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Create a Netflix-level Animation with Canva
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Jan 14, 2024
This video is a tutorial guiding users on creating a high-quality animation reminiscent of Netflix standards using Canva. It likely provides step-by-step instructions, showcasing the specific tools and features within Canva that can be utilized for professional-level animation. The video aims to empower users, demonstrating how they can leverage Canva's capabilities to produce animations with a polished and sophisticated look similar to those found on platforms like Netflix.
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So I was binge-watching this show on Netflix last night, a show called Wellmania
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At the beginning of every episode, I noticed this cool little animation with the word
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Wellmania. And every time I saw it, I couldn't stop but wondering if I could recreate this
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animation with Canva. And this thought kept me up all night. Is Canva good enough to create
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Netflix-grade animations? There must be a way. What if... Huh? Yeah. What's up guys? I had a
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rough night. But I figured it out. Wanna see it? So this is the animation I was able to recreate
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entirely with Canva. All right guys, let me show you step-by-step how I could recreate
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the Wellmania animation only using Canva. So the first step is obviously to select the right
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document type. So because this is an animation, I decided to go for a video document type. So from
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the Canva homepage, right here, you could click on videos. And I simply chose the first one
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right here, which is the classic HD video format 1920 by 1080 pixels. So I just simply clicked on
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this one document, which opened a blank document. So that is the base. The next step for me was to
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recreate the word Wellmania with a font that looks almost identical to the font used in the series
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So for that, I had to grab the actual thing from the series, from Netflix, bring it to Canva so I
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could have that model, and then find the right font to reproduce, to replicate this word Wellmania
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So the way I did this, I simply launched Netflix on my iPad and I took my phone and snapped a photo
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of the word Wellmania. Okay, so that is the first thing I did. And then, because I also needed the
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animation, I actually filled my iPad with my iPhone just to get the entire thing. So that was the first
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thing I did. Then I airdropped these two files to my computer and I uploaded them into Canva. So now
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if I go to my upload tab right here, I can see that photo that I took of my iPad. You can still
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see the play button here under my images. And under videos, we can see the recording of my iPad
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with the animation going on. Okay, so these two files, in my opinion, are very crucial to have
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because I will need them as my model. So let's bring the photo to my page right here. Okay, how can
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I recreate this font right here? Well, the first thing I'm going to do is to simply create a text
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box. For this, I'm going to use my T key on my keyboard. Okay, this will create a text box. And I
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will simply write Wellmania. Okay, Wellmania, like this, no capital letters because these are all
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small caps. And I will try to make this bigger, kind of like so, just like roughly imitating the
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size of this word right here. It's obviously not the right font and I could just spend hours trying
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to find the right font, like going by them one by one and changing the font to something that
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might resemble this one. But this will take me forever. And fortunately, you don't have to do
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this. Let me show you a little trick. It's actually a website that will help you identify and find
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similar fonts to the one that you upload to this website. And in order to find this website, very
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easy, just go to Google and type What the font, WTF, What the font. Just hit enter and it should be
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the first one right here. It's called What the font. So this is the website, very simple, What the font
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instant font identification, powered by the world's largest collection of fonts. Okay, so it
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gives me some directions here. Drop an image here to identify the fonts. So I am going to upload my
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screenshot right here. There you go. So check here to identify the selected fonts. So you just click
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on that button right here. And now you can see a list of existing fonts right here. Those are mostly
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paid fonts, but these are fonts that resemble the font that I uploaded here. The first one is called
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Jumper Bold. So let's go back to Canva and see if we can find a Jumper font right here. No, there is
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no Jumper. So let's come back to this list. Neometric Extra Bold, Andy Gambit Extra Bold. This one
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doesn't look at all like my model here. Futura. Oh, Futura rings a bell. Futura is actually one of the
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fonts that was recently added to Canva with this new partnership with Monotypes. So maybe I can find
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Futura in Canva. Let's see Futura SD Demi Bold. Then you have, let's see, oh, there's another Futura
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here. This one actually looks quite similar. So let's come back to Canva and type in Futura. Futura
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There you go. Futura is here. Maybe if I bold it. If I bold it, it does look quite similar to this
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font right here. Okay. So maybe if I reduce the letter spacing a bit, like so. Let me see
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Not too bad. This is too big now, but if I reduce the size of it, it does look pretty similar to
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what I have here. Okay. So it's not too bad. It's not exactly the same, but it does similar enough
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for me to, I would say, recreate this animation pretty faithfully. All right. So let's just use
