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What formats supporting animation are suitable for the web?
What formats supporting animation are suitable for the web and what are the pros and cons of each.
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What programs can be used to make animations?
I am specifically interested in software that can be used to combine existing sets of images (frames in the animation) into an animation. Having the ability to add transitions/effects between the ...
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Tool to create animated SVGs?
Are there any graphical tools to create and edit animated SVG images? Inkscape is great, but it does everything except animation. I created an image in Inkscape, then manually edited the XML to add ...
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Tasteful Alternative to Marquee
So a client of mine is making repeated requests for things that were "cool" when her website originally launched in the late nineties. One feature is a scrolling marquee that just says "welcome to ...
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What is a “sprite”?
I am studying Fundamentals of Multimedia by Ze-Nian Li and Mark S Drew. They use the term "sprite" but I don't understand the meaning. Can someone explain to me what sprites are and how they are ...
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Photoshop - Is there a keyboard shortcut for creating a new frame?
In Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 / CS6, is there a keyboard shortcut to make a new frame using the animation window and timeline?
I make a lot of gif animations and would like to reduce mouse movement for ...
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Photoshop: Animated PNG?
Photoshop CS5 doesn't seem to natively support saving image as APNG even tho few of the major browsers already support it. Are there any export plugins or such available for Photoshop?
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How to make an animated gif with a transparent background without overlap?
When I try to make a gif with two frames both of which have a transparent background in GIMP, what happens is that the first frame looks OK, then the second frame appears on top of it, such that you ...
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Convert Photoshop animation to spritesheet
I have an animation that I have exported to gif, works perfect and all, but it is for a game and therefore I need to create a spritesheet for display. Also, I may be creating other animations for the ...
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How can I create an animation of an image being drawn/painted, automatically?
Im looking for some software that will allow me to create an animation of a given image being drawn in real time. for example, I have a jpeg, its a picture of my pet dog, i want some software that ...
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Can I recreate a model and post it?
Can I create a 3d model from pictures that are available on the internet and put it into a small animation and post it on YouTube? For example I want to create a 3d model of a car from images found on ...
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2.5D character animation
I am building a strategy game in 2.5D, similar to Age of Empires, but will be a bugs war instead of humans.
I am in the process of building animation, I hired a graphic designer and UI developer, the ...
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Which program is used to create these effects? (see example within)
http://www.mynuvia3.com
There's an animation on the front page and eventually I'd like to make something like that. I don't know where to start though.
Which program(s) could be used to make such ...
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How to compress an animated GIF?
I have an animated gif banner 125x125 that needs to be < 10 KB. I started at 60 KB and my best efforts (remove all animation, reduce number of frames) resulted in 28 KB.
Any ideas how to make it ...
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How to edit an animated gif in gimp to include transparency?
I have an ajax spinner which unfortunately has a white background in the corners. I want to remove the white and make it transparent using GIMP. How can I go about doing that? I tried opening it in ...
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My Timeline window is missing lots of controls
I'm using CS6.
Can someone tell me how to display all the controls of the timeline window ?
Here's what mine looks like:
All the demos / tutorials [show the timeline quite differently there:
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Animating paths in Photoshop CS6
I am trying to create a gif of a growing line, which changes direction. I drew the line using the path tool, so I need a way to animate drawing process of a Beziér curve. Essentially I need to create ...
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Free Windows software for animations
Can anyone suggest a good (and easy to use) freeware for creating animations in Windows? I was looking at the Pencil mentioned in a similar question, but it seems its development has stopped. In ...
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Overlay animations in Photoshop?
I've just done two animations in Photoshop, each the same size, same number of frames. The second animation has a transparent background. Is it possible to merge the two by overlaying the second onto ...
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Where could i start to try and make something like this video?
i was browsing the web for some animated backgrounds for ppt when i came accross this:
http://www.faithclipart.com/video/he-is-the-vine-video-splash-screen-loop.html
Does anyone know what techniques, ...
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How to prevent unification when animating in photoshop?
I am trying to create an animated gif where text drops down and smashes into the background and cracks it. Whenever I try and transform it though, the transformation is applied to all frames. How do I ...
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Best Tools & Tutorials to transition from Flash to HTML5
A friend of my is a Flash designer and animator, and uses tools like Adobe Flash CS5. She want's to learn to do similar work in HTML5.
What tools and tutorials are available (free or commercial) to ...
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Creating a new stage in Adobe Edge Preview 0.10.0.134.17040
I recently started working with Adobe Edge, and need to create an additional stage for a more complex animation. How can this be done?
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InDesign HTML 5 plugin or web apps to create HTML 5 ebooks based on InDesign project
I am designing e-books for iPad & Android tablets. The problem is I have very little options to add animated effects to my e-book when doing it on InDesign (which is a must for me, as the e-books ...
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Animating anchor points in Flash CS5 - Shape goes mad!
I'm having problems creating a very simple shape animation in Flash CS5.
I have 20 frames, 3 keyframes (at 1, 10 and 20).
The following screenshots are from Flash, with onion skin turned on for all ...
