Budmo Jiggler  Font Animation



Font Here




Open a 500 x 500 Transparent Image

Materials Palette choose color set Black in both the boxes


Tools/ Text Tool A / Create as Vector / Direction First / Font Budmo Jiggler / Size 48

Write your name in the Text Entry box



 Using Caps Lock selected on your Keyboard click Apply

Click Pan


Drag out your Name using the Corner Nodes until it fills the width of your Layer and pull it Upwards

Click Pan

Layers Palette Right click on Vector and Convert to raster Layer

In the Layer Palette the bottom layer is Blank so right click on it and choose Delete

On your working Layer count out the Circles from your First Letter mine is the letter M and it has 21 Circles 

that’s how many times you need to Duplicate your

name to do this we Right click on our Name Layer in the Layer Palette and choose the word Duplicate


Now Duplicate until you have the required amount

Rename each Layer to make it easier so rename from top to bottom name 1, name 2, name 3 , name 4 carry 

on until you have renamed them all


Tools / Magic Wand / Mode Add (Shift) / Match Mode RGB Value / Tolerance 30 / Contiguous 

Checked / Feather 1 / Anti-alias Checked / Outside









Layer Palette activate name 1 layer

View / zoom in

Using your Magic Wand click inside the First Circle of your first letter starting from the Bottom left to 

activate ants


Material Palette choose a nice color
Tools / Paint Brush / Shape Circle / Size 30 / Hardness 100 / Step 25 / Density, Thickness, Opacity all 

set to 100 / Blend Mode Normal


Add Color to the first Circle

Selections / Select none

Layer Palette activate name 2 layer

Click inside using your magic wand to activate the ants

Use your Paint Brush and fill the circle

Selections / Select none

Layer Palette activate name 3 layer

Click inside using your magic wand to activate the ants

Use your Paint Brush and fill the circle

Selections / Select none

Layer Palette activate name 4 layer

Click inside using your magic wand to activate the ants

Use your Paint Brush and fill the circle

Selections / Select none

Carry on until all the circles in your first letter have been filled

Once it has been filled start from your first layer name 1 go to your next letter start from the bottom left and 

fill like you did your first letter


To look at you would think you have just filled one layer but in actual fact you have only filled one circle one

 layer carry on until they all have a color

Once you reach the bottom of your layers palette you start from the top again so that you end up on screen 

all the letters look like they have been filled

 ( if like me you have an L then on that one start from the top same with a y start from left top then right top 

then downwards)

I have tried to make it look as if I was writing it


Layer Palette X out all the layers

Material Palette choose white

Layers Palette Un X name 1 the top layer

Tools / Magic Wand same settings

Click in all the empty circles to activate the ants

Tools / Paint Brush same settings

Fill all the selected circles with White

Selections / Select none x out

You might have to use the magic wand on your first color again

Un x name 2

Click in all the empty circles to activate the ants

Tools / Paint Brush same settings

Fill all the selected circles with White

Selections / Select none x out

 Un x name 3

Click in all the empty circles to activate the ants

Tools / Paint Brush same settings

Fill all the selected circles with White

Selections / Select none x out

Carry on until they all have white then click pan

Un x the Top Layer and activate

Open a tube of your choice

Copy and paste it as a new layer

Tools / Deform tool resize and position your tube

Click Pan


Open your copyright and watermark

Copy and paste them as a new layer

Tools / Deform and position them and click pan

X out your top merged layer

Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

Layer Palette right click and Duplicate until you have the same amount as your merged

Layers mine is 21


X out all the Layers

Layer Palette activate the top layer

File / Save as / give it a name

Save type as Animation Shop Psp or Psp 7 Format

Open Animation Shop

File / New / 500 x 500 / Opaque checked and White / Ok

Right Click on your new white Frame and Duplicate Selected until you have the same amount as your saved 

layers mine is 21 so I need 21 frames

Once you have all your white frames go to Edit / Select All

Open your saved name layers Edit / Select All


Right Click on your Name Frames and choose Copy

Go back to your White Frames and Right Click on it and Paste Into Selected Frame

Left Click to set it in place

Now to test it works

View / Animation to start it Animating repeat to stop it


You might notice the red circles move from right to left

We need it to go the other way

Go to Animation / Reverse Frames


Test it again to make sure it’s working 

You may notice you have quite a lot of white depending on the tube if you have Like I have

then we can remove it

Click on the Crop Icon to activate it  

You will notice a thin black line around your image you make move that inwards or outwards until you have 

it how you like it then above it is the word Crop click on it 


Now to save it

File / Save as give it a name

Save type as Gif

Click Next , Next until it is Saved

This Tutorial was created and installed by ©Mally on  Tuesday 21 February 2012

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 Mally

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