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Gotta Dance 5: The Revenge (This Time It's Personal)
Teddy's next move is to put his paws on his hips. The last frame of what I posted last night had his arms up, so I added a 5th frame, a copy of the first, and a sixth with his arms redrawn even lower
and then, elbows bent
.
Now the next part is tricky. I want Innocent Teddy to sway his hips. First, I copy the last layer and select everything from the bottom up to the middle of his paws
And use the Sheer Tool to skew the figure as below:
Leaving us this:
I make the level below visible and move the skewed selection over to match the position of the feet before I deselect
I select the rest of the torso, up to the top of the shoulder and leaving the neck-head out
And do all the same things again, yielding
And some cursory clean-up gives me
-Now, this is only eight frames of 16, so boring tl;dr how-to to go, right? Well actually, we're sittin' in bamboo, 'cause that's all the figures drawn; the rest is just copy/paste stuff.
The next frame is a copy of the last, standing straight. For the one after, that
-The left-skew copied and flipped.
To get two shakes of the hips, then straight, left, straight, right, straight, and finish with a copy the paws out-down
For a final step I haven't mentioned before
(This auto-crops the individual layers and optimizes the smallest possible filesize. That matters.)
And then, to check your work (use the optimize function, but don't trust it not to mess your animation up), in the new window/copy that results
If satisfactory, set the Mode to Indexed (it's a .gif thing - and animations need to be in .gif format)
Teddy's only three colors, so
-Which is important to keep the server load minimized. Never go for the 255 default unless you have to - for instance, when using a full-color photo.
Now. save as a .gif - click Save as Animation in the Export File pop-up>Export.
And now, give it y'all, while the Latest, the Greatest, the Move-bustin'-est cuddly toy in InnerWebtown, INNOCENT TEDDY TEARS UP TH' DANCE FLO', F****ING S*** UP, OLD-SCHOOL!
Next: Dirty Dancing. -You trust me by now, don't you?
Teddy's next move is to put his paws on his hips. The last frame of what I posted last night had his arms up, so I added a 5th frame, a copy of the first, and a sixth with his arms redrawn even lower
and then, elbows bent
Now the next part is tricky. I want Innocent Teddy to sway his hips. First, I copy the last layer and select everything from the bottom up to the middle of his paws
And use the Sheer Tool to skew the figure as below:
Leaving us this:
I make the level below visible and move the skewed selection over to match the position of the feet before I deselect
I select the rest of the torso, up to the top of the shoulder and leaving the neck-head out
And do all the same things again, yielding
And some cursory clean-up gives me
-Now, this is only eight frames of 16, so boring tl;dr how-to to go, right? Well actually, we're sittin' in bamboo, 'cause that's all the figures drawn; the rest is just copy/paste stuff.
The next frame is a copy of the last, standing straight. For the one after, that
-The left-skew copied and flipped.
To get two shakes of the hips, then straight, left, straight, right, straight, and finish with a copy the paws out-down
For a final step I haven't mentioned before
(This auto-crops the individual layers and optimizes the smallest possible filesize. That matters.)
And then, to check your work (use the optimize function, but don't trust it not to mess your animation up), in the new window/copy that results
If satisfactory, set the Mode to Indexed (it's a .gif thing - and animations need to be in .gif format)
Teddy's only three colors, so
-Which is important to keep the server load minimized. Never go for the 255 default unless you have to - for instance, when using a full-color photo.
Now. save as a .gif - click Save as Animation in the Export File pop-up>Export.
And now, give it y'all, while the Latest, the Greatest, the Move-bustin'-est cuddly toy in InnerWebtown, INNOCENT TEDDY TEARS UP TH' DANCE FLO', F****ING S*** UP, OLD-SCHOOL!
Next: Dirty Dancing. -You trust me by now, don't you?
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