In this part of my website I am showing how I created a sequence of images and then I took those into Photoshop to create an animated GIF file.
This process lets me take a sequence and then create a moving image or film from the sequence. I will experiment further with this process in my portrait and close-up work. The photo on the left is a layered still photograph of a set of pictures I took showing the shadow of a free-runner who was practising his moves in a public area in Liverpool. The photographs that make up this set are those that I am using in my animation. Below is a gallery of the 14 images that make up this photograph. |
Photoshop SkillsThe images were all placed into one file as layers and I then used the Timeline palette to make the layers into frames. I adjusted the time for each frame and played the film as well as adapting frames because they were not perfectly lined up. I eventually made all the frames show for 0.2 seconds and I cropped all frames to minimise the showing of blank white space around the edges. I also decided to loop the film as I like the repetition of the sequence.
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Reviewing My WorkI am really pleased with my work as I have found new ways to use Photoshop and will be using some of the techniques learned in my portrait work. I am also pleased with the effect of the film - the slight jogging of the image and the foreground juddering work well to make the sequence seem urban and a little mysterious and this is helped by not showing the free runner's face. I have created another animation based on my trip home from Liverpool and it can be see here.
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