Class:MFA Illustration 2019/Week 7

Last Week

• Project Review
• Photoshop:
  • Smart Object intro
  • Key commands and tips
• New Assignment

This Week

• Project Review
• Animation in Photoshop

Notes

• My links to cinemagraphs and animating illustrations:
  • https://pinboard.in/search/u:choppingblock?query=illustration+animation
  • https://pinboard.in/search/u:choppingblock?query=cinemagraphs

• Watch this one: Photoshop Animation Techniques (Redux, Creative Cloud)
  • https://vimeo.com/80851591

• Creating animations in photoshop
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omdfcGYEqPY
  • http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-timeline-animations.html

• Create Awesome Animations in Photoshop
  • http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/create-awesome-animations-in-photoshop/

• Photoshop animation overview
  • http://www.alexgrigg.com/Photoshop-Animation-Techniques

Video Notes

• Review of Photoshop podcast compositing projects Pt 1
• Smart Objects Masks & Saved Selections Overview
• Photoshop Animation Frame By Frame Intro
• Photoshop Animation Timeline Intro
• Assignment Gif Export And iPad Animation Apps

Assignment

Use the techniques shown in class this week to animate your existing project or create a new drawn, colored and composited illustration with the title of "tiny town". The new project should be same as the previous, 5" x 5" inches, then resized for the animation.

Your assignment is to animate your composited items and tell a little animated story.

• Illustrations should be drawn, prepped and colored separately then composited as groups or smart objects within Photoshop.

• Use the video from class and the additional video tutorials posted above.
• Resize your files to 800px or 600px square if you want to publish to animated gif.
• Create a file with at least 10 seconds of animation or several files that add up to 10 seconds of animation.
• Use the Timeline panel (video animation or frame animation mode) to create your animation.

Upload your source file (the .psd) to Google as well as all animated gif or video files, please.