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Sunday, 11 August 2019

TV - Chewing Gum for the Eyes



This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 17th July 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.
Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.



Supplies Needed: 
Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Jennifer Janesko
which can be purchased from CDO
My supplies HERE
Font of choice


open blank canvas 700 x 250

c/p television, move down a little so the screen
is in the center of your canvas

freehand selection tool, feather 1, select round the 
screen of the television

c/p tube, resize to fit nicely inside the screen
invert selection, delete
change blend mode to luminance legacy

c/p grain 1, resize 30, position to your liking within the selection
delete
repeat but move to a slightly different position
c/p grain 2, resize 30, position to your liking within the selection
delete
deselect

change blend mode to dodge on all three grain layers
and lower opacity to 66
make sure grain 2 layer is active
layers - arrange - move down

hide the top 2 grain layers
copy merged 

open Animation Shop
paste as new animation

back in psp
hide bottom grain layer
unhide middle grain layer

in AS paste after current frame

back in psp
hide middle grain layer
copy merged

in AS paste after current frame
repeat twice more

back in psp
unhide top grain layer
copy merged

in AS paste after current frame

OK now we have our animation ready, go back to psp and lets build the rest of the tag

hide all layers on our canvas except the bottom one
floodfill with #d5be92

c/p film as new layer
duplicate, rotate, mirror, flip several times to cover the canvas
merge visible

using a small pixel font, type out "TV CHEWING GUM FOR THE EYES" several times 
until it reaches right across your canvas
convert to raster
position approx 1 cm up from the bottom edge
change blend mode to dodge
duplicate and position approx 1cm down from the top edge

Add name, license and copyright information

copy merged

in AS paste as new animation, duplicate until you have 6 frames
make the TV canvas active, ctrl & A to select all frames, copy
on FILM canvas, ctrl & A, paste into selected frames, 
position the TV to your liking and click once

save as gif

2 comments:

  1. This is a so great tut Tee, but did the tube comes with eyes closed too or did you made it ?

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    1. Hi Betsy, no the tube did not come with closed eyes also. I animated them myself xx

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