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princess-phoenix — Gimp Animation Mini Tutorial
Published: 2009-07-20 04:38:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 26639; Favourites: 793; Downloads: 467
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I was requested to make an animation tutorial for GIMP and so I decided to give it a try. I know there are tutorials like this already on DA, but one more wouldn't hurt I guess?It's a mini tutorial, it doesn't show everything, but it is something you can use to get the basics down. This is also the first real tutorial I've ever made, so any helpful comments and critiques are welcome! Also feel free to point out mistakes and such, no one here wanted to proof read it for me T_T
[GIMP ] is a free art and photo manipulation program that is available for download from their site. I normally use it for lineart, but it can do lots of other things
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Okay, so I'm trying to make myself a new icon, it's working except one part is overlapping even though I have it with the (replace) in each layer/frame. Could you possibly help with that? Do you know what I should do?
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Wait, nevermind. I got it ^^
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This is exactly the kind of tutorial I was looking for, not very complicated, easy to follow, and short! Thank you!
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I know it's old but I just saw it now and wanted to say thanks because it is super useful, so... thanks!
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Goodness, this has helped me so much. Thank you!
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Thank you SO much for making this tutorial!!!! It has helped me and MANY other people too! 
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Thx so much 4 sharing, as I still have noooo clew as 2 how GIMP work ://
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I had absolutely no idea that you could make GIFs in GIMP!!
Thankyou so much!
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This is just what I was looking for! I think it's a really useful and simple tutorial. Thanks!
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Ok it is showing all the layers at once.I hit play it shows my first with my 2 and 3 layeron top.
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Thanks a ton for making this!! It helped a lot, and I'm very grateful. Here's the gif: fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/201…
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I'm glad it helped
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I featured your tutorial in my journal today!
Here's the link if you'd like to check it out - fav.me/d6k39b7
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Thank you sooooo soooo much for this
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This is really helpful thank you. Once I did my first animation now I can't stop. ^,^
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All, I got is my first frame every time I export to gif
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This is very easy to read, thank you
I realize that this is not the newest tutorial out there but I have a question. Is there any way to reserve opacity properties with the animation?? (I can't find any tutorials online)
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If you just want to animate sprite-like images with a transparent background you can make the background of each frame transparent, but put the word "(replace)" at the end of each layer name so that the frame layers don't pile on each other in the final animation.
If you mean alpha-style transparencies (smooth gradient semi-transparent frames) you can look up .apng image creators (that is the animated .png image format). That is currently the only image type that I know of that supports frame pixels of varying transparencies (as opposed to the straight 100% transparent or 100% color per pixel space that .gif images have).
Gimp did have an .apng plug-in but I could never get it to work :s
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Okay thank you very much.
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Here this is make with your Tutorial, very thanks for learn me this.^^
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This tutorial helped me a lot! I'll probably have to keep coming back when I make new animations for a while, at least. I used it to help me get through making my avatar. Thank you very much!
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Does this work for text art because isn't when you right text on gimp, isn't that a separate layer?
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I have a question. I wanna do Capcom style animation sprites of certain cartoon characters. Will this program work on Windows 7? If so, how can I upload it to deviantART?
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I have a question, um when I go to save my animation which folder do I put it in? Cause when I save it it never asks if I want it saved as animation or just regular picture, so I was wondering if there was somewhere special who'd have to save it? thanksies!
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Oh, I'm so thankful you made this! Thank you, thank you, thank you! haha
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wow! Thank you for this, never thought that this was possible xD
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this is really helpful!. ive been wanting to try my hand at animation, but i didnt even know how to begin. thanx alot
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Question? How do I save the speed in playback mode? I try to make it faster but it doesn't seem to save. :/
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Hmmm...how to upload that once you're done? I've been having trouble.
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Thank you! This is a huge help. Now I'll have to go try it out.
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why can't i see the animation when i see it from my folder? it's all white and empty.
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Thank you soooo much! I've been wanting to learn animation for FOREVER and this is EXACTLY what I needed! <3 Thanks a ton! :'D
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Ahah
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