Animated Bubbles

[Draconian]

I guess this is the right place to put this. I was fooling around trying to make some animated bubbles to use with other graphics like the one here but after tediously making 30 frames of move & copy I still didn't get it all like I wanted. I was trying to make a seamless loop so you don't see any starting point that jerks as it repeats. Does anyone know of anything like this out there for download?

[2-ton]

It looks good as far as it goes, up to the jump.

[Oregonian]

Your bubbles can be animated using GAP. My bubbles would look much better with more frames and a better background, but it shows what you can do with GAP.

[Rod]

Have you tried deleting the first or last frame?
Many times that removes the jerking motion from the continued animation.

[Draconian]

Oregonian - I have been having a lot of trouble getting Gap to work. Photocomix informed me I had downloaded the wrong file so I went back and got the right one and I still can't get it to show up when I open gimp. (See my other post in the help forum)

Rod - I think the bubbles are just not in the right position in one or two frames. Maybe not enough frames. After I move the bubbles up on a duplicated layer, the bottom of the layer had no bubbles so I made another layer moved them into position, erased the duplicated bubbles, merged down to have all areas filled with bubbles. Whew! What a pain. I finally just got tired of messing with it. I really would like to get gap working. There's got to be a better way like Oregonian said.

BTW, is it my computer or do the bubbles on my gif seem really slow to you guys? When I play it on my computer it's much faster but when I view it on this forum it's slowed way down. Size? Pixel density?

[molly]

I also had problems getting GAP to show up in one of my Gimp installs. I wish I could remember what I did to get it working. You probably already used this.
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2286

[Draconian]

Yup. First place I went. Thanks though.

[Rod]

You should not have a problem as long as you install GAP into the Gimp program directory plugins folder.
You can not place it in the user/gimp-2.6/plugins folder it will not work.
The PhotoComix GAP setup for 2.6 should work for you.
Just double click the installer, choose your language and install into
C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins

Or in your case Draconian probably
F:\YourCreatedDirectory\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins

[nixnine]

I did this with the Drawable Multiplication and Combine Background scripts. Came out at 98 layers.

[Oregonian]

That's very nice, nix, and very pretty. Soap bubbles in the sky you would expect to end.

With continual bubbles in water, there should not be a cut-off. GAP wraps the bubbles so that there are no breaks between them.

[Draconian]

Rod - I just tried to move my gap folder to the gimp 2.0 path you suggested and then opened gimp and still nothing (it is supposed to show up at the top in the menue bar, correct?)

I even went to preferences/folders and checked the path and it was correct. Next....

[nixnine]

Here is my attempt at underwater bubbles using drawable multiplication. 51 frames, this one. Could be smoother, though.

[Oregonian]

What is drawable multiplication? That looks very nice.

[nixnine]

It's a script that duplicates a layer X number of times and shifts it along the x, y or both X number of units.

http://registry.gimp.org/node/22383

[mikethedj4]

That's pretty cool. All you need now is have some of the bubbles pop