Animations are just a series of images, shown sequentially.

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They’re relatively easy to make, but hard to make well.

 

ONION SKINNING can really help. There’s lots of software that can help you do this, even on your phone!

3D stop motion animation. Basic.

 

3D stop motion animation. Insane.

 

2D Drawn Cell Animation. Basic

2D Drawn Cell Animation. Insane.

 

 

CGI Animation: A gross commercial, but a good show of how it works.

 

A Combo (I suspect)


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NOW IT’S YOUR TURN

We’re going to try our hand at animating in 2 ways:

MAKE A CELEBRITY CINEMAGRAPH

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HOMEWORK:

Required viewing from Lynda.com:

From “Photoshop CC Essential Training (2015)”
Chapter 23. Moving Images
Creating animated GIF (approximately 5 minutes)
Animation

From: Photoshop CC 2013 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Content-Aware Fill (about 5 minutes)
From: Photoshop CC 2017 Essential Training: Design
Puppet Warp – 7 minutes 29 seconds

Animation HW #1: BLINKS AND WINKS

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Animation HW#2: Cut Up Cinema

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WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS HERE

VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS HERE: