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Preparing photo hands for animation using After Effects.

I’ve got my photoshop file with all of my hands on different layers and I’ve also added a sleeve, a back of the sleeve and a wrist.

Below is an example of how this will look when I’ve got all my hands together (there’s just 3 different hands but I have about 10 [...]

David Cameron gif with background

Here’ a Gif of my photo assembled David Cameron.

Easy way to make your spaceship model fly by.

Here at Blunt HQ we’ve been experimenting with simple space ship fly bys. Basically using some fishing wire we dangled our space rocket in front of a bluescreen and spun it slowly.

Then we cut the shot with the space rocket beginning pointing towards the camera and finishing pointing away. we keyed out [...]

David Cameron. Floating Head Animated Gif

Having prepared my David Cameron Head I took my photoshop file over to After Effects where I made this Animated Gif (more how to do this tomorrow).

Animated Gif of David Cameron's Floating [...]

Using Photos for animation. Preparing your character.

I’m making a character using photos of a famous person: Daivid Cameron. I’ve chosen him because being elected the next British Prime Minister it should be easy to find photos of him on the internet. In the last blog entry I gathered a few pictures of Cameron to work on. Today I’ve concentrated on [...]