First animation- full disk LS60THa

[Tyson M]

Hello, I finally finished it.

I can see some small proms surge up and down. All of the action is on the limb.

Nothing spectacular but cool to watch. 

I cant figure out how to upload it as a video to flickr, just saves as a still.

Anyways, despite the work I enjoyed doing it and will try some close ups some day.

Taken over the course of an hour or so, every 90 secs took a 30 sec capture

 

[Pete Presland]

Well worth the effort, always good to see the subtle changes in an animation.

[Macavity]

Great Stuff!

I "can't afford" PhotoShop, so make do GIMP! 

If I don't have too many frames, I just load these
into the program as layers... I then *align* them
by hand... and export it as an Animated .gif file.
The latter can be displayed directly within SGL! 

For FULL disks, it helps a lot to align the edges...
As a "next level" *flatten* each of the disks a bit?
No criticism - I'm just a SUCKER for animation!

Took a while (believe me!) to figure all this out.
 

[Davey-T]

Good stuff, no idea about Flickr, uploading to Y'Tube is quite straight forwards would have thought Flickr was similar.

iMPPG does a better job of aligning frames than P'Shop.

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

great animation Tyson, well done mate. charl.

[Montana]

Great animation

Is it a gif? Flickr will play this but not in the preview, if you go to 'all sizes' and click on 'original' it will play. Likewise when you embed it in a forum you need to pick the BB code 'original' and it will play.

Alexandra

[Tyson M]

Hello Alexandra - it is a gif yes, I will look into what you suggested on Flickr, and thanks for the tip of embedded link.

 

And Macavity, you as well, thank you! I need tips / advice -so don't apologize. I tried to align the frames by cropping around the disk by equal amounts. But it wasn't perfect. A bit more tedious will be to use the gimp measure tool to measure each side to have equal amounts on all sides, unless you known an easier way? I use ImPPG and GIMP

[Macavity]

The way I do it *manually* in GIMP is: Edit the First image...
Then load the next image into the program. I then COPY that
(Ctrl/C etc.) to a new layer above the first one (and repeat)!

With each new layer, I set mode temporarily to "difference"
or "subtract"? I click on the move tool, then the latest layer,
and MOVE it using the arrow keys, rather than the mouse!

You can then superimpose all the animation frames to the
PIXEL level in x & y. If you have any rotation it's harder... 

Test using Filters > Animation > Playback etc. etc.

GIMP seems to uderstand that an animated .gif is needed
when you export the image! You can even set frame rate!
I note a slightly confusing message from GIMP at the final
animation stage re. *clipping*? But it worked in the end!
 

[Davey-T]

6 minutes ago, Macavity said:

The way I do it *manually* in GIMP is: Edit the First image...
Then load the next image into the program. I then COPY that
(Ctrl/C etc.) to a new layer above the first one (and repeat)!

With each new layer, I set mode temporarily to "difference"
or "subtract"? I click on the move tool, then the latest layer,
and MOVE it using the arrow keys, rather than the mouse!

You can then superimpose all the animation frames to the
PIXEL level in x & y. If you have any rotation it's harder... 

Test using Filters > Animation > Playback etc. etc.

GIMP seems to uderstand that an animated .gif is needed
when you export the image! You can even set frame rate!
I note a slightly confusing message from GIMP at the final
animation stage re. *clipping*? But it worked in the end!
 

If you load them all into iMPPG it will do all that for you in seconds

Dave

[Macavity]

1 minute ago, Davey-T said:

If you load them all into iMPPG it will do all that for you in seconds

Dave

I knew someone was going to say that! lol.
Haven't got around to trying it yet.

[Tyson M]

Awesome. I love learning new features with software. I will try both, starting with ImPPG.

Maybe I can refine the animation better.

[Tyson M]

[Tyson M]

Aligned using ImPPG.