Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ May 20th, 2006
Cute & Cuddly Gift Animation |
| Start by opening an image of a teddy bear in a box. Create cutout to knockout the background color. |
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| Select the cap of the box using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. |
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| Hide the layer. Using clone stamp tool clone the area of the box that was covered with the cap. |
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| Unhide the cap layer. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Create selection of the teddy using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. |
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| Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown. |
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| Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette. |
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| Unhide the cap layer. Create a few duplicates of this layer. |
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| Start moving and rotating the duplicate cap layers sequentially |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame keep the cap layer right above the box. |
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| Duplicate frame. Move the cap layer a few pixels in random directions. this is to create a shake before the surprise comes out of the box. |
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| Duplicate frame till five frames and repeat the above step by moving cap and box layers a few pixels in random directions. |
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| Duplicate frame. Hide the cap layer. Unhide the next cap layer. Unhide the teddy layer. |
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| Keep duplicating frames and unhiding the box cap layers moving away from the box. Simultaneously let the teddy come out of the box by moving it a few pixels upwards with every duplicate frame. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF. |
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