Creating a Loop Animation from Ink in Photoshop

Creating a Loop Animation from Ink in Photoshop

“The time has come to end this course! Thank you very much for listening to my advice. I hope you enjoyed the course and learned a lot. I leave you below the main steps to follow to complete your project. This can be the animation you already started with the exercises or you can create a new one! In any case, take care to document the different stages of your creation and add a brief explanation of what you did in each of them as well as your choices. Analysis and design drawings Film or collect an inspiring video to use as a reference. Then analyze this source and make a series of observation drawings of the important moments of the movement.

Select the most successful of all and clean it up to use as your key drawing. Animation Install the Anim Dessin2 plugin then import the drawings into Photoshop to create an animatic. Clean up the key drawing, making sure to separate the parts to animate in Smart Objects. Following the animatic, animate the general movement by focusing first on the body and then the face. You will then move on to the details. Finally, add a setting and integrate the character into its environment before making the video exports. I can't wait to discover your creation. Don't forget to share it with the community. To do this, click on the “Create your project” button. I invite you to publish your creation on the forum of this course, to exchange and interact with the Domestika community. As for me, I will come by as soon as possible to comment on your work and discuss with you. I sincerely hope that you will continue to experiment on your own after you complete this course and show us your new creations. I will be delighted to see your creative evolution over time. See you soon !”

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“Final project It's time to end this lesson. I hope you will like it and you will have learned a lot. Thank you for listening to my advice throughout this course. and for having had the patience to carry out all these steps which I will recap. You started by discovering my professional and artistic journey as well as my influences and favorites. We saw the tools to work and helped you collect inspiring moving images. We analyzed the video chosen as a starting point and made from the latter a series of drawings. Then, we carried out the clean up of our character to animate. I taught you how t...”

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Course summary for: Creating a Loop Animation from Ink in Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
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• 657 students
• 4 units
• 22 lessons (4h 28m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Animated Illustration, Animation