- [Instructor] So here's a very good example
of why it's fun to animate in Photoshop.
On the left, you see my best effort at a Adobe Animate CC
or Flash puppet system, the kind of thing you'd see
in Harmony as well, where I really threw myself at it
to make it look as traditional as possible.
That was the whole point.
Then I decided to just reanimate it
for my course on animating
in different period styles to see could I get closer.
And the one on the right being hand drawn
is just much more natural.
I'm going to pause it there
and even if I go through frame by frame,
you can see the improvement in like this kind of shape here.
It looks so much better than this.
This is clearly a puppet rig.
Now, this could be posed more skillfully
but the point being, it's just easier to achieve this kind
of flow where you draw this.,
So if you have drawing abilities,
it can be very frustrating to have to hammer
and squeeze and torque these very intricate Flash
and Harmony puppets into the right shape.
I can go through and pick any side-by-side example
and you can see
that the one on the right just feels more like a drawing.
So I'm going to show you a little bit under the hood now.
So here is the Animate CC or Flash scene.
And you know, it looks fine.
A lot of work went into it and I was very happy with it.
But let's see how it is assembled and you'll see
if you haven't worked with one of these before,
everything's on layers.
So you know, we can begin to see
as we color in each layer how this thing was put together.
And these areas here are digital tweens.
So they are perfect.
There was no imperfection in those movements
and that can be the problem.
It can be too perfect, almost a little bit eerie.
Whereas the scene in Photoshop was drawn by hand.
I'm going to just zoom in a little bit
so you can have a better look at it.
And these are just drawings.
They don't have that sterile vector line that you'll see
in the Flash or Harmony scenes that we see very often.
Now, this will not play at the right frame rate
because Photoshop internally won't give us 24
or 30 frames per second.
We can export the scene from our menu here
and then we have the right frame rate.
So this is really just the animation tool
that will enable us to export the final work.
And it just allows us to draw
in our favorite brushes to get these lovely effects.
So that is the process that we will follow
throughout this course.
You'll see as we proceed,
we will have great flexibility now to work
with a very tight Warner Brothers, Disney,
Don Bluth style of finesse.
Or we can go really loose, very wild
and do stuff with creative media
and all the artistic brushes that exist in Photoshop.
So that's my pitch
for you to struggle with this somewhat primitive interface
and I'll show you how to work around it
and how to get the effects that you'll need.