Animating Glider

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Animating glider with trailing exhaust smoke

Start by opening an image of a valley.

Insert a glider cutout.

Hide the glider layer. Press Q to enable quick mask. From filter menu select render>>difference clouds. Press Ctrl+F several times to reapply the filter. Press Q again to disable quick mask.

Create a new layer and fill the selection with white color.

Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

Select eraser tool and remove the hard edges using a soft brush setting.

Click add vector mask from the bottom of the layer palette.

Create a rectangular selection. Press Ctrl+Alt+D to feather the selection. Fill it with black color. Unlink the layer content and layer mask thumbnail for the smoke layer. Duplicate layer and hide this layer. We'll use this layer later on to disappear the smoke.

Open animation window. For the first frame let the smoke be completely hidden behind the mask. Unhide the glider layer and move it beyond the left edge.

Duplicate frame. move the glider beyond the right edge and towards the top. Move the mask thumbnail on smoke layer towards the right to let the smoke be completely visible.

Click tween button from animation window. Apply settings as shown.

Select each inbetween frame and adjust the glider position according to the smoke.

Duplicate the last frame in animation window. Hide the smoke layer. Unhide the duplicate smoke layer. Select the mask thumbnail and move the mask towards the left edge.