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this font right here. Okay. I'm going to create another page and I'm going to keep the first one
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as my model. Second one here, I will paste my Futura word in the right size, and I'm going to
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position this in the center and in the middle. Now, this was the first step, identifying the
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right font. I use the website called My Fonts, or What The Font, that you can find via Google
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easily. Now let's move on to step number two, which is identify the right colors
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All right. Figuring out the right color is going to be super simple because Canva has the color
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picker. So it's not going to be rocket science to actually get that blue and pink color. For this
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all I need to do is to grab this image right here, paste it here again. I'm going to make it smaller
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by dragging one of its corners and put it here. I'm going to click on the word Wellmania, click
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on the color button, the plus button right here, and locate the color button. All right. So now
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locate the color button. Once I have it, all I have to do is to come to my pink and select it
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right there in the middle. There you go. Now I have this pink color right here. Now, all I have
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to figure out is the blue color. So there is a bit of reflection going on here because I was taking
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a photo of my iPad, but I figured the right color is kind of like this paler blue right here. So
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similarly, just clicking on the background of my project right here, grab the color picker, and
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there you go. Now I have this pale blue color all over here. I can get rid of the word. All right
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Wellmania in pink, my pale blue background. I am ready for step number three
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All right. I am ready to start animating this word, but in order to do so correctly, I want to
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go back to the original footage and watch it one more time. So for doing so, I'm going to come back
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to my first page right here, which is kind of like my test page. And this time, I'm going to go to my
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uploads button, but to my videos. Remember I told you I was recording the screen of my iPad with my
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phone? Well, it is right here. It is this footage right here. And now, this footage belongs to Netflix
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I believe this should be fair use. You shouldn't get any copyright claim for this. But yeah, be always
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super careful when you grab footage from somewhere else. Here is just my iPad basically. So I just want
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to show you the pace of that animation. So as we can see here, if I move the little play slider
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every letter animates one by one. Okay. So wellmania. So they all animate one by one. And
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then when the I comes out, there is this dot of the I bouncing on the, I would say, the leg of the A
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right there. Boom. And then it bounces one more time to hit the floor. And then there's a little
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bit of a downtime. And then the dot jumps back like so to come closer to the A. All right. So to achieve
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this, I need to animate each of these letters individually. Okay. So I probably need to create
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a bunch of different text boxes. And each text box will have only one letter in it. All right. So let's
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do this. So in order to do this correctly, I need to create a custom grid using guides to know exactly
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where to position every single one of these letters. Okay. So I'm going to start doing this
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The way to do that is to go to your file button and then you will go to your view settings, show
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rulers and guides. So that's the first thing you already see my rulers here. And if I want to bring
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a guide, I simply click within the ruler and bring a guide. Okay. I'm going to position the first guide
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right here. I can collapse this object panel for now. This is going to be a little bit of precision
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work at this stage. I can collapse this as well. So yeah, what I want to do is to position a guide
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at the beginning of every single letter. Okay. And this needs to be super precise. So I'm going to be
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zooming in almost all the way here and bring my guide so it touches the first letter right here
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I'm going to bring another guide and do exactly the same for every single letter. So you see the E
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This is where the E starts right there. So it's this guide right here. The E needs to be touching
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this guide. All right. Bring the third guide for my L letter right here. Then I can continue doing so
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for every single letter. So you see it just bring your guide and there's a little bit of assistance
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by Canva showing you exactly where to stop. Go to my A
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Like so. This is a very important part of the project guys, so don't rush it
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Take your time and zoom all the way in. Just like me, I'm almost at the 400% mark
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because this is where you'll have the most precision. So here I'm going to take
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the body of the I, not the dot at this stage. Maybe I can have another guide for the dots
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So my dot will need to fit within this guide and then another guide for my A letter right here
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Maybe you know what? I will get rid of the second one for the I because I might get confused with
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this guide right here. There. All right. Okay. Let me zoom out and see where we are. Okay. This is
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not bad. Now I'm going to add another guide to place underneath everything here. Again, I'm going
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to zoom some more and make sure the W is touching the other letters. So the rounder letters like the
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E and the A are slightly under. But the flat letters, I would say, the one with the flat
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feet like the W, the L, the M, the N, the I, and the leg of the A here are also touching this line
