BTS of how to chop wood in Procreate #art #drawing

Name: BTS of how to chop wood in Procreate #art #drawing
Uploaded: 2024-12-06T16:45:00+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: In this behind‑the‑scenes walkthrough, Ryan Maloney explains how he creates a "breaking board" animation. He first draws two versions of a board—an…

6 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this behind‑the‑scenes walkthrough, Ryan Maloney explains how he creates a "breaking board" animation. He first draws two versions of a board—an intact one and a broken one—on separate Procreate layers. He records his hand moving the Apple Pencil over the iPad, then drops the iPad to capture the motion. The footage is transferred to a computer and imported into Adobe After Effects, where he uses the Keylight plugin to key out the green background from the video. After keying, he adds a solid background and places the two board drawings as a multi‑frame Photoshop file (three frames total). By timing the Photoshop layers, the board appears to break precisely when the pen contacts the iPad, completing the visual effect.

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Here's how I made this breaking board video. I draw two different boards on two different layers. This first board is fully intact. Then on another layer, I draw the broken board. Then I record my hand moving with the pen over the iPad, and I drop it. Then I send that video to my computer and import into After Effects, and anything that you see that's green here is going to be automatically removed with the Keylight plugin. I have my video layer selected in After Effects, then in the plugins I search for Keylight plugin and I just double-click this. Then sample the green color from your video and the green gets removed. Now I add a background solid, my drawing as 2 frames, I turn it into a Photoshop file— it's actually 3 frames here— and time it out so that Photoshop file breaks up as soon as my pen hits this iPad.