When I happened to rotate a speech bubble with a scatter effect,

an unexpected world of weightlessness unfolded,

so I decided to make it into a TIPS.

It's easy to make!

Draw a scatter effect brush on a vector layer.

Just add keyframes and rotate it.

Once the brush is ready, you can create a GIF animation in 5 to 10 minutes.

Let's get started right away!

First, create an illustration canvas of 500x500px.

GIF animations can quickly exceed 10MB.

Sorry for this size.

Draw a circle with a ruler

Add a vector layer to the canvas.

Display the grid.

Snap to the grid.

Draw a circle on the canvas using the Ellipse figure ruler.

G-pen for now

Uncheck 'Pen pressure' in the G-pen's brush size influence source settings,

and draw a circle along the canvas ruler.

Add a gradient layer to create a night background.

Select the vector layer again in the Layer palette.

Choose the Object sub tool.

Display the Sub Tool Detail palette.

Change the main color to white (snow color).

Select 'Brush size' in the Sub Tool Detail items.

Set the brush size to 600 (px).

Select 'Stroke' in the Sub Tool Detail items.

Choose 'Fixed' (the leftmost of the four spacing icons).

Set the value to 100.

Scatter Effect Settings

Select 'Scatter effect' in the Sub Tool Detail items.

Check 'Scatter effect'.

Set 'Particle size' to (16).

Check 'Random' in 'Influence source settings'.

Set the value to (20).

Set 'Scatter deviation' to (-50).

Set 'Particle density' to (6).

Creating the Timeline

Display the Timeline palette.

Click the 'New Timeline' icon on the left side of the Timeline palette.

Set up a new timeline.

Set the frame rate to (24).

Set the playback time to (6 seconds + 0 frames) and click 'OK'.

A 6-second timeline will be created.

Keyframes

Click the 'Enable keyframes on layer' icon in the Timeline palette.

Click the 'Keyframe interpolation' icon? and select 'Create keyframes: Linear'.

Then, click the 'Add keyframe' icon to its left.

A keyframe will be added at the beginning of the timeline.

Click the 'Move frame' icon 'To End' in the Timeline palette.

Display the 'Tool Property' palette.

Enter '360' for the 'Rotation angle' value.

A keyframe will be added to the last frame of the timeline.

Drag the added keyframe to a frame outside the display area.

The canvas handle will tilt slightly, which is a sign of success.

The work is complete.

Now, export this as a GIF animation.

From the 'File' menu, select 'Export animation' > 'Animated GIF'.

Set width (500) height (500) px.

Frame rate (24) fps.

Loop count (infinite).

Check dithering and click 'OK'.

Finished!

I'll recreate it from the settings

and try having a girl stand in the falling snow.

She looks cold.

A little improvement

 

I thought of something, so I added a little more.

It's not just fluttering, but also moving downwards as it flutters.

I duplicated the layer four times and arranged them to move from top to bottom.

Some snow is rising, but overall it's slowly descending.

Duplicate the scatter effect layer four times in the Layer palette.

Choose the Object sub tool.

In the Timeline palette, click the 1st frame of the bottommost of the four layers.

Set the 'Y' value of 'Position' in 'Transform' in the Tool Property palette to (250).

It should probably be (250) from the start, but please confirm.

In the Timeline palette, click the 1st frame of the layer above it.

Set the 'Y' value in the Tool Property palette to (750).

In the Timeline palette, click the 1st frame of the second layer from the top.

Set the 'Y' value in the Tool Property palette to (-250).

Sometimes the minus sign (-) might not be entered correctly.

Please be careful.

In the Timeline palette, click the 1st frame of the topmost layer.

Set the 'Y' value in the Tool Property palette to (-750).

Click the 'To End' icon in the Timeline palette to display the end of the timeline.

Drag the topmost blue bar of the timeline one frame to the right.

Also drag the playback range of the four layers one frame to the right.

The playback range can be changed by dragging the small square on the right.

(*The attached image already shows it extended by one frame.)

Similarly,

In the Timeline palette, click the last frame of the bottommost of the four duplicated layers.

Set the 'Y' value of 'Position' in 'Transform' in the Tool Property palette to (750).

In the Timeline palette, click the last frame of the layer above it.

Set the 'Y' value of 'Position' in 'Transform' in the Tool Property palette to (1250).

In the Timeline palette, click the last frame of the second layer from the top.

Set the 'Y' value of 'Position' in 'Transform' in the Tool Property palette to (250).

In the Timeline palette, click the last frame of the topmost layer.

Set the 'Y' value of 'Position' in 'Transform' in the Tool Property palette to (-250).

Finally,

move the playback range back one frame to the left.

Export this, and you're done.

Theme revisited!

And then,

as 'magical animation',

a cat wizard wears rainbow-colored snow.

It looks like she's adorned with spherical snow,

but it's just Nyakoko sandwiched between scatter effect vector layers.

A mysterious effect that makes it look three-dimensional was created.

 

Truly magical animation.

That's all for now.

Next is the magic of 'flying taiyaki'.