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Posted on 31/03/06 11:07:27 PM |
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paul 2005
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Animation not doing what I expect.
This isn't a problem with a specific image, just Photoshop CS2 animation in general. I set up an image with layers as my first frame. I create a new frame. Then I can move the layers about on the new frame. BUT.... if I rotate a layer on the new frame I can see on the filmstrip at the bottom that it's rotated the layer in the previous frame too. So.... Is it not possible to rotate layers between frames? I wanted to use this tecnique for the challenge this week. I spent ages breaking the cyclist down into layers so I could move and rotate his limbs to make it look like he was peddling, but when I came to actually do the animation I couldn't because of the above.  |
Posted on 31/03/06 11:38:15 PM |
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Paul McFadden
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Re: Animation not doing what I expect.
Hi Paul To animate a rotation in Image Ready you need to duplicate the object layer (and rotate the copy), then repeat for each frame in the rotation (increasing the rotation by the desired amount each time) When you have your layers, each featuring the object in a different state of rotation, you then select the first frame and make only the original (unrotated) layer visible. On the next frame, hide the original layer, and show the first duplicate... and so on for each frame, until you are back at the start. Cheers _________________ |
Posted on 01/04/06 10:46:54 AM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply  |
Animation not doing what I expect.
As Paul McFadden has explained, unfortunately ImageReady doesn't allow for tweened transformation like it does for simple movement. You do have to make multiple copies and this can create rather large files. For example if you wanted to animate the second hand on a stopwatch you would have to create 59 copies of the original second hand each transformed into position. It's a shame really I'm sure the boys and girls at Adobe could create a workaround for this and create a simple Motion tween rotation like Flash does - However IR is seen as the poor cousin to Photoshop which is why you can't buy it as a seperate program. If you do have a copy of Macromedia Flash you could import the parts into Flash and perform the rotation as Motion Tween and export it as a gif sequence which could be loaded into ImageReady and pasted over the original animation frames, but you're just as well doing the Repeat Last Transformation method as explained in Steve's book. _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 01/04/06 9:52:14 PM |
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paul 2005
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Re: Animation not doing what I expect.
Thanks both. Good idea Maiden. I do have Flash. I might try that later  |