Gimp-dog (animation)

[rickk]

(04-16-2021, 07:39 AM)rich2005 Wrote: A mixture of process.

The background is a long image, then chopped up into frames using ImageMagick. That scrolls left to right.

I see, thanks!  I had a program once that did something similar, under OS/2...long time ago. I believe it was called "Embellish".

I made the following like 15 years ago, using that program, but ran into a problem with address space. If I ran the animation at a realistic speed, the program ran out of memory, and it crashed. But if I really sped things up (meaning reduced frame count), then the program could survive long enough to complete it's task. But the animation is so jerky. 

At the original frame rate, the train went by so fast, you could hardly distinguish individual cars. So, what you see is a frankenstein of sorts where I created the animation fast to co-exist with the programs limitations, and then inserted a longer frame duration after the fact, trying to make the train viewable.

In retrospect, I probably should have just made the train shorter...Live and learn,