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Creating an Animated Helicopter


Start by opening an image where ground and sky can be seen together.

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Insert a cutout of a helicopter.

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Hide the helicopter layer. Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select perspective. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

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Duplicate the layer and rotate it.

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Create a circle using elliptical shape tool.

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Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

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Select and merge all the wings and circle layer.

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Duplicate layer. From filter menu select blur>>radial blur.

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Duplicate layer press Ctrl+F to reapply the filter.

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Duplicate layer press Ctrl+F to reapply the filter.

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Select the wing layers. Form layer palette select new group from layers. Select the group layer. Press Ctrl+T and squeeze vertically.

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Insert a cloud layer. Move this layer behind the helicopter layers.

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Select eraser tool and remove the bottom hard edge using a soft brush settings.

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Open animation window. For the first frame hide all the blurred ring layers from the group. Move the clouds layer upwards.

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Duplicate frame. Unhide the next blurred wing layer. Follow along the shots below to hide or unhide wing layers with each duplicate frames.

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Duplicate frames. For the 8th, 9th and 10th frame move the helicopter with wings upwards.

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Duplicate frame. Select clouds and ground layer. Move a few pixel downwards.

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Again duplicate frame. Move both layers a few pixels downwards.

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Repeat the steps till 14th frame.

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Duplicate frame. Move helicopter and wings layer towards left. Let it disappear from the left edge.

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Click tween button from the animation window. Apply settings as shown.

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

Creating an Animated Helicopter



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