Basic animation (beginner)

Jamie990 · **Joined:** Dec 03, 2011 **Posts:** 149

A tutorial to do a basic animation for GIMP beginners.

video removed... It was marked private

1. Once you have 2 layers go to Filter > Animation > Burn-In

2. Fill out the fields picking your glow color if you want one.

3. Hit 'OK' and your animation will be made.

4. Go to Filter > Animation > Playback to view your aimation in GIMP.

5. Close the playback window and click 'Save as', enter the name you want then put there it as .gif in the end of the name and save it.

6. There you go! Done.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:46 pm **(#2)**

That was quick and easy. Nice. I deleted the bottom 5 layers and filled the resulting bottom one with black.

Jamie990 · **Joined:** Dec 03, 2011 **Posts:** 149

Looks good, love that font what is it called?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:40 pm **(#4)**

The name of it is Polyspring and it is a commercial (for sale) font. The fancy work letters are accessible in the private area in the Character Map and are a pain to use. My OS is Linux and the two Charmaps I have for that are somewhat difficult to use.
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/pintassilgo/polyspring/

Graechan · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:03 pm **(#5)**

When I started using Gimp at the begining of the year this is one of the scripts I had trouble working out how to use, good tut Jamie and if you want to centre a layer quickly and easily try the allignment tool :alntool

Amanda47 · **Joined:** Mar 08, 2011 **Posts:** 155

Well that was easy and it's a nice effect too.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Wow, that is very nice "O". Very nice font too. KUDOS

Very nice little tute Jamie. I have never even noticed that filter before. :oops:

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:11 am **(#8)**

You guys teach me new stuff every day! This is a quick and simple trial.

Jamie990 · **Joined:** Dec 03, 2011 **Posts:** 149

Looks good, of you

I only found the filter as it was before i had many animation plugins bow I don't use it much.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

I rather like this effect!!

alc59 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:40 pm **(#11)**

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:52 pm **(#12)**

akky and alc: good job, both of you! akky, yours is really cute, love the font.

Fullback66 · **Joined:** Mar 02, 2013 **Posts:** 73

awesome video.
How would I put this on a power point? Or, this forum page?

Please help
fb66

hippiepeace · **Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:28 pm **(#14)**

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I don't know what I am doing wrong, it worked for me way back when this thread started but now I can't get it to work. I opened a transparent layer, made some text, so that gave me the two layers. I ran the script and I keep getting more errors.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:19 am **(#16)**

molly wrote:

I don't know what I am doing wrong, it worked for me way back when this thread started but now I can't get it to work. I opened a transparent layer, made some text, so that gave me the two layers. I ran the script and I keep getting more errors.

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I got errors when I checked Prepare for GIF. It worked fine when I didn't check that option. I also had to delete the bottom layer, but I did that when I made my first example of it in here.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I was wondering about that gif option, it now works but doesn't go like it should. I deleted the colored layer at the bottom and ended up with a two colored animation.

with combine background

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

about the option PREPARE FOR GIF
maybe this filter is for Gimp version 2.4 now to reduce the dimension of the Gif file you should use the filter OPTIMIZE(for GIF) is in animation

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:19 am **(#19)**

molly wrote:

I was wondering about that gif option, it now works but doesn't go like it should. I deleted the colored layer at the bottom and ended up with a two colored animation.
with combine background

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It should be replace for the animation. When you use combine, it makes the bottom layer be the bg for all the layers. Here is a copy of the layers for the animation I posted up above:

astevn816 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:24 am **(#20)**

I enjoyed the tutorial, tried to post my result but I'm too new

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