Adding An Animation to a Still Graphic [Beginner]

[Ellie]

Written by Ellie. Any similarity to any other tutorial is coincidence.

I am going to be using this little avatar that I made.



You may either use it or any other static (still) graphic that you want.

And this animation: (luvjc posted it and several others in this thread).

Open your animation up in Animation Shop. Count how many frames the animation has.

Now open up your avatar (or whatever image you are using), press Ctrl + C, then click on this button -- -- at the top of your browser. It will paste the image into a second frame. Click that button enough times that you have the same amount of frames as in your animation.

Back to your animation. Press Ctrl + A > Ctrl + C. This will select and copy all of your frames.

Go back to your image. Press Ctrl + A > Ctrl + E. This will add all of the animation frames into your image. Find a good place for the animation, then left click.

Now click this button -- -- to see if it is animated the way you want it.

Save and you're done!

Here's what I ended up with:

Please post your questions, comments, results, etc below!

[Nya]

Its good and simple ^^



I used the images you used.

[Ellie]

Great job, Nya! I'm glad it was easy!

[FFXII Luber|Jules]

Uhm..Would this work for any free systems ethier?

Like Paint.NET, Gimp, etc.?

[Ellie]

Hi Juliette. I'm not certain because I don't have any real experience with either of those programs. I have GIMP, but haven't tried working with it yet. Sorry!

[FFXII Luber|Jules]

'Tis A-OK ;D