My 10 Strengths Video Animation

The Process

First, we put our 10 strengths in the side gadget on our blog. Then, we got a picture (copyright free) off the Internet and put in Photoshop as the background. We added a text layer for each strength on top of the background (using typeface, colors, sizing, etc.). This step took a while because we had to arrange the words in a somewhat good order. We also had the option of changing the image with brightness, contrast, and hue. Then, we started animating the words on the video timeline. To start off, the "fade with black" tool was used for fading in the opening image (without words). The words were animated using the "transform" keyframes, where Photoshop automatically animated the word movement from start to finish on each word layer. Pretty cool! The ending also had a "fade with black" added on.

What's New?

The new tools that we used in Photoshop were the video timeline, fade with black, and transform keyframes. The video timeline was different than last project's frame animation timeline. To start off the animation, we used fade with black to gradually bring in the scene. This was similar to the "tween" tool used in frame animation. Finally, we used transform to set certain keyframes that moved a certain way. Photoshop animated the movement in between your start and end frame! The animation could have been flying in, fading in, shaking, going in a circle, and so on.

Next Time

I would make better animations for the text frames next time. Some of my animations were not very smooth, or looked out of place, so I would make them better if we did this again. Yet, I would still keep the same layout and background because I liked how the words were arranged around the field. This would be something that I would the keep the same next time. 

Here is the video animation of my 10 strengths! (Like, subscribe, and share of course.)