Technique Page - Animation

Technique Page – Animation

What is it?: Movement created through a series of photos being displayed in a continuous loop of frames.
How do you do it?
Animation is very similar another technique that is fairly easy to create.  It sees you as the photographer using a series of photos to create movement (a little bit like sequencing).  This is how you do it:

1.     Firstly, you need to know what you are going to shoot.  Format your camera and the go out to shoot your subject.

2.     Once you have conducted your shoot download the photos in Photoshop.

3.     Open the first image that is going to appear in the animation and change the levels and curves and any other adjustments that you would like to make.

4.     You can now start making the animation by going to Window in Photoshop and selecting “Animation/Timeline”. 

5.     Make all the changes to the other images that going to be in the animation the same as what you did in the first so that the animation runs smoothly, then place the images in new frames/layers on the timeline.

6.     You can now make any adjustments to the animation that you desire such as the length of time it runs, make it run on repeat or ‘tween’ it to make it run smoother.

7.     Ensure you save this file as a GIF.