Questions tagged [animation]
Questions about simple animation tasks. Ask anything related to designing graphics for animations. If you have a complex, software-related question, you may find better results by posting it on a Stack Exchange site that's more dedicated to animation.
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How to centre two different layers without losing position - After Effects
In Photoshop or Illustrator you can select two different layers, group them, and then when you align them to the centre they keep their original layout, but are now equally spaced left/right. Is there ...
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Animating the UI screens of an app for Portfolio
Can anyone be open to suggest their procedure of representing their UI work of a mobile or web app on Behance or any other platform they upload?
I want to know whether you create a GIF or just record ...
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how to change "frame animation" to "video timeline"?
When i open the timeline window it directly opens up as frame animation and it doesn't show me the option where you can choose either "frame animation" or "video timeline" so where do i change it?
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Can you do animations within an artboard when using the Sketch Prototyping feature?
We're trying to do animations within a single artboard in Sketch for prototyping. Specifically, when a person clicks a button, we want the standard 'Share Sheet' to slide up from the bottom of the ...
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Can't add frames in Photoshop CC 2018
I'm trying to animate in Photoshop CC 2018 and I can't get a frame to show up. The menu bar at the bottom won't show up and I keep trying to add frames, but with not option available.
My timeline ...
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Adobe Animate simple tween whale flapping tail
I need to tween animate a vector whale that simply waves it's tail up and down. I have created three graphics.
1. Whale tail straight
2. Whale tail up
3. Whale tail down
I attempted to use the shape ...
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Inkscape + Beamer for slideshows
So I have tried using JessyInk for slideshows and found it rather underwhelming, but I love the idea of being able to make slides in inkscape. I am a physicist who is making scientific presentations, ...
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How to repeat an animation for the entire length of the composition in after effects?
The title says it all... How do I repeat a set of keyframes for the entirety of the composition?
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Photoshop Animation Stacks Frames on Second Loop
I'm trying to create a gif in Photoshop using timeline. I have it set to loop forever. It works perfectly the first loop, but has problems once it hits the second (or subsequent) loop. The first frame ...
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How to remove artifacts at the edge of a GIF?
Open this image in Mozilla or Chrome browser, So you show the display some white pixels in the outer side of gif.
I didn't apply any effect, just used two flat colors and round or text in that.
How ...
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What softwares do I have to use to make a 3D spinning globe video to represent data like this video? [closed]
I am wanting to create a 3D spinning globe video to represent historical data like in this video by Business Insider, but I don't know what softwares will I have to use to create such a video.
So I ...
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Exporting After Effects animation to SVG with SMIL
I'm curious if there's a way to export animations from Adobe After Effects to SVG containing SMIL
I'm currently using the tool Bodymovin, but that's limited to only exporting bloated JSON files and ...
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Photoshop animation: Contour lines from one frame kept in the second frame of animation
I'm creating a gif animation of a castle where the first frame is the castle constructed and the second frame is the castle destroyed. I have to place the image on a website.
The issue I'm facing is ...
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Exporting SVG from illustrator as strokes instead of paths
I have this image, which I'm exporting as SVG with the intention of animating it:
In the version I'm exporting as SVG there's no background colour, that's just there so you can see it on this post. ...
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Creating cinematic for an app/Question about 3D Models
I would say that I'm fairly new to the modeling and animation field but I'm not a complete beginner. I'm trying to create a cinematic for a program, just don't exactly have the time to go through all ...
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Transparent GIF is forming grainy, transparent static and I don't know how to fix it.(GIMP)
So, I'm trying to make this gif for a meme but no matter what I do I guess this swiss cheese looking error and I can't even figure out what the term is to google!
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What is a good method for combining several animated gifs onto a single palette?
I think that what I'm trying to do is simple. I want to take several animated sprites (.gifs) and have them on a single palette (image or video). My ultimate goal is to have it as the background of a ...
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What replaced Flash?
Years ago, I used to make animations and cartoons and stuff using Flash, back when it was Macromedia, before Adobe bought them out.
Shortly afterwards my career took a different path entirely and I'...
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Photoshop animation with Fuse: batch saving for different frames and options
Is there a way to make a batch-script for automate saving (in .png files) each frame of the animation (Fuse character in Photoshop) with different character options, for example head location (as ...
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Gimp Gif transparency issue
I found this gif online and I loved it but it had a white background. I've managed to get Most of it off, but now it is leaving behind a trail of each frame. I'm not sure why.
That's the Gif after I ...
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Animated GIF not fading in
I created an image that's kind of in three parts. The left piece, a plus sign, the right piece. The idea was that I'd create an animated GIF and start with the left piece, then fade in the plus sign, ...
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Photoshop animation: How to render each layer to a separate file at once?
Is there a way to render each separate layer in Photoshop to a separate file? I have a character from Fuse and I want to render it in X positions. I don't want to click 'render' for every new layer, ...
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How can I loop and blend footage end/beginning frames in After Effects?
I'm trying to figure out how to do this for a couple of days now and I feel like it would probably be an easy fix.
I have a clip of a beach setting that I successfully looped with the loopOut() ...
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How can I resize canvas in a Photoshop CC animation?
I've made my first animation using Photoshop CC (2018).
But my canvas is way to big. If I reduce the canvas some elements simply disappears.
Is there a way to reduce / crop the canvas without ...
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Use CSS cubic-bezier for keyframes in After Effects?
