Jumping Santa

© Louise G

This is a nice little jumping Santa.

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You will need my hair tube also. Get it here.

Start with a New Image 200 x 380, transparent.
Fill Layer 1 with a color, preferably some blue color. That is because you can always
make that layer visible, whenever you like and see better what you are doing. You delete that Layer later.
Keep it always closed when you Merge the Layers.

New Layer, Call it Spring1. Red color on both Fore- and Background.
Draw. Antialias checked. Single Line 12. Make a vertical line 170 long. Effects, Geometric, Wave.

Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the spring. Click inside it. Effects, Cutout.

Close Layer Spring1. New Layer, Call it Spring2. Draw, Antialias checked. Single Line 20.
Make a vertical line 120 long. Make the same Geometric Effect, Wave as before and the same Cutout.
Deformation Tool. Push the nodes at the arrows.
You have to make the spring a little shorter and not so wide.

Close Layer Spring2 and open Layer Spring1.

We are now going to make the legs.

New Layer. Call it Leg1. The same red color as before. Preset Shapes, Rounded Rectangle.
Make a rectangle 25 x 35. Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the leg.
Click inside it. Effects, Cutout, the same as before. Place it on the spring.

New Layer. Call it Shoe1. Black color on both Fore- and Background.
Preset Shapes, Rounded Rectangle. Make a rectangle 30 x 40.
Deformation Tool. Push the node shown below. Keep Shift down while you push.

New Layer. Call it Shoe2. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Make an oval 40 x 30.
Put it on top of Layer Shoe1.

Close Layer Spring1 and Spring2. Merge Visible to the rest. Call the Layer Leg1.

Duplicate. Call the Layer Leg2. Image, Mirror.
Make Layer Spring1 visible again and put the legs in place.

Close Layer Spring1. Merge Visible to the Leg layers. Call it Legs.
Duplicate Legs Layer. Turn it off. Make Layer Spring1 visible.
Merge Visible to Layer Spring1 and Layer Legs. Call it Legs1.
Turn off Layer Legs1. Make visible to Layer Leg2 and Copy of Legs.
Put the legs in place on the same place as on Layer Legs1.
Merge Visible to them and call the Layer Legs2.

Now you will have a long and a short spring with legs on.
Duplicate Layer Legs2. Call it Layer Legs3. Close Layer legs1 and 2.
Selection Tool, Rectangle. Delete most of the spring.

New Layer. Call it Arm. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Red color. Make an oval 115 x 30.
Make the Cutout as before. Deformation Tool. Turn the arm down.

New Layer. Call it Band. Draw , Single Line 10. Antialias checked.
Green color on both Fore- and Background. Make a rectangle 14 x 10.
Put it at the end of the arm.

New Layer. Call it Hand. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Antialias checked.
Black color on both Fore- and Background. Make an oval 20 x 30.
Deformation Tool. Turn it and put it in place at the end of the Band.

Make sure you have Layer Band on top. Layer Hand in the middle and Layer Arm at the bottom.
Close Layer Spring1 and 2. Merge Visible. Call it Layer Arm1.
It looks like this.

Duplicate. Call it Layer Arm2. Image, Mirror.

This is how you shall put the parts.

Close all Layers.

New Layer. Call it Head. Preset Shapes, Ellipse.
Color #F6D1AC on both Fore- and Background. Make a circle 75 x 75.
Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the head. Click inside it. Effects, Cutout.

Deselect.

Stand on Layer Head. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the head.
Click inside it. Keep the "ants" dancing and make a New Layer.
Airbrush. Red color. Make a little red on Santas cheeks.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 8. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Eye. Preset Shapes, Ellipse.
Color black on both Fore- and Background. Make a circle 7 x 7. Put the eye in place.
Duplicate and put the other eye also in place.

New Layer. Call it Nose.  Preset Shapes, Ellipse.
Color #EF9A6B on both Fore- and Background. Make an oval 10 x 6.
Put the nose in place.

New Layer. Call it Mouth.  Preset Shapes, Crescent. 
Color #F78E83 on both Fore- and Background. Make it 7 x 8.
Put the mouth in place. Image, Rotate 90º left.

