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| Making an Animation in Animation Shop |
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| Contributed by Linda | |
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This will be a fun tutorial to give you a little basic beginner knowledge of Animation Shop. Here is the image that I will be working on. If you'd like to use it, just right click on the image and save it to your computer.  Open up Animation Shop and click on "file" and then "open". Browse to where you have stored your image, click on it and then click "open" and your image is now showing in Animation Shop. What we're going to accomplish in this tutorial is to get our "fuzzball' image to blink. To do this, we need to make two frames. One will be with the eyes open and the other frame will be with the eyes closed. We already have the opened eyed image, so let's make a closed eyed version. Make sure your color palette and other tool options are showing. If you don't see the options, right click on the tool that looks like a wrench. I have all of my options clicked except for the VCR. That will keep everything handy! In your color pallette, click on the top color square as shown here.  When the color choice pops up, choose the black square and click "ok". Both of my squares are showing black, but it doesn't matter what color the bottom square is as the top one dictates the color of our brush. With the top square showing black, we're now ready to paint! Now click on your paintbrush tool. I have mine set for a width of "15" for this project. With your paintbrush, left click and paint over the eyes. Go up to "file" and "save as". I named mine "fuzzball2". Now that we have our second image, we're ready to put the frames together. Click on "file" and choose "animation wizard". On the first page, you want the dimensions to be the same size as the first image frame, so put a dot by that option and click "next". Put a dot by "transparent" background and click "next". Don't change anything on the next page just click "next". On the next page, put a dot to repeat the animation indefinitely and click "next". On the next page, click to "add" the image. Find where you have saved your image, click on it and then click open. Now click on "add image" again and this time find your second image and repeat the same instructions. Now click "next" and then click "finish". Your two images appear, side by side. Go up to "view" and then click "animation" and you'll see how it will appear. The eyes are blinking a bit too fast, so I'm going to slow that down. Click the X on the preview frame with the blinking eyes. Go up to "edit" and choose "select all" as this will change "all" the frames to the same speed. Now go up to "animation" and click on "frame properties". Mine is showing "10", so I'm going to backspace that number out and change that to 25. Go up to "view" and then "animation" and check the speed again. It's still too fast, so I repeat the above instructions, but this time I'm changing it to 50 and view it again. This time I like it, so I'm ready to go up to "file" and "save as". In some animations, you might need to change the speed of maybe one frame and not all of them. This comes to mind in particular on the last frame sometimes where you want it to "hold" for a few more seconds. Anytime that you want to change a particular frame, don't go up to "edit" and "select all". Just click to highlight the particular frame that you want to work on and then go up to "animation" and "frame properties" and set the speed for that one frame. Always click to view and if you don't like it, just keep changing it until you have it set the way you want and then you're ready to save it to your computer. Here's the finished image - 
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