possible to create comics with animated panels?

[Garen9777]

Nice forum I am trying to create a motion comic. Just am looking for a simple comic creator program like 'comic life 3' which I have which is perfect for what I am doing but the only problem with it is I want to add simple quick Gif animations (or whatever format that can be used for adding animations) but it will not allow for this :frowning: its solely only still images that can only be used. I came across 'GIMP' which am told could help me in my task here.

I just want to create basic comic formats which merely allows you to use animation formats like gifs in some of the panels.

Can gimp do this? is it capable? Thx.

[rich2005]

(12-28-2018, 10:25 PM)Garen9777 Wrote: ....I want to add simple quick Gif animations (or whatever format that can be used for adding animations) .... I came across 'GIMP' which am told could help me in my task here. ...Can gimp do this? is it capable? Thx.

It depends what you mean as "simple animation". A caption over an image, maybe a simple speech bubble.. not too difficult.

If you want to add some action to a character then it then becomes a matter of your artistic ability.

How do you make an animation? Build it up in layers, then export as an animated gif file.
File -> Export and give it a name ending .gif The sort of settings to use: https://i.imgur.com/nb7k9VM.jpg

Which would give this: https://i.imgur.com/JvGVXVI.gif

[Garen9777]

Well I mean say I had a gif. Could I simply add it to a comic panel in GIMP.

[rich2005]

You probably can. Something like the animation added in this thread https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-I-am-t...3#pid11503

but

What image format and size is your comic panel? Very likely ends up a monster sized image file not much use for anything.

Post a link to an example if you can.

edit: I looked up the comic life 3 application and lots of information on what it can do, but finally export formats are HTML or quicktime video. Quite large sizes - letter size down to Web pages.

While Gimp can make the animated part of the page, in my opinion it is not the tool for your requirements. HTML - have a search for editors. Quicktime is a proprietory format - can not think of any suitable video editor.