Diesel Locomotive

Diesel Locomotive

Meterial

Open a document in PSP 670 x 450 transparent

Paint with color #83ACFF

Foreground color #404040, select Pen Tool

Draw a line. Line style-Solid, Width 8.00. Apply ( Left top corner)

Change foreground color to #C0C0C0

Draw a line above this line. This time width 4.00. Apply

Right click on layer panel

Convert to Raster Layer

Layers – Duplicate

With Move Tool place it like this

And with Raster Deform press a little

If you place the curser above the Tools

You can read the Tool’s name

With Freehand Selection Tool, Draw a sleeper

Duplicate it several times & place like this

Close the line layer

Layers – Merge – Merge Visible

All the sleepers are merged in a single layer

Open the line layer

With Pen Tool draw lines so that

it looks like rail track

Merge all these layers

Layers – Arrange – Send to Bottom

Copy& paste the train as new layer

With Move Tool place like this

Copy & paste the Train several times

Do not duplicate

Close all the layers

Then open one by one from the bottom

View – Rulers

Enlarge the documents into 500%

By rolling the mouse

With pen tool draw a line and place it like this

To keep the train straight

So that it will not jump up & down

Starting from bottom, move the Engine towards left

First pull the train 2 points towards left

Then 3 points towards left

Then few layers 5 points

Then few layers 10 points

Like this increase 5 points only after few layers

To avoid the jerk & to pick up the speed

Use your imagination

I suggest you should not go over 60

Now Animation

Close all the Train layers

Open the layers one by one from bottom

Edit – Copy Merged & paste in Animation Shop

After Current Frame

For timing, experiment, do which looks good

I used 10

Save as GIF