Thanks, all.
Jack, I use layers in Paint Shop Pro (since I know it well) and you may be able to do this with another graphic program.
First, I did a screen shot with Laura posing in that "play guitar" pose.
Then I opened it with PSP.
I found a picture of the guitar, rotated and resized it as needed, and positioned it.(after removing the edges from the original photo_
Then I used a selection tool, and copied her playing arm, then pasted the copy on top the guitar as another layer. (cleaning up the edges)
Also, I used my eraser brush on her left hand, to make it look like her hand was around the neck of the guitar.
I took the copy of her arm, and positioned it so that it was lined up with the rest of her arm.(and on top the guitar).
Then I made a copy of the background.
Then a copy of the cropped and cleaned up arm. I rotated her arm, I'd say 5 degrees?? then lined it up with the duplicated background.
That gives it the look she is moving her arm up and down.
So, I take the layers as follows, (top to bottom)
1. Rotated Arm
2.Guitar
3 Background (girl)
And merge them together
Then the next 3 layers
1. Arm
2. Guitar
3. Background (girl)
And merge them.
I save as a PSP animation shop file and open with animation shop.
(if you can save them in another format that keeps the 2 layers separated for use in another program, that's fine)
After opening the file in animation shop, I save as a gif.
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And, here is the files you need for her "Air Guitar" moves (they need to be slightly adjusted for the male HTR, and I haven't done that yet)
(unzip, copy files to your "program files Haptek Haptek player data standard skins" folder.)
Copy the other 3 files where you want to open it. Drop "guitar" on your girl or guy.
(Thanks to Dusky for the example scripts to animate haps)
Download Attachment: airguitar.zip2.1 KB
