[TUTORIAL] How To Animate 'Drawing' Out Your Name

Hello, it's Ken here again. One of our assignments this week was to create a tutorial. I'm sorry this isn't as detailed as it probably should be, but I'm exhausted. Alright. First of all, open up a new canvas with the dimensions of 800 x 600.

Next, create a new text layer. Find a somewhat script font, such as a cursive font, and type your first name and first letter of your last name. Resize the text so it fits the entire canvas. Now, the next thing you're going to do is fairly simple but takes patience.

 Rasterize the text layer and make a copy of it.

Hide the original layer and shave a small part of your last letter off. You're going to be copying, hiding and shaving off bits of the letters as you go, ONE LETTER AT A TIME.

When you're finally done with that process, select all the frames and bring up your timeline window. Create a frame animation and go to the drop down menu. Select 'Turn layers into frames.'

Once that is done, you'll need to go back to the drop down menu and click 'Reverse Frames' after highlighting them all. Check to make sure it works the way you want it to. After that, you're done! You can add a background if you want, as I did, but it doesn't matter if you do or don't.

10 Words Animation

In the recent week, we were assigned to create an animation of ten words that describe us, as seen on one of the gadgets of our blogs. I finished far later than others because I wanted it to be perfect, which cost me three extra days. I have just finished it, though, so here it is.

[ANIMATION] Arching Bouncing Ball

As you can see in this image, there are several errors. For one, photoshop rendered the frames to play slowly, and I myself messed up on the second bounce. It was not as smooth as other project, but I'm at least slightly proud of the background.