From the course: Animating in Photoshop
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Plotting arcs - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Animating in Photoshop
Plotting arcs
- If for all we do any of the in-betweens, it's really important to plot the arcs. And this is a thing that we used to do back in the day on paper, with a clean sheet of paper, over the actual animation drawings. So the equivalent in Photoshop will be to make a new group and inside this group, a new layer for our arcs. So let's name the group arcs and the layer top, for the top of the body. And it really helps if you do this on frame one, because when I right click here, I'm going to apply a color to this, go to the color overlay, make it nice and bright and blue, or some nice bright color anyway, and then right click on this and make the color blue that way we can't miss it. So now when I begin drawing, it'll really stand out. So I won't get lost. I know I'm drawing on the right layer now too, I won't accidentally draw across the body and wreck a lot of work. So here we go. First things first is make like a little X and…
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