![]() To change the rate between blinking and make it appear slightly more random, we can add more frames. The animation you made and saved out in the previous steps should work and look fine, but the blinking happens just like clockwork. ![]() You can now go to the folder you saved it in and gaze in wonder as it moves before your very eyes! Ok, moving on… You won’t notice a difference without this option when blinking, but you will when you start moving arms / legs / hair / clothes, or making it float etc, so it’s good practice to change it now. The second option you need is the Frame Disposal – you must change this to “One frame per Layer (Replace)”. As it says, it will make the animation loop forever, so it’ll constantly cycle through the frames. The option “Looping Forever” should default be checked. It’s the last box, I swear << You can add a comment here if you want, but it’s not necessary. In most cases of pixel art, you won’t get to 256 colours in a single piece. The gif format can only use 256 different colours and if you have more than that, it will reduce the number until there are only 256. With the second options, the first one about Indexed colours should be chosen automatically. Low and behold, another box! ^^ Make sure you change the first option to “ Save as Animation“. gif making it “ myanimation.gif“.Ĭhoose the folder you want to save your animation to as well and hit “Save”. Name your animation – mine is simply called myanimation and I have added the extension. To save the image, go to the File Menu -> Save As (Shift+Ctrl+S). Now you can add the remainder of your frames as new layers and make them transparent. To select nothing again, go to the Select Menu -> None (Shift+Ctrl+A). Click on the green areas and hit “Delete”. I unticked the “Antialiasing” checkbox in the toolbox because we don’t want it. To remove the green and make it transparent, use the Magic Wand tool. In GIMP, paste the frame in, by going to the Edit Menu, down to “Paste as” and across to “New Layer”. Now, select your first frame (in whatever program you’ve drawn it in) and “Copy” it (Ctrl+C / Edit->Copy). I have filled the parts I want transparent with green. To the right are my frames, ready to be pasted in separately. Hit ok and your document is ready to draw on / paste frames into! If you don’t, estimate and you can trim it down later. If you know the pixel size of your animation, add the width and height in. To do this, click on the File Menu and select “New”. Our step now is to create the document for the animation in the “Document” window.
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