Photoshop Animation help

[manymanymomok]

Hi,

I figured there were quite alot of photoshop experts here, so I could ask this here. The following image is apparently rendered and animated in photoshop; does anyone have a suggestion on how to animate the tentacles that way?

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6849/tentaclespd6.gif

It's just pretty much too time consuming and tedious if it was done through transfoming the tentacle shape manually every frame. I strongly doubt it was rendered from a video. Any ideas for a more time-efficient means?

[Siindre]

There is only one way. Doing it frame by frame, moving the tenticles each time little by little. Atlest that's what I learned in school.

[Koshka_Goddess]

There is only one way. Doing it frame by frame, moving the tenticles each time little by little. Atlest that's what I learned in school.

This and using the animation window to set up your pics as frames in Image Ready.
Photoshop will let you edit the pics but you can only animate in Image Ready.:yorucat:

[Siindre]

You can animate in PS aswell, hence the animation Window.

[Koshka_Goddess]

I have PS. and I have no animation window there. I've only been able to animate once I take a project to be edited in Image Ready.:yorucat:

[Siindre]

I have PS. and I have no animation window there. I've only been able to animate once I take a project to be edited in Image Ready.:yorucat:
Which Photoshop do you have? I have CS3 And we had a school asignment to animate something in PS.. Explain that

[manymanymomok]

Wow cool you actually get to learn to use photoshop in school? All my knowledge was pretty much self attained. :(

Yea I'm trying to find if there's any way to speed up that process even if it was tweak frame by frame. I think the creator either used distort>wave filter or used the transformation tool. Apparently, the image goes on loop forever, so the tweaking has got to be so sick it perfectly matches back to the first frame. That in itself is seems almost impossible to me.

@ hellokitty: btw I use Photoshop CS3 too; it merges Image Ready into the main program so you can now effectively animate in photoshop.

[Siindre]

Yea I'm trying to find if there's any way to speed up that process even if it was tweak frame by frame. I think the creator either used distort>wave filter or used the transformation tool. Apparently, the image goes on loop forever, so the tweaking has got to be so sick it perfectly matches back to the first frame. That in itself is seems almost impossible to me.

That thing might be made in some other program, but the creator might be suer skilled with the animation window...

Try finding a tutorial..

[Hariberu]

Which Photoshop do you have? I have CS3 And we had a school asignment to animate something in PS.. Explain that

CS3 is basically PS and Image Ready combined. Every Photoshop before that including CS2 comes with Image Ready separate.

But on topic, yeah to make an animation I'm pretty sure you are just going to have to bit the bullet and make it frame by frame.

[manymanymomok]

Well I've been toying around with the transformation tool in CS 3.
I played around with the the option of 'flag' and its % values in an attempt to vary the movements of a tentacle like object in a predictable fashion so that I can loop the animation frames.

It helps a little, but I'm still not fully able to replicate the extremely wide movements of the tentacle in the gif.

The fact that the original gif at anypoint of time only shows one full wavelength (one crest and one trough) convinces me that it was fully done in photoshop.

[Siindre]

I think the tenticles in that sig is made by the Pen Tool (P)
Not sure, but a friend of mine thought so. What he thought was that the maker made a base of the tentacles, then moved the path of the Pen Tool, frame by frame.. I'm not that good with either the Pen Tool, or animation, so I'm not to sure..

[manymanymomok]

Yes the pen tool is commonly used to create basic shapes like that. I think I might have figured out how:

Right click > free transformation, then "warp"
At the top of the bar use the "flag/wave" settings and adjust the bend: _ % levels in fixed step-ups, with each level on a new layer. Next rotate each layer slightly, maintaining a centre of rotation to keep the movement of the tentacle realistic. Finally adjust visibility on each layer corresponding to each frame to animate.

[sm1ty]

I think the image was made in flash, then transported and converted into a GIF.. :)

[manymanymomok]

Ohh.. I wouldn't know about that because I don't know how to use flash. :p

[AngelicEnforcer]

You can download online search manuals for photoshop.

[Razor Shultz]

To do it easily, make the animation window availble, then make a new frame, in the 1st frame set the tentacles to one position, then in the 2nd frame set them to another, then simply click the icon which looks like a chain link, then use about 10 or 15, and this is called tweening.

When you play it, the images should play out in the desired effect, i won't go into detail about other animation techniques but that should suffice for you.