My First (Photoshop) 2D Animation!
I’m so excited to present my first 2D animation made with photoshop, a tool used by professionals throughout the industry that I have always wanted to get a handle on eventually. Now I have!
Pink Lady Apples & Red Bowl Still Life - Oil on Canvas 2023 [/caption]
I have been following Jocie Juritz’s online course where she takes you through the steps of 2D animation in the software, and all her tips and tricks. I really liked how the course was structured and the level of information it had in it to get a great understanding of all the steps.
We started off easy with a simple test, making a shape move from one side to another.
Introductory animation [/caption]
Then we chose 3 things from a list provided that we wanted to animate. I chose a candle, a hermit crab and an egg! Following on from that we storyboarded and then created the line drawing of what would become the final animation.
Storyboard for animation [/caption]
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Final line drawing of animation [/caption]
Once we had the base of the animation done it was all about colouring in. We chose a colour palette and tested out how it would work for each step of the final looping gif.
Chosen colour palette [/caption]
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Colour palette testing [/caption]
The final part took time and lot more layers than I expected, but the whole thing came together in the end!!!
I’m so pleased to have completed this animation. I will leave the link to Jocie’s 2D animation course below for anyone who wants to try animating for the first time and has access to photoshop!