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And I will have a last guide exactly here where my word finishes. All right. So let me zoom all
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the way out now. And maybe what I should do is to add one last guide on top right here. And again
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I'm going to zoom in to make sure this one touches my flat letters again. So let me see with the W
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Perfect. The A. Okay. Everything is now good to go. Okay. So this is my custom grid. And what I'm
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going to do is to lock this grid so it doesn't move if I touch a guide by mistake. So in order
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to do this, go back to your file, go back to view settings, and lock guides. Now I can click all I
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want on this design. These guides are not going to move. All right. I have my grids. It is now time
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to create these individual text boxes and rewrite the word Wellmania in individual text boxes. All
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right. So for doing this, I'm just simply going to copy the first one right here, which is going to be
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my mother. So I'm selecting it and then Command C, Command V. Okay. I recreated this entire text box
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So I'm going to delete everything. Just keep the W. And I'm going to be using my first grid right
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here. Maybe I can change the color of this one. Yes. I will change that color to red so I can
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see which one is which. And simply paste my pink W right here using the guide
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making sure it is touching that first guide right here. So I can zoom all the way and really go
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close to see. Yes, this is exactly where it needs to be. So the next step is simply to select my
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pink W, copy it and paste it again. And this time I'm going to have the letter E and do the exact
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same thing. So bring my E letter exactly where it needs to be. So because this is a repetitive
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process and I'm going to be doing the exact same thing for every single letter, I'm going to speed
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up the video and show you the final result of all my text boxes aligned all the way to the letter N
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All right. So let's do this. Okay. So this is where I am. And now I come to this letter, the I letter. And this one is a little bit
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particular. So I'm going to skip it for now. I will come back to it later because we need to be
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able to animate the dot of the I separately from the rest of the I. So I will need to find a trick
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to deal with this one letter. But let's create the A, which is going to be the exact same as this A
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right here. So I can just Command C, Command V the A and bring it right there. It should snap
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right in its place. So now I'm going to do the test of zooming all the way in and actually see
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if these letters are exactly where they need to be. Do I see any of the red title right here
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I don't. Oh, yes. Maybe here with the A so I can slightly move it this way. So this is actually
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one of the benefits of using a different color that you can really see well because you will
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see exactly if there is a little misalignment anywhere by seeing the underlying colors. So I
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don't see red anymore. So I assume this is super well aligned. Perfect. Now let's move on to the
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next step and deal with this I. All right, let's now take care of the I. An I is pretty easily to
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recreate. It's just a rectangle and a circle, right? So I should be able to create that rectangle
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that circle, position them where they need to be. And then when it comes to animating these two
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shapes, I would animate them just as if they were a normal letter. All right, so let's do this. So I'm
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going to create a rectangle first. So in order to create that rectangle, I'm going to hit my R key
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on my keyboard, which is going to bring a square. But I can hold any of the handles right here and
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reshape this square into a rectangle pretty easily. So this is the first thing I'm going to change its
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color to the pink so I can see what's going on here and I can collapse this panel for now
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All right, so I have my rectangle here. What I'm going to do is simply put it here and kind of like
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bring it to the shape of the real I. And once it is, I can position it, bring the layer right here
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So this is my rectangle here. Okay, and I can see, let me zoom all the way in, I can see that this
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rectangle is within the guise that I created here. So this is perfect. Now let's deal with the circle
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Let's do a similar process, but instead of actually creating a square, I'm going to create a circle
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this time using the C key on my keyboard. So you see this big circle right here. Now in order to
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resize a circle very easy, select it, grab it by one of its corners and just drag down
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I'm going to grab this dot right here and start by changing its color for my pink right here
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I can collapse this panel again to have really my full screen here to work with and to be more
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precise. So let's see this eye right here. So maybe I bring another guide and put this right
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on top of my eye here. Let me zoom all the way in and take this guy. Oh, it's locked. So I need to
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unlock all of my guides. So for this file button, view settings, lock guides, unlock them and make
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sure I don't touch anything else. But right here, there's a guide right on top of the eye, the dot
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of the eye and one right underneath the dot. I'm going to lock the guides one last time. There is
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a keyboard shortcut, but it's a complicated one, so I'm not using it. So let me zoom out because
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it gets a little bit tricky now. Because this one is hard to actually go get the dot of my eye right
