Animation | Texture Trickster

23 Nov

Speed Art: Making of the Pencil Illustration

In a previous post titled Pens & Pencils Illustrations, I showed some images of project I had been working on.One of the images in the article was of a pencil in an illustration style. I decided to record the process...
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2 Nov

WIP: Using Photoshop to Create an Animated Morphing Effect

As you may know, I enjoy exploring Photoshop’s animation features (and not just ‘exploring’ but really trying to push the envelope). One of the projects I’ve been working on involves creating a morphing transition between two objects (or in this...
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29 Jun

Advanced Animation in Photoshop

Animation in Photoshop has come a long way since it was incorporated into the core program. Animation took another step when Photoshop introduced the Video Timeline panel, allowing users the ability to create more complicated animation using keyframes. Recently, I...
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15 Jun

Create an Animation using 3D and Post-Production Techniques in Photoshop

Over the past few years, Photoshop has really expanded their tool set by offering (or expanding) their non-core features such as video editing and 3D. Today, I want to walk through one of my projects that utilizes both the 3D...
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18 May

Using Template Layers to Create a Figure 8 Animation

In the following tutorial, I will demonstrate a technique that shows how to use Smart Objects with a template layer to create complex animation. The animation below demonstrates the final effect. The Final Image How it’s done: Step 1:...
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20 Apr

Speed Art: The Process of Creating an Animated Globe in Photoshop

In one of my first posts, I wrote a tutorial on how to create a spinning globe using Smart Filters in Photoshop (click here to read the original tutorial). I finally got around to recording a speed art video of...
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2 Mar

Speed Art: The Process of Creating a Spinning Cube in Photoshop

In a previous post titled Experimenting with Animations in Photoshop, I revealed some animation techniques I was working on. One of these animations was of a spinning cube. I decided to record the process of creating this animation, which you...
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16 Feb

Photoshop Animation Experiments #01

Lately, I’ve been exploring animation techniques using exclusively Photoshop. Ever since the new Timeline Panel was introduced in Photoshop CS6, I’ve tried to find new and inventive ways to create complex animations. Once I figured out that Smart Objects can...
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9 Feb

Speed Art: Animated Valentine’s Day Text Effect in Photoshop

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I thought I’d share with you this speed art video on how I created this Glittering Text Effect in Photoshop (tutorial originally created for Design Tuts+). Here is the final animation from the tutorial....
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27 Oct

Project: Dripping Blood Text Effect in Photoshop

As Halloween approaches, I wanted to create something unique, like a Halloween text effect with a twist (or a drip in this case). I enjoy creating custom textures from scratch using Photoshop, but recently I’ve started thinking about ways to...
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