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Anyone know of any good tutorials for animations in gimp? Gimp is like the underdog, they have everything for photoshop, but not gimp :(.
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If you are talking about GIF animations, they're quite easily created in GIMP with layers -- each layer is an animation frame. Upon saving, the wizard lets you configure the frame delays and such.
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dbevfat wrote:If you are talking about GIF animations, they're quite easily created in GIMP with layers -- each layer is an animation frame. Upon saving, the wizard lets you configure the frame delays and such.
This I know, i was wondering about advanced animations.
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serfczar_ wrote:This I know, i was wondering about advanced animations.
A search for 'gimp animation' in Google turned up http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Advanced_Animations/ .. I guess that's what you're after. It covers the GAP (Gimp Animation Plugin).

Mind you, if you mean things like keyframing, onion skinning, asset management, motion effects and so on, I imagine you'd be a lot better off using a dedicated animation application.
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onion2k wrote:
serfczar_ wrote:This I know, i was wondering about advanced animations.
A search for 'gimp animation' in Google turned up http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Advanced_Animations/ .. I guess that's what you're after. It covers the GAP (Gimp Animation Plugin).

Mind you, if you mean things like keyframing, onion skinning, asset management, motion effects and so on, I imagine you'd be a lot better off using a dedicated animation application.
Do you know of any of these kind of applications?
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I use Flash for animating things, but there's loads of alternatives: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Graphics/Animation/
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What is the best animation software to use with solidworks? Looking for animation software to use with Solidowrks, something easy to use but with good results. I have heard good things about Bunkspeed Hypermove so Im kinda leaning towards that. I basically need to create an animation for a new product being released and need to show it off at a show in a few weeks.
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gladysila wrote:What is the best animation software to use with solidworks? Looking for animation software to use with Solidowrks, something easy to use but with good results. I have heard good things about Bunkspeed Hypermove so Im kinda leaning towards that. I basically need to create an animation for a new product being released and need to show it off at a show in a few weeks.

I dont think solidworks is a good software the best software for animations is photoshop.. If you dont have a licence... then ask someone who has it..
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