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Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Xebico on July 08, 2005, 02:55:47 AM: Welcome to the lightning animation tutorial! In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a realistic lightning animation.

Lightning Brushes (http://www.hot.ee/minutuba1/lightningbrushes.abr)

1) Create a new document in Adobe Photoshop, with a black background.

2) Create a new layer in Photoshop, and in this layer, use one of the lightning brushes (supplied), and press anywhere on the canvas to create the lightning bolt.

3) Open up imageready. (picture below)

(http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/9679/imageready4cd.jpg) (http://www.imageshack.us)

4) You should now see this.

(http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/434/10iu.th.jpg) (http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=10iu.jpg)

If you do not see it, go to windows, and make sure animation is checked.

5) Make your layer (the one with the lightning bolt on it) invisible but pressing the little eye icon next to the layer. Now create 3 new frames (by pressing the paper button). Finally make it so that the lightning bolt is visible on the final frame, by clicking on the 4th frame, and clicking on the eye button next to your lightning layer.

(http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3011/27lj.th.jpg) (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=27lj.jpg)

6) Now, with the 4th frame highlighted, hold the shift button, and click on the first frame. Now the four frames should be highlighted. Now press the "tween" button, illustrated below.

(http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/5838/30vy.jpg) (http://www.imageshack.us)

After you press the tween button (shown above) you should have something that looks like that^^. From now on, we will refer to this process as "tweening". For example, we "tweened" between frames 1 and 4 in this situation.

7) Create two new frames (so that you have 6 frames overall), and make the lightning layer invisible on the sixth frame (by clicking on the sixth frame, and pressing the eye button next to the lightning layer.

Now tween between frame 4 and 6.

(http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1373/49bv.jpg) (http://www.imageshack.us)

8) Create two new frames, and make it so that the lightning layer is visible on the eighth frame.

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8479/57yx.jpg) (http://www.imageshack.us)

9) Create 7 new frames, and make the last frame (the 15th) so that the lightning is invisible.

(http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4033/65sc.jpg) (http://www.imageshack.us)

10) Click on the 15th layer, and click were it says "0 sec". Now change the value to two seconds. This means there will be a delay of 2 seconds on that frame.

Your done!

(http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/389/untitled13yr.gif)
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Firefly on July 08, 2005, 03:08:40 AM: Nice, but where are the lighting brushes? I wanna try.
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: marklund on July 08, 2005, 03:29:11 AM: Great tutorial man!
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Xebico on July 08, 2005, 03:31:47 AM: Download the Lightning Brushes (http://www.hot.ee/minutuba1/lightningbrushes.abr).
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: impulse on July 08, 2005, 03:46:46 AM: Did u wrote this tutorials ur self ?
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: .priest on July 08, 2005, 04:16:22 AM: Yeah, did you?
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: impulse on July 08, 2005, 03:44:18 PM: Xebico did u ?
Its pretty good tut : ))
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Xebico on July 08, 2005, 04:37:11 PM: I did not wrote it myself, mainly I made this post for GTAStunting.net people who wants to teach them how to do it.
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: impulse on July 08, 2005, 05:06:20 PM: Mhhs u sure u wrote it ur self ?

http://www.good-tutorials.com/track/9436 (http://www.good-tutorials.com/track/9436)

Its exactly the same
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: impulse on July 09, 2005, 06:35:49 AM: Quote
I did not wrote it myself, mainly I made this post for GTAStunting.net people who wants to teach them how to do it.
Nice edit dude ur busted,
First u said u wrote it now i posted a link of the orginal !
omg just give that dude a link back pff
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Technogeek on July 09, 2005, 06:54:28 AM: :lol: i knew it was out there some where i was looking for that to bust this dude.
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Krab^ on July 09, 2005, 09:15:40 AM: Lol.. next time do try to be honest alright.. u could tell us that u got it from some place.. or u could even do ur own one with some changes.. so that its original stuff.. maybe new ideas to the lightning? But its a great find..
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Prankster on July 09, 2005, 10:09:47 AM: "Could not load the brushes because an unexpected end-of-file was encountered." why!? lol, this happens when i try to load the lightning brush.
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: impulse on July 09, 2005, 10:16:59 AM: Quote
"Could not load the brushes because an unexpected end-of-file was encountered." why!? lol, this happens when i try to load the lightning brush.
That means the brushes doesnt work with the version of ur photoshop
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Yoda on July 09, 2005, 10:59:38 AM: Dude, next time if you post a tut that's not yours, give the guy who made it credit, cause ripping is not cool dude
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: .priest on July 09, 2005, 03:43:55 PM: Ripping.

Ripper.

Go to hell, bitch!
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: NightFear on July 09, 2005, 05:26:15 PM: great tutorial
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Yoda on July 10, 2005, 12:17:07 PM: But it's not his!
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: deviate on July 11, 2005, 12:39:37 AM: Some extremely rude people on this forum Xebico don't mind them.

And if you never come back to read this I would like to tell people on this forum, give more 2nd chances don't criticize the better PS'ers that you.
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Krab^ on July 11, 2005, 02:23:48 AM: Quote
Some extremely rude people on this forum Xebico don't mind them.

And if you never come back to read this I would like to tell people on this forum, give more 2nd chances don't criticize the better PS'ers that you.
What he said ;)
Title: Tutorial: Lightning Animation
Post by: Recon77 on July 11, 2005, 07:23:37 PM: i think the animation doesnt even look realistic, i dont remember lightning stayin still for so long.