On 02/20/2010 01:05 AM, David Gowers wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Burnie West<west@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 02/19/2010 11:05 PM, Scott wrote: >> >>>> I don't see animation. Seems like the animation you've attempted >>>> should appear in the header1 image; but that's a jpg but not a gif. >>>> >>> Well it is my first atempt and I just did what the forum post that I was >>> going off of in a search said to do. Looked for a good tutorial for it but >>> couldn't find one. >>> Yes the train now that I think about it was a jpg. I just took one layer out >>> of an exsisting animation and made my own and saved as a gif. Any links to a >>> good tutorials for this? >>> >>> >> I looked at a couple of tutorials for it, and they don't exactly seem to >> address >> your questions very well. They tend to be overly simplified, or assume >> too much >> background knowledge. >> >> WARNING: very wordy post (but I don't know how to help otherwise). >> >> Basically, you need to create a layer for each animation frame. Then you >> need to >> organize the layers in the animation sequence. Then you need to schedule >> them. >> > Or you use GIMP-GAP, which is designed for this kind of thing and has > the 'Move path' tool to do pretty much everything except extracting > the train :) > AFAICS, GAP move path tool doesn't handle the train scaling, perspective shifts, rotations, foreground occlusions, and the 3-D/2-D aspects. All that would have to be managed by hand on a frame-by-frame basis, would it not? These leaves the frame compositing and the tracking, which are really the easiest to tackle (at least at my level of expertise). _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user