woah, ANIMATION!

Here you see the beginning. The beginning of a career that'll last me a lifetime. here you see the first three animations that I'll forever look back on and think wow. I really don't like animation in photoshop.

The whole point of the project was to animate three different balls. one bouncing from directly below, the other an arch, and the last one with creative freedom. these three gifs are what I created.

the process

I created the first one by making a custom grass tool and drawing the grass, then coloring the background. I then created a ball, and rendered it's texture by double clicking the layer. then, I began to make copies of the ball, making them do as I please. I made a frame animation, then turned off all the layers except the first one. then, the tedious process of duplicating a frame, turning off the last layer and turning on the next layer began. the last gif is 106 frames, so you can understand that it took a while.

execution

picking my colors were easy. the grass for the first two are green, the backdrop is a beautiful blue, and the balls are pink and purple to contrast the backdrop. the last one though, I decided to be a little more creative. I made the background a purple shade, in the night with the stars, then made the ball a solid mint green for a minimalist look.

what did I learn?

I learned a lot during this process. I learned that animating in photoshop is hard, and that it takes a lot of time and hard work. but, even then, I still had a blast, and it was even therapeutic at times to make those frames. you know... when they don't buffer.i would definitely plan out my stuff more, I went into the third creative gif completely blind and not knowing what to do. something I would really do the same is take my time, I feel like I did a good job setting goals and a set time for myself.

overall?

my overall conclusion for this is that I had a lot of fun, and I look forward to the next project I have to do. this is just another step in the right direction.