In this workshop, we firstly looked at creating simple gifs in Photoshop. We created some quick artwork so we could spend more time learning how to make it animate. Although this is very simple, I feel that this technique will allow me to be very creative with my ideas, and therefore make a more interesting gif.
To start, we made each frame of the gif on different layers. Once that was finished, we clicked 'Create Frame Animation' on the Timeline window to begin the animation process. Each of the layers that I created then went into individual frames for the gif. I then changed the timings to 0.1 seconds which I felt worked best. This could be outputted as a gif or a video.
We then looked at alternative way of making a video. By enabling 'Onion Skins' you can see the previous layer whilst creating the current layer, and therefore giving a lot smoother animation. After experimenting with this technique, which I feel I could use in a very creative way, I rendered the video.
The final technique that we learnt for creating videos in Photoshop, was to trace over an existing video layer by layer. This resulted in a simple stickman showing the movement of the dancer. I feel that I have learnt a lot in the workshop.
