

I'm going to actually turn down the opacity of the Onion skin because I don't want it to be quite so pronounced, so I turned it from 60 to 40 percent opacity. If I had 5, you would also see 5 on a light opacity. This is telling me I'm on frame 4, which is darker, and frame 3 is lighter, which is the one before. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and turn it down because I only want to be able to see one. Then as you keep adding papers, as you go along, the frames you're looking at get dimmer, and that's the same concept as what onion skin means. Onion skin is just an animation tool that simulates traditional drawing on a light box where the frame just under where you're at is slightly lower because you've got paper on top of it. I'm going to go to settings down here on the timeline. You'll also see that I'm on the last frame here, the opacity is low and that's because I must have Onion skins turned on. I'm going to tap it again to make it go away. Now my layers have turned into a timeline, down here at the bottom. It's going to bring up actions, and Canvas is what I want. I'm going to go up here to the top left and click on this wrench icon. Well, I'm going to change that because I'd like to work in an animation workflow.


That's because we're set up how you might be familiar with Photoshop being setup, if you're doing a drawing, you can see everything at the same time. As you can see, we can see all the layers at the same time, so it just looks like one drawing. Let's make another layer, and now we've got Layer 3. I'll draw the 1 on this one, there we go. I'll go ahead and show you in a different color how it works and I've created a new layer. This is how this is normally setup, which is more like an illustration project than an animation project. I'll turn it on and off, and the background is white. Right now all I have is one layer and that's where these words are. I'm going to briefly go through how Procreate works, and this will help us understand frame rate too. Procreate Tour: Setting up Animation Workspace: I've just open Procreate and I drew a little intro for you here. However, you don't need to be using Procreate right now or any animation program. I'm using Procreate here just for demonstration purposes because it's a great way to show the animation workflow, and I can show you the timeline right onscreen. Have you ever been working on a project and wondered what exactly does 24 frames per second mean? Well, that's what we're going to talk about today. Today, I'm going to talk to you about animation frame rates. My name is Anne Beal and I'm an animation artist and director. Animation Frame Rates: Understanding "fps": Hey, everybody.
