Animated Name Sig

supplies needed:

PSP any version

Animation Shop (AS)

Kingthings Pique n Meex font HERE

A smallish animation of choice, 

one with not too many frames is good to start with

HERE are a few good ones

Tutorial written by Mizteeque on 26th Jan 2015

Written in psp9 but any version should work

I have seen this tutorial done several times, several different ways

this is the way I do it,

OK lets begin!!

Open animation shop

Open your chosen animation 

ctrl & A to select all frames, copy

Open psp

paste animation as new image

Open blank canvas 600 x 350

floodfill white

Text Tool

Kingthings Pique n Meex font, size 140, background colour black

type your name

convert to raster

Select all, float, defloat

Floodfill tool

In your materials palette, set your foreground to pattern

click the thumbnail image and choose your animation image from the dropdown menu

angle 0, scale 100

floodfill your name

new raster layer

DO NOT DESELECT

back to your animation image

in your layer palette, click the eye to close off the top layer

now go back to your materials palette

choose the animation image again

you must choose the animation not current pattern or it wont change

floodfill your name

new raster layer

still keep it selected

back to animation image

close off the middle layer

back to your materials palette

choose your animation again

If using a different animation with more frames (layers) 

repeat the above steps as many times as necessary to ensure you 

floodfill your name with each layer from the animation (I hope that makes sense)

after the last layer has been filled

new raster layer

expand by 2

floodfill with a metallic gradient of your choice

contract by 3

hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

dropshadow your gold outline 2,2,50,8, black

ok now to actually animate it

There are several ways of getting your tag into animation shop

with just a few frames this is how I do it

My example only has 3 frames

so I close off the top two floodfilled layers

copy merged

Paste as new animation in AS

back in psp

close bottom frame, 

open middle frame,

copy merged, 

paste after current frame in AS

back in psp

close middle frame,

open top frame

copy merged

paste after current frame in AS

save as gif and thats it your done!!

Here are a few more samples made with different animations