Animating An Eye Blink By VileBile

[ Ever wanted to learn how I make things do the "blink" ? Ever wanted to know that it's actually a lil bit simpler than you thought? WORRY NOT; for I have bullshitted a tutorial for all of you, my friends! It's not INCREDIBLY accurate because again I just kinda...doodled it out and I'm still learning myself. But it should do the trick for getting you slowly into the field of the dreaded and tedious Animation . SO LETS GET ON WITH IT. Down below you'll find a shitty guide to making your ocs...or your favourite characters, BLINK. JUST MAKE SURE, you have photoshop because this is what I use to animate things. If you wanna use a gif maker, then by all means...but I strongly recommend at least Photoshop CS3 or Higher...or even GIMP. But personally I have no idea how to use gimp. ]



[ Once you've finally put it all together and if you did it right. You should come up with something like this! ]



[ However, With the way I animate blinking.

My frame order is this:

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 3 , 2.

My Frame SPEED is at this:

1 ( 0.5 sec )
2 ( 0.08 sec )
3 ( 0.12 sec )
4 ( 0.12 sec )
3 ( 0.1 sec )
2 ( 0.08 sec )
1 ( 0.1 sec )
2 ( 0.08 sec )
3 ( 0.12 sec )
4 ( 0.12 sec )
3 ( 0.1 sec )
2 ( 0.08 sec ) 

Put that together and you get my standard blinking Loop:



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