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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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 to create animated GIFs of prototype mockups, like the ones on Dribbble?
I'm sure you've seen Dribbblers upload animated mockups of their designs.
Here's an example:
I can create mockups on Photoshop and even apply simple Tween Animations to them but I can never get ...
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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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GIF with transparency output not as expected in GIMP
I have been trying to create a GIF using a sequence of PNGs within GIMP
An example PNG from the sequence shows the correct transparency I want to be shown in the GIF,
But when I process the PNG ...
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How to do animation frame pngs?
I wonder if there is any automated way of doing animations like on https://www.dropbox.com/
An image is really a set of frames that is cyckled through with javascript. What I would like to know is if ...
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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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Creating high quality animated backgrounds from Illustrator files
I have some artwork in illustrator that I would like to animate and get a gif.
Say I have a background pattern and I want to randomly move the elements inside to get a natural look of particles ...
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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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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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Creating infinite zooming images
What's an easy way to create a forever zooming & looping image like this:
In particular what design applications (after effects comes to mind) allow recursive nesting of compositions?
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Get rid of thin white lines between shape 'joins'
I've created an icon made out of basic lines/shapes in Adobe Illustrator, then make it one solid, continuous shape.
I want to use this icon as a pre-loader on a website, the idea being each 'segment' ...
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What is the best tool to make animations for iOS games?
What is the easiest tool and way to make moving animations that can be used in iOS games? If there are tutorials, I can also learn. I also want it to be vector or retina. Something like hd. Thanks.
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How can I create an animation of an image being drawn/painted, automatically?
I'm 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. It's a picture of my pet dog, and I want some software ...
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How can I create an animated device mockup? [duplicate]
Say I have a GIF such as this:
How could I create something like this, where the user added this video into a still shot of an iPhone?
Better yet, if I could put it in a mockup like this where it ...
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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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Wobble a simple sketch to animate it
I'm wondering if there is a tool or simple method that will allow me to turn a simple pencil/pen sketch into something like the two images below.
I received these in a newsletter from a Kickstarter ...
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Saving Animated GIF With Transparency (Photoshop)
I am trying to save an animated GIF, but for some reason areas that are more transparent than others (e.g. the grey shadow) don't come out with opacity, they become fully grey when saved.
When I save ...
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How to create ball moving under blanket effect
I am trying to get an animation effect of a ball moving under a blanket with some resistance or a round object protuding out of a flat surface. Below is what I've been able to do so far and what I ...
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Best 2D animation software [closed]
I just want to ask which software is best or which software is mostly used on these 2D animations.
Example 1, example 2, example 3
I know that Flash is commonly used, but I just don't like Flash ...
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How do you save an Animated GIF file using Photoshop?
I am making a .gif file in Photoshop CS5. While saving this animation, I used the steps = File > Save for web & devices > Preset= GIF 128 Dithered > GIF > Save. After saving the .gif ...
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How to make a layer change size in an animation in Photoshop?
I'm working with animation timeline in Photoshop CS6. I would like to have a small circle layer expand / increase in size, but on the Layer-Timeline panel, these are the only options available:
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Is it possible to add a background image to all 'layers' of an animated gif?
I have an animated gif with transparent background, and I want to add a background image to all layers:
How can I achieve it without adding it to every layer individually?
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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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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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Is there a tool for easily creating a GIF/video with a morph transition between two images? [closed]
I have found the following video, which shows a transition effect which is based on a sort of morph-based interpolation between two images:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/scs/cs/15-463/f07/...
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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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Animate Drawing of SVG Text
I've had some background mostly in pixel-based graphics and web design. However, I've never came across SVGs. A Google search for this problem convinced me that the answer might be to use SVG for the ...
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Strange GIF artifacts when uploading to Behance
I'm getting these weird effects when I upload GIFs to Behance.
Here is the GIF, on stack.imgur:
Here is a screencap of what it looks like on Behance:
The trails don't appear in the upload preview ...
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How to create an animated demo of my webdesign? [closed]
How to create an animation of my webdesign so the client can see the interactivity in the page (including popups, tooltips...) instead of seeing a set of still images? I used to make this task using ...
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Has anyone used Blender for prototyping animations of mobile apps?
After Effects and other Mac only tools are popular among designers for prototyping animations of mobile apps. I wanted to know if there's anyone here who uses Blender for prototyping?
If you do use ...
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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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Open Source software for 2D graphic animation like this:
Can someone suggest me a good software of graphic 2D animation, for animating images, and also a software for insert some more or less static text during a video?
I'll post an example of my animation ...
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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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Animation (Adobe After Effects): Text rotating without cylindric wrapping of text
I am trying to animate a piece of text rotating in a circle. In itself, this is a relatively easy thing to achieve; using Adobe After Effects I created a string of text and used the CC Cylinder effect ...
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Difference in style between foreground and background objects in 2D animation?
this seemed like the best place to get an answer.
In some 2D animation, the "active" objects - those that move during the scene, or will be interacted with somehow - have a distinct style compared to ...
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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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Usage costs for logo animation intro / outro template
As a freelancer I recently produced three web animations for a client.
The company has just rebranded and I've been asked to create an animated logo intro / outro template (that's 2 x concepts, ...
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Smoother animation in Photoshop?
I created a .gif animation in Photoshop, but the motion seems very "jumpy" instead of smooth. It's just some text that rises. What can I do to make it a smooth move?
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Animation (Adobe After Effects): Text rotating around object with proper "3-dimensional" perspective
This question is based on a previous inquiry into how to animate a rotating string of text, the original question can be found here: Animation (Adobe After Effects): Text rotating without cylindric ...
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Free and easy to use tool for easy 2d animations [closed]
I would like to make easy 2d animations and I am looking for an easy tool for this purpose. The animations I intend to do are quite simple (e.g. exchanging messages between different computers, rotate ...
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Create high-quality lightweight screencapture
We're building the features page for our web product (online investment management service). We'd like to showcase some of the features by displaying short clips of user interactions with that feature ...
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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 export quality animated gifs in photoshop
New to making animated gifs in photoshop (for loading designs). I know gifs aren't the highest quality format, but I've seen dribbble designs that look great, and they're gif format.
But when I ...
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