GIMP Frame by Frame Animation Tool (FAnim)
FAnim is an GIMP plugin that creates a simple timeline to help create frame by frame animations based on layers.
If you have found a good use to this piece of software that is wrote by me, you may recognize the hard
work behind it assisting me with a donation, so i can continue doing it better and better.
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Features:
- Full set of buttons to help visualize each frame, move and create.
- Play the animations on gimp own canvas.
- Dynamic onionskin functionality with backward and forward depth level adjustment.
- Fixed view frames functionality, that let you create background and foreground parts that stay visible.
- Adjustable framerate.
- Settings are remembered.
- Two format converters, that converts to redy to export gif and spritesheet format.
Known issues:
- Possible gtk performance problems on windows.
- Performance problems with big images.
Instalation:
You can copy the fanim.py into you gimp plugin directory.
If you are in a unix based system, you need to give execution permission to the file,
the command chmod +x fanim.py will do it.
The path is shown below.
gimp-2.9 and below
Linux: ~/.gimp-[version]/plug-ins/
Windows: %HOMEPATH%.gimp-[version]\plug-ins\
gimp-2.10
Linux: ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins/
Windows: %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins\
macOS: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins (user) or /Applications/GIMP-2.10.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins (global)
with the files in the correct place you can open GIMP, if everything is alright you will see in the menubar the "FAnim" menu.
Download
You can download the zip file "here".