I'm really new to After Effects, and I am used to creating CSS animations.
I want to animate something in After Effects, and I know how to set the animation except for the timing function.
I've used ...
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Where can I find GIF inspiration about a certain subject (find us page)?
I started working as a graphic designer two days ago. My boss asked me to create more than one gif to clarify the location of a company and when I created one and he said "I could've liked it two ...
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Can you recommend software for making such kind of animated videos? [closed]
I am working on making animated videos and I installed multiple programs to make animated videos, like blender, iclone7, etc.. However, I still can't find any animation software in which I can make ...
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How can I make smooth, crisp animation?
I am working on doing an Electronic Direct Mail (EDM) for a client and I want to make a really smooth simple animation of a notification bell ringing.
Typically I would use Photoshop to make a .gif, ...
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Rainbow color changing GIF in photoshop?
I want to make a rainbow color changing gif, where I can adjust the speed of the color changing and what color it changes to and etc.
Basically, as example, I want to turn this:
Into something like ...
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Strange artefacts in GIF-animated image with transparency
I try to create an animated GIF of a bee. This image is a gif with transparency. I export it in Adobe Animate CC 2018 with such settings:
but as a result: I can't use this image on web. There are to ...
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Cinema 4D render settings for animation
I am about to create my 1st animation in Cinema 4D. I would like to have it as a FullHD animation which later will be edited by using After Effects. Could someone recommend the best render settings to ...
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Animation: Applying changes to colors in every frame of the sequence
I have this animation of a Skeleton's Walkcycle and I would like to paint his insides purple, but I want this action to be reproduced in the various layers ofthe animation, so I don't have to paint ...
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How to animate a rising sun in Adobe Illustrator CC?
I need to animate a simple rising sun behind a horizon - aprox. 20 frames. Look at this quick drawing.
I need each frame outputted to a vector file because it's going to be used in a book for a ...
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Cinema 4D setting up a 3 point lighting system for whole scene
I am working on a small car animation project. On my scene, I have three cars which will be crossing a crossroad. It is a simple project but I would like to have my lighting set up correctly. From ...
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New to Adobe Animate. Trying to make a frame by frame explosion. Need help
I'm new to Adobe Animate and animation software but I'm having trouble figuring out where to start.
I want to make a simple explosion, and have created svg files of the individual frames. I want to ...
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Animating on a single artboard in InVision Studio?
I'm creating a vertical scrolling interactive wizard and currently have 12+ huge 1440x6519 artboards in InVision Studio for this one project. I only need one artboard really, but with each Next button/...
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How do I create a water ripple distortion animation on text?
Hi everyone. Can you please help me to understand the process behind it?
I'm studying the process starting from the static image so through displacement map on photoshop but I'd like to obtain my ...
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Stop looping in after effect
Just learning After effect 2nd question. I have download the free lower third and edited. I have knowledge of Flash and to a certain time we can type command stop(); and we can stop the looping there. ...
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Position keyframes do not make a straight path
I have made a square and inserted a position keyframe and holding shift I drag to right and got a straight path. When I want to raise up or make an "L" shape by holding shift it does not make a ...
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Animating a rotating pie slice in Photoshop
I'm trying to create a rotating radar type effect in Photoshop CC 2018. So I created a circle and a pie slice from that circle and linked them up. When I rotate the big circle the pie slice animates ...
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Is it possible to add a collider to an alembic animation in C4D?
i'm new to C4D and i'm trying to have an animation i made in blender interact with a soft body object in C4D. But when i create a collider and start the animation, nothing happens, the animation just ...
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Low resolution display ad is blurry
I design sales advertisements for low resolution outdoor video displays, for example 180 pixels by 126 pixels size. The actual sign is more like 8ft tall, but from afar it looks small.
When I save ...
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Make A Convincing Ball Rolling Animation
I plan on creating a mobile game in which the player controls a rolling ball. I created a "sprite sheet" of the ball in question along with a couple "leaning" frames that for some reason I thought ...
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program to create simple animations for visualization?
I'm looking for a small and light program that allows me to create simple animations for the purpose of visualization. I want to be able to create animations similair to this.
Usually, I do ...
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What exactly is the difference between 8 fps and 24 fps drawn-on-threes animations?
Main question: Is there any difference between an animation sequence drawn on threes (8 different drawings for a second of motion) that plays back at 8 fps and 24 fps?
As in after you draw 8 ...
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Animation of scanning, transition to the other layer on effect
I want to create a transition using scanning effect (horizontal line going from a head to a toes of a character). Basically let's say I have two layers, one with green human, and second wth red human. ...
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How to create animated videos like this link? [closed]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S5cFLTTIF30
I want to be able to make videos like this link. I've installed AutoDesk Maya but can't find much online help for self learning it. If there is any other ...
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Bodymovin a good idea for web animations?
On our new "how it works" page we want to use animated graphics to better explain some concepts of our service. We don't have any experience with more complex animations and we decided to try ...
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Can you combine two small animations into one on FireAlpaca?
I use FireAlpaca and I currently have one problem with it. Is there a way to make one separate animation and combine it with another animation made from FireAlpaca?
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Best way to Create Low File Size GIFs in Premiere Pro
I want to use Premiere Pro to create small sized (300kb or less) GIFs. The typical set up would be a static image that doesn't move, and then an animated part (from a video) inside the static image. ...
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