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Quality of .gif output from Photoshop
I'm trying to output a .gif from Photoshop (CS6) and have run into some difficulty with the quality it is producing. Ideally, each image should resemble the .jpg stills which are crisp and clear, but ...
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GIF animation skipping immediately to last frame
I was making a GIF animation with GIMP. When I tried to play it back, though, it skipped directly from my first frame to the final frame and missed all the others. Is this a glitch in GIMP, or am I ...
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3D Facial Expression Database
Can anyone suggest 3D Face Expression Database which has basic expressions like happy, sad, surprise, anger, disgust, ...
I am trying to simulate different expressions on a 2D face image.
As a ...
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Flash: Creating a single walking pattern for multiple characters
I have a big project to do right now. And my final delay is... now. It's a ~35-second animation I have to do in Adobe Flash Professional CS6. Anyone having ever animated on this software knows that ...
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Gimp: How to reverse the direction of gif image
How can i reverse Gif image with out affecting animation of the image and save it. I used Flip Tool and reversed image then after save it. Then i lost the animation effect of the image.
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Recommended frame-by-frame animation software by using body parts?
I have a game project, and I also have a side-view character I want to put in it.
I have the character separated in multiple pieces: head, torso, arms, hands, legs... etc. Because I plan to make ...
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Zoom transition in PowerPoint
I'm using PowerPoint for a presentation (I know that other tools may be better, but not in this case).
In a transition between two slides, I've to zoom part of an image (which is a simple tree ...
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Recommended format for a large stop motion animation on website?
I have a stop motion animation of about 35 seconds in duration (~150 frames). The resolution is quite large at around 900px x 450px.
What is the best format to play this looping on my website? I ...
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advice on workflow and people needed for an app
I'm looking for some advice on workflow and what people I'll need to put together an app for tablets and smartphones.
There are 3 questions down the bottom of this post.
There are 2 apps planned -- ...
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How can I animate images with a paper workflow instead of digital tablet?
Not everyone has the possibility to use graphics tablets. I myself have one, but is in no way comparable to the precision that I have when drawing on paper (and even fewer are those who can afford ...
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Animated gif in PS only shows first frame. Help
So I have a series of images that I am trying to make into an animated gif. I have an animation time line and all that basic jazz, and I have saved for the web as a gif. When I reach the final save ...
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How to relocate face points in opencv / face distortion?
I have to simulate facial expressions on a face image ( say open mouth ). For this I first extracted the facial feature points and found the corners of the lips. Now I need to deform the image by ...
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After effects: Moving text along 3D path
After Effects beginner here.
The effect I'm after is where text is appearing from behind an object. So far, I'm using the position and rotation parameters.
But the text is rigid. I found something ...
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How can I export a flash file to a gif format without losing quality?
I'm making a series of animated gifs witch I design using adobe flash. The problem is that when I export it to the animated gif format, it pixelates losing a lot of quality.
I wanted to know if ...
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Adobe Flash CS6 won't Export Animated Gif - How do on the main timeline?
I am using Adobe Flash CS6. I have my .fla attached for you. Simple movie. I want to however export it as a GIF and the animation just does not work. It exports a static file. Someone mentioned above ...
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How to create frames from layers in Photoshop extended?
Is there a way to automatically create frames from layers in a Photoshop document?
Bridge lets you open several images into one Photoshop document as layers, now I would like to get these layers ...
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Free fast and easy animation with sound
I'm looking for a quick way to make a video clip from a series of images, combined with sound. I have about 30 images, and just need them to be played one at a time, with a 1-2 second delay between ...
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Photoshop CS3 animation opacity problems
Here is my dilemma. I am making a scrolling text gif. I need the background on this gif to be transparent with a white box centered in the middle with the text showing ONLY in the white box. This ...
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Making Kinetic Text animations
I know this is called Kinetic Text, but I don't imagine one does this in powerpoint. What tools would I need to learn to get this done? I'd love if they were open source or low cost.
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Are there any animation programs other than Flash? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What programs can be used to make animations?
I saw this stack exchange and thought it'd be the perfect place to finally ask this.
Basically, with Flash I use to make ...
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100 frame circular burn-down fuse animation
I'm working on a game and want a burn-down timer which is a circular fuse, burning down (erasing itself) over 100 frames (3.6 degrees each.)
How can I generate these frames with software instead of ...
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can't properly create motion tweens between two keyframes in flash CS4
I'm trying to create a flash animation of a wing flapping using three keyframes. The first keyframe is at frame 1. I then created a second keyframe at frame 5 by pressing F6, and then I created ...
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Any tips for good tutorials or discussions on web page animation? [closed]
The simple effect I'm ultimately after is this:
load an image in the centre of a web page
have the image slide across to the left
then start loading other text and images around it
I don't mind ...
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Create a repeating glare effect over a coin in Flash
Please kindly advise the missing steps for adding a glare (shining) effect to a yellow circle symbol, representing a coin.
The effect should run every 2 seconds. The symbol will be exported and be ...
