Animation Composition

I began by creating the animated pieces on photoshop after scanning them in and then adding colour. I then had to apply these individually to each slide, to do so I used photoshop and used to layers tool to be able to place the images in the correct places as I went through the individual frames. I used the lassoo tool to be able to make the ice cream fit in the characters hand, making the ice cream opaque in order to cut the shape out accurately.

I began with the simple background scene and character..

Then added the hat, resized and positioned..

I then added and positioned the ice cream in front of the hand.. 

I made the ice cream transparent and using the lasso tool removed the section of the ice cream which should be hidden behind the hand of the character..

Press delete.. 

I had to repeat this for each individual frame!

First frame: 

Above you can see clearly how I have cut around the characters hand to create the effect of the character holding the ice cream... Below is the first 100 odd frames, played at 12 frames per second, the bird is yet to be added!