Animate Explosions Frame by Frame in Photoshop & After Effects

In this tutorial I'll show you how to animate simple explosions frame by frame in Photoshop and how to finalise them in After Effects.
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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:14 Setting up the workspace in Photoshop
1:21 Starting with outlines in Photoshop
3:57 Turning your outlines into shapes in Photoshop
5:02 Finalising the explosion in After Effects
6:04 Outro
We start with setting up the workspace in Photoshop. Important is to know, that it's all pixel based.
So you want to make sure, your canvas is bigger than your comp, later in After Effects because you can't scale it up a lot. We set the timeline to 12 fps.
Then we use a video layer and draw outlines. Explosions are great to practice, as you don't have to be very exact. Just make sure you don't suddenly change the direction of movement. Explosions are very fast and with a lot of pressure, so that wouldn't happen in reality.
Speed is determined through distance. At the beginning distances are bigger, then with air resistance and friction, they are getting smaller. At the same time, the big shapes are falling apart.
After we finished drawing outlines, we turn them into shapes, using the lasso tool and the paint bucket tool.
Finally, we import the PSD File into After Effects - as composition - retaining layer sizes.
We add that to a new comp, we create in After Effects which has 24 fps.
So every frame is doubled which is how frame by frame animation is usually done.
Then we add "fill" to change the color, you could add a glow effect or even "roughen edges" to change the edges of your shapes.
► Software: Photoshop 22.1 / Adobe After Effects 17.5
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Thx! So glad my stuff is helpful! Try my best.

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Hello Sir... can you please make a tutorial on the intro you used in this video....

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Hi! Here you are: czcams.com/video/5GqhHCPoRco/video.html

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[@ThebadExperiment1]

When starting it does not tell me to create a video timeline, instead, it says create frame animation. Please help.

[@ManueldoesMotion]

It seems there is an issue with the new Photoshop version on Mac... Maybe this link helps: community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-convert-to-video-timeline-option-missing-apple-m1-devices/idc-p/11908035#M33970

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