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Artwork by ©AmyBrown
http://www.amybrownart.com/
CILM license #
CI-2986LM
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You can get your CILM here so you can use her artwork.
HERE is
the supplies for this tutorial. (Fairy not included in the supplies) The above animation is what were
going to create in this Click shift + D to duplicate
your fairy tube window, close the original one. I already made you
the bubbles for this project and put them on separate layers and
named them for you.. as you can see on y our layer palette. You
should have 4 layers there.. the bottom one is the Fairy then the
bubbles as named. Click on the Fairy layer as shown and ADD a new
raster layer. Click on the new Raster layer and drag it BELOW the
fairy layer.. this is going to be your background layer.
First RIGHT click on the new raster layer
and RENAME it to BKG.....See below the new background layer.. now
use your FILL tool 
and fill this BKG tool with WHITE.
On your layer palette.. click on the BIG BUBBLE
layer and right click and duplicate it 2 times so you have 3 BIG
bubbles now.
As it is shown below..
Take one of the duplicates of the BIG bubble layer
and click and select it on the layer palette.. . and go to
IMAGE/RESIZE
Use these same settings as below. Reducing
50%
Click on another BIG bubble layer and do same,
but use these settings resizing 75%
RENAME these 3 layers *originally BIG bubble
layer* to B1 B2 B3.
Position one bubble at a time on the fairy's wand,
use your WARP brush tool
 with
the settings shown on the 2nd picture below... and 'PULL' the one
side of the bubble as shown, just a tiny bit.. to make it kind of
tear shaped.. position the brush like it shows..
if your brush don't look like what mine does..
then in your FILES/PREFERENCES/GENERAL PROGRAM PREFERENCES... on the
display and caching tab set your presentation like this below
Now your tool will look like this below... As I
mentioned pull using the warp brush to make one side of the bubble
look like its coming OUT of the bubble wand. You know how bubbles
look when blown out.
Do each of the B1 B2 and B3 bubbles this way.
Not shown here BUT don't forget to apply a 3D drop
shadow on your FAIRY right now... never want to forget drop
shadows.. they really enhance a project and make it look dimensional
and professional.
Right click on the FAIRY layer on the palette and
duplicate 2 times.. so you should have 3 layers of her.
Drag B1 layer on top of the bottom fairy layer..
BE SURE TO POSITION THE BUBBLE IN RIGHT
SPOT SHOWN BELOW. Now B2 on top of the copy of Fairy
layer...and the last B 3 on top of the last copy of Fairy. Your
palette should look like the one below. Don't forget to position
each bubble right at the wand.
RIGHT click on the B1 layer on the palette and
MERGE/ MERGE DOWN. this will merge only the one bubble and the one
fairy layer. Shown below. Do this with each of the B layers.
NOTE: Always be careful NOT to move by accident
any of the layers...or your animation will jump and not look right..
would have to start over :-).
Your project should look like this now...See the
sm Bubble and Med bubble layers those are just free floating bubbles
I put in there.. you can merge them with the white bkg layer
now..drag them down to above the white bkg.. and merge them both
with it.
For some reason I DON'T have a capture of
this.. duhhhhh on me.. but now is the time.. to click on the Wht BKG
layer. Open that castle tube that was in the supplies zip and copy
and paste onto new layer. if you had white bkg layer selected on
layer palette.. it will put this castle layer right above it..
Position the castle tube where you want it on your project.. look at
my finished animation for reference. Remember where the bubble will
be.. don't want too much stuff behind that area.
When you get the castle where you want it.. merge
that layer with the bkg layer so on that one Bkg layer you should
have those 2 small bubbles and the castle on there.. put your
watermark now if you want... once you do that.. right click on the
White BKG layer and duplicate 2 times... drag a fairy layer down on
top of a bkg layer.. your palette should look like below. Click on a
Fairy layer and merge down. you do this with all fairy layers..
ending up with 3 layers on the layer palette.
I wanted to put some noise animation on this.. so
I used my magic wand tool
with these settings below... and click some areas
of the wings..
After you select the areas you want... you go to
Adjust/Add Noise and use this setting below on the top layer on the
palette.. you have to use a diff % to each of the layers. started at
20% go to 23% and 25%
I wanted the clouds to have a noise on them too...
so used a different setting than i did for the wings.. I use the
magic want again... and selected areas.. of the clouds.. then used
the add noise effect, This time I used these settings below and
started with 2% 4% 6% on the clouds EACH of the layers.
OK all your layers are merged, the noise is on
them.. etc... now if you want your fairy to look like she's blowing
you use the Warp brush..
Click on the TOP layer on the layer palette.
Settings as below.. make the brush same size and
put it right over her chest.. click ONCE only...
For copyright
purposes the finished fairy at the top don't have her chest moving..
but will show you how to do this..
Any time you use warp brush you have to sharpen
just that area. you warped.. so use your selection tool in circle
pattern and put it just like what I have below and go to
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen do it ONCE only. Look below.
Unselect. Now go to SAVE AS and save as an
Animation Shop (*.psp) file type.
Open the newly saved Fairy in animation shop...
hit Ctrl + A to select all frames.. right click on ANY frame.. and
go to animation properties.
first set the frames to 30 then just click on the
last frame.. the one where shes blowing the biggest bubble and right
click on that one and set the timing to 100.
SAVE AS a GIF.. and your done.. Hope you enjoyed
this tutorial..
TOODLES
till next time
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