Sparkling Lettering Animation in Procreate

Happy Tuesday! In this week’s tutorial, I share my method for creating a sparkling lettering animation in Procreate – which, if you love a little sparkle, is perfect for pretty much any occasion 😉 Pick up the free color palette here or in the Resource Library.

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Mentioned in this video:

Color palette (free)
Mono Marker brush from Font Lovers brush set
Procreate 5x for Beginners course

Here’s a written overview of how to draw a sparkling lettering animation in Procreate:

Write out your lettering phrase in the center of your canvas, putting each word on a separate layer.
To create a 3D letter, tap on the layer, hit select, create a new layer below it, and fill the layer with a dark color. Hit motion blur and drag it out, hit select and fill layer three times. Grab the selection tool and drag the shadow to the side.
Add an inline on top of your lettering.
Group everything together and turn on animation assist. Reduce the onion skin opacity to 30% and the frames per second down to 10. Select ping pong.
Choose the lightpen default brush and add in some little sparkles and dots throughout the lettering.
Create a new layer above it and continue drawing extra sparkles in different places. Repeat this one more time with additional sparkle details.
Label one sparkle layer “decrease” and start it at 100 opacity. Turn the next sparkle layer at 50% opacity, and change the final sparkle layer to 20% opacity and label it “increase.”
Duplicate all three layers. Go to each layer, and adjust opacity on each by 10%. Repeat these steps and continue until the decrease layer is all the way down to 20%.
Preview the animation and reduce the frames per second if needed.
Export the animation as an animated mp4 to Instagram.
Done!