Easy Animation Mastery: Step-by-Step Guide for adding motion to your designs

Complex animation software be gone! Canva makes creating an animation easier than ever. It’s now mind-blowingly easy to combine the joy of play with design and storytelling. Perfect for interactive slides and creating content that pops.

💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
► What projects using animation can be good for
► How to create an animation on a path
► How to use the animate panel to customize and edit using different animation effects
► How to duplicate animations
► How to create an animation on both mobile and desktop

Mat is a Product Manager in Canva’s Video & Motion teams. He works with our team to improve the video and motion experience in Canva and has recently been working hard to launch Create an Animation. He is a self professed animation nerd. When he’s not moving things, his favorite pastime is to watch movies with a giant tub of popcorn.

⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:41 What you’ll learn today
01:35 The benefits of using animation
02:36 How to animate your elements with Canva
04:44 How to add layers to an animation
06:55 Ways to animate a template with Canva mobile
08:13 How to create more abstract motion graphics
09:03 Wrapping up

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[manjushatalwadker]

You have explained so well,
I feel very proud to say that i am using Canva & just love it,
Feel very happy to see Canva's transition from Infancy, to Adolescence and now Adulthood,
Continue adding more features & doing good work,
God bless your entire team!🙏

[liviawijayanti]

Soooo good Mat! Thanks for sharing this invaluable resource <3

[Zignito]

Thank you. It would be good to have a template library just like this

[chandup]

Good demo! How did you record this video, which tools were used?

[DesignMyWebWorld]

OMG! This is amazing and Mind blowing

[cynthiaguy]

Great video, it looks so easy watching you do it and I loved it! I'll come back with any questions if any.

[Cybersafe_Learning]

explained well I really apricate you for such well information, I have a question that I am trying L shape straight animation but I cannot do it, please guide me.

[dibag]

Hello ! Yesterday evening our Indian 🇮🇳 🚀spacecraft Chandrayaan-3🛰 successfully soft landed on moon. It is a very great day for India and her space science. I was looking last night on youtube to create something and suddenly found your video story. There I see this rocket flies on a statistical data. I was inspired 😊. It was more than what I wanted. Then watched your full video here carefully and already made half of video until morning and I finished rest of video editing after I woke up now. I already shared on my social media ) thanks mate 😊🤗👏👍🏽👍🏽 your video and app are very helpful. Though I rarely edit such videos but I will keep this app on my phone. It's really cool and fun to work and make videos using it.

[manjulaperera]

great! can you please tell me how to use animation drawings effects with iPad Air 2, thanks

[rizshe]

You explain very nicely
I want to ask you that how can we use walking anmation in canva

[vinaya_pai]

Been trying to find the android equivalent for creating the straight path, which requires the use of the shift key on the keyboard, for days now. Wish you had explained that as well!

[Lesseplesse]

Can you make the animation turn it's face with the movement?

[creatorsmafia]

Great video! I've been using Canva for a while now, but I still learned some new features.

[mubitambandu]

Why is the Canva doc different from the 1 you used

[tiramisu]

Hi! I would like to ask if there are any copyright issues if I create an animation video using elements from Canva and post it on YouTube?

[PakistanOldPicLovers]

A Wonderful Video AND Easy to Learn. Can u guide if we are making a video on how can we add a Texxt rectangular box for a few seconds and Add Text the problem comes Rectangular box and the Text move separately

[balajinvkbala]

How to do animated like hand shake, leg movement, hand movement, walk, run how to do in canvas without animation character I need above activity

[lancemechaneck]

Can you export them in a format that allows you to use then as a special effect during live streams using OBS?

[ArnaviAsrith]

We have to hold shift in desktop to create straight line of custom animation path.. it’s ok but how to do it in mobile and iPad

[MatttAt]

I love Canva, my life would be a lot easier though with stylable auto captions like Veed and Descript have and more video and transition effects.