I have perhaps over simplified this but I think it gets my point across. It's like, you draw frame one, then skip ahead in time, draw another, and the computer computes (morphs-in), all the 'in-between' pictures for you, and it saves a lot of time.

Most of the animation packages include tools similar to Inkscapes', actually more like Gimps', to draw with, but the real bonus is that they provide you with some more help from your computer, so you don't have to draw each and every picture (frame). png, which is a fairly universal format.There are actually many of them out there costing anywhere from 50 to several thousand dollars.īTW, That link to '' took me to a web hosting company page by that name, which seems to have absolutely nothing to do with SVG or animation.ĮDIT that Link seems to have been corrected now and leads to the software package. You can still use Inkscape, to start with, for your initial concept drawings and export them to. If you want real animation you should explore a full 3D animation software package. You are still only in the world of 2D animation. There's not much help from the computer creating them except for the displaying part.

They're called gif animations and we see them all day long, on the web, as moving avatars, moving text scripts that crawl along the page, all those animated smileys, etc. This can be done in Gimp and can actually be fun to do, but can take hours & hours from start to finish, a lot of patience, and much perseverance, for sure. This is 2D animation in it's crudest form. Yes, you will have to draw each one and then have a way to display 1800 pictures to see your animation. Now, let's say you have a small production you want to create that will be as little as 1 minute long. That's only 1 seconds worth of animation. Inkscape is fun to create lovely 2D drawings with, there's no doubt about it.īare in mind, it takes 24-30 drawings displayed in a row (they refer to it as 24 to 30 frames, per second) to have it appear to have motion. Creating animation can be a tedious endeavor but, the rewards can be very, very satisfying.

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