Creating and Animating Skipping Stick Man
Creating and Animating Skipping Stick Man |
| Start by creating an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Create another ellipse for the body of the stick man using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Using line tool create arms as shown. |
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| Create ellipse for hands and distort to get a shape as shown. |
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| Using line tool create legs with a little higher thickness than arms. |
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| Also create feet using ellipse tool. Select all layers and press Ctrl+G to group in a new group. |
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| Duplicate group. Hide the original group. In this group adjust the arms and legs to get a posture as shown. |
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| Duplicate the group. In this group adjust the arms and legs to get another posture as shown. |
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| Create a skipping rope shape using pen tool. |
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| Create a new layer. Select a five pixel solid brush. Click stroke path with brush in path window. |
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| Duplicate rope layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get a shape as if the rope is in air. |
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| Duplicate rope layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get a no motion shape. |
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| Select a particular rope layer and shift select the respective stick man posture group. Press Ctrl+E to merge. Similarly create two more stickman and rope merged layers. Now we have three layers in all. Select these layers. Scale down vertically. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layers and select perspective. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. Reduce the opacity to create a perspective shadow. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame keep the first posture with it’s respective shadow visible and hide the rest of the layers. |
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| Duplicate frame. Keep the second posture with it’s respective shadow visible and hide the rest of the layers. |
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| Similarly for the third one. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF. |
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May 9th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
¿cual es la pagina para mover los stickman?
¿how is the website stop move the stickman?
September 11th, 2007 at 11:54 am
this is kewl i tryd it and it worked
September 26th, 2007 at 11:27 am
i made the jumpingrope man and it was easy…..so easy…….lol
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
This is so kool! I tried to do it and i got it and it really worked!!! It was so easy. It was really fun and easy to do if you pay attention.
November 5th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
not kool
November 13th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
this one is way fun if you are reading this comment, take it from me, it may be kinda difficult but it is alot of fun
January 17th, 2008 at 4:42 am
only great thanks
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this stickman is like my husband
January 30th, 2008 at 11:31 am
hahahah i totally like wow like yeah want to do this like way bad. you know?? its so cute like totally for sure.. right?? if you dont like this then you are somewhat like dumm!! much love like yeah=]
March 5th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Well done on the stickman i dont think i could do things like that
but i dont really no y i am writing this! im that bored this is the only thing to make my day seem good atm..
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