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Creating and Animating A Bat

This Photoshop tutorial teaches how to create and animate a bat image. It instructs to draw the bat's body parts like eyes, ears and wings using shape tools. Then it describes how to duplicate and rotate the wings to create different poses and set up an animation by hiding and showing the poses in frames to produce a flying bat GIF.

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Creating and Animating A Bat

This Photoshop tutorial teaches how to create and animate a bat image. It instructs to draw the bat's body parts like eyes, ears and wings using shape tools. Then it describes how to duplicate and rotate the wings to create different poses and set up an animation by hiding and showing the poses in frames to produce a flying bat GIF.

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Creating and Animating a Bat Tutorial

Creating and Animating a Bat


Description: This tutorial will show you how to draw and animate a bat for all your halloween needs!

Creating and Animating a Bat

Start by applying a nice gradient in radial mode to the background layer.

Create a circle using elliptical shape tool.

Create a few circles for the eyes using elliptical shape tool.

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Create ears, neck and nose using the elliptical shape tool.

Create a wing shape using pen tool.

Enable "subtract from shape area" at the top bar. Create some circle shape as shown.

Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Horizontal and place on the other side. Select all the layers and press Ctrl+G to group. This will be the first pose of bat.

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Duplicate the group, move downwards and rotate the wings to create second pose.

Similarly create the third pose.

Open animation window. For the first frame hide all the group except first group.

Duplicate the frame. Hide the first pose and unhide the second pose.

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Duplicate the frame. Hide the second pose and unhide the third pose.

Duplicate the frame. Hide the third pose and unhide the second pose.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.

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