Creating and Animating A Jack In the Box |
| We’ll start by creating a 3d box. Create a rectangle in a new layer. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select perspective. |
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| Duplicate the layer and fill with black color. Move the layer below the first layer. |
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| Create another rectangle. Using similar steps create the other sides of the box. |
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| Duplicate this layer and fill with black color. Place it on the other side. Move this layer below all layers. |
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| Create top lid of the box similarly. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select warp. Adjust nodes and handles to create a shape like this. |
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| Fill this shape with orange color. |
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| Duplicate this layer. Fill it with brown color. Move this layer below previous layer. Move this shape towards right a few pixels. |
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| Apply stroke layer style to all box layers. |
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| Using custom shape tool create some cool flowers and patterns on front sides of the box. |
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| Our box is complete. Now we’ll create jack. USing elliptical shape tool create a few ellipses and place as shown. |
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| Create eyes, nose lips etc. using 2 pixel brush. Create 2 springy antenna and place on top of the head. |
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| Create arm and hand using pen tool. |
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| Duplicate the arm layer. Flip horizontally and place it for the other arm. |
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| Our jack and box, both are done. Link and merge all jack layers together. Time to animate jack. Open animation window. Select first frame and in layer window hide jack layer. |
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| Duplicate this frame. Unhide jack and adjust it’s position as shown. |
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| Duplicate this frame. Adjust jack’s position as shown. At this frame jack is mostly out of the box. |
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| Duplicate this frame. At this frame simply move jack just a couple of pixels down. |
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| Select frame 3&4. Duplicate it three four times. This will add a springy motion to jack. |
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| Press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S to save an optimize animated GIF. |
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Creating and Animating A Jack In the Box
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that looks cool
Comment by lbc — February 21, 2006 @ 8:14 pm
Lol! Funny!
Comment by Bruno Lorenz — February 23, 2006 @ 6:06 am
that is very kool and really easy well done
Comment by Tracey — February 23, 2006 @ 2:53 pm
Thats pretty awesome man, dont agree with the color choice but overall great stuff man.
Comment by Audux — February 23, 2006 @ 3:23 pm
It kinda looka fake, but I still prolly couldn’t do it.
Comment by Mandy — February 24, 2006 @ 9:32 am
very nice tutorial
Comment by kory — March 3, 2006 @ 12:20 am
Perfect, very nice!
Comment by valon — March 6, 2006 @ 1:22 pm
this is nice i like how u made a whole new image and made it animated like this instead of just finding an image and editing it.. but it would of been better if you would of made the lid open and close instead of stay open
Comment by ababmxking — April 10, 2006 @ 3:59 pm
How do you get the warp thing? The last one I have is perspective…
If anyone can answer, email me at dancergirl8000@yahoo.com
Comment by ... — August 15, 2006 @ 10:09 pm
Warp tool is in Photoshop CS 2.
Comment by Fiery Darts — August 16, 2006 @ 10:32 am