Animation Techniques in Photoshop CC
In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll look at how we can use Photoshop as an animation tool. Software required: Photoshop CC 2015.
What you'll learn
In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll look at how we can use Photoshop as an animation tool. We'll start by getting familiar with the timeline in Photoshop and the differences between video and regular layers. We'll then look at what extremes and keyframes are and why they're important to animation. Next, we'll discover how using onion skins can help our workflow by allowing us to see the natural curve of movement. We'll go over breakdowns, in-betweens and the different roles that they play in pose-to-pose animation. We'll also create straight ahead animation and look at when we would use this technique over pose-to-pose. By the end of this Photoshop training, you'll have a greater understanding of how animation works and will be well on your way to creating your own stories. Software required: Photoshop CC 2015.
Table of contents
- Setting up Our Extremes 12m
- Creating the Breakdowns for Our Animation 7m
- Drawing Our in-betweens 8m
- Creating a Separate Run 16m
- Getting Started with Creating a Cartoon Take 8m
- Drawing the Extremes for Our Take 11m
- Drawing the Breakdown for Our Take 6m
- Creating the in-betweens for Our Cartoon Take 10m
- Using Straight Ahead Animation to Enhance Our Movements 11m
- Drawing a Separate Run for Eyebrows and Feathers 11m
- Using the Split Tool to Edit Our Animation 8m
About the author
Alex is a motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Starting out his career in illustration and design gave Alex a firm foundation in the more traditional forms of art. As he refined his skills, he eventually was pulled into the world of motion animation, as well as product design. It was there that Alex was able to take his artistic skills to new heights and really develop himself as a well-rounded CG artist. Whether you need a better workflow for building website layouts, or a crash course in... more