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I Need Help with some animation using clipping mask :(


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Tibbz

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Hey guys, Im quite aware on how photoshop works and can create animations where a shine goes over a text, however I saw something amazing the other day, it was a text, and over the text there was a shine added but on to another layer, the shine was on a custom shape layer rather than the text its self, and the shape was hidden and only appeared when the shine went over it, the shine also only appeared on that hidden shape layer. Its complicated to explain but I do have an example :)

http://picupload.pl/vi-PAIuox.gif

Thats how I want it to look... I can create something simple like this link below is something I made:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2yo9tz5.jpg

Please Help :wink:
 
Hi Tibbz.

First off, that's a nice animation.
Second... it appears to me that the artist simply animated the visibility of a layer mask over the hidden image.

So by creating the various stages of visibility of the hidden image, with layer masks, using separate layers for each stage of visiblity, he/she then assigned each visible layer to its own frame in the animation. (this might well also be done using 'Tweening') That animation was in turn applied over the background image which remained visible (as the background) for the entire animation.

Hope that was clear enough. If not let me know.

Good luck, hope that helps.

Mark (ka theKeeper)...
 
I loaded this gif file and it as no animation frames within it, they are all the same single frame?
 
Yes, that's what happens when you export a Gif animation; the frames get compiled into one.

I use IrfanView to load Gifs as separate frames, but even that won't help you to see how it was created. That data lies only within the source file.
 
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