Our last assignment for Typography was to make an animation featuring type. We were supposed to use Photoshop, not Flash, which made the assignment a bit more difficult because I’m much more familiar with Flash and I think it’s just an easier program to use for animation (because that’s what it’s made for…). Once I started doing it, it wasn’t so bad, though. The basic principles of animation are the same no matter what program you’re using.

I decided to make a holiday-themed animation. Here it is:

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