Animation

The illusion of motion is created in animation by the use of frames. Frames are, essentially, the same picture over and over, with small differences. When these frames are run one after another, like in a flip book, the object appears to be moving. In Photoshop, animation is created by the use of different layers having the different frame images, and then putting the correct image on the correct frame in the Window > Animation pallet.

For my animation, I started with the first frame image of the tribal wolf. On the second frame, I used the paintbrush to make the yellow strokes in the black of the eyes to make it appear as if the eyes were opening, and used a black paintbrush to shape the lips and teeth, to make it look like the mouth was opening. I then took the right paw, and put it onto it's own layer using the rectagle marquee and move tool, and gave it a white stroke using the effects window. On the next frame, I moved the paw up a little bit, using the rectangle marquee and move tools, and continued this, making a new frame each time I raised the paw, until it reached the height I wanted. After that, I rotated the paw to an angle, and lowered the paw, each time I moved it, making a new frame. As the paw lowered, I added in the red slash marks on their own layer so it appeared to be leaving claw marks on the screen. The black background and red 'A' were the next frame, the frame after that adding the word 'Wolf', and finally every letter of 'Production' as a new layer and new frame, to make it appear as if the word is actively being typed.