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How To Make a Blinking Animation
in
Paint Tool SAI & EZGif

Step One: Create your eyes on a separate layer.
*Make sure that the space beneath the eye is filled in neatly -
whether with the body color or perhaps makeup.

Step Two: Duplicate your layers three times.
*We will need three copies of your eyes and three bodies to put them on.
In the end, there will be four frames - but frames 2 and 4 will be the same!

Step Three: Edit your eyes.
*One pair of eyes - your original set - will be left alone.
The second pair should have it's top half erased to appear half-closed.
The third pair should be drawn closed.

Step Four: Merge and save your layers.
*Sandwich your bodies between your eyes and merge your eyes down onto them.
End with three layers:
Save body with eyes open as frame 1.
Save body with eyes half-open as frames 2 and 4.
Save body with eyes closed as frame 3.

Step Five: Open your Animation Tool!
*While there are many tools available, I'd like to introduce you to EZGif.com
Visit: ezgif.com/maker And upload your four images.

Have them numbered 1 through 4 so they appear correctly when uploaded.
Press Upload once you've selected your files to continue.

Step Six: Change the frame rate.
*Now this part is entirely up to personal preference, but my settings
are 200 for frame one, 10 for frames two and four, and 20 for frame three.

Be sure to check “don't stack frames” before continuing.
Press Animate it! to continue.

From here you can use this site to do lots of cool stuff to your gif!
Keep in mind that gifs on deviantART require preview images.
If you want your preview image to be animated, it must be 150x150 or smaller.

Description

Below is a transcript of the above!
-
How To Make a Blinking Animation
in
Paint Tool SAI & EZGif

Step One: Create your eyes on a separate layer.
*Make sure that the space beneath the eye is filled in neatly -
whether with the body color or perhaps makeup.

Step Two: Duplicate your layers three times.
*We will need three copies of your eyes and three bodies to put them on.
In the end, there will be four frames - but frames 2 and 4 will be the same!

Step Three: Edit your eyes.
*One pair of eyes - your original set - will be left alone.
The second pair should have it's top half erased to appear half-closed.
The third pair should be drawn closed.

Step Four: Merge and save your layers.
*Sandwich your bodies between your eyes and merge your eyes down onto them.
End with three layers:
Save body with eyes open as frame 1.
Save body with eyes half-open as frames 2 and 4.
Save body with eyes closed as frame 3.

Step Five: Open your Animation Tool!
*While there are many tools available, I'd like to introduce you to EZGif.com
Visit: ezgif.com/maker And upload your four images.

Have them numbered 1 through 4 so they appear correctly when uploaded.
Press Upload once you've selected your files to continue.

Step Six: Change the frame rate.
*Now this part is entirely up to personal preference, but my settings
are 200 for frame one, 10 for frames two and four, and 20 for frame three.

Be sure to check “don't stack frames” before continuing.
Press Animate it! to continue.

From here you can use this site to do lots of cool stuff to your gif!
Keep in mind that gifs on deviantART require preview images.
If you want your preview image to be animated, it must be 150x150 or smaller.