Animation and Rationale

The animation was a blast (see the collage rationale to understand the images and the font poem rationale to understand the fonts used).

So how does one make an animation in Photoshop?
-Have font poem open with all layers visible, save collage as .gif or jpeg than select collage > copy and past it into the font poem psd. It should show up as a layer with the words with the font poem. In Photoshop > window > animation to begin. To control what appears you just click the eye button next to each layer. So if the eye button was on for that layer it'd appear, so basically I clicked the eye button only for certain words on each slide. Than you would do a new slide and make sure the eye was clicked off from the previous slide. Every other slide I had my collage slowly starting to come in by increasing the opacity by 5% --I did this to add a cool flame flicker effect.

When the collage wasn't fading in, I had the words come in sometimes in groups or repeated for emphasis. I had dream appear once in the collage to show that the collage is dream-like and merging of both worlds. At the end I had the font poem over the collage. I needed to change some of the font colors in order to work with all the red of the firey look. Also, the word side for some reason or another didn't show up as a layer when I clicked the eye button. So I had to copy and paste it from the font poem saved file into the animation psd. Annoying part about that is if you add/change one aspect of a slide it affect all other slides.

I had 33 slides because I had 22 words and every other slide was the collage. So a lot to deal with, compared to other people who had only 12 words and a similar amount of slides. My slides were fast paced .5 seconds per except on the last 3 slides which were "to scream", the font poem over the collage and just the collage itself in full visibility.