Tabletop Whale’s guide to making GIFs by Eleanor Lutz.
From the post:
Recently I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking for a tutorial on how to make animations. So this week I put together a quick explanation for anyone who’s interested. I archived it as a link on the menu bar of my website, so it’ll always be easy to find if you need it.
This is just a run-through of my own personal animation workflow, so it’s not a definitive guide or anything. There are plenty of other ways to make animations in Photoshop and other programs.
I’ve never tried making a tutorial about my own work before, so sorry in advance if it’s confusing! Let me know if there’s anything I wrote that didn’t make any sense. I’ll try to fix it if I can (though I probably don’t have room to go into detail about every single Photoshop function I mention).
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As you already know, I am graphically challenged but have been trying to improve, with the help of tutorials like this one from Eleanor Lutz.
Most of the steps should transfer directly to Gimp.
If you know of any Gimp specific tutorials on animation or otherwise useful for information visualization, drop me a line.