The purpose of this paper is to make some analysis and induction from the perspective of science and technology and culture and to explore the application of Photoshop graphics and image processing technology in the field of animation.
Computer graphic technology is a new type of artistic creation method, and its birth and development are closely related to computer technology. gif files can be an animation, but you’ll only see the animation in a web browser or a mail client or a program that allows gif animation.With the rapid development of digital art and machine science and technology, the production form of modern animation tends to be diversified, and with the important role of animation color in the animation film foil and rendering, more and more attention was paid by the animation design industry.
psd photoshop file to preserve the layers and frames.Īnd now you’ll have an endlessly bouncing ball – all it needs is sound effects... and more…įor the web or TV choose the codec h.264 if you can, other wise use MPEG 4 or a movie file formatįile > Save for Web & Devices... and saved the file as a. Select the frames you just pasted and choose the Menu: > Reverse Frames... The next step is to select frames 1 to 7. Now Select frames 14 to 20 and then select the Menu: > Reverse Frames… In the requester choose “Paste After Selection”. Use the pop out menu, (click on the tiny parallel lines at the top right of the animation palette) and choose Menu: > Copy Frames.Ĭlick the last frame #13 and choose the Menu: > Paste. Now select frames 7 through 13 (hold down the shift key and click on #7, then #13) Your animation palette should now look like this… This time we’ll Tween frame 7 and frame 8, and add 5 new frames between them… You should see this in the animation palette.ĭuplicate frame #7 and select frame #8 (Click on the new frame #8 to select it) Make sure layer 1 is selected in the Layers palette and go to the screen canvas and move the ball to the edge of the screen on the right.
Now select frame 1 and press the tween button at the bottom of the animation palette.Ĭhoose the # of frames to add (I’m using 5) and we are tweening with the “Next Frame”. Use the move tool to move the ball to the bottom center of the canvas screen. 2ĭuplicate frame 1 with the frame duplicate button at the bottom of the animation palette making sure the ball layer (Layer 1) is still selected in the layers pallet. Now change the frame rate by clicking on the time under the first frame – change it to. Go to your canvas screen, use the move tool Keyboard “v” and move the ball to the edge of the canvas screen. The animation palette is turned on with the Menu: Window > Animation. The layers panel is toggled on and off with the F7 function key. I’m using 412 x 262 SQUARE pixels, one quarter the size of my Monitor. You can choose the correct aspect ratio using the following menu and choosing the pixel aspect ratio D1/ DV NTSC Widescreen (1.21) So if you are exporting for play back on a TV you need to make some conversions… Monitors vary, Scale accordingly…Įxporting for video is actually more problematic than just choosing the right “resolution”. If you are making a video for your widescreen TV or monitor, choose a “size” that fits the aspect ratio… An HD TV has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 Pixels, an old TV’s resolution is 720 x 480 pixels.
The Saturday TV cartoons, get away with as little as 5 “tweens” per second!ġ tennis ball, search the internet for “sports balls, clip art” or draw your own character! You can download this image… The more frames “between” a beginning and ending of something moving, the smoother the motion! In Television there are 29.5 frames in every second and in the movies there are 24 frames per second. In each frame the object being tweened is either being moved slightly or some effect has been applied to it.Įasement (ease in and ease out) refers to the kinematics or motion of the object being tweened… speeding up (ease out), or slowing down (ease in). It is derived from the animation term “betweening”, mathematically it’s known as interpolation.
Tweening is a process that makes a series of frames in a video or animation.
How to you make an animation… Tween, ease out, ease in… Animation in Photoshop