New Layer. Call it Eyebrow.  Preset Shapes, Ellipse, Retain Style.
Color black. Make it 7 x 7. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Delete more than half of the circle.

 Put the eyebrow in place. Duplicate and put the other eyebrow in place.
Keep the Legs and Arms Layers closed. Merge Visible. Call it Head.

Now to the cap.

New Vector Layer. Call it Cap.  Preset Shapes, Callout 12. Create as vector checked.
Make sure to uncheck Retain Style. Color red on both Fore- and Background.

Make it  85 x 70 . Image, Mirror.

Object Selector. Node Edit..Rearrange the nodes like I did.

Right click and Quit Node Editing. Left click outside your picture.
In your Layers Palette, right click on your Head Layer and Convert to Raster layer.

Stand on Cap Layer. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the cap. Click inside it.
Keep the "ants" dancing. New Layer. Airbrush, darkred color. Make lines on the cap like I did.

Blur, Gaussian Blur 5. Deselect.

Stand on Cap Layer. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the cap. Click inside it.
Keep the "ants" dancing. Effects, Cutout. The same settings as you did on Arms. Deselect.

New Vector Layer. Call it Rim.  Preset Shapes, Rounded Rectangle. Create as vector checked.
 Color white on both Fore- and Background. Make it 90 x 30.
Add some nodes while you press Shift. Arrange them like I did.

Right click and Quit Node Editing. Left click outside your picture.
In your Layers Palette, right click on your Rim Layer and Convert to Raster layer.

Stand on Rim Layer. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the rim. Click inside it.
Keep the "ants" dancing. Effects, Cutout.

Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Ball. Preset Shapes. Ellipse. Uncheck Create as vector. Make a ball  25 x 25.
Put it at the end of the cap. Take the same Cutout as you did on Layer Rim.

Close Legs and Arms Layers. Arrange the cap-part to your liking.
Merge Visible to the rest. Call it Head.

I arranged my Cap-layers like this.

Now to the beard.

New Layer. Call it Beard. Take your logimhair tube, size 50.
Put hair on Santas chin and cheeks.
Colors, Adjust Brightness/Contrast. Set Brightness to 26. Contrast 0.

Layers, View all. Delete Layer 1.
Now you have to arrange the arms and legs to their right places.

It will look like this.

Close all Legs Layers. Merge Visible to the rest. Call it Body.

You are now going to put the Body on each of the Legs Layers.

Keep Body and Legs1 open. Layers, Merge Visible. Copy and Paste as a New Image.
Save it as Santa1. Now you have to check the size of your New Image, (Santa1).
My Image is 181 x 372. Make two more with the same size. Save them as Santa2 and Santa3.

Go back to your first Image and Undo the Merging. Now close Layer Legs1 and
open Layer Legs2. Now you will have Body Layer and Legs2 Layer open.
Layers, Merge Visible to them. Copy and Paste as a New Layer in your Image Santa2.
You have to drag the Santa up a bit, with his head almost up at the top.
There must be a tiny bit difference between the two pictures.

Go back to your first Image and Undo the Merging. Now close Layer Legs2 and
open Layer Legs3. Now you will have Body Layer and Legs3 Layer open.
Layers, Merge Visible to them. Copy and Paste as a New Layer in your Image Santa3.
You have to drag the Santa a tiny bit down.

You can always adjust the positions later in Animation Shop.
So, now you have three pictures with your Santa on.

I have resized the pictures below, just to make you see how they look now.

Open Animation Shop.

Go to File, Animation Wizard.

Same size as the first Image frame. Click next.

Transparent. Click next.

Centered in the frame. With the canvas color. Click next.

Yes, repeat the animation indefinitely. 30 for the frames. Click next.

Add Image. Now you have to get S1+ S2 + S3 and S2 again, from where you saved them.
Put them in, one by one. When you have added these four images, click next.

Finish.

Go to View, Animation and you will see your Santa jump.
If you are not satisfied with his moves, you can rearrange the pictures
by using the Mover, putting the pictures up or down a bit.
I put pictures 1 + 3 up a bit and pictures 2 + 4 down a bit.
You can test yourself what you like the best.

When you like what you see, save the Animation.

That was all folks! Let Santa have his work-out pass. Hope he won't get tired!

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