Author Topic: Tutorial: Lightning Animation (Read 3650 times)

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

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)

4) You should now see this.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

Firefly · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:08:40 AM »

Nice, but where are the lighting brushes? I wanna try.

marklund · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:29:11 AM »

Great tutorial man!

Xebico · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:31:47 AM »

Download the Lightning Brushes.

impulse · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:46:46 AM »

Did u wrote this tutorials ur self ?

.priest · « **Reply #5 on:** July 08, 2005, 04:16:22 AM »

Yeah, did you?

impulse · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:44:18 PM »

Xebico did u ?
Its pretty good tut : ))

Xebico · « **Reply #7 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.

impulse · « **Reply #8 on:** July 08, 2005, 05:06:20 PM »

Mhhs u sure u wrote it ur self ?

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

Its exactly the same

impulse · « **Reply #9 on:** July 09, 2005, 06:35:49 AM »

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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

Technogeek · « **Reply #10 on:** July 09, 2005, 06:54:28 AM »

i knew it was out there some where i was looking for that to bust this dude.

Krab^ · « **Reply #11 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..

Prankster · « **Reply #12 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.

impulse · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2005, 10:16:59 AM »

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"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

Yoda · « **Reply #14 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