Create a series of animated gifs using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

GIF 1: Blink

Revisit the exercise started in your lab section that uses the eye drawing created with Adobe Illustrator from homework #6 to make the drawing blink.

GIF 2: Cut Up Cinema

• Create photographs of yourself or your friend(s). Be sure to photograph against a high-contrast solid background to make it easier to “pull off” the figure.

• In Photoshop cut the person out of the image to create a digital puppet.

• Use the Puppet Warp Tool to animate the cropped photography

• Duplicate your person into various frames.

• In each frame create variations of the person using the Puppet Warp tool.

• Open the Timeline panel and create a “Frame Animation”.

• By presenting each layer on different frames create an animation of you or a friend in various positions.

• Add background layers or more people or text... Have fun with it.

LinkedIn Learning Viewing: From “Photoshop 2022 Essential Training”:

ch. 8 Color and Brush Essentials

ch. 11 Local Pixel Editing and Retouching

ch. 15 Essential Transformations

ch. 24 Animating Images

Beyond the video tutorials above, these technical references may be helpful:

• Create Frame Animations

• Animation Panel Overview

• How to Make an Animated GIF in Photoshop

• Photoshop Puppet Warp