First Shot Construction

So I started off on Photoshop by opening a new document, selecting film and video formatting and setting my background colour to a dark grey, almost black.

Then I opened window > Timeline and changed the frame rates per second from the automatic 30 (for live film) to 12 (for animation).









The next task was drawing a simple tree design, adding an image layer and a video layer. Once I had drawn the tree then on the unmovable image layer I realized I had made a mistake. I wanted the tree trunk and grass to stay in place but I wanted the leaves to move, the leaves that I had already drawn on the image layer...

So i made a new layer and redrew the tree over the top of the previous image layer as I needed to clean up the lines anyway.

This was the result I was left with when I hid the first layer. Almost identical but a little cleaner cut.

I then  went in frame by frame redrawing the leaves each time.

After I had about ten frames of the leaves moving, to work smart and not hard I duplicated the frames rather than redrawing them another coupe of hundred times, creating then a video layer group.

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