Little People Big World Tutorial

This Tutorial was written by Kristi on July 27 2009
This was written in psp 9 and animation shop.
Supplies used in this Tutorial
Tube is from Suzanne Woolcott which you must obtain a license to use her work.
You can get one here at her site.
All other supplies used are from the Kit Happy Town which was designed by me.
You can purchase this here. This kit is available in tag size.
Eyecandy 4 Shadow lab was used for the shadowing but is not needed.

Let's get started
Open up a white canvas 600x600
Open up the letters of your alpha that you need to spell out the name you would like.
Recolor them if desired.
Place each letter in the middle of your canvas.
Rotate them around and have fun with them to create the look you want.
Add your shadow of choice to each of the letters.

Next open up your Rainbow and place this just below your name.
Open up your trees and place them below the lettering but above the rainbow.
Add a shadow of choice to the trees.

Open up your other elements and place them around your tag where you like.
Add a shadow of choice to each element.

After you have your tag the way you like it, next we are going to build our road.
Using your rectangle preset shape draw out a long black rectangle to reach each end of your tag. To give it the flat look use your perspective tool, take the top two corner nodes and pull them inward until you get the effect that you like.
Change your color of your preset shape to yellow and make your lines in your street.

Once you are done place your tube at one end of your tag.
Add a shadow of choice to the tube.

Next place your car on your tag at the same end that your tube is on.
Add a shadow of choice if desired.
Merge all visible layers.
Now you can save your tag as a png or keep on going with the animation.

If you wish to continue copy and paste your tag into animation shop as a new animation.
Go back to your psp edit undo merged layers.
open up the train element. Using your selection tool draw around one of the smoke puffs and copy and paste this onto your tag in the back of the car.
Now your tube resize this to make her look as if she is in the car.
Merge visible layers and copy and paste into animation shop after current animation.

Go back to your psp and move your car and tube closer to the other side. Duplicate the smoke puff and move the duplicated puff with the car. The first puff lower the opacity of this to about 4o.
Merge visible layers and copy and paste into animation shop after current animation.

Continue to follow these steps until you get to the other side of the tag.
Once you get to the other side place the tube at your original size onto the grass.
Mirror the car and merge visible layers.
Copy and paste into animation shop after current animation.

Continue to do the steps above until you are back to the other side.
You will end up with about 12-14 frames.
Once done save your tag as a gif and you are done.
I hope that you enjoyed this Tutorial and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Kristi