3D & Animation for Editorial Illustration
Making a GIF
A course by Simoul Alva , Visual designer
About the video: Making a GIF
Overview
“Have you made an animation looping? In this lesson, you will learn how to use the Timeline tool in Photoshop to create a GIF. ”
In this video lesson Simoul Alva addresses the topic: Making a GIF, which is part of the Domestika online course: 3D & Animation for Editorial Illustration. Learn how to create 3D editorial illustrations, brainstorm ideas and how to make a concept sketch..
Partial transcription of the video
“In the last lesson, we rendered our frames. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to make a GIF using Photoshop. Let's go. Now that we have all of our frames rendered, I am going to open frame one in Photoshop and we see that it's arrived here. I'm going to add all the other frames on top of it. So one thing to be careful about is to make sure that you add the frames as you have labeled them. So frame two goes on top of frame one. Frame three goes on top of frame two. So I'm just going to drag it and place it and then click return so that it stays in place. Frame four goes on frame thre...”
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Course summary for: 3D & Animation for Editorial Illustration
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Substance Designer -
Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Animation

Simoul Alva
A course by Simoul Alva
Simoul Alva is a New York-based visual designer, art director, and illustrator renowned for her expertise in 3D design and storytelling. With a strong passion for narrative-driven visuals, Simoul has collaborated with prestigious clients such as The New York Times, Microsoft, Medium, and YouTube Music. Her work has received recognition from industry organizations including The One Club For Creativity, Art Directors Club, Forbes India, Type Directors Club, and D&AD.
Simoul's background as a visual designer greatly influences her approach to 3D design and allows her to effectively navigate creative briefs. Her intentional, playful, vivid, and malleable style adds a human quality to her 3D illustrations, making them truly captivating. Through this course, Simoul shares her expertise and guides students in developing their own unique style while exploring the art of visual storytelling using Adobe Substance 3D Stager and Photoshop.
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- Level: Beginner
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