Animation?

[Janitor]

Looking for animation.

I kinda want to do some of those "Oh Really Owl" animations that were everywhere a few years back.

Am I just not seeing the buttons for this?

[Ofnuts]

Example?

[rich2005]

Quote:Looking for animation.  I kinda want to do some of those "Oh Really Owl" animations that were everywhere a few years back.

Well, I had to look up, "Oh Really Owl" animations to see what is meant. 
 Seems to be "A response in sarcastic manner,  to an obvious, predictable or blatantly false statement."

Quote:Am I just not seeing the buttons for this?

A button for this? You want some sort of one-stop-make-an-animation? Unfortunately not.

Either: you have some artistic merit, and draw from scratch or:
Spend some time and patience and adapt some existing image.

I have neither of those qualities, so a bit of cut-n-paste and regular Gimp tools - copy / paste / scale / etc on layers. Export as an animated gif. Although webp seems to becoming more popular.

Not the reply you want....

   

[Janitor]

It was in the old days of the internet (2010 or there abouts) a meme to reply to someone stating the obvious or demonstrably false.

There was a static picture of a person or thing, then a owl or owls head would creep in from behind the person or object (like a Layer), and the text "Oh Really" would appear. Part of the meme was that it was the same owl over and over again. Each creator of a new one used the same owl and a different static picture.

This was separate from the static owl with text stating "Oh Really" that was then made as that Owl wearing something ethnic like a Sombrero or Ushanka and the text "Oh Really" being in the corresponding language. This was used when someone said something obvious or demonstrably false about an ethnic group or a nation.

[rich2005]

Ok, I know what you mean, but still no 'magic' button to create an animation. There might be an on-line web service somewhere, I do not know.

Same as the grumpy cat, you can do a simple animation without any extra scripts or plugins, just standard Gimp tools. A bit tedious - yes but all good practice. Once you get the basics then look around for a bit of automation. 
Need to personalize the basics, add a hat to the owl you said, that is where a bit of your artistic skill comes in.

There are any number of how-to's on the internet, yet another one.





https://youtu.be/VY3FBLoff1Y Duration 7 minutes.

Edit:

Quote:..It was in the old days of the internet (2010 or there abouts)...

That makes me feel ancient First 'real' internet I had was with a UK ISP, Demon Internet, round about 1994. Before that I actually had an email service via a dial-up bulletin board. Alas no-one at that time to send emails to.

[rich2005]

Trying to automate things a little bit

Two scripts sg-group-linked-layers.scm and sg-combine-bg.scm to assist. Unzip the attached and put them in
C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\scripts The image owl.xcf.gz goes in some convenient folder.

Then it is as this video





https://youtu.be/hpCETmjLgEM Duration 2 and a half minutes

Exporting as an optimised gif - look at the previous video

[Janitor]

(08-18-2019, 09:28 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Edit:

Quote:..It was in the old days of the internet (2010 or there abouts)...

That makes me feel ancient First 'real' internet I had was with a UK ISP, Demon Internet, round about 1994. Before that I actually had an email service via a dial-up bulletin board. Alas no-one at that time to send emails to.

My first internet was a BB using a dial up phone in a cradle modem about 1988 for a high school project.
We had to connect and download a note file as homework. Then print the note and bring that to class, no photocopies.

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I asked as I seem to recall a recent video extolling the virtues of the "animation" button in photoshop to make new eye catching .gif for advertising.

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Watched your video. Thank you. Very well done. I have a lot to digest there!