Creating and Animating Skipping Stick Man
Author: 2007-09-14 22:47:35　From:
| Start by creating an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Create another ellipse for the body of the stick man using elliptical shape tool. |
| Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. | | | | Using line tool create arms as shown. | | | Create ellipse for hands and distort to get a shape as shown. | | | Using line tool create legs with a little higher thickness than arms. | | | Also create feet using ellipse tool. Select all layers and press Ctrl+G to group in a new group. | | | Duplicate group. Hide the original group. In this group adjust the arms and legs to get a posture as shown. | | | Duplicate the group. In this group adjust the arms and legs to get another posture as shown. | | | Create a skipping rope shape using pen tool. | | | Create a new layer. Select a five pixel solid brush. Click stroke path with brush in path window. | | | | Duplicate rope layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get a shape as if the rope is in air. | |
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| Duplicate rope layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get a no motion shape. |
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| Select a particular rope layer and shift select the respective stick man posture group. Press Ctrl+E to merge. Similarly create two more stickman and rope merged layers. Now we have three layers in all. Select these layers. Scale down vertically. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layers and select perspective. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. Reduce the opacity to create a perspective shadow. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame keep the first posture with it¡¯s respective shadow visible and hide the rest of the layers. |
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| Duplicate frame. Keep the second posture with it¡¯s respective shadow visible and hide the rest of the layers. |
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| Similarly for the third one. |
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Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF |
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