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Cute and Cuddly Gift Animation


Start by opening an image of a teddy bear in a box. Create cutout to knockout the background color.

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Select the cap of the box using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.

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Hide the layer. Using clone stamp tool clone the area of the box that was covered with the cap.

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Unhide the cap layer.

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Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

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Create selection of the teddy using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.

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Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

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

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Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.

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Unhide the cap layer. Create a few duplicates of this layer.

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Start moving and rotating the duplicate cap layers sequentially

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Open animation window. For the first frame keep the cap layer right above the box.

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Duplicate frame. Move the cap layer a few pixels in random directions. this is to create a shake before the surprise comes out of the box.

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Duplicate frame till five frames and repeat the above step by moving cap and box layers a few pixels in random directions.

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Duplicate frame. Hide the cap layer. Unhide the next cap layer. Unhide the teddy layer.

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Keep duplicating frames and unhiding the box cap layers moving away from the box. Simultaneously let the teddy come out of the box by moving it a few pixels upwards with every duplicate frame.

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

Cute and Cuddly Gift Animation Tutorial: Final Result



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