Magician Performing Magic Tricks Animation

Start by opening an image of a magician, holding something in his hand.

Create selection of the magician using your favorite technique. We used polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. Hide the layer.

Select the image layer. Clone the copied area using clone stamp tool.

Unhide the magician layer.

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

Cone the arm of the magician using clone stamp tool.

Create selection of the magician excluding the left arm. Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.

Create selection of the lower arm using polygon lasso tool. Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. Now we have five layers in all. Background, body, upper arm, lower arm and rabbit. Let's select body, upper arm and lower arm layers. Press Ctrl+g to create a group of these layers.

Duplicate group twice. Rotate arm layers and place as shown. Use eraser tool to delete any unwanted areas.

This is our 3rd group with a different position of arm layers.

Create selection of the hat as shown. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer.

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

Now we have three poses of arms. Unhide both poses which are out of hat. Unhide rabbit layer. Duplicate layer and place both the rabbit layers according to the arms position.

Similarly you can import some more images and place them like rabbit layers.

Create some stars with different colors, angle and sizes using custom shape tool. Select all the stars layer and press Ctrl+G to group.

Duplicate the star group twice and change their position randomly in each group.

Open animation window. For the first frame hide the rabbit and other object layers. Let only first group of arms be visible.

Duplicate frame. Unhide the second group of arm and hide the first one.

Duplicate frame. Unhide the third group of arm and hide the second one.

Duplicate frame. Unhide the first star group.

Duplicate frame twice and for each frame let the other star group be visible.

Duplicate last frame. Hide the star group and unhide the corresponding pose of arms as shown below. Unhide the watch layer.

Similarly keep duplicating frames. Again show star frames and then rabbit coming out.

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