Rotoscope Plan of Attack

Here is the very first frame of raw footage that I shot for my 10 seond clip...


Then I broke out the pen tablet and went to work. Here's the basic outline...


So then I filled everything in...


Next thing on the agenda was to create a new layer for the desert background. I just filled the whole image in and used a few filters (film grain, sponge, & underpainting) to get this...


I put them all together aaaaand...


Voila! Man in desert. Now I just have to do this 99 more times... Ugh!

GIF Animation

For my GIF, I wanted to do a stick figure animation of a free runner. I knew that I wanted it to look like a flip book, so I drew all 22 frames by hand:


I had zero experience with Photoshop, but once i figured it out, this was the raw GIF I came up with:


When I tinted my GIF, I decided to have the color change frame by frame along the visual spectrum of light (blue... green... yellow... orange... red... purple... blue...):


For the stylized GIF, I'm not 100% sure what effects I used; I know I used a negative image of the original layers, and then I think I used the Neon Glow effect and the Glowing Edges effect, but I may have used another effect as well. Either way, this is what happended: