How Do I Turn My Drawings Into Animation

Create a vector shape on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device from a sketch with Adobe Capture. So, animate your graphic symbol with Animate for use in an animatic or an animated moving-picture show.

Cartoon illustration of koala bear holding a sword, wearing an orange shirt, jumps above green grass, gray sky background

What y'all'll need

To employ Alex'southward sketch, click the Capture + Animate Library. Click Salve to Creative Cloud to copy the nugget to your Artistic Cloud Library.

Annotation: You lot need to be signed in to your Artistic Cloud account to save the library.

Browser tab shows Assets with hand-drawn koala sketch in black ink on paper, Save to Creative Cloud is highlighted

Launch Capture. Select Shapes (1) and tap the + icon. Tap the Capture From icon (two) at the bottom of the screen to browse to your images. Select Creative Cloud (iii), tap the downwardly arrow to the right of My Assets (four), to become to My Libraries > Capture + Animate (v).

Select the koala_sketch photo, then tap the blue Open up push.

Notation: The screenshots and instructions in this tutorial bear witness Capture on an Android phone. The user interface may vary betwixt iPad, iPad Pro, iPhone, and Android devices.

Capture icon, 1. Shapes module, 2. Capture menu, 3. Creative Cloud, 4. My Assets library, 5. Hand-drawn koala sketch

Capture transforms Alex's pencil cartoon to a vector shape that maintains its sharpness at any size.

Elevate the slider handle left or right, to capture more or less detail in the shape. Tap the Capture button (camera icon) to capture the image and plough it into a vector shape.

If necessary, refine the shape past selecting Remove from Shape or Go on in Shape. Elevate your finger over the details you want to remove or keep in the vectorized graphic.

Tap the arrow. Capture converts your shape into a vector. When complete, Capture guides you to the next screen to name and salve the koala shape (we named information technology koala_A, in the Capture + Animate Library).

Capture Slider, koala has green outline, below extra line is marked for removal, vector preview on right and named koala_A

Tap Colors, then tap the + icon.

Point your camera at a colorful scene. Interactive colour circles will announced on pinnacle of the image. Tap the screen to freeze it so y'all can move private color circles to adjust the theme. Tap the Capture buttoncheckmark to capture a theme of five colors.

Capture is on Colors module with sketch of koala below; right is picture of dog on orange bedspread, colored dots from image

Type a name for your color theme. Choose the appropriate Creative Cloud Library, then tap the checkmark to salvage. You will utilize this theme in Animate to colour your animated koala.

Color palette at top is mix of browns and oranges, published on color.adobe.com, checkmark on top right is highlighted

Watch this video to meet Joseph Labrecque retrieve the koala and color theme from Creative Deject Libraries in Animate, and bring the character to life with some fun blitheness.