Dancing Still

Video by Krystian Morgan

Just had some fun playing around with some photos and the animation tools in photoshop. I really enjoyed making this, i think in the past i've cared too much about what happens next in a video, will it look good etc... which makes me loose sight of when i used to have fun making videos not worrying about that sort of thing. This blog as lackluster-y updated as it is something i love to do, and hate not doing, i'm going to try and find the fun again and post more with out the stress of thinking it's crap.

 This year's gonna be the most important of my life, i'm really producing alot lately, whether it be writing, drawing or making videos and music, i'm creating more than i ever have, i just haven't been showing it. I'm saving alot for the film. saving the good songs and the ideas i'm happy with, but it's great to come back here and vent some content that just flowed rather than carefully planned.

 

Photoshop?

How did you do that in photoshop?

How.

 Hello.

I did most of the video elements just in after effects as photos, then i rendered out the movie as a mov and imported into photoshop. Then i went to layer, new blank video layer (i believe) and made sure the animation (timeline) node was visible from the window menu.

Then it's just a case of going to the first frame, drawing, then the second frame drawing, you have onion skinning so you can see the previous frame faded. I recommend doing animation as 15 fps then importing that into ae or motion for compositing, as i did this at 25 fps and it took ages, even for those simple shapes.

Really nice!

This was a great concept and executioin Krystian. I really enjoyed it.

/jules