All you need is in adobe flash or you can try some like that called SYNFIG. this is best way to make great anination if you know

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:05 PM +0900, "Silicon_Chipmunk" wrote:

Hi, I hope someone can help.

Sorry if this has already been asked, I couldn't find anything similar in the forums but might have missed something.

Is it possible to make a gif where two different things move at two different speeds?
For example if I was animating a dragon, is there a way to make its wings to move at one speed (looped) while its eyes blink at a faster speed?

I keep wanting to make two Layer Groups so I can animate things separately, but know
this won't work since Gimp can't animate layers in Groups. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Silicon_Chipmunk (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)

Am 03.10.2016 um 01:50 schrieb Silicon_Chipmunk:

Hi, I hope someone can help.

Sorry if this has already been asked, I couldn't find anything similar in the forums but might have missed something.

Is it possible to make a gif where two different things move at two different speeds?

There is only one frame rate in animated GIFs. When you need different speeds for different parts of an animation, you need to double/triple and so on the "slow" frames, while animating the fast parts in it.

For example if I was animating a dragon, is there a way to make its wings to move at one speed (looped) while its eyes blink at a faster speed?

Basically, do this:

frame 0: wings up - eyes open frame 1: wings up - eyes closed
frame 2: wings down - eyes open
frame 3: wings down - eyes closed
loop

I keep wanting to make two Layer Groups so I can animate things separately, but know this won't work since Gimp can't animate layers in Groups. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Again, I recommend ImageMagick to do that duplication and animation work for you, see this example:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_mods/#composite

It first creates a coalesced_k.gif (a full frame/non-optimizied gif), then makes a shadows_k.gif from the original one -only for demonstration purposes, could be any "background" animation, e.g. your winged dragon-, then compose that background animation with the original coalesced_k.gif to compose_shadow.gif.

(gif_anim_montage is just a script which created the strip at the bottom of the tutorial step)

You are done!

Okay, if you want to do that wing flapping at a slower speed, you first had to double each frame within the gif. That's a bit trickier:

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?p=50325#p41868

Hope that helps.

Kind regards

Jan