After removing the background in the previous stage, I replaced it with a rectangle of brown which will stay in the same position throughout the whole gif. Adding a texture to it made the contrast between the photograph and the flat block of colour less obvious.
Adding shadow - I didn't want to be too precious when addend shadow because the frame would only be shown for a fraction of a second and I just wanted it to be clear that the pepper was not floating in mid air. I am getting used to using layers now on each frame, it is becoming clearer to me how to keep certain things the same and how to adapt certain aspects on new layers. I am finally getting used to using Photoshop to make gifs and this is evident in the increase in speed which I seem to be working at now.
I added eyebrows to the pepper to emphasise his expression. I intended for him to look angry so I wanted to emphasise this by adding some bold shapes to add drama to the closeup frames.
What makes him look the most angry?
I thought red might be appropriate because it is associated with anger but it blended in too much with the colour of the pepper. In the end I settled on black as it provides a strong contrast against the red and the to colours work well together to suggest rage. I think these shapes also imply that the pepper is shouting something.
The first time I saved the gif, I wasn't happy with the quality of the image so I saved it again as a larger file. The number of photographs I used meant that the size of the gif file is quite large so I still had to compromise on some of the quality to get the file down to a reasonable size.
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