How to make a Trippy Animation...

Hi guys... this is my first tutorial... ever...

before i start off i want to make it clear that I DID NOT COME UP WITH THIS IDEA!!! nop... i didnt... I'm not rippin it off from any other tutorial... cuz I searched a lot for this tutorial... and didnt find it...

and that search brought me to this website... and since i figured how to do this now... i thot i'll write a tut on it...

I saw 2 animations like this on forums and stuff... this is my favrt... the other one was an 100x100 avatar...

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9...d735390lr4.gif

so if u like it and want to kno how its done... read on...

/start tutorial....

This is the pic I'm gonna use...

we are gonna start by double clicking the Background layer in layers panel.. and thus unlockin it...

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4225/defea9.jpg
yup.. thats Abe alright...


First i'm gonna put it in a square... (so that I can later resize it to make it an Avatar) But do not crop... jus change the Canvas size.. in my pic i changed it to 325x325...
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6679/01cropzr0.jpg

now Duplicate the layer...

then tilt it a bit... like this...
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6207/02tilthx9.jpg
(yes its tilted.. jus a bit though...)

This step is optional... but u can giv it a minor twirl...
Filters>Effects>Twirl

i gave a value of -10

Now Duplicate the tilted layer...

Then give it a Radical Blur with the settings shown below...
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/619/03blurbv2.jpg

Now take a soft brush for the erasor... Put the opacity to 50%... then erase some bits off.. like the face... so that the face from the non-blurred layer below wud be visible...

then u can merge down...

so now we have 2 pics...

1-this one with no effects...
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6679/01cropzr0.jpg
2-and this one which is tilted (maybe twirled) and blurred...
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1361/04erascf9.jpg

now... duplicate each later... and invert these duplicated layers... Ctrl+I (I for invert)

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/219/05lyrsnc3.jpg

now Ctrl+Shift+M to edit it in Imageready....
(I jus did this.. and an error comes... Plz convert the picture into 8bit RGB... so go to Image>Mode and convert... jus select Don't Merge wen the question pops)

yes almost done... now jus for the animation bit...

Now thr r 2 ways to arrange the frames...
Forward and backward... I chose Backward...
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4914/06ordrwo2.jpg

Here's my end result...

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5924/heehpf9.gif

errr... didn't turn out so gud... It all depends on the pic u use too...

like the pic I showed as an example... now thats some gud stuff...

thnk u all...

kinda weird lookin but cool i saw sumthin like this on ebaumsworld but it was a spider. good job tho ur first tut my first post = P

yes.. that Spider was wut I was talkin abt wen i said abt an avatar...

hmm... I feel it still misses something... can't really put my finger on it...

the first animation with the jap guy, that's fucking sick :D
nice job :3

oh no no... that first animation isnt mine... I jus figured out how it was done and attempted to replicate the effect...

I know :p but the effect itself fits well with the first pic
I might even try this tut :D

only real difference I see is that his zooms more while yours just slants the image...and that his is a negative while you inverted yours. Nice tut btw and cool result

mmmmmmmmmm... well i can perfectly understand the tut, i just didnt like the outcome, sorry. bout great tut tho.

the only difference is the first one scales, which creates the impression of a zoom, you can easily add that in the tut. Good job dissecting ;)

:D
http://i30.tinypic.com/6gv34p.gif

fyi, i didnt make this :/