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here, I'm going to use canvas new feature, position feature to click here and access all of my layers
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So what I want to do is to grab my pink dot right here, this one right here. I'm going to put this
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on top of everything else. So now I come here, I can really easily take this and manipulate it
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as I need to. OK, so first I'm going to resize it. I can collapse this panel again. I'm going to zoom
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all the way in. All the way in and see if this is now the exact dimension
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Yeah, this is good. Actually, it's touching here. I don't see the red part, so I'm going to push
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this one below the red word to see if it's bigger or not than my original. Do I see the pink one
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Very, very, very slightly. So I think this is actually good enough. Going back here and putting
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this eye on top of everything else. And now what I can do is to delete my model right here. So this
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right here, the red word can go. I don't need this anymore. So simply click on that layer and then
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I can easily delete the layer. So it's no longer there. I'm left with individual letters and this
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is great. I can probably turn off all the guides. I could get rid of all the guides if I want to
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Yeah, let's do that. I don't think I will need the guides anymore. So File, View Settings
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Clear Guides. OK, show... Oh, I could just make them disappear like so. So that if I need them again
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later in the project, I could just come back here and reactivate them by showing them again
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For now, I don't need them. So I'm just going to deactivate them. Perfect. Let's move on to the next step
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All right, the next step is to animate my letters. Now that I have them kind of like individually
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you see every single letter is a different text box. Now that I have that, I can easily animate
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them, all of them, one by one. All right, so what I'm going to do is to select every single letter
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of this word and maybe deselect the dot of the I by holding my Shift key and clicking on it. So
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you now see it's deselected. OK, but the rest of the letters are still selected. And I'm going to
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go to my Animate button right here. This should bring me to the panel, the Animation panel. Make
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sure you are on the Element Animation right here. And we need to find the right animation style
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It's probably going to be Rise. Yep, this is pretty similar to what I had. We had Baseline here
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This could work as well, but I see the W and the E are a little bit cropped right here for some
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reason. Not sure why this is going on, but this is going on. So probably the Rise is going to work
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better. So I'm going to click on Rise. I'm going to make sure the animation is on Enter only. All
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right, so now what I need to do is to adjust the speed of this animation to kind of recreate. So
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it's about a bit faster than that. Still a bit faster. Maybe something like this. All right
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let's play this and see. OK, this is good. Obviously, there is the work to be done with
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the dot of the I. This dot needs to appear only at a certain point during my animation
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kind of like when the I starts appearing pretty much here. Let's say here. I'm going to select
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the dot and then use the three little dots right here. I'm going to be looking for a feature called
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Show Timing. OK, so Show Timing right here allows me to make this dot appear where my time indicator
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is right here on the timeline. You see it created this specific layer for just the dot right here
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So what I'm going to do first is to zoom in on that timeline. So this little icon right here
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it says Zoom Page. And then you have two different things here. When you click on it
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you can zoom on your thumbnails or you can zoom on your page. So what you want to do here is to
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zoom on that thumbnail part. So make sure it says Zoom Thumbnails. And then you can come here and
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zoom in on your timeline. But make sure you see these little thumbnails kind of like blacked out
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here. If you are like so and you see only the page kind of highlighted, it's not going to work
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The zoom is going to be on your page. But if you click here and you see this section of the little
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icon highlighted, the thumbnail, it represents the thumbnail part. So these guys right here
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Then you can zoom in. And so without moving your time indicator, I am going to bring this
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which represents the eye, only here. So it's not going to be showing until we get here. You see
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All right. So this is good. We are making some good progress here. Just that when this eye
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the dot of the eye is showing, it should not be there. Now we are going to animate
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take care of this dot and animate the dot individually. So let's do that
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All right. So in order to animate this dot right here, we are going to select it first
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Then we are going to zoom in on the page this time, like so. And simply move it down
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OK, so I'm going to click on it again. I'm going to hold my shift key on my keyboard and just move
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it down. OK, so when it appears right here, when this layer starts, I want the dot to be kind of
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here. All right. So now what I'm going to do is to create an animation. So this is the new feature
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that Canva announced, Canva Create, that allows you to create a custom path for an element and
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then animate this element on that path. So if I click here, so it says select and drag an element
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around the canvas to create your animation. OK, hold the shift while dragging to create
