The animation object must be of the same type as the frame.
We have now created a few basic frames, say for example 10 frames. The same happens when you work with other tools in AnimFrames, so only save when you exit AnimFrames. Don't worry about saving, all frames are stored on disk immediately without explicit save. To make this work, you must of course have either gzip or bzip2 installed on your system. The format must be XCF, but if you are low on disk space, you can choose a compressed XCF by adding. This brings up a dialog asking you to specify how many duplicates you want, or how may frames you want for your animation (the slide only goes as far as to 50 frames, but you can easily change that by typing an optional number of frames in the field). Choose Save as and save it as animationname_0001.xcf (the special extension is _0001.xcf). To turn your image into a frame you must save it. When you've made up your mind, you continue like you always do in Gimp: File -> New. The first thing you have to determine when you create an animation is the size of the background image.
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How to create an animation with AnimFramesĪnimFrames is built up of frames. This makes every object independent of the other animation objects (just like in a cartoon frame where several people move around independently, because each character was painted on a separate plastic sheet). Instead of using a single multi-layered image, AnimFrames works with several images, where each image can have several layers with different objects in them. AnimFrames overcomes this problem in a wonderful way. If you want to work with several objects which can move independently of each other, the ordinary Gimp animation "tools" do not suffice. (If you want to know more about ordinary Gimp animations read Chapter 20) This makes it hard to create advanced animations like in an animated film. If you want to use more than one animation object, you have to put all of the objects in the same layer. When you make an ordinary GIF animation you create a multi-layered image, where the object that you want to animate moves a little bit for every new layer.
A frame is an ordinary Gimp image saved with a special extension. As the name indicates, AnimFrames works with image frames. You will find the AnimFrames tool under the Image menu /AnimFrames. We will unleash the power of it in this chapter. The far most advanced tool of these is Anim Frames. 36 Advanced animation with Gimp or how to use AnimFrames Gimp has many excellent tools for making animations.
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