Ye Olde Photoshoppe (Warning: Many .gifs)

The Something Awful Forums > Main > BYOB: BYOB BYOB BOYB BBOY YOBB YBOB BBYO?? > Ye Olde Photoshoppe (Warning: Many .gifs)

«‹›2 »

Papa Was A Video Toaster

I'm trying to build up my PS chops to the point where I can put together things like these scenes:

myself and not buy PSDs.
I'm slowly building an understanding of frame animation, layer styles and smart objects, but 3D and timelines are still real hard.

Still can't figure out how to make an actual backdrop and not just a flat surface for the background of this guy.
The thing I'm most proud of thus far: I made a frame by frame PSD of the first part of Cash Bone. I'm hopefully having an artist draw me some bones soon. I'll probably redo the second half with more artistic license. Here's some end products of that PSD:

Next I'm trying something quite ambitious. I'm going to try to edit out the text from this clip and replace it with "It's easy". I've got a servicable layer style and font currently, but both have room for improvement for sure.
Where I'm at: https://imgur.com/7SQam2x
Where I need to go: https://imgur.com/Z4Ypd2k

I would love tips, critiques, suggestions for future projects and to see what y'all working on.

Next on the docket?:
Make something like these glitchy screens

Something resembling the Classy Game Covers of yore.
Your requests!

# ? Feb 21, 2018 02:38

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 2, 2024 23:06

alnilam

My request, is that you have fun doing it

# ? Feb 21, 2018 13:43

alnilam

also my other request: corss posting from av thread

alnilam posted:

can someone think of a spring version of my av like maybe a flower and a bird in there or something

e: orig

_{ty manifisto}

# ? Feb 21, 2018 13:48

Papa Was A Video Toaster

I should have said in OP that I can't draw, in case it wasn't obvious.
I had a good time getting set up with guides and all that jazz, but once I had to decide what to put in it got real hard.

# ? Feb 21, 2018 23:13

alnilam

It's lovely :3:

the one with the bouncy spring is tough competition idk

Anyway i like it ty

# ? Feb 21, 2018 23:16

Papa Was A Video Toaster

alnilam posted:

It's lovely the one with the bouncy spring is tough competition idk

Anyway i like it ty

Yeah, once I saw that one I knew I was hooped.

# ? Feb 21, 2018 23:19

blaise rascal: "Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Pearl...."

TVsVeryOwn posted:

this is very cool

ty vanisher, ty khanstant

# ? Feb 22, 2018 15:08

Papa Was A Video Toaster

Thank you. I made a new version with a 3D backdrop, but it's not rendering right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-dWbC60Hic
I don't like all them lines all over the background.

# ? Feb 22, 2018 15:21

Papa Was A Video Toaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-dWbC60Hic
So I tried to make that 3D scene, got a cyclorama scene from Adobe, couldn't get the shadows to look right, turns out I wasn't rendering to final ray traced. I started a 3D final ray trace and now I'm pretty sure Photoshop is going to be rendering this for days.
After 2 hours:

# ? Feb 22, 2018 22:12

Papa Was A Video Toaster

I aborted. There's too many things I want to try.

Someone posted this gem in zaurg's thread and I think I understand how they did it, but I need to be sure.

# ? Feb 22, 2018 22:25

vanisher

TVsVeryOwn posted:

I aborted. There's too many things I want to try.

Someone posted this gem in zaurg's thread and I think I understand how they did it, but I need to be sure.

Ill tell you how i'd make it in GIMP. Drag 15 of the original animated gif into one larger background image, link the frames and rotate so they are in the right place, then merge all the frames with the same number.

# ? Feb 22, 2018 22:31

Papa Was A Video Toaster

I think I can do it with the magic of smart objects and positivity!

# ? Feb 22, 2018 22:33

vanisher

vanisher posted:

A lot of folks think I photoshopped Alnilam into this, but it's actually him dancing. I was just in the right place at the right time to capture it.

# ? Feb 22, 2018 22:39

Papa Was A Video Toaster

I did the thing I thought I had to do and it worked:

I was trying to do a different thing where I delayed the start of the gifs, but by moving them on the timeline they are totally not visible before they start. I want them to hang on frame 1 and then start.

