Painter Primer

Animating Your Digital Paintings

This tutorial will teach you how to create an animated showcase for your first three digital paintings. I suggest you embrace the process because you'll be using this format for all your work for the remainder of the year. Please feel free to improve on the basics laid down in this tutorial. Here's what we'll be building, here's the starter fla, and if you need to see it, here's the finished fla.

1 – Open your paintings (.rif files) and File > Save As Photoshop. Open the new PSDs (your paintings) and the original photos in Photoshop and Save for Web into a new folder (so you don't overwrite any of your original files).

2 – Open painter_primer.fla (the starter fla), import the optimized JPGs into the Library, and follow the instructions to begin the animation without generating any Symbols named Tween 1, 2, 3...

3 – Continue the process.

4 – Finish up the first animation.

5 – Lay down the second animation.

6 – The third animation should be fairly straight forward.

7 – Upload the project to your Website (with source files). If you don't remember how to place the swf in an html page and set the link, refer to this tutorial.

Note: If you have any Symbols named Tween 1, 2, 3... You must recreate the fla (because I will delete your original!).

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