PS combined illustrator design belongs to your own micro-letter expression

PS combined illustrator design belongs to your own micro-letter expression

Of course, I think the future is also a trend and direction of expression Design, the heart of the little tart has begun to churn.

In the first set of expressions, I looked up a lot of online information, and did not find a relevant tutorial on expression production. For a designer without animation experience, to do a GIF expression (of course, micro-letter expression also support static expression) really let me bother the mind, took a lot of detours. Slowly, oneself also find out a set of do expression of small method and skill, here for everybody reference and exchange.

Selection of design tools

Then, 工欲善其事, its prerequisite. At first, I tried AE and flash (half bucket of water), encountered a variety of problems (drawing, import, layer, dynamic, file size, etc.), finally due to the lack of precision and give up.

The following 2 software for designers is certainly not unfamiliar, AI is my favorite design tool. The former is used to draw a facial image, which is used to synthesize an animated GIF.

Drawing image

I am here to my family's small leopard for example, the process of drawing the image here is not much to say, I used the method is very simple, are the basic geometric shape of the mosaic. I've also had a small method of drawing illustrations before http://www.ui.cn/detail/95287.html.

Frames-by-frame animation

One-frame animation is a common form of animation (frame by frame), whose principle is to decompose the animation action in "continuous keyframes", that is, to draw different content on each frame of the timeline so that it is animated continuously.

So the problem is, we need to draw a different frame picture, and it's continuous. Ai's advantage is that multiple artboards and draw graphics are vector layers are also separate, which is the ultimate choice of AI reasons. Multiple artboards Make sure that the graph you are drawing is continuous. Using ctrl+c,ctrl+f can ensure that elements of an artboard are copied to another artboard intact. The artboard size is 240*240 (this is the micro-letter expression required to make the size)

For our non professional animation designer, we need to do a little homework on simple animation knowledge. such as the movement of the joints, the movement of the body. Of course, some simple animations can also have a good effect.

By rotating, scaling, moving and so on to change the status of the key parts (multiple layers, direct selection of layers more benefits). At the same time, the beauty of AI is to use the direct selection tool to move the anchor point of the object shape, so as to change the displacement and shape to achieve the effect of excessive frame.

The same method draws the next artboard, which continuously increases the motion's continuous transition frames.

This continuous keyframe is made. But GIF is generally a continuous loop. The first and last stitch transitions are also very important. I usually control the number of frames in 4, 8 or so, here with the number of rules for the following: 1, 2, 3, 2 and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, so that the end of the continuous up. Of course, special circumstances can also define the number of other frames, the principle is the same.

This solves the error caused by consistency and repeated rendering. The same method can then be used to change the shape and displacement of other parts, as follows:

Then is the export sequence frame, the AI's export function is very convenient, file > Export PNG (Check the artboard, all) on it: and give you the order of the sequence are named well, is not very good ~ ~

Then the PS debut, new canvas 240*240px, resolution 72. Drag the top 4 sequence frame files directly into the PS, and then the window > timeline, open the timeline, create the timeline, and then convert to frame animation, because the micro-letter expression specification to add 2 pixel white outer strokes, you need to add stroke effect to the picture.

New frame, the first frame corresponding to the Leopard -01.png, and so on. Each frame corresponds to display the corresponding picture. Preview by space, and constantly adjust the parameters (here is not much explained).

Finally, File > export is stored in the Web format, the export file is selected as GIF, and the number of loops is set to forever. A simple facial effect is produced and previewed as follows:

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