Photoshop tutorial 3

To days tutorial was a carry on of what was done the previous week with photoshop. We learnt how to animate by frames the previous week, this week was animating using a timeline. We learnt the basic principles of animating using photoshops, the brief was to communicate the four different elements of earth, winter, water and fire. The lesson was mainly focused around the timeline and onion skin settings which allowed the animation to be continues in phases by fading each stage of the animations movement.

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This is a clear demonstration of my Element animation, it shows the fading of the ball and leaves the fire behind and an traveling effect.

 These are both notes and ideas I jotted down for help with developing Ideas and techniques for my animation. Key notes were made whilst, I was talked through the steps of time lining. In the tutorial we were told that steps of movement were to be recorded before an animation was developed. The movement of a character is to be measured before animating because the animator needs to have every precise measurement so that the animation is very clear with its movements and communication of a characters feelings, emotions or depiction of scenery.