Whats up with Animations, eh?
My friends informed me, after watching me “painstakingly” piecing together another one of my little doodles, “Whats the big deal? Anyone with a good drawing tool could do that”;
Hmph! I strive to remain unconcerned.
“What then?”, I haughtily ask, “What then, do you propose?”
“Animations, dude! Thats where the money lies. Can you make any one of your drawings move?”
All right. I take up the challenge: The Gimp gave me this after a few tries -
That looks all right. Now I try something bigger.
Its pretty simple actually, to create animations with the Gimp. Heres how to do it
This one was much more satisfactory to make 
All right. So I’m hooked. I think I’ll put in more animations in here.
Footnote: By the way, did you notice that the last three of my drawings looks like they are vector illustrated? Actually I used Kolourpaint to make these drawings and then I used this simple tool: autotrace. [ autotrace drawing_file >vector_drawing_file ]. But if I were you I would use it only for those sketches in black and white. Colours don’t go well with autotrace.
I’m still trying to get the Pencil tool to work on my Debian box. I’ve all but given up. If anyone out there has overcome this particular hazard or think that the actual hazard is my innate stupidity, please enlighten me.
brillant work in gimp..
sanmary
May 8, 2008 at 5:10 pm
what about animation using svg?i had some basic lessons.it seems FS Browsers support them,anyway:) i had heard that firefox is gonna support apng(animated png) donno whether firefox 3 has it or not.
shyam k
May 10, 2008 at 2:59 pm
What is the problem with pencil tool. Elaborate may be we can fix this…
Vivek Khurana
May 12, 2008 at 3:18 am
The libraries in Debian are too old. I hit a snag with the libming library. Once i fixed that libstdc++ was shown as outdated. The debian etch provides 1.6.95.4 by default and pencil requires versiond >=4.2.1.
unni
May 12, 2008 at 1:36 pm