![]() ![]() I did not do this in this example, but in my actual animating I did. Since the “player board” background does not move the entire animation, I could have taken it out of the “1” layer group and left it beneath. Here you see all of my dice set up, the player board, ring and disk. Select “Duplicate Layer” and then drag the duplicate into your “1” layer group.Īll of the bits are now in the right layer group, so now you need to use the Move and Scale tools (mentioned above) to put them all in the right position. Go to your Resources layer group and right-click on any pieces you need. So you will need to fill it with things for your foundation image. Create a new layer group and name it “1”. This is your foundation – it is the image that your entire GIF will be based around.Ĥ. Okay, so now you have all of your bits, it’s time to make your first image. This will help you not go insane later on when you have hundreds of duplicate parts. Now I would recommend going through and renaming all of your pieces. You can click on this eyeball to hide individual layers, or the whole Group. You should see a little eyeball to the left of your new Group (or any layer, actually). This should import all of your image files into an easily hide-able group. Then select that group before you drag your files in. Name that group “Resources” or something similar. I would recommend using the Create a New Layer Group button (see the image on the right) to create a new group of layers. Now you want to go to Windows Explorer and grab all of the image files you need, then drag them onto your open GIMP document. Kickstarter has a width limit of 680 pixels so I’d recommend going with that, and then picking a height that works for you. Remember, smaller image sizes are generally better for keeping your filesize small. ![]() Go to File > New and pick an image size that works for you. Then make sure “Move the active layer” is selected.Ģ. Make sure the “layers” option is selected. There are also the Rotate and Scale tools used to manipulate your layers, but they will be important later. But essentially, the tools you are going to make the most use of are: Move (used to move layers around), …. If you are unfamiliar with the system, take a look at a few resources to get familiar. It can function a lot like Adobe Photoshop, but it runs quicker, has fewer advanced features, and most importantly is free. GIMP (or GNU image manipulation program GNU being an open-source software like Unix, but Not Unix) is essentially “free Photoshop”. So, without further waffling, here is how you make your own animated GIF… The image above is about 1MB in size, and I’ll include a tip later for how to keep your files small. But it’s going to be really hard for every potential backer of your Kickstarter to download a 15MB file to their phone (which is likely where they will be watching it from). It’s easy to create a beautiful, movie-like GIF. It appears a little janky, because I skipped a number of frames in order to keep filesize down, and that brings me to the most important part of an animated GIF:Īn animated GIF needs to be small in size. The example I have included below is a fairly simple one, created for the upcoming Kickstarter campaign of Runika and the Six-sided Elements.įor this use of animated GIF, I needed a way to demonstrate how dice were moved around the board, how the elemental disk could rotate, and how rune cards matched up to dice on the board – all in one GIF. It looks like something that would (or should) cost a lot of money to produce, but actually they’re pretty easy for creators to put together themselves. ![]() We’ve all seen amazing Kickstarter pages for board games that include incredible GIFs showing you exactly how to play the game. ![]()
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