Final Picture flash edit

To do these picture flashes, photoshop is used again. The pictures are inserted into photoshop and after using lens flare you save it. This is done repeatedly but the lens flare gradually gets bigger. I mostly started from either 50% or 100% and gradually increased by either 25% or 50%, usually when you get up to 200% the whole picture would be covered. When all the pictures are saved they are insterted into animation ish and as you can see here these are the results. It's really simple but time consuming and what costed extra time was trying to get the timing right so that it went with the song.

Picture flashes

The first verse - 0:11 - 0:38

So I finally finished ONE verse! Its like there's still two chorus and two verses to go!..... Doesn't really make you feel any better but anyway, after finishing this verse it felt really good to see it all come together eventhough its only the first verse.

So here I decided to have the heart in the background, kept the heart beat and everything but to have the heart in the background freezing up. I, once again, turned to photoshop after exporting the scene into images to keep the length of it and then opening it all in photoshop with the images for the freezing heart and started dragging and turning the opacity down and saved all the images again and imported all back into animation ish. Seriously, up to this point I was sick of doing the same thing over and over again but I still managed ;)and this was the result of all that work!

Oh nearly forgot, the next part where it freezes up for like a sec and you miss all the stuff I did for that part. I searched up images of ice and everything, then forged the images together so it doesn't look wierd and finally put it on the layer of the image that was going to be frozen after it was all done and dusted and i inserted it into animation ish i figured i didn't have to do so much for it as you don't really see what I have done.....

The soldier was free hand drawing where I just found images of people from the side view but other than that drawing a soldier from the front and back view was pretty simple, have you noticed? my characters don't have a face! it's because I can't draw one and if I do i figured it ruined it so I left the faces blank, so lets just say... use your imagination!

Beginning with no heart

After playing with this character a lot, I came up with the idea of making her cry because I thought it'll have more impact. Then I had the tears dropping and I thought I could have the tear freeze everything up once it hits the ground or whatever.

Beginning 02

This is the other part of scene 1, here I traced an image of a lady and tried to make it so that it seemed as though her heart beated. I took a while and wasn't going so well, I duno if I'm even doing it right.

All I did was enlarge the image slightly and put a layer on top of the other but as the layers increase it slowly fades.

Changed Heart

At first changing the background went a bit wierd at the beginning so I fixed it up and now it looks like this!

Beginning 01

I thought I'd put this in before the heart freezing up, a lady sees the call of duty letter and then turns white to show that she is shocked. The lady was traced but the rest was free hand drawing so it looks a bit wierd, I wasn't able to find a table that was kinda the old type and round. Neither was I able to find an example of a 'Call of Duty' letter.

Changing the Heart

I didn't like the background and it was hard to connect to the next scene, so I imported the images back into photoshop and put a black layer over it except for the ice and the heart. Then saved each image and imported it back into animation ish.