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Kieti — How to Animate a GIF in GIMP
Published: 2006-09-24 04:56:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 45887; Favourites: 564; Downloads: 4448
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My first tutorial, created on a whim because ~toxic-paradise asked me how I made the blinky eye. A three-hour whim XD I need to get a life.Careful, it's huge.
Anyway, first tutorial, if something's confusing please ask.
Tutorial is about the GIMP; I don't think it'd work with other programs, sorry. It might, you never know. I certainly don't.
Blinky eye found here [link]
EDIT: Okay, so the main question I'm running into is about the transparencies. Basically, the way the animation works in GIMP is that it stacks the layers on top of one another. It doesn't swap one out for another. So if you have transparencies, you're going to see the lower layers behind them.
Another thing: When you hit "Optomize" (Why, no, I can't spell, how did you guess?) what happens is that GIMP takes your GIF and turns everything that's repeated into transparencies. So say you have a blue background with a little stick figure dancing on it. You would probably put the blue background on every frame. GIMP would then replace the background with transparencies eveywhere that it didn't change.
That doesn't make sense. Um... it makes your filesize a lot smaller, and it therefore good.
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You'd just put one frame on each layer. Copy-paste 'em into one file.
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Yeah, thanks, I actully figured that out after I asked you, I just had to actually try to think instead of relying on people to tell me what to do. That's the problem with me, too lazy. Thanks for getting back to me though.
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Thank you so much I made my icon with this tutorial!
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Wow.That helped a lot;the gimp website had a tut on animation too,but it was kinda confusing.
Thanks for clearing the animating part up a little XD
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Uh,one question.I saved my animation,but i cannot play it
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Did you save it as a .GIF filename? It should play when you're looking at it in any regular view, like a web browser or the Window's Picture Viewer. Try right-clicking on the icon, and go to Open With, and pick the Window's Picture and Fax Viewer. (Or something similar, I suppose.)
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Thank you,it worked already.
I don't have Windows,by the way.I use Linux.
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That's really helpful!
My animation program doesn't work,so i can use GIMP now!
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Yaay GIMP! I'm glad I could help :3
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-squeels loudly- you are a genius! thank you soo uber much for putting this up!
Ive been making GIFs like crazy! Ive got a possibly deviant icon in my gallery, i also made one for a close friend
you made it so easy and simple to understand! Awesome job!
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: D I'm glad it helped. Just spreading the GIMP love <3
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I recently discovered that my physics teacher uses GIMP.
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really? thats cool and creepy at the same time... O.o
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thank you so much!! only i'm having a little problem, my animation is just stacking up on the previous frames... is this b/c it has a transparent background??
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That's how the animation works, as far as I can tell - it doesn't switch one out for another, it stacks them on top. So if you have transparencies, you're gonna see the lower layers. Does that help explain it?
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yeah... thanx for clearing that up. That's what i thought but i wasn't sure!
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super! no I can try and make a animation in gimp! huray!
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I used it to animate my new avatar!
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Thank you so much for this one! I'm really a newbie at Gimp
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Thank you so much for this one! I'm really a newbie at Gimp
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this is a great tutorial.. really easy to use and very clean. but i was wondering, i have a problem..
say i am doing a square, and then the second layer is a circle. i do this, and animate it.
but instead of flashing circle then square, circle then square..
the circle is still there in second flash, so it;s like circle, then sqaure on top of circle.
sorry if this is confusing...
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You mean that you can see through the transparencies in a layer? That's because GIMP doesn't switch one layer for another, it piles them on top of one another. To tell you the truth, I haven't figured out how to fix that. I just filled in the transparencies, like in my avatar. But I can't really help ;-; Sowwy.
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NERVERMIND!!! i figured it out ^^
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hi, i had the same problem as silverXlining. you said you filled in the transparencies, but i don't really understand what you mean (sorry, i'm REALLY computer/GIMP stupid). could you explain for me ^^()()()
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o my gosh its perfect!!!!!! THX!!!!!!
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THANK YOU D:
I didn't know you could make animations in GIMP! Now my life has another purpose!!
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PURPOSE,
IT'S THAT LITTLE FLAME
THAT LIGHTS A FIRE
UNDER YOUR ASS.
PURPOSE,
IT KEEPS YOU GOING STRONG
LIKE A CAR WITH A FULL
TANK OF GAS.
[Caps-lock brought to you by lazty Ctrl-P ]
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i love you. really. you have NO idea how long i've been trying to figure this out. and your tutorial is so simple that even i, a complete computer/GIMP MORON get it! YAY!
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Ya. It had to be simple, or I wouldn't have understood what I was talking about! ...which I totally did >.>
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*tears up and huggs you to death* thank yooooouuu!!!!!!
I could never figure out how to do it! thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
I appreciate it!
D:
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thanx u so mucho for this great tutorial
i made this:
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and this:
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thank you so much!
your tutorial its great!
i made this with your tutorial
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and this:
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