frame-by-frame photo animation

I have a tendency to take lots of pictures with my (low quality) phone camera. This morning I spent some extra time in bed taking shots in progression which I've now compiled in Photoshop.

Vertical Rotation:


Horizontal Rotation:


Smile:


I had actually never used Photoshop for animation, but I assumed it was possible. My google search turned up this tutorial.


The tutorial talks about tweening (not used for the above animations), which I had no idea could be done in Photoshop. I've used it often in Flash. Tweening is short for inbetweening. In digital animation, tweening means that you provide the starting and ending frames, and the computer fills in the in-between frames. This is opposed to having to draw each frame individually. Mind you, this does not work nicely for all things. You could have a frog in your starting frame and a prince in your final frame, but whatever program you're using is going to transform that frog into a blob that then turns into the prince. No magical swirls or logical anatomical progressions. Actually that depends on the complexity of... a topic for a future post, perhaps.