Vis Comms session 15/3/10 animation in photoshop

Vis Comms session 15/3/10 Asked Julie about Katy Davis' work and it turns out she used to be at college with her! Her work is done in After Effects and we don't have this here so I can't use that which is a shame. I thought it looked sophisticated! Julie advised me to look at Image Ready tool in Photoshop and to look at Animation using Photoshop tutorials. Here are a couple:



Don't have earphones with me here (must remember for next session) so will listen to these at home. Need to have a go in the studio with Derek - just to see how times/motion works in principal - eg, with a simple object moving around. Will see if I can sort this out for next session and possibly create a decent cut out figure of my own. In the meantime 1. Draw out basic idea in storyboard form 2. Draw out cut-outs - first in black/white and then in colour 3. Find background photographs 4. Incorporate craft materials in the animation - string, corrugated cardboard, cutouts, brass fixings, glitter, twigs, beads etc Concept Small boy, crouched, head in hands, in a lonely empty room on his own, feeling a bit lonely and isolated. Words - bored? lonely? Boy stands up, listens, turns around. Room becomes colourful Arts/crafts materials start to appear: glitter, beads, pencils, pens, paint, shapes, twigs in a huge montage of activity Add in Leap logo and Activities session titles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compressing Rat Titanic file from last week: lost the damn Premier file - have no idea where it's gone.. really fed up. Still have the video and although it was on my memory stick, when I opened it up, it wasn't there. I have no idea what's going on here. Before I went into complete meltdown I decided to write down how to compress the Premier file instructions: In PREMIER File............Export........Movie click File name: rat titanic Settings: Video Compressor: H.264 --------- OK SAVE - choose where you want to save it to Should save as a compressed Quicktime Movie (as must as you have room for) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- will upload my compressed movie as soon as I get hold of the file! Corinne has uploade hers but only 7 seconds has appeared so none of the final frames? Why? We had no error alert - it appeared as if the whole movie had compressed succesfully. Will have to ask Julia why this happens. Apparently you must check the 'workspace' tool covers the whole of your movie. Drag it right to the end of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corinne and I are going to try a little animation of our own using a coffee cup and marker pen, drawing our names on letter by letter. Took photos and will work these into Movie Maker (hope I have this on my laptop) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking at animation in photoshop (formerly Image ready) Select a photo you want to use to animate. For this I chose Megan

In Photoshop, go to FILE, OPEN - choose photo Cut Megan out (ie get rid of the background): Select around Megan using Polygon Lasso tool Select - Inverse - CUT You want to put each body part in a different layer so that each can be moved and animated independently 1. Cut out the head Edit .... Cut ....New Layer...Paste 2. Cut out the arm Edit..... Cut ....New Layer...Paste to animate go to WINDOW ....... ANIMATION This brings up frames at the bottom of your screen This duplicates the frame Now on layer 2 (eg the arm) use the Transform - Rotate tool to move the arm up or down. The target icon is where it will move from so position this where you want it move from (eg elbow, shoulder etc) An alternative way to do this is to create a duplicate layer Then TRANSFORM - ROTATE image The TWEENS ANIMATION FRAMES icon at the bottom of the screen will 'add/fill in' frames between your actual frames so they appear smoother when running.

To save this photoshop/animation file so I could upload it to this blog: in Photoshop EXPORT - RENDER VIDEO - save as a MOVIE file (save as a MOV.file) at Settings: choose H264

Size: Compressor PAL 720 x 576. 4:3 Click on RENDER wherever you want to save the file