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Creating and Animating Snowfall

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We start by opening an image of a snowman.

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Select brush tool and press shift F5 to open brush settings. Adjust brush settings as shown.

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Using white as a foreground color apply the brush over the image in a new layer.

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Duplicate the layer and move it up so that bottom of this image touch the top of the original snow layer. Merge both snow layers.

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Open animation window. For the first frame leave the snow frame as it is.

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Duplicate the frame and move the snow layer downwards so that the top of snow layer touches the top of the image.

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Select both frames and press tweens animation frames in animation window.

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Adjust the settings in tween window as shown.

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Tweening will create in between frames automatically.

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Delete the last frame to create a seamless loop of snowfall animation. Adjust delay durations as shown in the shot below.

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Creating and Animating Snowfall