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Monday, 19 October 2009

Photoshop Animation

Christian showed us how to make an animation using Photoshop, after a good hour of nothing working because I had something ticked wrong ... ARGH!... here's the results...

You have to click on the links below as I couldn't upload them straight to blogger - but the photo gives you a sneaky peak of what's about to come!



Here's my not so lovely photo being attacked by some neon paint...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d180/isumad/VisCom/jodiegifpaint.gif

It works alright, you get the idea of this cycle happening.. but I thought I'd try moving me about.. these work a bit better :) (I dance in this one...)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d180/isumad/VisCom/jodiegif1.gif

And with some added mouse features... (although i think the timing went wrong on this one)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d180/isumad/VisCom/jodiegifmouse.gif


I really love the effect these GIF animations provide - it's quite 'raw', in the sense that you can see how the animation has taken effect. The process is visible... but the idea of the animation - the illusion of movement - is also clear, especially if you speed up the frames per second, (which for some annoying reason it wouldn't let me save any different..) I think these have all uploaded as 0.2 seconds/frame.

I guess this is a really simplified way of playing around with stop motion. It's a nice idea for a little image, maybe a profile picture or something, but it's not really ideal for the long length feature film animation thing I'm planning on doing. (or something like that..)
I'm glad I learnt how to do this, I'll probably refer to it in the future, you could almost create a mini character of yourself?

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