Today's work ...

- 1st part: The background, it is very important to have a background because of the transparency on the bubbles, without background it is impossible to optimize the animation in AS.
If you choose tubes or your own images for the background ---> go directly part 2.


- 2nd part: An elephant moving its head and its horn. Outline and shading are in the supplies folders, choose your own colors.
If you don't want to animate, just choose one and no bubbles ;)


- 3rd partie: the bubble growing moving and breaking with sparkles ....a big big kiss to my grand daughter Juliette, who is the world champion with bubbles but her granny has no more liquid dishwashing.

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1st part

The sample is in the normal size but it's better to draw by yourself the sky.
Paintbrush, size 17, you draw a blue line (or another color..) ,
copy(ctrl c) ---> past (ctrl v) ---> do not deselect, use the flood fill tool to color a little brighter ---> deselect (ctrl d)
and so on, you can do regular lines or your mouse do as she wanted ...
...

Add this shape as a new layer

Duplicate and mirror --->

Add a new layer group with all the layers and adjust opacity and blend mode.

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2nd part

The same body, head right and head up, but just some change on the horn.
You have to draw each on different layers.






All here ...

... and the last thing to do is a drop shadow effect on 1,2 and 3 heads.
V: 1 H: 0 Opacity: 100 Blur: 0 --> in my sample the color --> #8f8275,
be sure you check --> shadow on a new layer.
then select the outside on the body layer, with magic wand, and on the shadow layer suppr ... merge down head and shadow
don't forget to unlink --> 0

3rd part

The first bubble:

Draw the first bubble, outline (white) on a layer , inside on a new layer, group the 2 layers name bulle1. The same for all bubbles.
2nd :

3rd:

In each layer group outline opacity is 65 and inside opacity is 48. Duplicate the last group, rename it "bulle fin", add on layers some dots for the sparkles.
Here is my sample for help:

How to animate

Go on!

1 . Visible layer group : bkg, elephant, head 2.
Your magic wand , check " use all layers " and select outside the bkg--> selection invert ---> copy merged
---> past as a new image. It's the first image for the anim, save as --> anim.psp
No need to select none.

2 . Visible layer group : bkg, elephant, head 3, bulle1.
Duplicate the group bulle1, merge this group, and set it on the horn just have to erase some pixel.
copy merged ---> past as a new layer in anim.psp

3 . idem, just a little more bubble is visible.
copy merged ---> past as a new layer in anim.psp

4 . Visible layer group : bkg, elephant, head 4, bulle 2.
Duplicate the group bulle2, merge the group, set the bubble over the elephant -head 4- erase some pixels ..
copy merged ---> past as a new layer in anim.psp

5 . Select none (ctrlD)! Visible layer group : bkg, elephant, head 3, bulle 2.
again duplicate bulle 2, merge the group and rotate 90°.
Magic wand and .... same as above for the 5th image in anim.psp.
No need to select none.

6 . Visible layer group : bkg, elephant, head 3, bulle 3.
Set bubble look my sample.
copy merged ---> past as a new layer in anim.psp

7 . Visible layer group : bkg, elephant, head 6, bulle 3.
Set bubble look my sample.
copy merged ---> past as a new layer in anim.psp

8 et 9. just move a little, rotate again (don't forget to select none before rotate)!

10 . For the image 10, use the layer " bulle fin " unvisible --> eclat 2, visible --> eclat 1
11 . For the image 11, unvisible eclat 1, vivible eclat 2 and less opacity on the bubble, do not move it.

Here it is, hope you like it ..... ;)

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psp4all members result here


++ english version ++



Le jardin des poc 20 juin 2009 .... bonne fête aux papas