Animation Technique Page

Once you grasp the general idea of creating an animation it is fairly simple to replicate on any type of animation that you want to create.

First of all you need to go out or go into some form of studio whether it is a professional one or one that you have created from a sheet and take some photos of things that progressively move.  For example you could take lots of different photos of your face changing expressions and then put all of them together to show your face changing.  Or maybe you could do an animation of someone slowly blinking or maybe even running or walking across the camera. Either way, whatever you want to create, you use the same technique for it all.  Say for instance that you wanted to have 5 different photos that you wanted to put together into an animation to make it look like someone is walking towards the camera.  Open all of the images into photoshop and then put each individual photo onto the first image that you want to start the animation off on, until you have every individual photo on their own layer in a document.  You would then open the animation bar in photoshop which you can find at the top of the screen under 'View'.  You would then make all of the different layers into what is known as frames and then put each one to the specific time that you want to be between each frame.  If you want to create a short animation then you would set this to like half a second or something even lower if you want it really fast.  The general idea would then be to 'save for web and devices' and make sure that it is a small enough file (otherwise it won't save) and then make sure that it is saved as a gif file so that you can upload it onto your websites through photobucket.  This is the general idea behind creating an animation similar to this one here that I made.