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 move individual layers using onion skin when rotoscoping with video layers in photoshop?
I am using a video layer to animate frame-by-frame over a video. Because the video shifts over a little, the rotoscope is not a perfect loop, so I would like to move the shifting frames over one-by-...
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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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How can I create a wipe transition effect in Figma like in the link?
Wipe effect animation sample
My Animation in Figma
Moving mask is the solution.
I need it for Lottie animation. I also used opacity for the slider like in the sample. I made that as an interactive ...
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fill multiple animation cells in Clip Paint Studio
I have 8 frames of line art animation that I want to fill.
Fill meaning adding a silhouette to the line art.
I am currently filling by setting the line art as a reference layer and using magic wand to ...
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What formats are commonly used in animated elements on web pages?
What is the industry standard format for animated elements on web pages? I know these can be videos and GIFs, but it doesn’t seem as if these formats are providing high enough quality, and video files ...
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How to make identical selections on each layer of an animation gif (excluding the parts that move) in photoshop?
I am working on an animation of a cigarette sitting in an ashtray with smoke rising from the tip. The cigarette and the tray stay the same throughout the 30 frames, but the smoke changes in each frame....
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When I edit an equation, it removes all animations from that slide. Is this an option or a bug? Is it possible to change this?
It's pretty straightforward.
I've recently started teaching a large course (190 students), and this has forced me to teach using PowerPoint instead of a white board. The biggest issue I've faced with ...
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How to create an animated WebP using WebPShop?
In the README for WebPShop (a Photoshop plugin for saving WebP files) there is mention of a method for creating animated WebP files, but the method for producing such files is not described in detail. ...
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Should I get a graphics tablet for animation?
I want to buy a graphics tablet so I can animate videos for school and maybe a youtube channel if I am good at it. I don't want to spend over $150 and I just want one that would work.
(Also, if ...
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How to rotate a layer in photoshop script
I'm trying to rotate a layer for an animation of my profile picture (below)
The initial layer name is "_a_Original"
New copies should be "_a_Copy (copynumber)"
The idea is to ...
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How to make resize handle visible in After Effects final rendering?
I'm am making an interaction design of a wireframe wherein I want to show the geometric lines such as the resize handle.
The pen tool path with handles etc.
Is there a plugin that allows me to show ...
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Repeated scale/zoom by small % creates cross/seam at center. How to mitigate?
I'm trying to process an image iteratively. I have an order of operations, specifically a series of effects. This process loops until I'm satisfied with the result. To showcase how the process ends up ...
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Relative coordinates in animateMotion path
I cannot figure out why the blue ball1 in the following example does not "move to" the point on the path specified in #wire from its starting positions to mimic the path animation of the pink ball2. ...
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Software for math-based animations
I'm looking for an animation software which has native support for creating and manipulating mathematical objects, such as parabolas, and algebraic curves. At the same time I want to be able to use ...
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Image Sequence to Movie - How to Get Desired Frame Rate (QT)?
I rendered 250 png images for an animation.
In QuickTime (10.5), I open these images as an Image Sequence and set the frame rate to 24 per second. This should give me a movie of around 10 seconds.
I ...
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Shape fill won't change and won't show in layers After Effects
I'm having an issue where my shape fill won't change, nor will it appear in my timeline>?
Not too sure what's going on?
Any help would be amazing :)
Thanks!
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I want to know the type of effect usedin this type of animation.?
What is this style called where the object drops in comes close to the camera and flys back to a position in the background.please refer to 0:29 time in which the pillows first drops in and than goes ...
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Workflow for making stroke animations for any script out of existing fonts?
I am looking to make this Hanzi stroke animator, which has JSON data such as this, work for any language (as of now, Tibetan, Devanagari, and Tamil). Basically I want to show an animation of how to ...
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How to preview Lottie JSON files
How can I preview Lottie JSON files after creating them? When I try to view the files, they just open the code in Notepad! :@
I would like to watch the animation like I do after creating a GIF file. ...
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SVG animate accordion two letter word into longer word?
Using a plain-text editor, preferably, or Inkscape, are there any good tutorials on taking two letters and inserting more letters between them, and animating it so that the two letters expand outward ...
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What software is appropriate for professional game or animation 3d models?
I'm learning how to make 3D animation (I know that one person can't do much in this topic but I want to give a try).
I have been keen on it for 1-2 years, but I have been started doing it seriously ...
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How do I transpose the movements of an iclone 8 character into a 2D image of a person?
I am not a designer or animator, and just need this one functionality from iclone. I have a 2D image (jpeg, png) of a character I built in Midjourney, and I know how to add simple body movements to a ...
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How to export a GIF from After Effects?
I don't want to make a PNG sequence, I just want to make a GIF directly from After Effects. Once I checked out an online tutorial there I could see the GIF option while Rendering composition. But I am ...
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What software should I use to animate a simple 2d hexagon logo?
I'm starting out in graphic design and am looking to animate this interlinked hexagon:
Basically I want the blue/black vectors to extend 1 by 1 to create this logo. Is there any software/feature that ...
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Exporting a shape and a circle
How can I take an arbitrary shape in Illustrator and move all the points outward until they fit a circle. I was looking at blend shapes, but what I really need to export a version of the shape that ...
