Hey guys, back with another updated tutorial. This one is one of my favorite effects and it's got some super cool techniques you can use in lots of other ways. Written version will be coming soon if i stop procrastinating.

A few preview images:









The video itself:

Hi David, very cool way to create fireworks. Thank you for sharing the tutorial!
Last year, I used the second method, (Gradient Flare) to create one of my plugin that creates a New Year design.
Yu can find the plugin here: https://www.deviantart.com/pocholo17/art/Create-A-Happy-New-Year-Design-plugin-900028656


I wanted to write a plugin that create firework but the idea just blew away, I don't know what happened (Maybe my old brain got a cramp) Now, with your tutorial and the GIMP Noise method that you show at the beginning of the tutorial, I can write it. Now, I always ask for permission of the author to write a plugin based on their tutorial.
Can I use your tutorial? Chao!

Really nice Effects! Will try as soon as I can get my computer together. Thank you, David.

That would be super cool dude. Go for it

Excellent tutorial David. Good to see you again.

Wow, David! Pretty cool stuff!

You inspired me into making a third party GEGL Filter. I will have to credit you when it is released!

Once the filter is released it will help semi automate this workflow as it does all but a few step final steps.

Sounds awesome dude!



Looks like you both have the same idea.

I did something similar to this many years ago using another free open source s/w.

In theory this tutorial itself might be able to be automated using GEGL syntax but it would require putting the image one wants to make a firwork in the center and the custom GEGL filter/graph would be too slow to preview. The user will have to disable preview unless they want to wait 20 minutes. The problem is that GEGL has to load everything in memory at once.

A nice animation racer-x.

Could I remind PPL that an animated starfield was a screensaver in Windows XP. Why are we going backwards to making static starfields and fireworks in 2022?

Because Gimp is not an animation software and it would be incredibly tedious.

You could animate it all by hand if you have the time and patience.

And GIMP is a lot about user input.Helping with code, and writing filters from user ideas and tutorials.Basically "FREEDOM" freeware.

Thing is.....Gimp has an extensive 'Animation' sub-menu under 'filters'. Why is it there?

BTW. The sparks and fireworks images look good and are well described.

Because it's the very VERY basics of animation, a few transition effects and some classic web 2.0 gif effects. It would be awesome if Gimp had a more in depth animation system but that would require some major development to be able to read/write/encode video files. I'd look towards other software for this stuff, like Natron.

Hi David,
looking back at my comment It was pretty insensitive so sorry about that. For some reason when I think of fireworks they are moving.
You mentioned Natron which I don't think is being developed anymore. I use DV resolve free version on Linux but last vid I only used it for transitions, I did all animation in Gimp.

My setup has 2 graphics cards, 32gig ram and I can open multiple instances of Gimp. and overlay them perfectly if they were split from the same image series. I use 3 or 4 canvasses of over 1000 frames at the same time and interleave them into a new image. (Gimp in tabs) Gimp is also ram-based before it starts swapping to disk which is slow.

MathMap (old gimp plugin written in C) is not available on Windows or Macs but it will take one layer and make 1,000s automatically. It's good for revolving spheres, Droste sequences and miniplanets. It can also finish an animation exactly where it started. G'MIC can also be applied to multiple layers but I now use the stand alone version. I use the command line a lot. I like the command line. (I just alienated 99% of anyone reading this )-

Windows is actually a sub-set of a backslash while Unix is a sub-set of a forward slash. Do they teach PPL that in graphics design class? I think closed-source OS's are designed to monetize the owners and hold-back the creators. Also FOSS is not a form of communism because its not a dictatorship as Rod rightly points-out.

That's some serious dedication man. Respect.

Yeah, sadly Natron is only being worked on by like 2 people, which sucks because it's got a lot of potential. A FOSS to rival After Effects would be amazing.

FOSS is economic freedom because one of its core principles is decentralization. Anyone can own their own copy of Gimp and GEGL as private property but no one centrally controls it. FOSS comes closest in political ideologies to voluntary socialism that focuses on property rights.

Let's keep the ideologies out of my explosions guys. Look what you started Rod