Animation


Here comes Frankenstein.


Switch to ImageReady using button located on the bottom of Tools palette or from the File menu choose Jump to, or just press Shft+Ctrl+M on your keyboard

The whole process of animation will consist of opening a new frame, open-close appointed layers in that frame, and set a value of exposure time. By this I mean how many seconds the frame is necessary as not to be annoying to the viewer.

Pay attention, that any actions undertaken by us will be carried out only in the activated layers or frames, in my case - blue ones. To activate it just click once on the layer or frame you wish to work with.


Let's do it.
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       Frame 1 includes layers Layer1 and eyes1:


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       Frame 2. Open new frame and close smiley's eyes by switching eyes1 to eyes3:


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        Frame 3 is a full copy of the first one, so we simply duplicated it and move it to
     the end of a timeline:


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       Frame 4. Again open the new frame, then open smiley's eyes wide by switching layer eyes1 to eyes2 and put on hands - hands1.

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::        Frame 5. In this frame we switch off layers eyes3, hands1 and turn on hand_left, hand_right. Fascinating, isn't it??

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       Frame 6. Turn on eyes4, and using Move tool shift hand apart from each other
      activating corresponding layers. Like this:


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Well, we did good, we did really good, and now the question is.... what DID we do? Here we go:


Frame Image Layers
1 Layer1, eyes1
2 Layer1, eyes3
3 Layer1, eyes1
4 Layer1, eyes2, hands1
5 Layer1, hand_left, hand_right,
6 Layer1, eyes4, hand_left, hand_right,


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