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Rise and
Fall
Author: Edna Munn
Software: PhotoImpact Version 12 and Gif
Animator (GA)
Title: Rise and Fall
Skill Level: Beginner
Description: This tutorial will show you how to make
your image rise up and then to fall down (so that it is hidden) again. It will
also show you how to do layered animation, that is animation on top of an
animation.
The tutorial for this lesson, will be done wholly in
GA. Hope you have saved your last lesson (part 2) as an .uga file. Supplies Needed:
A copy of Gif Animator ( up to
PhotoImpact Version 12, GA was a free
package, sadly it is no more)
Free
Trial
Part 3
Continuing on from
Part 2 "Facial Expression" tutorial
we will now deal with the "Rise and
Fall" of your image.
Open your copy of
Gif Animator, if you have a pop up that
is called "Start up Wizard" click on the
"Open an Existing File"
or goto File/Open
Image and navigate to the folder that
you saved your .uga from "Part
2".
Click on your .uga
file and then on OK.
If
your storyboard is not showing along the
bottom, go to View/Frame Panel, click on
Frame Panel and it will appear.
Highlight frame
5, (end
frame) Right-click and Duplicate this
Frame.
Shut the eye on
ex2 and ex2mo. then
open the eye on ex1 and ex1mo.
Right-Click and
duplicate frame
5.
Right-Click and
change this frames speed to anywhere
between 15-20.
Go to your Object
panel and Highlight the layers with the
facial parts that are open by holding
down Ctrl and clicking with your mouse.
You should have
hair, ex1, nose, reye, leye, ex1mo
and the face and ears
highlighted.
Do
not highlight the hands, name or frame
(if used)!!
Important Information
The beauty of Gif
Animator is that you can move a part or
parts in one frame without it affecting
that same part or parts in the previous
frame!! You will note that after you
have finished moving the face in frame
6
that it has not directly affected frames
1-5!!
As long as you are
move the part(s) in an up, down, left or
right direction you will not have a
problem with the other frames.
The only time that
you will have problems that will affect
the other frames, is when you want to
rotate a part(s) or when you want a
part(s) in behind as well as in front
of, you will have to duplicate that
part(s) to achieve the rotation etc.
Now gently touch the
face in the viewing frame above the
Frame Panel (storyboard) and hit your
down arrow on your keypad
19
times.
Right-click on frame
6 and Duplicate.
Frame
7 should be highlighted, so
gently touch the face in the viewing
frame above the storyboard, now hit your
down arrow on your keypad until the nose
is just showing above the wooden frame
or whatever you have with the hands
over.
Duplicate frame
7
Frame
8.
Gently touch the face
in the viewing frame and hit your down
arrow on your keypad until you have
hidden the eyes.
Right-Click on frame
8
and duplicate.
Frame
9.
Gently touch the face
and hit the down arrow on your keypad
until just the top of the ears are
showing.
Right-Click on frame
9
and duplicate.
Frame
10
Gently touch
the ears and this time make the ears
disappear altogether.
The Hands
Now that the "Fall"
has happened, we need to go back to
frame 8
and make the hands work in unison
with the fall so that it looks natural.
Frame
8
Click on frame
8
deselect the face parts by clicking on
one of the hands.
Hold down Ctrl and
select both hands, gently touch the
hands in the viewing frame and hit the
up arrow on your keypad
5
times.
Frame
9
Click on frame
9 then
deselect the left hand, this will leave
the right hand selected.
Gently touch the hand
in the viewing frame and tap the up
arrow on your keypad
12
times.
Highlight both hands
again.
Right-Click and
Duplicate the pair of hands, now you
have two sets of hands.
Note:
Because you raised the right hand before
we duplicate the hands, the right hand
on the duplicate pair of hands, will be
in the same position as the original
pair of hands.
While the top pair of
hands are still highlighted, uncheck
(shut) the eyes.
Now click on the
highlight hands and drag them to the
bottom and place them just above the
head.
Frame10
Highlight frame
10.
Deselect the pair of
hands that you have just placed above
the head at the bottom.
Highlight the right
hand and open the eye.
Go back up to the
pair of hands at the top and close the
eye of the right hand.
Your right hand
should look like the screenshot below.
Right-Click and
duplicate frame
10
Frame
11
Highlight frame
11,
gently touch the right hand and tap the
down arrow on your keypad until the
right hand can only just be seen above
the wooden board.
Click on the Left
hand at the top and close the eye.
Click on the
Left Hand
at the bottom and open the eye.
Gently touch the left
hand in the viewing frame and tap the up
arrow on your keypad and bring it up a
little.
right-click and
duplicate frame
11.
Frame
12
Highlight frame
12
Highlight the right
hand on the bottom pair of hands
and close the eye.
Highlight the left
hand at the bottom pair of hands and
close the eye. There should be no hands
showing in frame
12.
Right-Click/Frame
Properties and give it a speed value of
120
The new frames on
your storyboard should look like the
screenshot below.
The Rise
Highlight frame
6, Hold
down Shift and then click on frame
12,
this should highlight all frames from
6-12.
Right-Click/Duplicate
Frame.
Right-Click/Reverse
Frame Order
or
Frame/Reverse Frame
Order
Make sure that there
is a check in the Reverse the order of t
he selected frames radio button.
Click OK.
Do
not deselect yet, one more step to go!!!
Right-Click/Change
Frame Order/Assign to First Frame.
Ok we are now done.
Run your animation
and if you feel that the timing on some
of the frames need tweaking, do so.
You might want to
consider Inserting a blank object at
this stage
and filling it
with white to bring down the kb's of
your animation.
Hold your Paint
bucket over the picture and pour.
Drag the white fill
to the bottom.
My image at 256
colours was
203kb's without the white
background.
When I used a white
background it dropped to
71kb's
at 256 colours.
Amazing what a
background can do!!
thank you for trying
my tutorial, hope you had fun.
Please feel free to print
this tutorial
out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way to
put on-line, pass out,
re-write
or
claim as your own.
Any resemblance to any other
tutorial like this,
is not intentional and is
purely coincidental.
This tutorial was written on the 6th March 2009
and is therefore
© to Edna Munn
Website and web set Design
Also created
by
Edna Munn
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