Time to play

The basic idea behind creating an animation:

• Create/duplicate as many frames as you like (size depending).
• Click on the frames one by one to make amends to each of them while previewing the active frame in the main document window.
• Toggle the 'seeing eye' icons on the layers for each individual frame so that a single, or multiple layers are viewed at a time (ie the mouth and eyes viewed together means that 2 seeing eye icons are toggled on at once).
• Play through the animation to view it using the 'play' and 'stop' button just like a tape recorder.
• Slow down or speed up individual frames using the time delay options. It is a case of trial and error until it 'looks' right.
• When the animation is set to 'forever' it repeats itself over and over. The final frame runs back onto the first frame in a continual loop.

In my example, I made another layer with a squiggly smile and threw it in as well. This is what my final animation frame window looked like.