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June 21, 2018
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2D Rotation on a walkway

  • June 21, 2018
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Im trying to achieve the animation of a flat circle object rotating on the ground. I can make the circle rotate by creating a timeline to do so. But stuck at what to do when I skew it to appear that its on the walkway. the rotation becomes warped.

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Participant
June 22, 2018

Nevermind, I figured it out

Participant
June 21, 2018

Thanks. This is what Im looking for. Im working on it now.

D.A.R
Legend
June 21, 2018

Making the assumption your animation is a gif.

Build your animation in a separate file. If a circle then a square file will be easiest to work with.

Save the master version as a psd file with layers.

Place the PSD file into your file in which the animation will be warped. Use the transform tools to adjust placement on the walkway.

Duplicate the Smart Object layer (via copy) as many times as necessary for the animation steps.

Open each of the smart objects and advance the animation as needed.

Essentially you are building another animation so use the same techniques in the timeline.

Now export as a gif. I have only included a few steps here at a slower rate.

Participant
June 22, 2018

Excellent example. To take it one step futher. There a image in the circle that varies. Is there a way to just change the image and it reflects on all the copies?

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 22, 2018

There's an easier way.  Make the animation with no distortion like so

Group the layers, and Free Transform the group

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2018

If you are using a video timeline then you presumably have your circle in a smart object and are using transform keyframes to rotate it.

If so convert that smart object layer into another smart object, so you now have a nested SO) and transform skew the result - the disc should rotate

Dave

Participant
June 21, 2018

Makes complete sense. Any ideas on how i can achieve what Im trying to do?

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2018

You can not simply rorate the circle for it is no longer a circle you warped the circle to give it the aparence of being on the side wark;

JJMack