Lynda - Designs dekeConstructed - Animating a Mind-Bending Illusion

Learn what it takes to design your own mind-bending illusion, in this installment of Designs dekeConstructed?the series that breaks down popular graphic designs and show you how to re-create them on your own. Deke starts out by drawing an "impossible" Penrose triangle and a golden ball in Adobe Illustrator. Next, he plots a path for the ball to follow around the triangle. Last, he moves to Photoshop, where he shows you how to animate the ball with a combination of layer masks and the timeline.

Topics include:

Creating an "impossible" triangle with hexagons and gradients  

Drawing and filling the golden ball  

Drawing the path of the ball  

Creating frames as layers  

Animating your artwork in Photoshop  

Author: Deke McClelland

Subjects: Design Design Techniques Projects Illustration

Software: Illustrator Photoshop

Duration: 1h 26m

Level: Intermediate

Released: Aug 14, 2014