animation software

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

What software would you recomend for making animations?

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

If you want a nice easy free one (as long as you don't mind an "Unregistered" banner on each animation) is Advanced Gif Animator

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

I use imagemagick, but it works best if you are not afraid of the keyboard. Nothing is quicker. e.g., making a 5 frames per second animation from individual frames, say frame_001.jpg, frame_002.jpg etc, you do:

convert -delay 20 frames*.jpg animation.gif

www.imagemagick.org

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Thanks, I'll give them both a try.

[iceman (Mike)]

I bought Jasc Software Animation Shop 3, it was worth it (for me). Can work off TIF's, jpeg's, etc, and you can save the raw-animation for later.

You can move each frame for better registration, crop, change the delay between each frame, etc.

I love it. All of my Jupiter animations over the last year were done with it.

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

jjj, to save you a bit of confusion (with all the different versions available), if you're going to try Imagemagick and you use a Windows PC, you can download it from here: imagemagick for Windows.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I made this with the Advanced Gif Animator.
You're right Paul, very quick and easy.
After loading the software, it took 5 minutes to go through the tutorial, then another couple of minutes to make the animation.

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent jjj! I'd change the frame delay to about 1/15s, that's what i've found best for smooth looking animations (I find yours a bit slow paced).

Well done

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nice one Jeanette .....What was that?......Did I hear you say something about a tracking platform????.....

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Once sped up you can see the necessity of careful timing between photos to make a smooth animation.

This is so much fun.

[ving (David)]

sweet jesus! jupiter is up again!!!!


great gif JJJ, i use animation shop

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

What inspired me to have a go was my spider plants in the kitchen.
They were wilted so I watered them. Knowing how quick they recover I thought they'd make a good animation.
So after polar aligning the tripod to the stove I set the timer and came back every 8 minutes to take a photo.
If I wasn't so tired I would have stayed up most of the night with them. Took a total of 17 pics.
Animated it today, and it came out pretty good.

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

What inspired me to have a go was my spider plants in the kitchen.
They were wilted so I watered them. Knowing how quick they recover I thought they'd make a good animation.
So after polar aligning the tripod to the stove I set the timer and came back every 8 minutes to take a photo.
If I wasn't so tired I would have stayed up most of the night with them. Took a total of 17 pics.
Animated it today, and it came out pretty good.

Inspirational stuff jjj - well done!

Cheers

Dennis

[ving (David)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

ayed up most of the night with them. Took a total of 17 pics.
Animated it today, and it came out pretty good.

then where is it! i want to see this plant coming back to life

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

This is for you Mr Ving.
I had to make it really small to keep the file size down.
Like I said, I wish I could have stayed up all night to get the plant's full rejuvination.

[ving (David)]

gee that looks kinda spooky!

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Yeah, I have a triffid in my kitchen. It's like it's getting ready to pounce!

[iceman (Mike)]

haha that is cool, and spooky!

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I don't think I have any more pictures suitable for animating.
So these will be the last. ( and aren't you glad? )

The first one is from Astrofest 2006, getting ready for the group photo.
The second is pretty obvious.
I didn't take the photo's darn it.
Poor old luna looks like she's rolling drunk from the effects of libation.

[ving (David)]

ok, the moon is making me seasick!!!