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straight lines, control the speed of your animation by moving the element faster or
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slower. Stop dragging the element to complete your animation. So before I start, I want to watch
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this one more time, because this is really where I need to be super precise now and recreate
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this animation. So let's get into the details here of this dot. Where does the dot come from
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OK, so the dot kind of doesn't come from where it is right now, what I thought. So the eye is coming
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up and the dot appears and then it's kind of like pushed by the rest of the eye up in the air
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Boom! And then it's going to bounce on the A, exactly on the leg of the A and then bounce one more time
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to come hit the floor there at the same positioning of the rest of the text, rest of the
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letters and then wait a bit and then bounce back to be very close to the A. OK, so I need to
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reproduce this on my page number one right here. OK, so let's do this. I'm gonna skip to this page
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right here and do that work. So first of all, this eye needs to be around here when it appears. OK
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OK, about here, but this has moved slightly. So let's bring back the guides like so, because I
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moved this bad boy and I need to reposition it exactly where it needs to be, meaning here
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All right, now I can get rid of the guides again. I'm going to keep this one right here
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So maybe what I can do is to clear the guides. Yeah, let's do that. So view settings, clear guides
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and I'm going to bring one guide and just put it here because this is where the dot is going to land
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OK. All right. And maybe another one right here because the dot is going to come very close to my
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A, but not touching the A. So dot should land here and probably land here and then bounce back
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Maybe that's too far. Something like that. All right, let's try this. OK, now moving back, selecting my dot
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animate, create an animation. So now is the tricky part where I need to be very precise
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when I create this animation. So very steady with my mouse movement and very precise. So I'm going to
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probably have to do this a couple of times. So it first needs to come here and then come
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here and then bounce back here. And I think it should come a bit further, actually. All right
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So let's just try to draw this animation by clicking on the eye. Boom, boom, boom. Let's see
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OK, that's not too bad, but it didn't quite bounce exactly on the A and it went a little bit too deep
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here and then it needs to stay a little bit longer at the end. So I'm going to delete the path and do
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it again. Let's go. Boink, boink, boink. OK. No, it's not perfect here, so I'm going to do it again
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The end of it was pretty good, but not good enough. So let's do it again. OK, this is good. I'm going to keep this. So once you have a path that you're satisfied with, you can
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stop there. And I just want to show you, I don't think I'm going to use them, but there are two
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different movement styles that you could probably use to create other types of animations. But
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because I want to keep this original movement speed and rhythm to the animation, I'm not going
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to mess around with the movement styles. But you could go smooth. And if you go smooth, you see it
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changes the rhythm of it. Smooth is going to be very slow. So this is not going to work. Steady
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is going to be faster and steadier, but I lose the rhythm. So original here is the way to go
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And yeah, I'm going to go with this. So once you are happy with it, click on done. And there you go. Now you should have your animation going on
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So I'm going to go back to the beginning and play the whole thing. Left, duck, and boom. And there you go
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The original one. And I think we are up to something, guys. I think we made it. So there
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you go, guys. We created our very own Netflix-grade animation with Canva. 100% with Canva. We didn't
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have to use any external software. It was purely made in Canva, with a little bit of creativity
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in order to get there. But it was possible to do it all in Canva. And I'm really happy with the
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result because it resembles what I saw on this show, Wellmania, on Netflix. All right, guys. I
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hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you did, a couple of things. Leave us a like. This will
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push the video. Also, let us know what you think in the comment section. Super curious about this
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tutorial. Is it something you really appreciate? Let me know in the comment section. And finally
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I would like you to create your very own version of this animation. Not with the same word, not
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even with a text box if you don't want to, but show me what you can do with create an animation
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This new feature which is available for free and pro users alike. Like, create a project, export it
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and come publish it in our Facebook group, in our Facebook community. There will be a link in the
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description to our Facebook group, Learn to Design with Canva. So you can click there, become a member
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if you're not yet a member, and then share your animation there. I would love to see them. I will
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comment on the best one, I promise. So yeah, these are three little things you can do to engage with
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us, with the community, and just share your passion with us. Thank you guys for watching until the end
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I'm gonna leave you with a playlist right here which contains other tutorials just like this one
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to learn a bunch of other cool tricks with Canva
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