How to Animate Hair in Still Image?

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Shuaizu Jan 1, 2017 @ 6:41pm

I've been looking everywhere for WEEKS and I can't find anything. How would you go about animating hair to make it flow or move in a still picture? I'm trying to make cool gifs and stuff but I have no experience whatsoever.

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76561198034396398 Jan 1, 2017 @ 10:28pm

Photoshop if you've got the money,Gimp might have something (it's free and has a huge range of plugins) perhaps post on the Deviantart forums

Shuaizu Jan 1, 2017 @ 10:49pm

That really doesn't help me.. I know what programs to use. I need to know how to actually do it. Nobody has tutorials or anything.

76561198344401750 Jan 1, 2017 @ 10:52pm

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Commander Makara Jan 1, 2017 @ 11:12pm

Originally posted by MissPanda:
move in a still picture?.

You will be looking for a very long time.
Movement in a still image is definitievely impossible. Something of an Oxymoron. Either it's moving, or it's a still image, but one cannot have both simultaneously.

Alternatively, one could move the still image, such as, taking a printed photograph and relocating that photograph ass trasnlation in spatial coordinates. This would result in a moving still image, but the subject of the image itself will not move nor have any animation.

Shuaizu Jan 1, 2017 @ 11:23pm

Originally posted by Skylx:
Originally posted by Maya:
https://www.labnol.org/software/cinemagraph-tutorial/19453/

Bookmarked for future reference, thanks. ...I usually make mine the hard way

How do you make yours?

Enemy Unknown Jan 2, 2017 @ 1:27am

Try Mark Ferrari on Google about his tutorials. He was the founder of 8bit colo cycle effects for water etc.. With a little training you will be possible to animate hair in a gif.

Here are some examples. http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/

Maybe this supports, but it is no animation.

SmollBrain 🏹 Jan 2, 2017 @ 1:38am

You can't have one image with moving parts. You need multiple images in a loop sequence that move the hair but nothing else

Enemy Unknown Jan 2, 2017 @ 1:48am

Good is to work with layers. Helps alot to see the picture and draw the new hairline etc.. then you hide the first layer and add a third layer where you draw again a new hairline.. etc.. etc.. from that layers you can create a gif. Also you can work with setting a color to a transparent one or define a color when you save it as transparent one.

Animation Tutorials are millions on youtube. To draw is up to you.