Hi everyone and welcome to another tutorial here on vectortwist.
Today I would like to show you how you can create simple animations with Illustrator and Photoshop.
As you can see here on the artboard I have an isometric illustration of a windmill and I would
like to show you how you can create a little animation where the windmill sails are turning.
The illustration here is done in Illustrator and we're going
to set up our parts and then move over to Photoshop to create an animated gif.
So the first part that we need here is our windmill sails and
I've created this little shape here that's going to act as the sail.
Right Now you just see the flat version and we're going to turn it into an isometric view.
Now the simplest way to turn the sails into the isometric view here
in Illustrator is to select it and apply an effect called 3d extrude and bevel.
I have already done this so I'm going to open up
the appearance panel and turn on the 3d extrude and bevel.
I'm going to double click it to show you the settings I chose
isometric right the extrude depth is 10 and it's a diffuse shading.
Now if I move the sails over to the left,
Now you can see that they fall right into place with the rest of the illustration
Now in order to animate this we need two parts of the windmill.
So we're going to create a copy and then we're going to rotate our shape by 45 degrees.
So let me turn off the 3d extrude and bevel then we're going to double click on the rotate
tool and in the pop-up we're going to check preview and then set the angle to 45 degrees.
Now as you can see I simply rotated at 45 degrees and then I press ok
I'll turn back on my 3d extrude and bevel and if I move it directly over
our first shape you can see that we've created the illusion of a full wheel.
Now when we go over to Photoshop to animate this
you'll see how we're going to create the illusion that is going to rotate.
Now we need four parts to animate this in Photoshop we have our main
illustration here then two parts of our sails for the windmill and
a little extra that we're going to put on top acting as a bolt.
Now let's switch over to Photoshop.
Now here in Photoshop just open up a regular document.
Then go to window workspace and then choose motion this will open up the timeline.
Here on the bottom and you'll see your layers.
Once you switched the workspace we're going to create four layers we have four parts that we
need to copy over from Illustrator and then we're going to set up our animation here in Photoshop.
So let's go back to Illustrator and select our assets.
On our first layer we want to have our isometric windmill illustration.
So let's select it, let's create a copy and then switch back to Photoshop.
You're simply going to paste what we've just copied from Illustrator.
I usually paste it as a smart object just in case.
So let's press ok and then press Enter right away.
We want to call our layer windmill so we're not getting confused.
Then again switching back to Illustrator.
This time we're going to select the first part of our sail for our windmill.
We create a copy and then switch back to Photoshop.
Paste it again as a smart object press ok do not change the size we are going to put it into place
press Enter right away we're going to call our layer something logical like sail number one.
Then again back to Illustrator.
We'll grab the second part of our sail.
Create a copy switch back to Photoshop paste it in and move it into the exact same position.
Now let's call it sail number two and as you can see we have three layers right now.
Now we need one more part from Illustrator: our little red bolt.
We will create a copy, switch back to Photoshop, paste it in and put it into position.
Now we are ready to create our animation.
Now here on the bottom you can see the timeline and then it says create frame animation.
So let's select this.
We'll have a first frame where every layer is visible but at
this particular moment we don't need to have both sails visible.
So on the first frame here in our timeline we're going to turn off sail number two.
Then we're going to click the icon for another frame.
Here we're going to turn on sail number two but we're going to turn off sail number one.
Then we're going to create another frame.
We turn off sail number two and we'll turn on sail number
one and then one more frame and we repeat this.
Turn off sail number one turn on sail number two.
Now if I click on my frame number one and press the play button you
can see now how we created a simple animation.
It's going a little bit fast so I'm just going to choose frame number two and three you can
do this by pressing the shift key and then clicking on the frames and then change it
to 0.1 seconds and then it just creates a little bit of a slowdown of the animation.
Now when we go to file > export > save for web.
We're going to choose a gif and then we can check it again.
If we press play it'll slows it down a little bit but the actual animation will
be a tad faster and then we can just save it to any location we desire and
here you can see the animated gif we've created with Illustrator and Photoshop.
It's really easy to create simple animations .
here you have your assets in Illustrator you copied them over
into Photoshop and use the timeline to create frame by frame animations.
I hope you really enjoyed this small tutorial here.
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