How to create eye blinks in Adobe Animate Part. 1

Name: How to create eye blinks in Adobe Animate Part. 1
Uploaded: 2024-09-12T15:30:22+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: In this tutorial, Ryan Maloney demonstrates a practical workflow for animating eye blinks in Adobe Animate. After designing a character, he copies the…

12 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this tutorial, Ryan Maloney demonstrates a practical workflow for animating eye blinks in Adobe Animate. After designing a character, he copies the eye white shape onto a new layer, breaks it apart (Cmd/Ctrl+B), and converts it into a symbol. He then isolates the white part, recolors it to match the skin or body, and uses this as the closed‑eye state, placing it on frame 4 of the timeline. All frames are turned into blank keyframes while preserving frame 4. By copying frame 4 to frame 3 and erasing a line, then copying frame 3 to frame 2 and erasing more, and repeating for frame 1, he incrementally creates the closing motion. Black lines are drawn on each frame to define the eyelid shape. Finally, frames 1‑3 are copied, frames 6‑8 are set to blank keyframes, and the copied frames are pasted to complete the blink cycle, resulting in a smooth eye‑blink animation.

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Here's how I create eye blinks in Adobe Animate. Once I have my character designed, I copy the eye white shape onto a new layer. Press Command or Control+B to break it apart and convert it to a new symbol. Double-click inside, select just the white part, and make it a skin color or a body color. That's going to be my closed state, so I'm going to drag it over to frame 4. Convert all these frames to blank keyframes, keeping your frame 4 in place. Copy frame 4 and paste it on frame 3. Then erase a line. Then copy frame 3 and paste it on frame 2. Erase a little bit more. Repeat for frame 1. Little bit more. On each frame, draw the black lines across. Copy frames 1 through 3. Convert frames 6, 7, and 8 to blank keyframes. Select them all and paste frames.