Animated Optical Illustion - How to create using Adobe Illustrator

Printed animated optimal illusions are really fun, but there aren't very many clear tutorials on how to create them using Adobe Illustrator. Here is a tutorial that may help you complete your own animated optical illusion. Enjoy!

[@Shadow-mi8qs]

what you did at 16:59 honestly blew my mind more than the illusion. Like I've been using digital apps for more than 3 years and I never knew you could just slide the eye buttons down to make them unseen.

[@shirazkhan3443]

I am a PG student and was working on this illusion style for weeks AND ONLY YOUR Video has helped me do it! thanks a milion.

[@EnergonCube]

Thanks for this! If you haven't figured it out already, when previewing the animation on screen, you can easily hide the colored edges around each shape by going to VIEW > HIDE EDGES. Now you can test the animation on screen far more accurately.

[@user-os8gp7eh2v]

Thank you so much for taking the time to clearly explain everything, without speeding the video up! By the way, instead of manually duplicating each compound Lines layer and dragging it into the next layer, you can hold Alt/Option key + drag the compound layer directly into the next layer. It is especially helpful if you're animating more frames.

[@claudiaalves2564]

Best video I could find with a clear explanation and easy to follow. Thank you so much!

[@cipherxen2]

You could have just created a rectangle with width 6pt, instead of creating line and copying it six times. It's fast to compute as well.
Btw video could have been short. I had to skip almost 90% of it. Also moving line layers by 1pt would also work.

[@mapiba]

I'm in love with this tutorial!!!! It's really great :) :) It's so easy understand to make a grid and animated print gif. Thank you so so much!!!

[@capcap8217]

It's really easy to follow, thanks alot !!

[@Davidash127]

thank you so much for this, was exactly what i was looking for!

[@CoolGuyDesigns]

This is wild. Very impressive. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@IDTL2024]

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[@shirinbegmyradova5743]

Hello Rebecca! Many thanks for your tutorial! I made a school project using moire pattern technique and this video helped me a lot! The design turned out impressive and engaging. It's a pity I cannot share a photo here

Excellent instructions, thank you.
I worked at Corel and it went great.

[@fireket]

Hi Rebecca! I loved how you explained this process and I enjoyed it a lot too! Thanks to you I hope to make a friend happy...And that is priceless! If we get married and have children, It started with a card, Inspired by this amazing tutorial hahaha! Thank you! Hugs!

[@morcillolopez690]

Thank you! this was very helpful

[@thibaultjoyeux]

Super tuto ! Merci beaucoup! You rock !!!!

[@elfakafacundo]

(Sorry for my english)
Thank you so much for your explain!
Do you know what is the name of this method of animation? (the name of the technique)

[@DobryTattoo]

Easy way making motion picture is using Animbar

[@firefly4241]

Thank you very much! Very Very helpfull💕

[@abhinayasudharsanam5043]

Brilliant! Thanks for the clear tutorial!:)

[@hulagun]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@VideoNash]

This is really awesome!

[@allneeds2291]

Hiii... loved ur video!!! Explanation is sooo clear. How can one achieve this with text? Will it be the same method?

[@monquecoll6525]

Thank you very much

[@Mina95Ri10]

Thank you so much!!!!! I can do it yeihhhh!!! 🤗🤗

[@KamalELOUALLALE]

Great job !!

[@user-hk1zi2ft8k]

Rebecca my dear your wonderful in Photoshop I love to have a but if your knowledge because it's my favorite subject Photoshop I like photography and I like to adjust and add filters play around with Photoshop you're very lucky I'll marry you so you can teach me well done please keep up your work as well as please do some Photoshop tutorials if you can thank you very much

[@someguy9072]

it's called barrier-grid

[@artofgaspar]

11:18 the picture i'm using doesn't appear within those green lines, therefore i'm unable to do the rest of the steps, any advise?

[@noblinking]

Thanks Rebecca. Wonder if you know if the effect can also be achieved as a disk so the the 2 layers are rotating over each other and an animation occurs in a circle such as a series of horses running around the circle.

[@kimiarabieh5625]

wow thank you

[@9977Abhinav]

Please provide sample pictures' link to download

[@user-wl3ui5yw4i]

作りたいです

[@vinodkumar-kr9ms]

can we make this animation with 4 colour image

[@estefaniavelazquez4924]

Hi, Could it work with letters for a logo?

[@nikolmitsi7676]

THANK YOU!!

[@kahinoart]

Would the animation still work if the top layer were a different color than the figure?

[@WetWillie67]

I'm having trouble with balls spinning in an elliptical orbit, could you do a video on it?

[@bentleynut1648]

Rebecca
My wife has been spending hours and hours trying to get the free software program called Gimp to achieve the same effect as you expertly demonstrate using Adobe. We do not have adobe because of the high cost so she found a similar program (but free) trying to achieve the same outcome. It’s been very frustrating for her as the software functions are naturally different. Is there any chance we can pay you to take our snowflake graphic and convert it. It would be a lifesaver for me.

[@Amy-qe8br]

i know this is very late but u can achieve this automatically on scanimate.com

[@swarovski333]

👍👍👍

[@lucreciap8359]

🧡🙌🏽

[@roughforce1608]

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[@oscarpricolo4099]

Porque tantas mentiras??

[@oscarpricolo4099]

Ponelo es castellano siempre utilisan otros idiomas y personajes extranjeros para culpar a lo s ingleses y chinos