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Animating a Moving Car On a Road

Filed under: Animation — Fiery Darts @ 8:08 am

Animating a Moving Car On a Road
Start by creating sky area by applying a light gradient on the background.
Create the ground using a rectangle and fill it with green color.
Create another rectangle above the green rectangle. This’ll serve as a road shape.
Apply following layer styles.
Create a small horizontal rectangle in the center of road.
Duplicate the rectangle .
Merge all the small rectangle layers. Duplicate the merged layer, and press Shift+Right Arrow 2imes. Hide the original layer.
Similarly create another duplicate of the previous layer and move it 2 times.
Create one more duplicate similarly.
Using custom shape tool create a tree.
Populate the area with more trees.
Merge the tree layers. Create similar number of duplicates and move as you did for the road paint layer.
Create a car shape using custom shape tool.
Draw circles for wheels.
Merge car and wheel layers. Knock out areas for car windows. Duplicate the car layer. Move a few pixels up. Hide this layer.
Add a couple of glints using a small white brush on the car wheels.
Open animation window. For the first frame hide the all the duplicate layers of road paint, tress and glint on wheel except the initial ones.
Duplicate the frame. HIde the initial positions of different elements and unhide the second position/layers of the elements.
So on and so forth repeat the procedure till four frames.

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Sound Graph Animation

Filed under: Drawing — Fiery Darts @ 7:40 am

Sound Graph Animation
Start by creating a rectangle.
Duplicate and place below.
Create a tower of such rectangles.
Select all layers and press Ctrl+G to group. Duplicate the group.
Using rectangular marquee tool create a selection covering all the shapes.
Fill it with a gradient.
Change the layer mode to hue.
Create another selection and fill with a new gradient.
Change layer mode to color dodge.
Hide a random number of rectangles from each group. Open animation window. Let this be your first frame of the animation.
Duplicate the frame for second frame, unhide some of the hidden rectangles and hide some of the unhidden rectangles.
Repeat the step to create more frames.
Preview the animation by pressing play button in animation window. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized GIF animation.

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Fineart Pencils Logo

Filed under: Web Graphics — Fiery Darts @ 9:28 am

Fineart Pencils Logo
Start by creating a new file. Select ornament 4 shape from custom shapes.
Create ornament shape in a new layer.
Right click the ornament layer and select rasterize.
Press Ctrl+T to transform. Right click and select perspective.
Adjust the nodes to give it a perspective look.
From filter menu select stylize>>emboss.
Apply emboss settings as shown.
Press Alt+Down Arrow to duplicate the layer and move it down 1 pixel. Repeat the steps till you get the result. We duplicate arround 64 layers.
Select all the duplicate layers and press Ctrl+E to merge. Press Ctrl+T to transform and select flip vertical.
Press Ctrl+T again and select perspective.
Start creating outlines of the pencils using line tool.
Create tip of the pencils using pen tool. Fill them with black color.
 Create more outlines to add finishing touch.
Create a circular path. We’ll use this path for writing our text.
Write "FINEART PENCILS" on the circular path.
Select "PENCILS" and change the color.
Create another ellipse below all the layers.
Double click the text layer and enable stroke. Apply settings as shown.
Double click the circle layer and enable outer glow. Apply settings as shown.

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