Studio Monthly, Photoshop animation tute

[Gare]

I wrote a tutorial for Studio Monthly they finally published online (I wrote it late last year!).

Flying a biplane over a forest of broccoli

I used Luxology imageSynth—of which Pixel Dust Biggie Welles won a copy last Christmas—on a photo of a head of broccoli and then flew a 3D model over it. Photoshop CS3 Extended can do this sort of serious fun without After Effects or other editing suite, and if you'd like to see the movie,

Biplane Over Broccoli

By the way, areno had mentioned in a different thread something about PS CS3 Extended exporting to swf and I mentioned it did not. I stand somewhat corrected.

At the last minute, Adobe put a shipload of export codecs into CS3 Extended.

It'll read MOVs, AVI and a few other video file formats. It will import and export a video that has audio, but you cannot add audio in CS 3 Extended, no can you hear it by scrubbing the timeline.

It exports to FLV, Flash video, which is not the same as a standalone SWF Shockwave file, and you need a special player to view it, o9r more simply (and expensively) you but Flash and embed the FLV file in a Flash project then export it as a swf.

The integration between PS CS3 Extended and Illustrator is fantastic, by the way. Russell Brown, Adobe's resident Art Director, has posted a lot of  Russell's Quick Time tutorials   and I recommend that you dig into 'em!

My Best,

Gare

[Welles]

That's a great little animation, Gare.  It reminds me of the opening lines of Evangeline...

THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring broccoli sans cheese sauce,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.