# ? Feb 22, 2018 23:39

Manifisto

TVsVeryOwn posted:

I aborted. There's too many things I want to try.

Someone posted this gem in zaurg's thread and I think I understand how they did it, but I need to be sure.

I know you're focused on photoshop right now, but if you find yourself wanting to do a lot of things like that spinning 3d logo, have you considered learning blender? it's got a bit of a learning curve and it might be a distraction to try to learn two different tools at once. but blender has a really impressive feature set, and it's free. it's not necessarily the right tool for every task of course, but it has some fairly sophisticated animation capabilities (among many other things).

ty nesamdoom!

# ? Feb 22, 2018 23:45

Papa Was A Video Toaster

3D seems like, really hard. I just wanted to kick the tires a little bit. Running a ray trace draft now. I can actually almost see the progress bar move!

Edit: It's bad!

Papa Was A Video Toaster fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Feb 23, 2018

# ? Feb 23, 2018 00:03

Papa Was A Video Toaster

# ? Feb 23, 2018 04:16

alnilam

vanisher posted:

A lot of folks think I photoshopped Alnilam into this, but it's actually him dancing. I was just in the right place at the right time to capture it.

i tried to chase you and your camera away and you performed the "not a scratch" move and i couldn't help but respect it

# ? Feb 23, 2018 05:38

Papa Was A Video Toaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uhcYdYq0BI

Seriously, this thing is a Swiss army knife.

Edited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bokr3OZ4mwc

Papa Was A Video Toaster fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Feb 23, 2018

# ? Feb 23, 2018 18:44

Papa Was A Video Toaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGw6fKaWqYI

# ? Feb 23, 2018 22:45

Manifisto

TVsVeryOwn posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGw6fKaWqYI

I like this

ty nesamdoom!

# ? Feb 24, 2018 01:23

Papa Was A Video Toaster

Manifisto posted:

I like this

Thank you. I was surprised with how easy it was. Just had to draw some layer masks and set some key frames.

I've kind of give up on the Mario thing for now. I can't download the source video (have a support ticket in) and I can't get a gradient I like for the lettering.

# ? Feb 24, 2018 01:42

Papa Was A Video Toaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtlcY4-uz7U

Zaurg is my muse.

# ? Feb 24, 2018 04:39

City of Glompton

TVsVeryOwn posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGw6fKaWqYI

lol

thank you PSP for the beautiful spring sig

# ? Feb 24, 2018 05:35

Papa Was A Video Toaster

Does anyone know a way to kludge together animating scaling a mask in Photoshop? I've tried making a layer mask and creating a clipping mask to an underlying layer in the shape I want, both vector and raster.

Edit: Figured it out. Embedded the mask in the smart object. Scale object, scale the mask.

Papa Was A Video Toaster fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Feb 24, 2018

# ? Feb 24, 2018 05:55

Papa Was A Video Toaster

# ? Feb 24, 2018 06:38

Papa Was A Video Toaster

The derth of cyberpunk Westerns and the fact this title is already taken bum me out.

# ? Feb 25, 2018 03:35

Papa Was A Video Toaster

100% more glitch, 100% more animated!

# ? Feb 25, 2018 05:09

Papa Was A Video Toaster

# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:17

City of Glompton

TVsVeryOwn posted:

thank you PSP for the beautiful spring sig

# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:36

Papa Was A Video Toaster

How do I change/limit the colour space non destructively? To get this effect I changed all the Hue values to 140 (firmly in green) in the GIF compressor (Save for Web in PS).

Edit: More accurate colours:

Papa Was A Video Toaster fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Feb 25, 2018

# ? Feb 25, 2018 07:27

Papa Was A Video Toaster

This is a good link for anyone else messing with glitch/lofi/retro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_palettes

# ? Feb 25, 2018 16:25

Papa Was A Video Toaster

https://tvsveryown.deviantart.com/art/Retro-Console-Color-Tables-732760233

I used that Wikipedia article to make color tables. Making Gameboy .gifs gonna be a breeze now. I tried saving some of the GBC ones with 6 or 8 colors, but I couldn't tell PS that only the first 4 were primary, so I'll have to go back and redo those. (They are not included in this pack.)

# ? Feb 25, 2018 18:36