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carol.gimp.org
GIMP 2.2
GIMP Animation Plug-in
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I have been trying to play with GIMP Gap for several years now; it helped to have
a small movie with a couple of ideas to improve it before tackling this huge and
powerful/complicated plug-in.
Also helpful were the number of improvements and upgrades between gimp-2.0 and
gimp-2.2. You will need to have at least gimp-2.1 and gimp-gap-2.0.3. You can
get gimp-gap from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.0/gap/
or from Gnome CVS (module gimp-gap).
Some experience with installing software on linux will be helpful -- starting with reading
the documents there that explain how to install everything will also be helpful.
This set of tutorials use one little movie I took of one of the kinetic pieces
in the Mountain View Public Art
collection called Solar System IV. Use the original movie to follow the steps in the tutorial. The final product is not so bad and can also be improved
on.
Updates to GAP
If you have used gimp-gap before, there have been a few changes. The layout of the
dialogs have changed some; Hof said "to get a step closer to GNOME HIG" and sent a
screenshot of the Extract Videorange dialog and also the Master Videoencoder. I found the whole
thing to be a lot easier to understand and work through when I had a nice little movie
and a few ideas of how to improve it.
- Sea Nettle Jellyfish
- At the Monterey Bay Aquarium I took some movies of the really cool
jellyfish they had living there. If I had known they would turn out
so well, I would have taken more.
- Comb Jellyfish
- The movies of this jellyfish are a much better representation of how
they look than any single snapshot could be. I used some of the
techniques (silly text tricks) I learned from Hof's tutorial when I edited this one.
- Moon Jellyfish
- More cool jellyfish movies. I tried to join two different movies and
used some of gaps toys to fade the end of one movie and add it to the
beginning of another movie. All went well until I viewed the finished
product and noticed that I might have put two different species of Moon
Jelly into one tank.
- Lion's Mane Jellyfish
- I took this movie on its side, which is a problem since most of the video
formats are picky about the aspect ratio and what numbers the edges can be
divided by and probably some more rules I have yet to find. yosh wrote this little python script that rotates the frames. Please
use this with care and understand you will need to change the image size when
re-encoding. This movie appears 318 pixels X 424 pixels. A 3:4 relationship and
both measurements can be divided by 2. Once the frames were turned, I cleaned up
the edges and added a black background (both via the Move Path dialog).
- Blue Jellyfish
- This movie represents about 4 hours of work removing a background with
masks added to the image with Move Path and hand edited beyond that. It needs
more work.
- Solar System IV
- The original movie made for this set of tutorials.