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How to limit number of frames when exporting Aftereffects as image sequence?
I am very new to Aftereffects and need to know - I have succeeded in exporting my animation as an image sequence (the setting PNG sequence) but it exports A LOT of images, because it is exporting one ...
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Timeline option "create video animation" does not appear
Usually when animating in Photoshop, you enable the timeline bar and choose between "create frame animation" and "create video animation".
However, on my PS 2022, that I bought ...
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What animation tool is best for teachers for 2D animations?
I am an online teacher who often have to explain the concepts which are best understood with 2D animations like these :
https://youtu.be/u1DYs2I-_lU?t=134
I learnt AfterEffects because that was the ...
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How to export a PNG sprite sheet from PNG sequence
I need a tool (software) which generates PNG sprite, vertical or horizontally. So I thought of Adobe animate, unless there's another easy application or plugin anyone can recommend.
So I have made an ...
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How do you animate SVG for the web?
Vector graphics are now taking over the web and even mobile applications. Icons, buttons and elements of web pages or mobile apps are now becoming increasingly vector based, dropping bitmaps because ...
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Creating complex animation for web
This question is a rebirth of How do you animate SVG for the web? with little additions to modern realities.
My question is this - how to create complex animation for the web? By complex animation, I ...
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What's the best way to animate an illustration for the web?
I have a couple of illustrations done in Illustrator and I am planing to animate it for a website that I am working on, I've heard of Create.js toolkit with flash, but is it the best way to go or is ...
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How can I author or create Lottie animations on Linux?
I use a Linux machine as my daily driver for web development, and I would like to create Lottie animations.
I need to draw my shapes and use timeline / keyframing / tween tools. It can be using a full-...
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How to create animation with svg format file?
How to create svg animation like this?
https://cl.parspack.com/clients/templates/ps_seven/img/svg/header.svg
I search on google but I can't any way to create animation with svg format file like this. ...
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How to make PNG-quality animations in GIF format?
I've noticed more and more sites using animated GIFs that have PNG quality. You'd think they're the latter if you didn't check the image info. The lines are crisp, the colors look great, there's none ...
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Transfer Photoshop animation timeline screenshots into After Effects?
I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I could best transfer a Photoshop video timeline with screen shots to After Effects?
I was creating a gif then it became a huge production of 301 ...
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In what direction do I take this animation?
I have a reference image to design my animation according to, here it is:
Now my graphic is much simpler and this is how it is,
The reference animation is described as "Open hand makes a small ...
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Improving the dithering of the gif image
I was having a question between this gif and my work:
Is it possible to get the better quality of dithering of colors on the first gif to my work? Btw, I did this on Ps via frame animations with the ...
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Best workflow for both google HTML5 banner ads and animated GIFs
We have recurrent product campaigns and we are moving on to HTML5 banner ads from just plain GIFs but we are still keeping both formats as some of our target audience is on old systems.
I am looking ...
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Animated GIF shows all layers instead 1 after 1
I used an existing GIF and deleted the background on all layers. I saved it again with a transparent background. The image is 150 layers. It a a growing figure (like an opening flower). From layer 78 ...
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How to make my animated SVG CLI-like typewriter effect work as intended? (SMIL)
I am just starting to learn to do SVG Animations, and I'm trying to make a command-line style 'typewriter' effect, typing out several different lines of text, one after the other.
I would like the ...
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Synfig studio: how does one make generic animated skeletons
I have cutout characters which their bodies are made of limbs in separate images. Say, I have a generic humanoid skeleton, and I have animations which make this skeleton move, and I want any new model ...
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What are some good resources for learning Synfig Studio?
I am new to Synfig and am facing issues in understanding how to proceed with the application. Can you share some resources which can help me getting started with Synfig-studio. Or can you suggest some ...
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When designing a simple website toolbar layout in powerpoint office 16, is it possible to animate menu items to expand and collapse upon clicking?
I am designing the layout/look-and-feel of a website in Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 16) on Windows 10.
The website I am designing will have a horizontal toolbar at the top that will allow the user to ...
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Krita: How to make a particular layer appear (be visible) from a particular frame onwards?
I am using Krita 4.2.6 on Linux / Ubuntu and making an animation.
I have a layer, on which there is a .png image. This layer should be invisible in the first 30 frames of my animation.
How can I make ...
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Is there a program similar to After Effects that lets you animate the points of a polygon according to a mathematical function?
I have some irregular polygons defined by points whose coordinates depend on a variable r, for example:
x = if(1 / sqrt(10) <= r < 1 / sqrt(5)) {
-2 r² + r sqrt(1 - r²) - sqrt(2 r⁴ - r² ...
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How to continue on my work, which is in Flash CS 5.5?
After googling and learning (and much frustration) that Adobe canceled the Flash Prfessional Animation tools especially the CS5.5 version in which I still work, my issue is the following: (Leaving ...
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How can I copy and paste Arabic in After Effects?
When I try to copy and paste Arabic text in After Effects, the letters in the words look divided one from the other.
I already had the same problem with Ps and I had to change the settings of the ...
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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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How do I export text as paths in Photoshop?
I have a logo that is made simply by mixing two different fonts with custom settings (the image in the center is actually big G in Webdings):
I want to export my logo as an svg (paths). Unfortunately ...
