| As in the Glowing Eyes Tutorial
I used the same photograph of a wolf and cropped out all but the eyes. This photo is
compliments of El Dorado .
We'll be using Creative
Lighting to create glowing starry eyes in this animation and then do some tweaking within
Gif Animator.
Go to
Effect/Ilumination/Creative Lighting.
Select the effect
"Light Bulb". By default the amount of frames are set to 10. We
won't need this many frames for this part of the animation. We'll be working with 5
frames within Lighting and do the rest within Gif Animator. To change the amount of
frames, enter 5 in the last frame box. (see screenshot above).
A small Star will be in
the center of the preview canvas. Reposition the star with your mouse over the left
eye of the wolf. To add a star to the right eye, in the "Elements" box click on
the + button. Light bulb 2 will be added in the Elements box. Another
"star" will also be added to center of the canvas. Reposition Light bulb 2
over the right eye. This frame is finished.
Go to Frame 2 by clicking
the 
arrow in the Key Frame Control Panel. Two "stars" will appear but be
repositioned and the Strength and Size will have changed. You will want to center the
stars over each eye as closely to the mid pupil as possible. While Light Bulb 2 is
highlighted in the Elements box reposition the star over the right eye to the same
position you had it in Frame 1. Change the Strength to 125 and put the Star size
back to 40. Highlight Lightbulb 1 in the Elements box to reposition this star over
the left eye. Change the Strength to 125 and put the Star size at 40.
( Note:
Throughout each frame you will be repositioning the stars over each eye in this
manner but increasing the "Strength" of each by 25 and keeping each star size at
40. )
Click on Frame 3 by
clicking on the arrow in the Key Frame Control Panel. Once again the stars will be
repositioned in the preview canvas and the Strength and Size will also be changed.
Follow the steps above and reposition both eyes (make sure the correct "light
bulb" is selected in the Element box to make it active to reposition). Change
the Strength of each eye in Frame 3 to 150 and keep the Star Size at 40.
Click on Frame 4.
Repeat the above steps but in this frame increase the Strength to 175. Star size
40. The stars may be hard to find while doing this as some may appear off the
preview canvas. Just move your mouse until the cursor locates it.
Click on Frame 5.
Once again repeat these steps and increase the Strength to 200. Star size 40.
Click on the Play  button and  button.
Preview the animation. If you're not satisfied with the positioning of the stars,
click on the appropriate frame and lightbult to reposition and adjust them.
Once you are satisfied
with your animation, click on the Save button. When the Save As dialogue box opens,
name your animation. Frame Delay 10 and click on Open With Ulead Gif Animator.
Click Save.
Gif Animator will open up
with your Creative Lighting animation showing all 5 frames created. This is where
you can do more tweaking of the frames and timing. Preview the animation. This
needs more work as we need more frames for an in and out glowing starry effect and the
timing is way too fast.
Highlight Frames 2, 3, and
4. Right click and "Duplicate Frames". You will now have Frames 5, 6
and 7 highlighted. Don't deselect. While they are
highlighted right click again and choose Change Frame Order/Assign as Last Frame.
Again, don't deselect and while Frames 5, 6 and 7 are highlighted right
click once again and "Reverse Frame Order" with "Reverse the order of the
Selected Frames" checked. Click OK. Preview the animation.
Let's change the timing.
Highlight all Frames and change the Delay to 18. This is much better.
For a more dramatic effect, change the delay to Frame 5 (the brightest part of the eyes in
this animation) to a delay of 80.
If not satisfied, play
more with the timing in the frames. Once satisfied, save your animation. This
was saved using one of the Optimization Wizard's presets, Photo Art 128.
Note:
Optimize the best you can without sacrificing quality as animations made using
Creative Lighting and Particle can be quite huge.
I hope you've enjoyed this
tutorial.
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