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16:32 process GIF (Patreon)

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2018-11-28 17:43:22
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2022-07

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Anonymous

Your work is simply amazing! I went through all the questions and answers from all the previous process posts and I noticed that no one asked about your animation process. Would you please be able to elaborate on how you approach it using photoshop? Do you plan the animated portions before, during, or after finishing the scenes. And usually how many frames do you use for one cycle. Thanks!

waneella
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Sorry for the late reply! I guess there are two ways: the first one is when I know what I want to see in the end, like “rainy day”, or “store with lanterns”. In this case, I know that the drops will fall and probably there would be some puddles and reflections, swinging and blinking lanterns etc. And the second way (the most common) is when I don’t know what I’m going to draw. Then I just try to finish static image as fast and good as possible hoping that I’ll find the inspiration for animation during the process. First thoughts usually come in the middle of process, when I start to see where it goes. I use frame by frame animation mostly, it’s very good for flickering and swinging loops. Usually one loop contains at least 12 frames, because you can make 3-framed and 4-framed loops in it (flickering, swinging, all endless moves). Then I multiply this 12-framed loop several times and make small animations here and there that will break timing so it won’t be so noticeable that it’s actually a loop. If I need something moving through the scene (like a train), I multiply that “original loop” 10-20 times, make all the timing-breaking inserts and then switch the timeline mode from frame by frame to the “after affects look” (unfortunately I don’t know how it is called). In this mode it is super-easy to make parallax scrolls and big moves, because you can set the “start key” and the “end key” and the animation is done. It also allows you to animate the opacity very smoothly, but it ruins when you save your animated scene in GIF format, so be careful.

Anonymous

and sorry for my late response! This is amazing, thank you so much for explaining everything! :D you should definitely highlight this in one of your future art posts because its very helpful! Cheers - Yog