Wow, only got to come here for a trip

This thread is a gem. I'll get back to it later and have a more in depth look. Thanks PhotoMaster.

Velocity Stack for a Harley carburetor....

I know what you mean, Sallyanne. It is as though they are speaking an alien language!

Hey Racer-X! I'm loving that Velocity Stack!! Awesome!!

I exported a sculpture as an STL file , which I imported into Free CAD and animated it in Gimp. I love the plastic look of the sculpture.

Hey Racer-X, I tried duplicating your Velocity Stack, with obvious different settings. Yours is way better! I was trying to do things free hand so I spent more time on the animation than on the actual image.

Blender can also import .stl, but you are only importing the bare model. No texture, colors or animation keys are imported. You'll need to do all that in blender. At that point there is no reason not to just do the whole thing in blender.

The beauty of this little program is it's simplistic ability to create and animate sculptures. The downside is the complexity in capturing the images. Ideally it would have the ability to export animation sequence in 32-bit PNG files. For me, using a screen recording utility is the best way. All in all, it's still a fun little program to play with once in a while...

With the orange "plastic" one I used a free video screen capture, but GAP couldn't read it. I used a website to convert the video to jpg files. I need to upgrade my GAP since it had worked in the past.

Hey guys! I know this was discussed a few years ago, but since all of you are so good at animations, could you write to have a page turn over like the online catalogs do? I am thinking of a book that opens and the pages flip over one by one. Is that possible to do in GIMP?

I don't know how to do that in gimp, perhaps mathmap might allow?

You should be able to do something like this in Aviutl, which is free, but not user friendly. I actually made a custom filter preset to page turn left or right.

Example:



https://www.videohelp.com/software/AviUtl

And here is a falling Polaroid Picture Effect using the same filter effect on each image.......



This type of effect is great for custom slideshows and such.

Those are nice, Racer. I like all of them.

Nice effects Racer-X!

Didn't recall seeing this one; freaking awesome, Nidhogg (and thanks to racer-x for pointing out this thread).

Yeah this is great and fun program, but it's Windows only.

Yes it's pretty cool for what it is and runs on very low resources producing great quality renders. It is Windows only though. Since I run Linux, I was able to run that program under Wine easily enough. I don't use Wine anymore, so if I had to run it again, I'd use a Windows VM. The program is extremely limmited for me, so I doubt that I would use it anytime soon.

Amazing stuff folks!

For sure! My eyes are still goofy.