Let it grow

Version en français ici.

I can`t claim the idea for this animation but the tutorial was written by me.
You may make them for personal use only.



This one is animated and it might look difficult but you`re going to be surprise how easy it is.
You just need a little patience........lol
You can use any image for this, or just your name on a transparent background.
I made this outline and you may use the pattern to do the same image.



The bigger your image the more frames you will have. I once made one of these with 120 frames.
Believe me, I`ll never do that again.............lol
Is your image ready ?



Save it where you can find it later as a psp file just in case you messed up.
Now click on your eraser tool, hardness 100, size 3.
Erase the first row (3 pixels) from the top of your image, it should be a straight line.
Duplicate this layer and erase the second row.
Duplicate-Erase-Duplicate.........and so on.



Save this as a psp to the same folder your 1.psp file is in.

We`re ready to animate !!!
Go to AnimationShop, browse for your multi-layered file.

When you run the animation you`ll see it`s growing just one way.
Select all frames by holding ctrl and push A.
Select the last frame, Edit-Paste-After selected frame.
Don`t deselect.....go to Animation-Reverse animation.
You should have now doubled your layer number.
I changed the frame property on the 1st and last layer to 50, the other layers are left to default.
You`re done !! Watch it grow !!!
Can`t wait to see what you will let grow !

Here is another one I made.

Tutorial written by Ann of FaeryMagikalPixels
4 August 2007