Today we had a tutorial on how to animate in photoshop and it has made me never want to touch the software ever again!! It’s very clunky and inefficient with animation, and it’s so frustrating to me how difficult it is to go back and correct past frames!!
We started off by playing around with the brushes, and despite me not having used photoshop to illustrate for a couple of years now, I immediately defaulted to the brushes I used to use. As an exercise we tried to create silhouettes which signified a certain emotion. I chose sadness for the first two, then anger, then enjoyment, and I even tried to exaggerate the character’s hair to reflect enjoyment too.
When we came to animating I was constantly shouting at my tablet and photoshop! I really can’t get over how frustrating this app is in comparison to Clip Studio Paint, Toon Boom, or TVPaint! I don’t understand how anyone would favour Photoshop for creating frame x frame animations!
Anyway, we had to animate a bug flying into frame and landing on a flower, before flying off again, and we were asked to pick an emotion of the bug’s entrance and exit. I decided to make the bug really excited and urgent to get to the flower, and then once it has re-charged from it, the bug is in a satisfied, almost drunk state as it flies of screen. I added some floppy legs to try and exaggerate the movements even more.