I draw and animate in photoshop!

[twotimingpete]

I'm a bit of a nerd and I've been drawing comics and doing animated sprites and stuff for a while, and I use photoshop for everything, start to finish. I don't even sketch on paper.

I use the brush tool for most stuff! for example, this is all brush (although I started with a font for the letters in the logo, originally)


here's some of my comic examples!
Matt White's Art: Silver Sun Pages

for me, I lack any formal training in photoshop, so while I may be underskilled and ignorant in some areas of photoshop, I've figured out strange approaches to other things that get results.

I also use the animation window to make simple frame by frame animation, as I aspire to make a video game (never finished one yet).




for something like this, a run cycle that has several different aspects of movement (legs, head, rotation of head, etc), I actually use many layers to seperate different actions. For instance, typically start by animating the legs and body and then working in the arms and head. there may be software that's better geared towarsd managing this, but I don't like trying to learn new things.

[sprucemagoo1]

Nice art!

[twotimingpete]

thanks, in addition to being attention starved like many other artists, it may also be a round about way of poking a new area of the internet to see if by chance any other developers (particularly programmers) may want to collaborate on a game (probably a simple flash game to start). just shout me out if so.

[ibclare]

lots of talent twotiming; I hope you find some partners. Stick around anyway. I bet your expertise would be very helpful.

[dv8_fx]

Welcome to the forum, twotimingpete.

Now that's talent. And you're on the right tract.

Patience. I'm sure you'll find the right people along the way. So until then, hone your skill.

Enjoy your time here.

[dv8_fx]

By the way , I like your comic art at your site. Keep up the great work you do.

Cheers..

[twotimingpete]

you flatter me, thanks. I still have a lot to learn and most of what I do just comes from experimentation/determination.

here's some animation that some of you may find interesting. this is basically taking layer-animating to its logical conclusion. Here I made a cute mech and seperated its parts into a number of layers, and was able to animate the mech to do various actions mostly just by moving these and then touching up. Remember that photoshop is the only program I used for any of this. Some of you may not think of photoshop as an animating program but it can be used that way if you're crazy.







and this one took the most work since I had to add in some stuff that none of the others use.

[Vafann]

Amazing stuff!

[agentmoeller]

This is great work! I have an animation project I wanted to work on for YouTube. If you're interested, let me know. It would be animating characters and backgrounds that I draw in either Ps, Ai, or both.

PM me if you want more details.


Agent

[twotimingpete]

Thanks. I'd say traditional animation is well beyond me. I have to resort to a lot of tricks with layers and a lot of trial and error to even get 2D video game style art to look somewhat okay. a 10 or 12 frame run cycle can take me hours and hours on end to get to look decent.