Can anyone please point me to a step-by-step tutorial to create falling snow?(animation).I'm a complete novice, but can create basic animations and use layers to some degree. I'm using GIMP 2.6. I want to create falling snow on a small picture I've already created. I've spent hours scouring the net today, checking Youtube, but I can't find a clear and concise tutorial. Many thanks for any help. Jude

2011/11/27 Jude

Can anyone please point me to a step-by-step tutorial to create falling snow?(animation).I'm a complete novice, but can create basic animations and use layers to some degree. I'm using GIMP 2.6. I want to create falling snow on a small picture I've already created. I've spent hours scouring the net today, checking Youtube, but I can't find a clear and concise tutorial. Many thanks for any help.

Basically it's very simple. Add a new transparent layer to your image.

Fill it with RGB Noise. Invert this layer, otherwise the snow is black.

Then, several times, duplicate this layer and offset it down by a few pixels. For a smooth animation, have 30 layers, and change a little the amount of offset down, adding even a small horizontal offset.

Finally, duplicate the background layer as many times as you have snow layers, and merge the duplicate backgrounds each with a snow layer.

Your animation is finished!

Olivier Lecarme

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Jude wrote:

Can anyone please point me to a step-by-step tutorial to create falling snow?(animation). I'm a complete novice, but can create basic animations and use layers to some degree.

Here is a basic sequence that I would try: 1. start with a blank canvas and add lots of noise (black and white) 2. Blow up the resolution, so it looks very grainy 3. Add linear motion blur
4. invert the colors and then change black to an alpha channel 5. use translations of this to create an animation.

If this works, please post a tutorial somewhere!

I'm using GIMP 2.6. I want to create falling snow on a small picture I've already created. I've spent hours scouring the net today, checking Youtube, but I can't find a clear and concise tutorial. Many thanks for any help.
Jude

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Thanks David!

Having asked this question I eventually found a great tutorial by 'fencepost' on gimpdome, using GIMP-GAP. It worked, but the 'snowfall' was a bit fine for my pic. I wanted big fat flakes rather than a blizzard! I'm working on that. Thanks for your help. The tutorial I used included a lot of what you suggested! It's here: http://www.gimpdome.com/animation-tutorials/animated-snowfall-in-gimp-gap/ Jude