Dark Angel

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This tutorial was written by Sharon on August 9, 2009

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Scrapkit Dark Angel by me here

Animation Shop

Plugins

Xero Porcelain

Screenworks Fabric Weave & Tyre Tracks

The tube I used from the kit is by Wendy Gerber, read the Poser TOU in the poser folder

You do not need a license with this as these were part of a CU package I bought but you do need to add her ©info

You can visit her new store here

Open a new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with black

Paste glitter hearts 2 as a new layer

Resize to 80%

Duplicate & mirror

Merge down

Paste frame 3 as a new layer

Resize to 85%

Using your magic wand click inside the frame

Expand 5

Paste paper 2 into selection

Deselect

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Apply xero porcelain effect using default settings

Add drop shadow

Paste button 1 as a new layer

Resize 35%

Position where you want, we will be animating this button we are just placing it here so we know where its gonna go and we leave room for it that way.  We will delete this layer in a bit

I positioned mine over the hand so it will look like she's holding it

Do NOT add drop shadow

Paste lipstick as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Rotate left 30

Add drop shadow

Paste bra as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Rotate right 30

Position upper right of frame

Add drop shadow

Apply screenworks fabric weave, leave mode at 0

Repeat the above steps with the panties.  I rotated this one left 20

Paste headphones as a new layer

Resize to 40%

Position over the head of your tube

Add drop shadow

Paste Ipod as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position near the bottom left of your tube

Rotate left 35

Apply screenworks tyre tracs, mode on 0

Using your magic wand click inside the opening

Expand 2

Floodfill with white

Deselect

Add drop shadow

Add some text to the white area

Rotate text left 35 & position into place

You can now delete your button layer

Add your name & text

Resize all layers to 75%

Add your © info

Animation

Merge all layers

Copy & paste into animation shop

Select all, copy & paste after current until you have 10 frames

Make sure you're on frame 1, select all

Now open up your button in animation shop, this is gonna be very easy!

Click on Animation at the top and click on resize

Resize to 35%

Click on Effects and select insert image effect

On the pop up window set effect length to 1.5 sec and frames per second at 6 fps

Click on Effect and select rotate

Click ok

Now view your animation

Making sure you're on frame one select all and grab the button by frame 1 and drop it into place on your tag

Check your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with the tut name in the subject line

:)

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