Happy New Year everyone!

I've had that PhotoFont plugin for quite a while now but could never really find a use of it. Until today.
Using Sparkler brushset (kindly provided by Draconian here) and a little bit of imagination made this
animation.
Took about 1 hour to accomplish. It's a GIF file with 214 kb size. Feel free to download and use it.




Edit: noticed after uploading - forgot to delete part of some letters. Fixed

Nevertheless, as promised, I made a tutorial.
It won't be step by step, I'll skip some parts.

Resources:
PSPI and Photofont plugin installation, instructions and HowTo's.
Attachments:
1.Draconian's Sparkler brush set.Draconian's Sparkler brush set.
2.Ready animation frames (xcf file)Ready animation frames (xcf file)

The tutorial:

1.Take a deep breath, a cup of coffee, maybe, and get ready for a tedious work, which sometimes will drive you up the wall.
If you messed things up on few occasions, don't worry. I did it more than once.

2.Create a new black 800 x 300 image.
3.Add new transparent layer.
4.Using these Photofont Start plugin settings, type your text and position it at the center.



5.Duplicate layer with photofont text and paint with a Sparkler brush from where you want the burning to start.
Your first two frames are ready.
You're going to create as many frames as needed, it depends on how fast you want the burning to go.



6.Duplicate your first frame for each next frame, continue painting and erasing parts of the letters.




Turn off the visibility of ready frames, leaving just the current frame and the frame below as a reference image.

To create glowing ashes behind the sparkles I used soft round brush set to black color and Soft Light blending mode.

7.When all frames are ready, combine background layer (black) with every frame and optimize for GIF.

Increase frame delay for the first frame of your animation.
8.Save document as GIF animation.

They say picture's worth a thousand words, so i'm attaching xcf file.

hehe, cool K1te

nice touch at the end with the falling glowing ashes

Hey, Esper!

I'm glad you've noticed that! I was hoping somebody would!

Cool Kit.

A beauty. Nice work.

Very cool

Excellent work, was hoping for more of a bang at the end but never mind.

Gimplosion: awesome effect. Please, tell us how to do it. I'm from Brazil and I don't speak english very well, but I understand the tutorials.

Welcome to Gimp Chat, Carlos Diniz

Hi Carlos! Viva Brasil and welcome to GC!

A tutorial request? Why not? I'll think about it.
It was never my intention to write boring tutorials.
This animation is just a very tedious process, which cannot be automated.
Took me an hour.
Tell you what, I'll describe the general ideas of what has to be done (without step-by-step) and provide
links to the resources (a set of brushes and Photofont plugin)
The latter would only work if you had pspi GIMP plugin installed.

Check this thread again tomorrow (sorry, but I'm gonna have a very busy afternoon)

Thank you, guys for your comments.



I was thinking of making explosion at the end but then changed my mind and decided to play out the gimp word.
So this is more like a g-implosion.

Thanks K1tesseraena.

Unfortunately, PSP plugins doesn't work at my GIMP, in despite of installation PSPI plugin. I don't now why. The window opens, but i receive a message: "Access memory violation." But I'll try. Tnaks for your kindness.

Hi K1TesseraEna!
Yah very cool! But i don't have that all (PhotoFont plugin, Sparkler brushset, fonts and etc). Nice effect!
Thx!

what OS are you on?
AFAIK, pspi won't work on Mac, Photofont Start won't work on Linux.
You need windows to make this animation.

the tutorial has been moved to page one of this thread.

Kalimera K1tesseraena, Thanks for the tut. I'll try to follow it. After, I'll tell you
the results. Thanks, merci, obrigado, epharisto.

Hi, K1tesseraena. That's the result. It means "Happy birthday".

Very nice job Carlos Diniz

Excellent result, Carlos!
It is going to be a good birthday present!

Kalimera, K1tesseraena. The merits are all yours. I would not manage to do it without your indication of the Photfont Start. Again, very much thank you. do You speak Greek?