Yet another animation

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

I told myself some time ago - i'm done with making animations!
And here i am again. Took me >3 hrs to finish this one - i even dubbed it DaMnimation :mrgreen:

Inkscape-Ai-GIMP.

[APNG animation here, mind your browser, please]

P.S. Bonus animation here (in my opinion the best i've made)

kimppi · **Joined:** Feb 17, 2011 **Posts:** 225

Simply WOW! Really cool!

Gino D · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2012 **Posts:** 239 **Location:** Italy

No problems with viewing your lively animations, K1TesseraEna, as they flow perfectly on Firefox. :bigthup

So, are still there browsers that cannot render APNG animations correctly?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16023

Those both look great.

APNG does a wonderful job on shadow graduation.

@ Gino D - I believe Internet Explorer still doesn't support them very well.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Thank you guys!

IE does not support apng, google chrome needs apng extension installed.
Second animation is a gif. I only make apngs when it's necessary to avoid
gradient banding and more than 256 colors involved.

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

Excellent Kit,

Gino D · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2012 **Posts:** 239 **Location:** Italy

K1TesseraEna wrote:

Thank you guys!

IE does not support apng, google chrome needs apng extension installed.

Firefox Rules! :cool

K1TesseraEna wrote:

I only make apngs when it's necessary to avoid
gradient banding and more than 256 colors involved.

Considering the high-quality animations that it is possible to get by means of the APNG format, maybe the relevant plugin would really deserve to be integrated in GIMP by default.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Gino D wrote:

Considering the high-quality animations that it is possible to get by means of the APNG format, maybe the relevant plugin would really deserve to be integrated in GIMP by default.

I wouldn't mind that at all!
All it takes in gimp is to use file-apng plugin (which already exists as a 3rd party) instead of file-png and patched libpng.dll,
and you get lossless png quality animations. But i think it's not gonna happen.

Thank you molly!

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16023

Yup i wouldn't use APNG for anything other than animations with blurred shadows or any type of gradient.
The biggest concern is the animations from APNG are normally so huge.
RIOT does get them down in size some but not enough to make a big difference.I still would love to see it integrated into Gimp by default though.Every version i install it's one of the first plug-ins to go in.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Rod wrote:

Yup i wouldn't use APNG for anything other than animations with blurred shadows or any type of gradient.
The biggest concern is the animations from APNG are normally so huge.
RIOT does get them down in size some but not enough to make a big difference.I still would love to see it integrated into Gimp by default though.Every version i install it's one of the first plug-ins to go in.

I'm using APNG Anime Maker to assemble animations,
it has optimization option and different compression level control.
That makes file size considerably less than APNGs made in GIMP.
The first one is only 706 KB - given the quality, it's not too bad for 24-frame anime.
Yet animated WebP would be around 100 KB with the same quality.
Animated WebP support should be by default in gimp as well.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16023

K1TesseraEna wrote:

Rod wrote:

Yup i wouldn't use APNG for anything other than animations with blurred shadows or any type of gradient.
The biggest concern is the animations from APNG are normally so huge.
RIOT does get them down in size some but not enough to make a big difference.I still would love to see it integrated into Gimp by default though.Every version i install it's one of the first plug-ins to go in.

I'm using APNG Anime Maker to assemble animations,
it has optimization option and different compression level control.
That makes file size considerably less than APNGs made in GIMP.
The first one is only 706 KB - given the quality, it's not too bad for 24-frame anime.
Yet animated WebP would be around 100 KB with the same quality.
Animated WebP support should be by default in gimp as well.

Thanks for the APNG Anime Maker info.I have downloaded it. :bigthup

WebP is one of the default extensions in Gimp-2.8. I do not know if it supports animation save in Gimp though.
Isn't WebP pretty new?

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Rod wrote:

K1TesseraEna wrote:

Rod wrote:

Yup i wouldn't use APNG for anything other than animations with blurred shadows or any type of gradient.
The biggest concern is the animations from APNG are normally so huge.
RIOT does get them down in size some but not enough to make a big difference.I still would love to see it integrated into Gimp by default though.Every version i install it's one of the first plug-ins to go in.

I'm using APNG Anime Maker to assemble animations,
it has optimization option and different compression level control.
That makes file size considerably less than APNGs made in GIMP.
The first one is only 706 KB - given the quality, it's not too bad for 24-frame anime.
Yet animated WebP would be around 100 KB with the same quality.
Animated WebP support should be by default in gimp as well.

Thanks for the APNG Anime Maker info.I have downloaded it. :bigthup

WebP is one of the default extensions in Gimp-2.8. I do not know if it supports animation save in Gimp though.
Isn't WebP pretty new?

Yup, WebP is relatively new, developed as open source format by google
(I think it was a project born at one of the Google Summer of Code meetings a few years back)
WebP plugin for GIMP does not support animated WebP yet

Oregonian · **Posted:** Mon May 20, 2013 3:23 pm **(#13)**

Awesome, awesome, awesome.

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon May 20, 2013 3:30 pm **(#14)**

Great looking animation and very smooth.

Nice J.O.B.! :bigthup

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Thank you, O! Thank you, Wallace!