HOME | DD

Description
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.

Description
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.