Hello,

I am looking to expand my portfolio in an interesting way. Since I find it difficult to find sustainable work as an artist, I am looking to create a faux game presentation in order to demonstrate my pixel/animation abilities.

In order to accomplish this I would like to create animation sets for sprites and edit them into one presentation (walking>running>climbing>attacking etc) on a large, seamless background that I can pan as the character moves.

My concern with using graphics gale is that I feel I need to set/create all of the frames ahead of time (since a frame can have its own layers). Meaning that I would need to duplicate each animation cycle continuously for the entire length and change visibility to cue it up. This is the best I have come up with so far, I would love to create animation sets and be able to drop them in and transition somehow (like in maya) yet most gif type programs prefer lower res, shorter frame products.

Any advice on how to accomplish this?

Hey Neota,
I have never heard of GIMP-GAP before, but it sounds like a great solution to these kind of problems! Thanks for posting this :D

As far as I know that is the case, since it uses GIMP's layer system -- all off-canvas content still 'exists' and will appear when the layer is repositioned.

Some people say Photoshop <-> GIMP is an easy transition, some say hard. I have no personal experience since I've never used Photoshop.
The 'ps-menurc' is available as part of the standard GIMP package, which adjusts the keyboard bindings to match Photoshop ones.

When I recommended GIMP-GAP I was imagining you already had GIF files of the individual animations made up and simply wanted to compile them. For creating small animations I recommend it less, since it's video-oriented (undo works within frames, not across frames); I personally would opt to use GrafX2 for doing individual animations. Hope I understood your intent correctly.