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- So now that we have all our layers,
we're ready to open up that file in Photoshop
and use the Timeline panel to create our animation.
So I'm going to go to File, to the drop down menu
and click Open.
Go to my desktop.
And there, I see it, Bike girl.psd.
I'll open that up.
And now, as you can see here in the Layers panel,
I have all of those layers labeled,
and they are all maintained after the export.
So now I'm going to open up the Timeline panel,
and you're going to find that under window.
Scroll down to Timeline, it's near the bottom,
and that pops open the bottom bar
underneath the image window.
And here's where we're going to build our Timeline animation.
So we have a choice here.
We have to click in the center and select either
Video Timeline or Create Frame Animation.
Since we're going to do one frame at a time
and show and hide layers to create the illusion of motion,
we're going to use Create Frame Animation.
And that will populate the first frame of the Timeline.
So now we're going to start to add frames to our animation,
and what we'll do here to create that illusion of motion
is show and hide different layers.
Since we drew different hair layers, for instance.
Whoops.
There we go.
You'll see that when we show and hide those layers,
we're going to get the illusion of motion.
And I noticed here that when I exported the file
from Procreate, I have both of the wheel layers showing.
So I'm just going to start by hiding one of those wheel layers,
and just show Wheels1 for frame number one.
So we have our first frame created,
and now we're going to add a second frame,
which is really just a duplicate of the frame before it.
So now we have two identical frames.
We see no motion.
So let's start to add some motion
by hiding and showing things.
We will hide Hair1 and show Hair2.
And we'll hide Ice Cream1 and we'll show Ice Cream2.
And now we'll use Wheels2,
and hide Wheels1.
Oops, and we can see here
that we didn't have the opacity adjusted on Wheels2.
So we'll change the opacity right here
at the top of the Layers box to 100%.
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Great.
Now we'll make sure that when you go between the two,
you can start to see a little bit of motion.
So let's add another frame.
On the third frame we're going to show Wheels1 again.
Now we're going to move to Ice Cream3.
We're going to do Hair3.
And
that's great.
Now you really start to see some motion happening.
So now we have three distinct frames.
And
let's go to this menu here that says Once,
and we'll change it to Forever.
That'll allow this loop to play infinitely
so we can watch it and critique it.
So I'm going to start at one and I'm going to hit the space bar
on my keyboard and that's going to play the video.
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And that looks a little weird, right?
It's a little too fast and choppy.
And
we're definitely going to want to adjust the speed of the frames.
So let's do that first.
So if we select all of the frames at once
by holding the shift key down,
and then clicking on the last frame,
now we can see all the frames are selected.
Now you go to this drop down menu
where it says 0 seconds and adjust here.
I personally
like to do things for 0.15 seconds to start.
And that's in Other, custom time.
So you just enter that in, hit okay.
And now let's try that playback again.
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Okay.
The speed is looking all right, but as you can see,
there's a little bit of a pause with the wheels.
And the reason we're seeing that pause is because
if I stop the video and I look at frame number one
and go to my Layers panel,
I see that we have Wheels1 showing on frame number one,
and we have Wheels 1 showing on frame number three.
So we're seeing that twice in a row,
which makes it too long.
We need to show Wheels2 as the last frame in our loop.
So the easiest thing to do here would be to duplicate
the second frame and take us back to that middle step
of our animation.
So I'm going to hold the Option button down
and drag frame number two to the end,
that'll create a duplicate of that middle action,
which will step us right back down
to our original starting point.
Now let's try playing the animation.
It's much more fluid.
I think we could make it go just a touch faster though.
So let's try adjusting the duration of the frames again.
So I'll click the drop down menu
and let's try 0.1 second this time.
It's just a little bit faster.
I like that.
It's a little bit more energetic.
So now that we have our animation pretty much set,
I like to just pull away, zoom out a little bit,
and then play the animation
to make sure that all of my motion is still noticeable.
So if somebody's looking at it on a small screen size,
they can still see that motion without it being too minimal
or on the contrary, it being too exaggerated.
And I think here looking at it small,
you can really see the motion and it's not too exaggerated.
And I think it's just right.
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