my first animation

2-ton · **Posted:** Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:36 pm **(#21)**

you can do it!

just render the eagle, put on it's own transparent layer, and then you can duplicate the eagle layer to make him animated...I guess on the background layer you will have to clone out the original eagle. Ugh.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

Yeah just render the eagle out as a copy and then paste it in at different spots in each frame.
Use the clone tool to clone over the eagle to make it vanish magically.

Willy · **Posted:** Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:08 pm **(#23)**

Btw that eagle was a render guys

I used it once for a Flag and Eagle combo thing with Stained Glass script

jakeyjoey · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2011 **Posts:** 105

I see what you guys are saying and I'm gonna give it a shot, but it will look weird because the wings won't be flapping .

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

That doesn't matter :lol

- Its art remember?

jakeyjoey · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2011 **Posts:** 105

That's true. I am gonna work on it soon.

jakeyjoey · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2011 **Posts:** 105

Wait, do you guys think could save I could save the render as a .piv and open it in pivot and do it in there?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

I can not remember if Pivot opens existing GIF's or not.I do not think it does though.

jakeyjoey · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2011 **Posts:** 105

It doesnt open .gif but I was wondering if I could save the eagle render as a .piv and open that in pivot and animate it there.

Willy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:11 am **(#30)**

Just try it out thats all I can say

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

I am pretty sure it will not save as a PIV from Gimp either.
As far as i know you can save your images in Pivot as GIF and as PIV files then reopen the PIV file in Pivot stickfigure animator for future editing - but that's it.