GC World Logo GIF

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:43 pm **(#1)**

Worked on this for a while.
I know it isn't perfect, but I had the idea and thought I'd run with it.
I think the Gimp Chat text needs more contouring of some kind, to make it seem as if it's going around the world better.
Maybe by using a layer mask, or perhaps some feathering or some such effect.
Let me know what you guys think and if you might have a solution to the Gimp Chat text,
and or how to make all the text better in this type of animation.

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Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

WOW!!! That's really great Wallace. You have 3 animations going at the same time! Since the text is rotating around the whole thing, I think the letters should all be in the same direction, easier to read. But that's just me. It's beautiful!! Did I hear you say you were going to do a tutorial for us? :jumpclap

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:08 pm **(#3)**

Pat625 wrote:

WOW!!! That's really great Wallace.
You have 3 animations going at the same time!
Since the text is rotating around the whole thing, I think the letters should all be in the same direction, easier to read.
But that's just me.
It's beautiful!!
Did I hear you say you were going to do a tutorial for us? :jumpclap

Thanks Pat625.
I'm glad that you like it and you may want to have your hearing checked, or something like that. :hehe

I'm sorry to say... that a tut for this would be very long.
Not to mention being extremely involved.
Also doing this without GAP is quite a tedious endeavor and would take forever to explain.
A tutorial, made by me, would be out of the question.
That isn't to say that someone else couldn't take on the challenge.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:02 pm **(#4)**

That's a neat concept Wallace!
Is the XCF file too big to upload? I think it's cool but was curious in case anyone wanted to tweak it or try your technique.

Artloader · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:21 pm **(#5)**

This is cool Wallace, isn't there some kind of "map to sphere" function in Gimp? I think that may help your Gimp Chat text?

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:22 pm **(#6)**

Odinbc wrote:

That's a neat concept Wallace!
Is the XCF file too big to upload?
I think it's cool but was curious in case anyone wanted to tweak it or try your technique.

I think I still have it, but it's after all was merged into the final gif.
It wouldn't be of much use if I uploaded it.

I use a photo of a world map and the "Spinning Globe" animation script to make the spinning globe.
Then made some text to path for the outer text.
Using the outer text paths, I rotated the paths 45° 10 times to the right.
The inner text was lens distorted and moved out to the left and in from the right.

Here's the map image I used.
I had to scale the map to make it an equal square.
The image is 2700X1350, so I scaled it to 1350X1350 and then ran Spinning Globe on it.

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Here's the XCF of the text.

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Fonts used were
Inner text: taller Ultra-Condensed
Outer text: Serif Bold
By the way... you could use any old fonts you like.
These are only the fonts that I used.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Very nice Wallace. I know that took some time.

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:44 pm **(#8)**

The Warrior wrote:

Very nice Wallace.
I know that took some time.

Thanks Warrior.

Yeah It did take a few minutes. :mrgreen:

So I went and made another.
This one is only sightly better.
The outer text still suffers form the jaggies.
Even though I used text to path to create it.

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oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:15 pm **(#9)**

Wallace - another clever movie idea, inspirational ... :clap

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:20 pm **(#10)**

oldmangrumpy wrote:

Wallace - another clever movie idea, inspirational ... :clap

Thanks!

Do you have any animation up your Gimp sleeve?

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:57 pm **(#11)**

wallace: whew! i shudder at the thought of all that work! but it pays off well, the animations look great. i prefer the text in the second one (because it's all in the same direction, i agree with pat 625 on that one) and the globe in the first one because i somehow found that more restful to look at. i thought the speed on both animations was a bit high, but that may be because i had a bad migraine for two days.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:45 am **(#12)**

AnMal wrote:

wallace: whew!
i shudder at the thought of all that work! but it pays off well, the animations look great.
i prefer the text in the second one (because it's all in the same direction, i agree with pat 625 on that one) and the globe in the first one because i somehow found that more restful to look at.
i thought the speed on both animations was a bit high, but that may be because i had a bad migraine for two days.

Sorry to find out about your migraine.

Issabella · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:15 am **(#13)**

What a great idea and you as a master did it fantastic! I can imagine how much thought you invested on this attractive outcome. Good for you!!!! Thanks for sharing it. :clap

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:33 am **(#14)**

Issabella wrote:

What a great idea and you as a master did it fantastic! I can imagine how much thought you invested on this attractive outcome.
Good for you!!!! Thanks for sharing it. :clap

Thanks you Issabella. :rainumb