How Do You Make An Animation In Gimp?
Suppose you have pent up artistic energies waiting to get get out, and you are interested in animation. “What program can I get that’s free, simple, and fun, and that I can do lousy little animations on?”, you ask. Well, Gimp is your answer! • Start a new project by going to File>New. • Make Sure the new project’s color space is RGB, if you plan it to be in color, and that it’s filled with white if you just want an animation of your figure, set it as transparency if you want a background. • Draw the first frame of your animation. To just learn it all, put a simple figure, like a stickman, or something similar. • Open the Layer dialog, Windows> Dockable Dialogs> Layers. • Duplicate the layer of your first frame. It will now be called background copy, and be first in the ordering. Set it’s opacity down from 100 to the 40’s to 60’s. • Not seeing any difference in the picture yet? Try drawing a line. It is fainter because the opacity of the layer is not 100. • This way, you can see what th
