GIMP Animation Tutorial

well this is an old tut. i have on a forum now i'm going to bring this in here ... i do think its using the old version of gimp but i'm not sure since i stop using GIMP for the same reason most peoples do it, they just want better and go for other programs like Photoshop.

And i did notice the Tutorial Lancer posted but i just think some pictures for every step would help some of the newby's in the art of GIMP-ing
And yes even if it is for the old version of GIMP you can still find your way whit this tutorial on the new version since not much have been changed.

So lets start:
Here you will learn to make an animation from a spritesheet.
If you already have your animation frames ready, skip to step 7

Step 1:
Open GIMP, and paste your spritesheet from your file on the computer
File -> Open as a layer...
It should look like this (depending on your spritesheet)



Step 2:
Select one of the frames of the animation with the rectangular select tool and copy it



Step 3:
Create a new image window (Ctrl + N) in the right size for the animation with a transperent background



Step 4:
Paste the frame you copied earlier (Ctrl + V), and make it a new layer (click the button with the white paper on it in the layer window)



Step 5:
Delete the layer called background in the new window you opened


Step 6:
Repeat Steps 2 and Step 4 for each frame of the animation
you should get something like this



Step 7:
File -> Save a copy...
type the name of your animation and then afterwards add .gif
In the export window select the options in the picture below:




Step 8:
Choose these settings:



Final product:


Final settings:
In order to make all the animation frames in the right place and not each frame on it's own place, make each time one frame (layer) visible and the frame (layer) before it in the GIMP window to move every frame for their place.

This is the ending:



After you have created the animation and saved the file, try to use the image->autocrop function to erase the transperent space around the sprite.
*How to test the animation you just made without saveing it is comming soon, just need to find out a tutorial i made a long ago on some other forum*
I hope you enjoyed!

3. The Tutorials must be written in your own language. This is perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT rule of all. They should not be copied off another site (Plagiarism) and directly pasted here. Plagiarism can lead to a BAN.

Hi,
This post has already been published here : http://www.logicalgamers.com/showthread.ph...4252/index.html on 11/24/2007.
It seems that you forgot a part of the tutorial rules, as they are expressed here : http://www.astahost.com/how-s-tutorials-f6.html
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3. The Tutorials must be written in your own language. This is perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT rule of all. They should not be copied off another site (Plagiarism) and directly pasted here. Plagiarism can lead to a BAN.

Did you notice the quotes I put here above ?
I put the quotes because I did not write this sentences. Posting copied text is not strictly forbidden, simply you have to put between quotes (just like I did it) and mention where the text is coming from.
I put the quotes on your text today. Please do the quoting by yourself next time you post copied text. This is simply honesty, or politeness toward the text's author. If you don't do this, we could imagine that you are trying to cheat with the hosting credit system, which makes the admins around here rather mad. mad.gif
Regards
Yordan

It's my tutorial and I posted on LG long time ago. Please investigate before you acuse someone for plagiate. If you are still not convinced it is my tutorial than tell me your username on LG and i'll pm you to proove. I think i deserve some excuses.

OK, I know that you are on LG, and you know I am too.
The point is that, in astahost tutorial section, you can only post new tutorials. You have to quote old tutorials, specifying where they come from.
If the tutorial is written by another guy, you have to quote the other guy's text.
If you wrote the tutorial, you have to quote yourself.
The tutorial was posted last year (11/24/2007), it has to be quoted.
We give a lot of credits in the tutorial section. The only condition is that astahost must be the first site where it's posted. If it has already been published somewhere else, we are not interested.
It's the same problem as for novel makers. Once you have written a nice story, an interesting novel, which has been published and a lot of people have read it, nobody else will give you money for the same text, they will want a new text, for instance the next adventures of the same people or something else which is new.
Sorry, but this is a non-negociatable rule. Of course, I apply it to myself too, and I don't post here the tutorials I made on other technical sites.
Regards
Yordan

I tend to agree.

Not wanting to make trouble versus moderators etc, but come on... this tutorial was written and submitted by the author. He want's points and has submitted something of his own work to earn them. I'm currently writing a tutorial at the moment, to do with some cutting edge (latest features) in a certain program. I will be posting the tutorial on AstaHost, but also, I want to get appreciation by posting it to the forums of that software. If it happens to be spotted by zealous moderators because it get put online there first... is that really breaking the rules?