[Gimp-user] Question About Gif Animation

[Silicon_Chipmunk <forums gimpusers com>]

> Am 03.10.2016 um 01:50 schrieb Silicon_Chipmunk:
> There is only one frame rate in animated GIFs. When you need different
> speeds for different parts of an animation, you need to double/triple
> and so on the "slow" frames, while animating the fast parts in it.
> Basically, do this:
>
> frame 0: wings up   - eyes open
> frame 1: wings up   - eyes closed
> frame 2: wings down - eyes open
> frame 3: wings down - eyes closed
> loop
> Again, I recommend ImageMagick to do that duplication and animation
> work
> for you, see this example:
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_mods/#composite
>
> It first creates a coalesced_k.gif (a full frame/non-optimizied gif),
> then makes a shadows_k.gif from the original one -only for
> demonstration
> purposes, could be any "background" animation, e.g. your winged
> dragon-,
> then compose that background animation with the original
> coalesced_k.gif
> to compose_shadow.gif.
>
> (gif_anim_montage is just a script which created the strip at the
> bottom
> of the tutorial step)
>
> You are done!
>
> Okay, if you want to do that wing flapping at a slower speed, you
> first
> had to double each frame within the gif. That's a bit trickier:
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?p=50325#p41868
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Jan


Thank you, Jan. :)

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