Each Thursday four industry experts guide you through an interactive experience spanning various artistic realms, from branding to photo compositing and poster design.

9am PST – Social Media Posts for Chinese New Year: Get ready for the New Year and celebrate the year of the dragon with Goldie Chan. Create social graphics in Adobe Express and export or schedule your posts with ease!

10am PST – Illustrating Portraits for Social Media: Join DeltaTangoMike as he illustrates a portrait LIVE from the studio. Start in Adobe Fresco using vector brushes and finish with texture in Adobe Illustrator.

11am PST – Stop Motion Instagram Carousel: Design a ‘quick scroll’ carousel to create a unique stop motion effect on Instagram. Import your assets and use duplication tools to move elements frame by frame.

12pm PST – Custom Packaging Design: Use Adobe Illustrator to create a unique design for a cereal box. Then, create mockups with Adobe Firefly and animate with Adobe Express.

Goldie Chan is a global speaker, strategist, and writer: https://www.goldiechan.com/

Isabelle Poirier is a Brand Designer at IP Design in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: https://www.behance.net/arty_izzy

Daniel Flores (DTM, DaCreativeGenius) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Atlanta, GA: https://www.behance.net/dacreativegenius

Try out Adobe Express NOW: https://adobe.ly/tryAdobeExpress
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Join us LIVE on Behance: https://www.behance.net/adobelive
Music by Chillhop Music: https://chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred

00:00 Start
01:19 Project overview, starting with texttoimage in Adobe Express
03:16 Resize document for Instagram stories, Lunar New Year explained
04:27 Adding dragons from elements and media, remove video background
07:39 Adding animation to dragon and the background
11:19 Layering video backgrounds, using transparency to blend with the image
13:29 Adjusting layer timing
18:54 Layering more background elements, adding animation to all static elements
20:59 Slowing down animation by stretching layer timing
22:11 Adding clouds from elements, changing color with effects, animating
28:03 Layer organization, previewing the animation
29:33 Lunar New Year traditions, adding wood elements for year of the wood dragon
33:30 Chat suggestion, adding sparkles 2 ways, adding more animations
36:41 Adding and editing text from elements
39:33 Grouping vs locking elements, animating text
41:51 Selecting or deleting objects by layer
42:58 Adding in animating moon in the background
44:43 Adding video of fireworks and removing the background, animating fireworks
48:16 Adding audio
50:25 How to share the final animation, generating a QR code
54:34 Looking at final animation, outro
1:01:14 Overview of project and sketches
1:09:24 Fitting cleaned up sketch into different sticker shapes, tips for drawing hair
1:16:23 Using color to help differentiate elements, even if the colors are placeholder
1:19:12 Blocking in flat color behind final linework, using blending modes to shade
1:24:41 Adding sharp highlights, Techniques from traditional that transition to digital
1:28:41 Duplicating layers to adjust later in Illustrator.
1:32:20 Opening Fresco files to Photoshop to keep layers in Adobe Express
1:33:41 Walkthrough of details in final Fresco illustration
1:38:40 Opening Fresco file in Illustrator, walkthrough of Illustrator details
1:42:09 Creating new artboard for sticker layout
1:43:38 Adding in speech bubble with quote from chat
1:46:06 Final art with texture and Izzy’s social info added
1:48:42 Opening Photoshop file in Adobe Express, walkthrough of layers
1:51:52 Adding elements from Express to background with blending mode
1:53:30 Duplicating the page and resize
2:01:58 Goldie’s project stop motion carousel
2:04:01 Backgrounds & design assets in Adobe Express
2:12:35 Duplicating w/ changes to create animation
2:22:50 Continuing through the process
2:29:30 Downloading carousel to desktop & phone
2:32:10 Creating the IG post
2:35:20 Animation results
2:41:20 Creating a second animation
2:51:10 Downloading carousel to desktop & phone
2:54:22 Creating the carousel on IG & results
3:01:01 Izzy’s cereal brand project
3:05:19 Searching for mockups w/ firefly
3:10:17 Designing the packaging dieline box
3:20:21 Creating the Nutritional Facts
3:26:21 Type layout
3:31:41 Designing the inside of the box creating a pattern
3:38:09 Prompting for cereal images in Firefly
3:40:04 Draw or place images inside a shape
3:41:43 Practical Mockup of Colour Wheelies
3:43:15 Explaining the print process
3:45:01 Colour Wheelies brand post in Adobe Express
3:48:50 Adding animation to the post
3:53:22 Posting to Instagram from Adobe Express