That looks really cool.

This is a great tutorial, been thinking of images to try, then I remembered this rubic cube wallpaper I had made.

k1tesseraena:will you write a tutorial to something similar to the candles-in-water picture? i loved that one, though i doubt i could ever learn to make something similar, my attempts at animation have all been very bad.
he4rty: you've really done some great work with these animations! the rubik's cube picture is amazing and i love the one with your daughter on the stilts too - i agree with molly about the perspective, very dramatic - and since my own balance is lousy and i'm a bit scared of heights i'm naturally very impressed by her actually standing on those stilts at all .

Wow, he4rty! wow...

That is really impressive! You're getting perfect, I don't think I'd make anything as good your rubic cube. Cube is immaculate. And that reflection on the bottom is perfect! Thanks for making this animation. It deserves a place in Gimp Chat Hall of Fame (we don't have one but it's good idea, I think)

As soon as get a few hours to write a tutorial, I will do so. The screenshots are almost ready, just need to organize everything and write the text, although at first I was thinking of making a video tut. Maybe, will do both.

Thanks for all the comments.

K1TesseraEna - The rubic cube was not that hard to make to be honest, it was all made using the filter>Map Object>Box

Wow, he4rty is becoming a pro! Very good this rubik cube animation. I like a lot !

Edit:
You can try optimize to reduce the gif size (on disk) installing "gifsicle" on GNU/Linux and from the terminal:


Also reducing the number of colors, but in this case there is loss of quality:


N: number of colors. For example 64, 128, etc

For inspiration, something different but in a way similar.
IWDRM is a gallery of living movie stills
http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/

I have been eyeing these animations http://twistedsifter.com/2012/03/animat ... lity-gifs/ for quite some time.

Had an idea of making something like it, just could not make/find a proper video for that yet.

I need to try again with a different photo, don't like the way the paws on the ground move



I tried to make something last year like in the link k1te posted

@alc59

Is the ground around bear's paws in your depth map black? If the image contains a plain with perspective (ground in this case), then it should be white to black gradation of color in DM too, because some areas of the ground are closer to the observer's eyes than FG object itself.

Like the animation with horses! Cool!

I like those alc, especially the horse with the animated tail.

alc - there nice and do like the horse.

Thank you so much for this tutorial K1TesseraEna. This is one the best tutorials I've have seen in a while. Excellent job!!!

K1TesseraEna thank you for this tutorial . Pleasantly surprised to see my animation as an example.

really cooool!

my map wasn't so great for her eyes.
but the general head is okay.

@Tin:
You're getting a lot of banding on that last one .. try saving as .APNG

oh darn it...too late i already closed the image and didn't keep a .xcf of it. oh well.