Keynote | Draw and animate a cloud

Hi Everyone! My name is Michele,

And in today’s tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to do this animation,

on Keynote.

A cloud drifting in,

with a lighting strike, followed by raindrops after that.

Alright, this is Keynote.

I have opened a new file, and I am yet to name it.

but it’s ok. I am not going to save it. If you want to save it.

Go to file and save.

and give it a new name but I am not going to save it.

Then let’s add a slide, a blank slide.

Let’s change the background colour.

Let’s change the background colour to gradient.

When you select gradient, Keynote will give you 2 options.

of 1st colour and 2nd colour.

I’m going to choose a darker grey, for a gloomy sky.

Then, next we are going to draw the cloud.

In order to draw the cloud, select shape.

At the top center.

Click shape.

Go to pen.

Keynote will tell you, double click points to toggle between straight and curved lines.

Drag a midpoint to divide a line and add a new point.

Ok, what does that mean?

Let me show you.

Start the first point by clicking anywhere on the canvas.

I mean on your screen.

Click, and then when you click the second point.

Click and drag

Click and drag, then let go and then click again.

Then you’re choosing the…

the second click, would be the middle point.

Click and drag and then click again.

Click and drag, let go, click again.

Click and drag, let go, click again.

I am not clicking anything, let go, click again.

Click and drag, let go, click again.

Ok, the last point, let’s make it a straight line.

Now, we’re going to draw one more curve to close up this line.

So we’ll click and drag and then close it up.

When you want to close it up, Keynote will inform you by showing you a circle next to the pen.

So click, and the line will close up.

Next, we will colour the cloud.

Well, if you want to colour it a solid colour,

choose a colour fill.

and you can select whatever colour you want from the slider or from the colour pencil.

Close it.

How do you select… change the colour? Double click.

and select colour.

Double click on the colour wheel.

but what I want is a gradient fill.

When you select gradient fill, Keynote will let you choose 2 colours.

I’m going to choose a dark blue.

and….

maybe light blue.

Ok, so let’s move.

You can move your shape by just clicking and dragging it anywhere you want.

and then…

Do I want an outline? Maybe not.

So let’s turn it off,

Over here, border.

Line, no border.

and then next thing is, thunder.

When you want to add thunder, you can draw it yourself

or you can add in a thunderbolt from…under shape.

Go to shape, and then go to…I think it’s nature..

and then go to thunder.

Find thunder.

Uh, I’m not going to bother, I’m just going to search thunder.

Oh, there it is.

Either thunderbolt or thunder, then you can choose colour fill.

Any colour you want…or…..gradient fill.

Let’s choose advance gradient fill here.

So advance gradient fill, you can select.

2 colours or 3 colours, let’s select…

Let’s select 3 colours, just for demonstration…

You can select and drop your colour onto the

arrow under the advance gradient fill option.

And then…

Another bright yellow colour, maybe this one, at the edge here.

Then we choose an orange.

How do you add another one? You can add another tab……

You can add another tab by just clicking on the colour bar.

Then double click to show the colour palette for you choose the colours.

I’m going to choose orange.

Maybe light yellow.

Or white.

I want the top of the lightning to be white.

Top of the lightining is over here..

yup…

Then you can adjust how much does white colour show…

So if you want to show very little.

You adjust it so that it appears very little here on the colour bar.

More of yellow, so you can see more yellow here.

Let’s leave it like this..

You can also change the angle if you want to.

And you will see a line, moving here.

You can also adjust the gradient by pulling it..

but I don’t want to so I’m just going to leave it as 0.

And then you can check out the radial gradient here.

that means if you’re drawing a circle you can use this.

Or flip the colours..

but I don’t want to flip the colours, so I am just going to stick to linear gradient.

Next,

Let’s make it bigger, just click on the edge of this

Handle.

And leave it like this..

And then next thing we need to draw is, tear drop

And then next thing we need to draw is, tear drop

That means our raindrop.

And then raindrop, maybe we will just make it simple.

Colour fill.

White.

Then we’re going to duplicate it.

Depends on how many raindrops you want.

but I would like to use…

this much…

Ok, next, we are going to…

animate…the cloud…

So we will make it..

drift in and stop here, and then the thunder will appear.

like the animation previously

lets play it one more time..

So it’s going to drift in..

stop in the center.

lighting will appear and raindrops will follow.

Now let’s do that. We start with the cloud.

Click on animate tab.

And select build in.

Add effect.

Choose…..you can explore all these if you want to…

but for this effect, you will need to choose move in.

That’s a bit too fast. How do you change that?

Go to duration.

5 seconds.

Let’s try that again and we don’t want bounce.

Let’s see what happens with bounce.

It’s going to bounce on this edge.

So we don’t want bounce. So preview and it will just stop in the middle.

Ok, alright,

Now we don’t want to see all these,

We will fix the draw order of these raindrops..

We will send them to back.

Send them to back means, right click, send to back and you won’t be able to see it but it’s still there.

I’ll undo it first, and let’s animate it..

Oh, we should animate the lightning first.

First the cloud appears, then the thunder appears.

Thunder build in.

Build in means how this object comes into the scene.

So what is the build in effect that you want..

So click add effect, I just want it to appear

And then disappear, you can preview it, how it works, it will just disappear and that’s it.

But we want it to show some effect when it disappears because lightning flashes really fast.

and…and then just…

And just goes away really quickly within even less than a second.

So build out..Build out is how it disappears from the scene, so build out,

Add effect.

It can vanish.

Just like that.

or…

or…I think I will let it vanish.

yeah I think this is the effect that I chose, I can’t remember. Yeah, I think so.

Then…. Let’s play it..

We should be able to see th cloud…and then the thunder appears….

Ok, so it appears…

For appearing, you can’t change the time, so you will change the build out..

Disappears within…

0.2 seconds…maybe lets test it out…

Cloud appears…

Thunder appears then it disappears..

And everytime I press play, I need to click for the animation to start..

I don’t want that.

Let’s click this button

This is called build order.

You can change how it behaves.

For example, the thunderbolt.

You want it to appear immediately after your shape stops moving..

So….

You click on thunderbolt.

The start option here.

Lets you choose how you want it to begin.

So click on it..

After build 1. This is build 1.

The cloud moves in..

Immediately after it stops..the thunderbolt appears..

Next, the thunderbolt vanishes..

Within 0.2 seconds..

So I want it to.

I want the animation to appear.

to happen immediately after build 2

which is straightaway after it appears..

So click after build 2.

So let’s test it out..

Cloud drifts in..

Appears disappears..

Yes, it works..

Next we will animate the cloud..

uhh..the raindrops..

The raindrops, select the raindrops..

How does it appear on your screen..

Build in..

Appear, because nobody is going to be able to see it.. it will be behind the cloud.

Appear and then…

Build out, I want it to…

Move out…

Not move to the right, I want it move from top to bottom.

In maybe from 0.5 seconds.

Let’s test it out….I don’t want it to happen after I click.

I want it to happen on its own.

So I want it to appear on it’s own after build 3..

To be continued in part 2.

Produced, written and edited by 刘秋婷Michele