Traditional Keyframe Animation

Paint the Fill

We're going to get a little sloppy with the green fill color, but it will look just fine in the end. The fill color is actually going on it's own layer, and the outline will cover it up:

  1. Add a new layer and name it Fill
  2. Drag the Fill layer below the Outline layer
  3. Select the Paint Brush and paint in the green frog color

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When your done with the first frame, Insert Blank Keyframe on the Fill layer and paint in frame 2. Don't worry about the white parts of the eyes, we will paint that on a third layer:

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Repeat that process until you finish painting all the frames. When you're done, the project will look something like this:

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