Photoshop Brush Animation

For our first assignment of the week, we had to use mask layers in Adobe Flash to reveal different photoshop brushes on an original photo of our own. Using a picture of my brother and some cool gear brushes, I opened up his head and turned him into a robot.



I wanted to use the concept of the top of a head opening like a lid, revealing the brushes inside. At first I wanted to use an edgier theme, like a waterfall of thoughts and notebook scribble ideas. I instead opted for more machinery because it was simpler and more realistic to achieve. I tried to use different gears and I overlapped them to create some depth (although they still remain somewhat flat).I had to take two pictures and cut my brother out of one of them so I could slice his head open. Then in Flash, I created a different mask for each gear layer and animated the head using a classic tween. Post-production I used After Effects and used the pen tool to create two new layers for each eye, then I applied a glow effect and set opacity on a timeline to fade in and out. Finally I rendered the whole thing in Premiere with some choice sound effects.

I feel like although the overall design is simplistic in nature, it meets the requirements of both the assignment and my expectations. It is only the first week after all, and the assignment was light enough to warm me up for the rest of the quarter.