Re: Moving images from point a to b animated

[Burnie West <west@xxxxxxxx>]

On 02/20/2010 10:04 AM, Olivier Lecarme wrote:
> Burnie West<west@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> 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).
>>      
> No, the Move Path tool offers exactly what is needed: you define the
> path along which the train moves, and you define the transformations on
> it: zooming in or out, rotating, perspective, fading, and so on.
>
> There are several short tutorials about this tool. In the GIMP book I'm
> preparing, there will be a full chapter about it.
>    
That's terrific, Oliver. I searched through Akkana Peck's wonderful book 
Beginning Gimp and with that source I've done a very few animations for 
fun. But she didn't mention GAP - probably wasn't available at the time 
she was writing.
I'm looking forward to yours.
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