azirae:

I’ve finally decided to make one because I was getting so many questions on HOW to animate. To be blunt, I only know how to animate one way (timeline animation) in one program (photoshop (cs5)) so if you want an in-depth explanation then you’d be better doing a simple google search. Nevertheless, here’s my basic tutorial.

The first step is to open up Photoshop and go to “File” > “New” to make a new document.

Choose your width and height and leave all the other options alone.

Go to “Window” > “Animation” to reveal the animation panel. You should also click on “Layers” if it’s not already up.

You’ll get something that looks like this. And in the animation panel it will either specify (timeline) or (frames)

On the top-right of the animation panel, there’s the setting controls.

If you’re already on Frame Animation, the setting will read “Convert to Timeline Animation” and vice versa. Then you’ll want to change the document settings to your liking. By default mine is always set to 10 seconds at 30 fps (frames-per-second) so I change it to 1 second at 24fps.

Make a new layer. All new layers will show up in the timeline, and whichever layer you are set to work on will be highlighted. The green bar shows how long that layer is on/showing. Above that is the frame count.

Making sure you’re on “Layer 1”, draw something fabulous.

Or not.

In the animation panel, grab the right side of Layer 1’s green bar and shrink it down to last 2 frames. When people say it’s animated on 2’s, they mean that every drawing is held for 2 frames. You can make it last however long you like, but keep it an even number of frames for REASONS.

For this particular tutorial, I won’t be animating much so just make a duplicate of Layer 1 and move the “Layer 1 copy” in the animation panel so it will appear after “Layer 1” like so

On “Layer 1 copy” I adjust the drawing as I need to. In this case, I’ll be making the person blink so I lower the eyelids a bit.

I repeat the process, making the character close their eyes on the next layer.

Then I make a copy of “Layer 1 copy” (eyes half open) and move that to the end, and finally make a copy of “Layer 1” so that she will have her eyes fully open and the image will loop seamlessly. The final layer I stretch to last the rest of the duration of the animation.

And the animation is done. All that’s left to do is export it which can be done one of two ways depending on what you need it for. For a gif, go to “File” > “Save for Web & Devices…” and it will give you the option to choose how it renders, what colours it uses, and if you want it to loop forever. To export it as a movie file (.avi .mov .mp4 etc), go to “File” > “Export” > “Render Video”

That’s it. The final product of this tutorial looks like this.

Happy Animating! Maybe one day I will go over the onion skin haha

edit: Timeline Animation Tutorial Part II

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A little something I wanted to do of Lucien and Abigail

karolinanoumenon:

As per request

More Adventure Time~

Enjoy.

We figured she would just eat her dress afterwards. 

Yessssssssss 

Hopefully i’ll be able to draw more. 

DEM LEGS

 

 

UMM GEE THANK YOU FOR ALL THE NOTES THAT’S THE MOST I HAVE EVER HAD EVER IN LIFE <3333

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vicious-violet:

foervraengd:

elliotoille:

felt like doing a tutorial thingy (what should I call these??) again! I think I’ll make a tag for these in case I do more. This time I’m gonna talk a little about how angles affect how clothing falls aaaand stuff. here we go…

Given: The first drawing of these three is how the clothing naturally wants to fall, how it is made to be shaped. Or, whichever pose you could take that will give the garment the least amount of creases.

• I’ll actually talk about the green first; this is a representation of the hip box, which itself is a representation/simplification of your whole pelvis area. You see how your legs and hip box oppose angles here. in almost all poses except standing straight, your hip box and legs will create a bent angle, which affects how clothes fall.
• The red/blue is the skirt (obvs), the red specifically is the ellipses of the top and bottom openings of the skirt. This skirt is very stiff material for the sake of this example, so notice how the two ellipses always match eachother. the top ellipse is where the skirt is actually attached to the body, so it’s the boss; the bottom ellipse will more or less do exactly what the top one does.
• here’s where the fact that the legs and hip box are at different angles becomes important. The top of the skirt is attached to the hip box, but the bottom ellipse is in the realm of the legs. The orange lampshade shape diagram there is a simplification of this. It is very much like if you were to tilt a lampshade. The side you are bending towards will hug the body and create creases. The side you are bending away from will fall off the body in a straight line.

It even works with pants, though as the bottom ellipse(s) gets farther away from the top there’s more room for the garment to get distorted by gravity, perspective, and bent knees and such. But with this last example you can really see how the side touching the legs really hugs the body underneath, whereas the other side hangs off of it in a straighter, crease-less line.

Dresses are a little different because their top ellipse is attached to your torso/ribcage mass rather than the hip box.

Much of the time you get the same result as with a skirt. However if the hip box and ribcage mass are opposed sideways rather than forward or backward, it becomes a little tougher:

You can see in the third drawing how a shirt and a skirt together would fall in opposite ways if your body is bent sideways. If the shirt is long, just like I mentioned above about the long pants, there is more distortion of this effect.

I’ll take what I said above, “The side you are bending away from will fall off the body in a straight line”, and add a bit to the end: “… until it hits something.” In the fourth drawing above, the garment is falling off the body in a straight line on the right side. If you lengthen the garment:

The straight side continues down as normal until it hits the leg and becomes the body-hugging side. in response to that, the body-hugging side from farther up becomes the straight side when it falls off the hip.

Aaand with that I think I’ll stop lol. I hope that wasn’t hard to understand. It’s easy to do yourself, just wear a skirt or some loose pajama pants and take hula poses in the mirror lol.

For all of you who have been longing for ME to make a tutorial about clothes, I truly recommend you to read this post. Since it covers the area in clothing that many other tutorials never mention, clothing is more than just “drawing folds and wrinkles”, it’s about knowing how the design and the behavior of our bodies affect it.

So yeah.

Read this. Please. It’s so easy explained.

Get on my blog, useful information.

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ca-tsuka:

Betty Banner - Party Planner - tv series project by House Of Cool studio.

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girlwithribbon:

Source

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helpyoudraw:

Cloak references

Cloak Maker

Bertrand-Malvaux

The Celts and Vikings Store

Cloak by Lenchens

Cloak of Winterfell by Xavietta

Just Cloaks

Cross Button Cloak by Durnesque

Kropserkel

Kittykatears

Red cloak by FrockTarts

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o-8:

One last batch of sketches of Fallout from a little bit ago, pretty raw scans, but I kinda like how some of these turned out. I’ll prolly try to flesh out a few at some point. But in the meantime, I figure it’d be fun to post something- its the last 24 hour stretch for the Black Torch color comic anthology Kickstarter! (Actually, its the final 16 hours as of me writing this entry.)

Thank you guys all for your support, and if there is anybody out there that you think might be interested in it and hasn’t heard about it yet, feel free to spread the word!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1187578829/black-torch-comic-anthology

I’ll probably post more about this stuff in the future, but I’ll stop spamming so frequently after this one >XD/

But, I definitely gotta say it again: thanksssssss!!!!! You guys rock ;w;bbbb

troy-artlog:

How to Make Your Art Look Nice: Contrast by Trotroy

I suddenly had an urge to make a tutorial. Here’s the one I did for my dA. NOW FORMATTED FOR TUMBLR.

HUE

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youvegotlovetoburn:

Two cents of wisdom: The less often you draw, the more difficult it gets.

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