion app makes animating my sketches using Procreate fairly easy. Here's the first animation I made from a sketch of my handbag.

To make this animation, I imported a scan of my sketch into Procreate and then selected the handbag to copy and paste it into a layer with no background. Because I wanted the tied bandana to sway in the wind, I had to create additional layers with each side of the bandana on each layer. When bandana sways, the area under the handbag must be filled in with the color and paint of the handbag - also done in Procreate. Finally, in Sketchbook Motion, I added in each layer: the handbag with the bandana areas filled in and the (2) individual bandana layers. I then used the Wind animation for each bandana layer individually.

Someday, I will need to film a tutuorial on how I did this. Hopefully, you get the idea. Here are some more animations I made from recent sketchbook sketches.

Have you tried animating your sketches? Or tried more serious animations? I'll be posting about more animations soon!

Animating My Portrait Sketches

Animating with Sketchbook Motion