The document describes experiments with creating a moving background and character animation in Photoshop. The creator made a long canvas to use as a moving background, adding details like grass, sky, clouds and a lake. They then created a simple "stick robot" character by drawing different poses and coloring arms/legs to imply walking. The background and robot animation were combined on a timeline with the background panning over 46 frames and the robot walking poses changing every 0.2 seconds. The creator was happy it showed intended movement but will improve the character design and use more frames for smoother animation in the final product.

1. Experiments
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2. Process
I made a extended Photoshop canvas so that I could tween it as a moving
background, this meant I could add a character in front and make it look like they
where moving along rather than the background moving. To start I made 2
rectangles, a green one and a blue one, I then colored in the blue one more making
the green look un even, this would work as my grass and sky as you can see above.
With these made I needed to add some slight detail so I drew some clouds then
copied and pasted them along the top of the screen. Finally I drew a blue oval to
make it look as though a small lake was on the grass, this would just break up all the
normal background when It is moving and make it look as though it s not all the
same

3. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
• I may try to do a similar thing with the long background but I will put a lot
more detail into it
• The clouds I drew worked quite well and I may use their design in the
official
• I will try to also make the ground similar in the way it is not all flat, there
are different heights and it gives it some actual difference in the
background

4. Process
While making my character I decided I did not
have the skills to make anything that was
visually impressive so I made a stick robot. I
started with a standing pose (the image at the
top) once I had this I spent a while trying to
figure out how to make it look like he was
moving. I started by coloring in one leg darker
than the other but it didn't look right, I then
decided to change the position of his arms and
color one in. once I had 2 variations of this I
could alternate them on each frame so that it
looked like he was walking. The animation does
not look very good but this was just a trial so I
am not too concerned.

5. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
• I will try include a human like character like the robot I used but I will have
to massively improve the way I draw it so the movement is more clear
• I will colour the arms and legs differently as I did with my robot to help
show the movement

6. Process
I then added both of these together
and tweened my background while
having my robot walk. To do this I
added a timeline at the bottom and
tweened the background over 46
frames, this made it pan over the
background quite fast showing the
whole thing in 9 seconds. After I had
done this I had to add my robot on
each different frame, making sure that
each one had a different walking pose
so that every 0.2 seconds it would
appear his legs are moving. I did this
for all slides then watched it threw,
after watching it I am happy that it
looks like he is moving across the
background and although very poor
my walking animation does get the job
done and show what I intended

7. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
• I will try and include a larger amount of frames so that the background
moves a lot slower but I enjoy the speed of this clip as it matched the
speed I wanted my robot to ”move” at.
• I will also try and keep each movement on a different layer so that it is
smoother and has no overlaps