I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on how you did those fma gifs with the tear in them?
(First, a note: I am so, so sorry this is so ridiculously late. I almost completely finished it, and then left it in my drafts where it sat for weeks and weeks before I remembered. It’s unbelievable and inexcusable that it took me so long to post this. I’m so sorry)
Sure! :) This tutorial assumes that you know how to make basic gifs (converting video into a gif), so if you don’t know how to do that, then you may want to check out my tutorial on how I make gifs first!
Now that you know how to make gifs, click on the Read More to see how I did the rip/tear effect for this gifset!
1) Create the main gif, aka the one that looks like is getting ripped.
Again, I am assuming you know how to make a gif, so if you don’t, check out the tutorial I linked above!
Here’s mine!
this tutorial features Roy because I love him
Make sure you put all the layers from this gif into their own group! It will not only help keep you organized; it’s actually pretty important once we get into layer masks. I’d also recommend making your curves/filter layers into “clipping masks” (right click the layer and look for the clipping mask option), so that they’ll only affect the main gif and not the part underneath. Here’s what I mean:
2) Create an off-white layer.
The off-white layer is useful for where the rip is, to make it look more realistic. If you’ve ever ripped like a photograph, the edges are jagged and some of them have this off-whitey part at the edges. This is what I’m referring to:
So first, create a new blank white layer.
To create an off-white texture, go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. I used the following settings, but it shouldn’t be an issue if you change them a little!
Next, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. I made the radius 3 pixels, but you can change the value a bit if you want! The final product should look something like this:
Now you can set that layer aside (turn it off or put it elsewhere so you can see the main gif again), and we’re going to make the tear!
3) Make the first tear.
To make the tear, we’re going to use the Lasso Tool. It looks like this:
Once you have that, you’re going to make a very rugged, squiggly line down where you want the tear. Then bring the line around the outside of the gif and back to where you started. (I’m sorry if this is hard to understand; hopefully the picture will help!)
Here’s what it looks like when you draw the squiggly line:
Then drag the line around the outside edges:
And once the line has reached your starting point, let go. The selection looks like this:
Next, click the layer mask icon:
Here’s what my gif looks like now:
So, yes, Roy’s face is gone, but don’t panic! If you right click on the layer mask–
–you can temporarily disable the layer mask and then enable it whenever you need it again. In fact, you’ll want to disable the layer mask for this next step!
(Note: Put simply, a layer mask lets you hide part of a layer. To change how much is hidden/shown, select the layer mask and use a brush to draw over it. Anything you paint over in black will “disappear,” and any black that you erase will “reappear.” I’d recommend experimenting to really understand how layer masks work though!)
4) Make the second tear.
With the layer mask disabled, it should be easier to figure out where you want your second tear. Deciding where the tears go is largely based on trial and error, so be ready to redo those tears or move them if necessary! Use the lasso tool once again to make a jagged tear line and then drag the line along the outside of the picture to finish your selection. Here’s what mine looks like:
Now enable the layer mask again:
And with the layer mask selected, “erase” your selection (or fill it with white) to make it show up again:
Tada!
Once again, keep in mind that you can change your tear shape/size at any time. You may decide after adding the second gif that you want to change the tear a little, and that’s perfectly fine!
5) Make the tear look more jagged.
Go to Filter > Filter Gallery > Spatter. Here are the settings(-ish) that I use:
As you can see, this makes the tear texture a lot more realistic!
Whenever you’re happy with the texture, click “OK,” and you can see what the new tear looks like!
6) Create the underneath part of the tear (??) using the off-white layer.
Right-click on the main gif’s layer mask and select, “Add mask to selection”:
Select your off-white layer and click on the layer mask icon. Then make a copy of the off-white layer, and fill in one side of the layer mask for each layer. Basically, you’ll have one off-white layer for the left tear and one for the right! Like so:
Add a drop shadow to both off-white layers, like so:
And now try moving each layer around so you can see it “behind” the tear:
Hopefully you kinda understand what the off-white layers are for now! (It took me a while to get it hahaha) Use Ctrl+T to transform the off-white layers and make them look less uniform. Here are mine now:
7) Underlay your second gif.
From here, it’s pretty straightforward. You create a separate psd for the underlaying gif, and then duplicate the frames into the original psd. Then just fill them in frame by frame. :)
As for the static effect, I just downloaded any random tv static video off Youtube and overlayed that on top of the bottom gif!
And there you have it! The final product looks something like this (I lost the sample file I used for this tutorial but here’s the gif from the original gifset):
And here’s the full gifset!
I hope this tutorial helped!! Please feel free to ask if you have any other questions! :)
