Adobe Photoshop Puppet Pin Tool to make micro animations

[mugenjohncel]

So I wanted to make them single sprites look "Alive" and "3D" without actually learning 3D for my OELVN projects... and even if I do know 3D chances are it will look like Poser-Porn... my requirements (in theory) can be handled by Motion Portrait technology...

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I recommend you go directly to You-tube and watch in in glorious HD... here is link for those who can't view this using uncooperative browsers http://youtu.be/tdw0jPn92wI?hd=1

But since Motion Portrait is only available to Iphone and is "only" currently accessible in Iphone... I decided to look for alternatives to imitate what Motion Portrait can do... turns out... it's just under my nose and right in my face all this time... Adobe Photoshop Puppet Pin Tool (Seriously, why didn't I notice this tool before)... Whatever... here are the results I managed to produce so far...

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[Adorya]

Well, seems to be you need at least After Effect 3 or Photoshop CS5 to work on it...care for a renpy integration tutorial? :p

[mugenjohncel]

Well, seems to be you need at least After Effect 3 or Photoshop CS5 to work on it...care for a renpy integration tutorial? :p

Well... it's nothing really complicated... I just export individual animated sprite frames as .png with transparency and animate them in Ren'py... this particular example used 72 Lucy the Second images... for it to be effective (and usable in Ren'py) without bogging lower end systems, I'm planning on limiting myself to 12fps. For example a breathing standing idle animation using 6 frames to inhale and reverse the process for 5 frames using the previous 5 images playing in reverse... I already did this once way WAY back (using Photoshops Liquify Tool) in the original Lucy's revenge mashing uh... those...

Only potential problem I can see is bogged down frame-rate for low end machines...

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