animate shrinking an object

[izboos]

Hi

I would like to know the best way to animate an object shrinking. Do I have to make multiple duplicates of the same object, and resize each of the layers accordingly to each of their frames?

Thanks for any assistance.

[dv8_fx]

That's the way to do it. Depending on how smooth you want the animation to be, try sizing down or up the object by 10% in each layer.

[hawkeye]

Quickest way is to set up an action to copy the object to a new layer (ctrl+J) and then use transform and set size reduction on the top toobar to maybe 90%. Each time you run the action the object will transform to 90% of the previous layer. Run it until you get the final size you want, then use each layer as a separate frame.

[izboos]

So i guess there is NO shortcut way to doing it huh?

lol. I was using tween (which I eventually realized didn't work).

Thanks though.

[hawkeye]

It's not that much work if you are not moving the object and just shrinking it. Set up the action I suggested and make all the layers. Leave all the layers on. Each time you add a new frame turn just off the lowest layer, which exposes the layer above it successively.

[Hoogle]

or open up the image in after effects under scale properties set a key frame at 100% move timeline to the desired time ie 10 seconds set the scale down to 1% or whatever you want the final size to be then save the video as a gif if you have cs4 or below or export as a quicktime movie and import the video into photoshop via file>insert videoframes as layers and then save for web device should take no longer than a miniute.