{"id":375,"date":"2012-11-07T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T09:16:07","slug":"candle-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Candle Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we will learn how to turn a still photo of candle flame into a realistic video or desktop animation.<\/p>\n

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For this lesson I selected the following simple photo.<\/p>\n

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1. Load it into DP Animation Maker if you want to create a video file or Screensaver\/Wallpaper Maker for creating desktop animations.<\/p>\n

2. Click the Add Animation button and select the Wave brush in the 3rd column. Then click OK to add wave animation into the scene.<\/p>\n

3. Now you need to create an effect mask to apply wave animation to the flame. To do this just paint over the flame using the brush with standard parameters (Size:100, Hardness:0, Opacity:100). Here is an example of the mask you need to draw (You may need to turn on the \u201chighlight effect area\u201d option to see the result clearly.)<\/p>\n

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4. Go to the wave properties tab and set the following parameters.<\/p>\n

Type: Longitudinal wave; Amplitude: 62, Speed: 48, Wave length: 250, Direction: 90<\/p>\n

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5. Add the second Wave brush animation by repeating steps 2 and 3.<\/p>\n

6. The second animated layer should have the following parameters (The last parameter is most important)<\/p>\n

Type: Transverse wave; Amplitude: 21, Speed: 80, Wave length: 350, Direction: 253, Apply animation to: whole scene<\/p>\n

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7.\u00a0 Finally, you can make the animation even better by painting the candle and its flame with the Blinking light brush with the following parameters<\/p>\n

Type: Chaotic, Strength: 12, Speed: 35, Apply animation to: whole scene (!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we will learn how to turn a still photo of candle flame into a realistic video or desktop animation. For this lesson I selected the following simple photo. 1. Load it into DP Animation Maker if you want to create a video file or Screensaver\/Wallpaper Maker for creating desktop animations. 2. Click the Add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advanced","category-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}