Is there anyway you could do a tutorial on how to animate your drawings? Like the pidge 153 ticks to midnight drawing? With the shooting star and laptop blinking ?
ok! this will sort of cover how I approach animating anything.
before I start I just want to mention two things:
- I highly highly recommend Photoshop CC for this, programs like SAI or GIMP will give you a hard time- Photoshop snuck in some premiere/flash things into it which will make it so much easier.
- I’m self taught in terms of animation, so I can’t go into the traditional technical aspects of animating, but I’ll be going over some things I’ve encountered.
now to how I animate!
photoshop’s workspace menu in the top right has a built in set up for animating called ‘motion’, you’ll want to switch to that. I use the essentials for drawing and only switch over after having everything done and I’ll explain why in a second.
you could also just add the timeline window but this will save time. this isn’t the same document- don’t worry everything you’ll’ve done will be kept this is just changing the interface.
I do recommend saving a copy of what you’re doing before your animating if you aren’t completely comfortable.
this menu here is where you create your animation and it’s where you got to think about what you’re doing, and I’ll explain what each does, entering either of these modes will bump up the file size and put a little more strain on your computer.
I’ll cut it here because it’s kind of long and image heavy, but I explain the different types of animation in photoshop, give some examples, and some general tips for animating things (from experience)
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